(Pending — no on-page confirmation that ZaZa ↔ Dragon within the window.)
Earliest known caller
Circulated widely on 1182’s release (e.g. @writingpanini on X: “Zaza is the SFX of heavy rain… Dragon is most likely the current Rain God”). Recorded as a recent-chapter, fandom-consensus reading; no databook/SBS confirmation yet.
Why this matters
A textbook name-as-cipher seed. Oda’s onomatopoeic theonyms are load-bearing, not decorative — “Nika” (smile-SFX) resolved into the story’s mythic climax, so a second SFX-god (“ZaZa,” rain-SFX) named in the same breath as Nika and the D invites the same decoding. The technique here is the parallel: the ruling class’s three catechized fears map onto concrete endgame forces, and the phonetic bridge (rain SFX ↔ Dragon’s rain-drawn debut) is the kind of long-fuse phonic rhyme Oda plants a thousand chapters early. Cross-reads: The Holy Land’s Boogeymen Are The D Clan Nika And Rain God ZaZa (the historical-forces reading of the same triad), the ZaZa entry in Gods and Divine Figures, Sun God Nika, Will of D.