src: PewPiece, https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePieceSpoilers/comments/1oo89vz/chapter_1165_brief_spoilers/
Brief Spoilers
CHAPTER 1165: REVERBERATION
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COVER READER REQUEST: LAW AND BEPO USING ZEUS AS A SLEEPING PILLOW,
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SHIKI DECLARES THAT THIS IS THE END OF THE ROCKS PIRATES. WE SEE THE REMAINING MEMBERS OF THE ROCKS PIRATES (WITH GANZUI STILL ALIVE) GOING THEIR SEPARATE WAYS.
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ROGER AND GARP TELL THEIR CREW AND SOLDIERS THAT THEY WILL COME BACK. THEN, THEY JOIN FORCES TO FACE XEBEC IN AN EPICBATTLE THAT SPANS SEVERAL PAGES.
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KAIDO AND LINLIN ARE TALKING; SHE TELLS HIM THAT HE HAS A LIFETIME DEBT TO HER. THEY THEN PART WAYS,
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Dragon threatens his squad leader to save all remaining civilians on the island, holding a gun to his forehead and saying he will kill him if he doesn’t. (by WORSTGENHQ)
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WHITEBEARD MEETS A MAN NAMED POLO GRAM (WHO SEEMS TO BE MARCO’S FATHER). HE’S A FAN OF WHITEBEARD AND ASKS TO JOIN FORCES WITH HIM.
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IMU GIVES THE ORDER TO DESTROY AND ERASE EVERYTHING ON GOD VALLEY.
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XEBEC’S CONQUEROR’S HAKI IS INCREDIBLY STRONG, SO GARP AND ROGER DECIDE TO UNLEASH ALL THEIR HAKI IN ONE COMBINED ATTACK AGAINST HIM,
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THE CHAPTER ENDS WITH GARP AND ROGER LAUNCHING THEIR ATTACKS ON XEBEC IN AN EPIC PANEL—GARP’S MOVE RESEMBLES LUFFY°S ELEPHANT GATLING, WHILE ROGER CHANNELS HIS HAKI THROUGH HIS SWORD.
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THEY ULTIMATELY DEFEAT XEBEC AS THE DARK, EVIL ENERGY SEEPS OUT OF HIS BODY.
BREAK NEXT WEEK.
by PEWPIECE
My thoughts
I am disappointed. And I am one of those people who watches/reads one piece for the lore and not the fights. But for the biggest fight the story was kinda leading for hundreds of chapter culminating in just 1 chapter, or even half is disappointing. I think it is one part because none them are fruit users, so creativity wise you do not have much going and fight is effectively a haki measuring contest, and I am kinda sad that it got solved in a chapter. like seriously we could not do 2 chapters, when wano lasted 150, 90 chapters for effectively 1 single night, and the fight that made gapr and roger who they are is just 1 chapter. Are you swears kidding me. I am a big Oda (Goda) fan, but this is disappoitning. In reddit comments people said “oda left it all to toei”, or “oda did all his action in luffy vs kaido and doess not want to do anymore” but like seriously?
How fast it ended kinda ended has kinda made me believe that they are adapting it for a movie and maybe someone from the production side has maybe given directions that they should not make manga reveal all the fight. I know I am being consipartorial (my first time for OP), but there does not seem any other way. I know from reading ~1200 chapters, Oda is not masterful at drawing fights, lots of people complain too. The sword fights lack, and the best are fruit fisghts. but luffy vs kaido was fun. Even in egghead, luffy vs kizaru was longer. Oda is not in a time crunch to finish manga soon.
Someone said that in flashbacks fights have always been short, but that is kinda not correct imo, because I do not remember any other big fight in flash back. only kinda fights in flashback are either just plot device, like oden and kaido fought, but since oden’s family was kidnapped, he gave up. There is akainu vs ice admiral (i am having a brain freeze and can’t remeber his name)(no pun intended), but we atleast got the fact that fight lasted 10 whole days (for those who have fought irl may know real life fights 1v1 lasting 10 minutes is large), and a island was devasted in fight, and maybe with actual chapter we will see more destruction, but right now this is not looking even as good. I can not think of any other major fights in flash back.
Regardless, this was “the fight” alluded for hundreds of chapters, this hould not follow any trends, it should be the exception.
Other things are as expected from the chapter. Dragon finally had a revolutionary moment. I kinda like “Marco Polo” bit (that would be his full name in english). But the fight has made me really sad.