One Piece: Luffy Did not Save Wano, He Destroyed It
Warning: Contains spoilers for One Piece chapter #1052
Rather than saving Wano Country by taking down the tyrant Kaido, Luffy and his Straw Hat Pirates might have sealed the fate of the island forever, in the latest of the great plot twists that made Eiichiro Oda's One Piece so successful. The Marines and the World Government have put Wano in their sights, which means that Wano could be erased from the maps, and Luffy won't be there to defend it.
The Wano Arc's conclusion was everything that One Piece fans hoped for. After a long and hard-fought battle, Luffy and the Ninja-Pirate-Mink-Samurai alliance took down Kaido and his Beasts Pirates, freeing Wano and restoring its rightful Shogun, Kozuki Momonosuke. The country had been controlled for twenty years by Kaido, who allied with the usurper Orochi and turned Wano into a giant weapons factory and the base for his army, making the inhabitants labor as slaves and suffer from disease and starvation. Kaido chose Wano as his stronghold to take advantage of the fact that the country had been following a strict policy of isolationism for centuries, which made it unaffiliated with the World Government. However, Kaido's defeat has finally attracted the attention of the World Government and its military branch: the Marines.
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Chapter #1052 of One Piece shows that one of the powerful Marine Admirals, Ryokugyu, is headed toward Wano. One of the prerogatives of an Admiral is that he can order a Buster Call, a military attack performed by a fleet of Marine ships who open fire on a target (usually an island) until nothing and no one is left standing. In the past, two islands have been leveled by a Buster Call,
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