One Piece's Joy Boy Mystery is Connected to a Surprising Character
Warning: Contains spoilers for One Piece chapter #1043
The latest chapter of One Piece finally revealed the supposed identity of Joy Boy, the mysterious figure teased for a long time throughout the best-selling manga created by Eiichiro Oda. However, Joy Boy still has an unexplained connection to another character, Momonosuke, the rightful shogun of Wano.
Not much is known about Joy Boy. He was an important man from the Void Century (the part of history, 900 years before the current events in the manga, that the World Government has «erased» to keep it hidden) who visited Fish-Man Island and left an apology letter for breaking a promise with the inhabitants. During Kozuki Oden's flashback, showing his time on the ship of the Pirate King Gol D. Roger, Joy Boy was mentioned as the first one to discover the Grand Line's final island, Laugh Tale, and leave there a mysterious treasure that would become known to the world as the One Piece. Roger wished that he had lived during the same time as Joy Boy, and after that several characters have mentioned an expected return of this mysterious figure, including Kaido and Kozuki Oden in his diaries. In chapter #1043, it was teased that Joy Boy returned as none other than Luffy, the captain of the Straw Hats.
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Exactly why and how Joy Boy has returned after 900 years is still a mystery, but there could be an underlying connection to the land of Wano. After returning to his home country, Oden made plans to open up the enclosed land in preparations for Joy Boy's return, and the island of the samurai could very well be the place that holds the key to this mystery. At the height of the battle on Onigashima between the
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