"One piece" is a legendary anime, the one whose reputation (and incredibly large number of episodes) make it a pretty frightening endeavor for newcomers. However, we have advocated for the benefit of starting this unforgettable trip. This is a show that seems too long at first until you start getting down and realizing that there is actually Not enough episodes. For 25 years, "one piece" has told the funny, exciting, epic, action -packed action, a filled story about the monkey D. Lafi as he goes on a trip to find the legendary treasure of a piece and become the king of pirates. It is the basis on which the creator of manga Echiro Oda built one of the best and most sincere universes in all modern fiction.

Indeed, "one piece" is a universe that feels like lived and missed, the one that can have countless stories and feels like changing and developing even when we don't see. This is the secret anime sauce, which can come back and tie the loose ends decades later, introducing characters that we have not seen so far and makes them perfectly fit into the stories we have already been familiar with 15+ years ago. For anime with over 1,100 episodesThe fact that "one piece" can still shock the audience even after 25 years is a testimony to the power of this epic anime.

And he did so in July 2025, when he posted what internet fans call the only saddest episode of the whole play and one of the saddest episodes on this year's TV.

"One piece" has spent the last few weeks telling the story of a godfather, a man with whom we initially met as a stone-cold villain with incredible power and has no sympathy for his enemies. Through retrospective, we find out about his story as the last member of his race, as he was forced into slavery, saw his father killed in front of him, sent to a sadistic "most dangerous game" situation and suffered much more suffering. The latest episode has seen a godfather in which the agreement he has concluded with the world government has literally sacrificed his free will and becoming Robocop Cyborg for the government in order to get a cure for his adopted daughter's illness.

Episode 1,136 is a brilliant episode on television. For the last few years, producer Toi Animation has allowed greater individual freedom directed by episodes and visuals, with directors applying their unique stamp and animators to go to wild interpretation and manga adjustment. This episode shows probably the best example of why it is a good idea, with Jaunori Koma using the media on television to best translate the story. Since most of the episode is told by memories, which and his team rubbed a filter that makes the retrospectives look like they were shot in celluloid. They play with abstract images to show the subjectivity of the memories of the godfather and to emphasize the emotions he feels while teaching his free will and essentially his soul.

Echiro Ode included a father/daughter story in almost every story of a "one piece" bow because he became the father himself in the Timskp show, but none is as heart as a story of godfather and Bonnie.

This is a show with some extremely emotional episodes, but no one gets half as emotionally fatal as episode 1,136. Even repeated One of the best episodes of the show Showing the godfather not only destroyed the celebrity hats when they first fought for fun, but to learn and help them improve. Kuma quietly set all his hopes for Lufi and helped him become the man who is today.

That's the key to why this episode is so powerful. It is not enough just to give the audience a sad story that can cry. Instead, the fact is that the life of the godfather, about how sad it was, touched every aspect of the "one piece" world that makes such a tragedy. The godfather never thought he deserved to live, or that someone was beneficial to be here. As Dr. Vegapank tells him, before taking away his will, "Living is to cause other problems", and the death of the godfather will be problems for everyone who once loved it - and there are many, many people who have done. What was originally introduced as just a hustle, a silent monster was a hero, a revolutionary, a friend, a king, a pastor, a father and a martyr. He helped save countless lives, even when he was forced to work for the Marines. He became the slave liberator during the incident in the valley of God. He helped fight injustice with the revolutionary army and Lufi's father. It is the reason that the straw cap pirates are alive. And in the last last act of free will, he is seeking to be programmed to protect the celebrity hats, until they return to it, making a last act of selflessness to help their journey.

The biggest skill of the Oda as a writer connects points that readers never thought they had to go together. He can and has a woven detailed, huge thread of orub and history, and with the episode 1,136, it becomes clear that the godfather is close to the center of all. Fans lose their minds during the episode, and if you look at YouTube carefully, you will see dozens of people chanting their eyes. Even after a quarter of a century, even after more than 1,100 episodes, "one piece" can still shock the audience.