15 years after Ace, One Piece Author Oda gives fans the most tragic death

One piece is currently in the Elbaf Arc, where Oda is revealing all kinds of amazing mysteries to fans, one by one. at this moment, One piece is deeply focused on Harald's flashback, where both King Elbaf's and Loki's lives are shown in great detail. Since this flashback will take fans 109 years into the past, a lot of tragedies have happened in the world since then. Fans have seen some major deaths One piece world since then and chapter 1165 could give fans the most tragic.

As is quite clear, Oda doesn't like to kill off too many characters in the storybut there are times when they absolutely must. Marineford is a prime example of this, where Eiichiro Oda, author One piece he continued kill Portgas D. AceLuffy's brother. To this day, fans still consider Ace's death the most tragic in the series One piecebut now Oda revealed another heartbreaking death that brought many fans to tears. Years after the fall of the Fire Fist, Oda shows that things could be even worse One piece world.

Rocks Death of D. Xebca in One Piece Chapter 1165 was tragic

If there is one death that can be said to be the most tragic death since the fall of Ace, it's Rocks D. Xebec. Oda often kills off some of the coolest supporting characters in the story, and Ace was certainly one of them. There are many others that Oda has killed as well, but one thing Oda refuses to do is disrespect those who die.

Usually in One piece In the world, characters die smiling, especially when it comes to a good cast of characters. Even Ace, whose loss was immense, died with a big smile on his face. Whitebeard died proud, Roger died smiling and so did Oden. Almost every major character that died in One Piece had their moment of glory at the time of their death, except for Rocks D. Xebca.

in the rocks Oda caused a truly tragic death that is horrifying at its core. Rocks went to God Valley to save his family, and while he managed to save his wife and child, he fell for Ima in the process. While The rocks challenged Imu's power at one point he became a mindless slave at the end.

Ode draws death with a smile, the rocks died in misery

Rocks turned into a mindless slave with Domi Reversi it was really heartbreaking to see. Imu tried to use Rocks to kill his own family, and while they eventually succeeded, Rocks could have simply followed the orders of the World Government ruler and wiped out life in God Valley. As Rocks fought Roger and Garp, tears streamed down his cheeks and his suffering was deep.

At that point he just wanted to die and begged Roger and Garp to do it. The strongest pirate of the time was then put out of his misery by Roger and Garp, and both understood the pain he was going through. While most legends in One piece the world to die smiling Rocks died crying tears of grief and sorrow.

Rocks' will lives on even after his death

While Rocks D. Xebec died in God Valleyhis very essence reverberated throughout the era and lives on to this day through the likes of Loki and Blackbeard. Rocks may have died in an unfortunate way, but his some will most likely avenge him and Loki still carries his thoughts as well.

Eiichiro Oda's One Piece will be on hiatus next week. One Piece Chapter 1166 will be released in two weeks. The official release date of One Piece Chapter 1166 is November 23, 2025. Fans can read the chapter for free on Manga Plus.

Release date

October 20, 1999

Network

Fuji TV

directors

Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imayomura, Yashiôhiro Mayuū Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou

Writers

Jin Tanaka, Akiko Inoue, Junki Takegami, Shinzo Fujita, Shouji Yonemura, Yoshiyuki Suga, Atsuhiro Tomioka, Hirohiko Uesaka, Michiru Shimada, Isao Murayama, Takuya Masumoto, Yoichi Takahashi, Momoka Toyoda

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  Mayumi Tanaka

  Monkey D. Luffy (voice)

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  Kazuya Nakai

  Roronoa Zoro (voice)