This article contains spoilers from One Piece's Elbaf Arc.
One piece is currently in the Elbaf story arc, and with all the attention God Valley has received, fans know it's only going to get more exciting in the coming chapters. God's Valley was first introduced One piece fans about 6 years ago, but its events were only really revealed recently in One Piece's Elbaf arc.
While fans believed it at one point God Valley was the story of Rocks, Roger and GarpNow this island is revealed to have much more meaning to two specific characters and at its core was played specifically for those two characters, and they are Blackbeard and Shanks. In Blackbeard, Oda managed to preserve Davy's blood, which Imu is deeply afraid of, but in Shanks, Oda could actually preserve the blood of Joy Boysomething that no fan of the series had even considered at this point.
Shanks could be a descendant of Joy Boy
Shanks is Destiny's Child
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Shanks came from God Valley, Destiny Island
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Imu is most afraid of Davy and Joy Boy
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Blackbeard is Davy, Shanks could carry Joe Boy's blood
One Piece's God Valley had apparently become incredibly important in the grand scheme of things. At first, most fans assumed that God Valley was a Rocks story, and while it is in some ways, it's basically Davy's story as a whole. The Rocks perished in God Valley, but a new Davy could live, and that is Marshall D. Teach, also known as Blackbeard.
Was that Haki even stronger than Redhead? There was no hostility! — Dorry and Brogy on Joy Boy
Blood of Davy he lives on in Teach to this day and the fans know it very well. That makes sense too why God Valley was called “island of destiny” now from Oda. But when we talk about fate, God Valley is not just a Blackbeard story. It is also the story of two more important characters who happen to be twins, Shanks and Shamrock.
As fans know, Shanks and Shamrock were born in God Valley to an unnamed red-haired woman. That red hair is very important and there is a reason why Oda never revealed the name or face of Shanks' mother. Most fans associate Shanks with the Celestial Dragon line because of Garling, but they don't realize it his mother was from God Valleydestiny island
IN One piece chapter 1164, Oda specifically confirms to fans that he fears two people the most: Davy Jones and Joy Boy. Imu also confirms that he would not allow either of them to return at any cost. In parallel, fans are shown two characters who are rescued from God Valley, and they are Shanks and Blackbeard. To add to that, Shanks calls himself Destiny's Child. Maybe it doesn't look like it from the outside, but Shanks could very well be Joy Boy's own offspring through his mother who lived in God Valley.
Tell me who are you more afraid of? Is it Davy Jones or Joy Boy? — Rocks D. Xebec to Imu
Shanks inherited the Force of Joy
Oda directly compared their Haki In Egghead
There's more to it than the narrative clues Oda left behind connects Shanks with Joy Boy. At Fishman Island, Oda showed fans a Joy Boy silhouette over Queen Otohime and it looked exactly like Shanks except for the hair and cape.
In Egghead, Oda showed fans a glimpse Joy Boy's Hakiand the first person Dorry and Brogy compare his Haki to is none other than Shanks. The clues have always been there and it's only a matter of time Joy Boy is revealed to be Shanks' maternal ancestor. That would do too Shanks half D and half Celestial Dragonbasically making him a true child of destiny.
One Piece Chapter 1165 will be released this week. As usual, One Piece drops on Sunday. In Japan, One Piece drops Monday at 12pm JST. However, the vast majority of international readers will see the chapter available on November 9th. The official release date of One Piece Chapter 1165 is November 9, 2025. Fans can read the chapter for free on Manga Plus.
- Release date
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October 20, 1999
- Network
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Fuji TV
- directors
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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 Mayu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou
- Writers
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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)
