 Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review your source for everything One Piece and today I am here to discuss a very bizarre situation within the One Piece Media Empire which is a popular train of thought currently spreading around the fan base that the anime has somehow actually managed to spoil the manga. Now if this doesn't seem like an odd statement to you I'd like to remind us all that this is generally impossible because the anime is always about a year behind on animating events that have already occurred in the manga. Therefore there is no way that the anime could ever spoil manga readers yeah well uh maybe not and all of this has come about with the most recent episode 892 and as I'm sure we're all well aware this officially commences the one who arc in the anime bringing sweeping positive changes to usher us into a brand new world of glory for this medium and as part of this we were also given a brand new opening called over the top by Hiroshi Kitotani. Now unfortunately this opening is riddled with spoilers from the very get go in fact the very first shot has Luffy in prison but it proceeds to show a spoiler rampage for the poor poor anime only watches going on to show Sanji's raid suit, Basil Hawkins, Yasu's moment and even Kaido in dragon form. Now I don't know if it's just a cultural thing the Japanese fans don't mind knowing everything they're about to watch or even if these kind of spoilers are expected to generate interest in their viewing whatever the case it kind of sucks for the foreign anime only fans who have stood firmly by the series only to have this shoved in their faces however it may get even worse because there is a dangerous idea floating around that this opening not only spoils anime fans but also includes a massive manga spoiler as well so how does it do this well the idea is centered around these four stills so we have Kinamon and Kiku along with Kawamatsu creepily in the middle there and then we move to shoot Maru and Kiyoshiro, Nekomomushi and Inawashi and finally Raizo and Kanjiro. Now why does this mean anything at all? Well individually there's nothing so special about these split screens but it is the fact that they are the only character shown in this way and when we look at them all together there's a bit of a trend happening being that eight of these nine characters happen to be members of the nine red scabbards so it appears that they're not just a random assortment of characters that were chosen to be featured in these little dual flashcard things so we then need to ask ourselves why is Kiyoshiro here and from here a lot of people have put two and two together and come to the conclusion that it's because well Kiyoshiro is the final member of the nine red scabbards who has not yet been revealed to us in the manga although we do know that his name is supposedly Denjiro. Not that having a different name matters at all because we have aliases everywhere in the Wanoa and even amongst the confirmed nine red scabbards we have one which shoot Maru being an alias for Ashuridouji. Now I have to say when I initially heard this thought I dismissed it outright as another one of those stupid fan ideas because just believe me there's a lot of them however this is because I wasn't paying complete attention to the opening watching it for the first time I completely missed Kawamatsu in between Kinamon and Kiku so I just thought to myself no if they were going to highlight the red scabbards they would just use Kawamatsu silhouette with Ashuridouji instead of Kiyoshiro but after spotting that Kawamatsu is indeed there I can't deny that there is a very deliberate effort to highlight these characters as being part of a cohesive group and of course the other reason why I dismissed it at first is because silhouettes we've seen of Denjiro don't match up to Kiyoshiro because he seems to have a big ponytail type thing but then again silhouettes and one piece are notoriously unreliable and of course it's also possible that Kiyoshiro is in some sort of disguise to hide his more say recognizable form I mean just imagine if that hair was simply a really bad wig but also Kiyoshiro may not necessarily have to be Denjiro in order to be one of the nine red scabbards Denjiro could have passed away and Kiyoshiro is carrying on his will a very prevalent idea in one piece and so that also makes some sense because Kiyoshiro appears to be much younger than the rest of the scabbards and you know maybe the thing that Ashura Doji wants to show Kinemon is Denjiro's grave and that also works in relation to why Kiyoshiro has that weird connection with Hiyori although I will say that it doesn't explain why Hiyori has no idea where Denjiro is unless of course Kiyoshiro is strategically not telling her but hey she also didn't know where Ashura Doji was so she clearly isn't all that well informed on the matter but there is a fair bit of substance to the idea so I can't believe I'm saying this but I think it's entirely possible that the anime has just spoiled the manga it's an absurd thought but it's very possible now the next point of resistance would be how did the anime know that Kiyoshiro was one of the nine red scabbards given that we as manga readers don't even know yet and that can be explained because the anime is often privy to random bits of information from Oda in order to plan their product far ahead so I can see a situation in which an anime team are planning the opening and Oda informs them that Kiyoshiro is indeed the final member of the nine red scabbards with the plan in mind that Oda himself would have revealed it in the manga by the time the opening is actually reaching broadcast the evidence I have to support this is the idea that Oda is a legendarily poor predictor of time and if they were planning the opening months and months ago I feel like it is feasible that he would have gone look this is where the manga will be at that point in time and so the anime team ran with it because as established they love cramming as many spoilers as possible into the openings and look I don't like to get carried away with these sorts of thoughts because 99% of the time they'll turn out to be heavily coincidental connections made by people like me who have far too much time on their hands however this situation just fascinates me because it is so oddly plausible try as I might I cannot think of a good reason as to why Kiyoshiro is included in this particular part of the opening alongside this particular set of characters rather than having his own focus elsewhere in the opening like maybe alongside Orochi the anime team know that he is an important antagonistic figure so why bury him in this montage of good guys I mean maybe it was a practical consideration like we don't have the space to showcase him so where can we put him uh maybe alongside Asher Adolji because he also comes off as somewhat antagonistic in the beginning of Wano but that is legitimately the best reason I can come up with other than it was a random choice and they did not think through the connotations that they would be drawing which I find very difficult to believe in this current incarnation of the animation team and it's because of the huge attention to detail that they've used which showcasing every other spoiler that we're already aware of in the opening they have gone well out of their way to make sure that this opening is depicting very accurate events and characters so I currently don't see why this moment would be any different and before I get swamped with arguments like nah mate Sanji was shown fighting Kizaru in an opening before and that didn't happen so therefore based on that one horrible example it is also the case here as well and the two situations are just completely different like I said whether this was intentional or not on the part of the animation team and I do believe it was taking into account the rest of the opening it looks intentional because hey if they did want to show the scabbards and instead of Kyoshiro why not use the silhouette of Denjiro like they did with Kawamatsu there is just so much that either points to some of the poorest possible thinking in the world by the animation staff or that this was a very intentional move because Oda may have told them that by now he would have revealed Kyoshiro so yeah I am endlessly intrigued by this idea because it may very well be the first time that I have ever experienced having the manga spoiled by the anime and it would certainly be something unique if it turned out to be true but I just want to be clear I am not 100 investing in this idea as many other people have because it is far from confirmed but there is a lot to say that it could very well be the case and to find out I guess we'll just have to stay tuned to the manga because if this is correct I have a feeling that we are going to know very very soon. 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