 Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything one piece. Last week on the Arc Review we infuriated a yonko by crashing a wedding, and this week we are ascending the red line and landing at Marijoua to attend the Reverie. Reverie is the 30th arc in the series consisting of a quaint six chapters and a completely unknown amount of anime episodes because well, who knows when that will be a thing. But before I begin talking about anything whatsoever, I need to give a very strong warning for the anime only viewers. If you have somehow managed to remain spoiler free to this point, this review will contain HUGE spoilers you have been warned. I should also say that this review is going to be a little different from the rest, primarily because the Reverie arc has only very recently been completed in the grand scheme of things, and I don't believe we've had the appropriate time to digest it and its overall effect on the series, like we've been able to do with the previous arcs. So what follows are my very raw and initial feelings regarding the Reverie arc. First and foremost I feel a bit weird calling the events of Reverie an arc of its own because it's more of a brief interlude between larger arcs that has a whole ton of setup involved with little to no payoff, at least not within this portion of the story. Instead it leaves us with revelation after revelation intended to generate a healthy dose of excitement and reward after a fairly lengthy whole cake island arc. And the first of these gigantic events is Luffy's new bounty of 1.5 billion berries. Now after defeating Kartakuri there was no doubt in my mind that Luffy's bounty would rise to at least 1 billion, but I never even dreamt that it would triple to 1.5. Furthermore he became an unofficial fifth emperor, which you know despite characters like Blackbeard claiming that it is still too early for him to take that title, is huge progress. This development brings the eventual end of One Piece within sight really. Whether you think Luffy is truly ready or not he's playing on the same stage as figures like Kaido and Shanks now. But we also have very exciting developments outside of the world of piracy which is what the bulk of this art consists of. What the reverie does exceptionally well is bring together a whole host of characters from the entire history of the series and their interactions are really cool to see. For example I very much enjoyed the gathering of Vivi, Rebecca and Shirahoshi and how they immediately just started discussing their appreciation of Luffy, very surprisingly openly within the territory of the world nobles. And we have similar moments for a whole ton of recurring characters, so many so that Oda had to actually invent something new which are the little trivia panels that popped up briefly explaining for certain characters history with the straw hats. And yeah when you think about it they're actually pretty essential. One Piece is over two decades old now so there are fans who weren't even alive when it began publication. Given the long span of the series there are also probably fans who started reading or watching at a certain point in the series, let's say the New World for example, who aren't even aware of the pre-timeskip events. And as for the people who did their due diligence and started from chapter one or episode one and have just blasted through 900 chapters or episodes, well they absolutely need a refresher because there is no way in hell they're going to retain all of that information. And for people like me who have been following the series for well over a decade, these panels act as a nice bit of nostalgia. There's just something really cool about Oda drawing the pre-timeskip character designs in his current style because it has evolved a hell of a lot over the run of the series. But one thing during the reverie arc that I have some pretty mixed feelings on is the whole revelation of Eem. On the one hand I'm pretty damn excited that there is an all powerful figure like this essentially running the world in the shadows, but his existence also does some damage to the story, mainly to the Gorase really. Ever since their introduction in the Jaya arc these guys had represented one of the biggest mysteries of the series. Who are they? What kind of power do they have? Are they immortal? And after the introduction of Eem I really couldn't care less about them. I want to know more about the mysterious Eem, not his five man servants. Especially since with Eem comes the associated mystery of that giant straw hat, which for some reason exists within the vaults of Marijua. That thing is by far the biggest what the fuck of the arc. I still really don't know what to make of it. And even thinking about it feels very surreal and weird. It's like the sort of thing you might see in some sort of questionable fanfiction. But hey as with everything I'm going to trust that Oda is going to make this strange relic into some pretty cool piece of story. I'm not going to theorize on it here because that's not what ArcReviews are for and honestly there's a gazillion other YouTubers out there happy to cater to those needs. Something else I'm not going to theorize about but should probably mention is that the reverie revealed very vaguely how Garp attained his title of Hero of the Marines which involves the era prior to Roger where allegedly Big Mum and Kaido were part of a crew known as the Rocks. And that is quite literally all we know. It's such a tiny piece of information that I didn't even mention it in my chapter review when it came out and my god my comment section got into an uproar. I say you completely did not talk about Garp's conversation and the Lock Rock Pirates. That is highly surgical. I love your videos but missing that vital information makes me to not approve this review. And I got a lot of comments like that in fact that was probably the most civilized comment I could find. So I'm going to address it in this ArcReview. It was at best an intriguing piece of information that currently leads us nowhere into the realm of pure and poor speculation. When and if we do eventually learn more about the Rocks what was stated here is going to be entirely redundant. So chill guys, chill. Instead let's get to talking about something we have some actual substance to grasp onto which is the return of Saint Mosgard whose name was revealed to be Don Quixote Mosgard. Twist. A character I had all but completely forgotten about. But I was very keen on his reappearance because it went a long way to enhancing the retrospective view of one of my least favorite arcs Fishman Island. The flashback portion of Ultihime and Mosgard always felt very off to me because their story was never actually resolved and we just moved on. But the fact that Mosgard appears to have been affected by Ultihime gives her sacrifice new meaning. By converting even a single celestial dragon, Ultihime has set in motion a change that has the potential to truly shake the world. So I very much appreciate what the Reverie Arc did for Ultihime's story and character. Plus Mosgard got to smack Saint Charles in the face which is always nice to see. The Reverie Arc also holds the first proper post-time skip appearance of Bartholomew Kuma or at least the shell of what he's become. As well as a surprise shelling from Jewelry Bonnie. It was incredibly heartbreaking to see what had become of Kuma and I hope that he is actually dead and PX0 is nothing but pure cyborg because nobody deserves to go through that kind of shit. But the flagged connection to Bonnie is something that was entirely unexpected to me and it makes me very keen to see the eventual Kuma flashback which, and I'm calling this now, I think will be one of the most tragic stories in the entire series. But back to what we have going on here, this is the 30th Arc in the series and the first in which we actually start to zero in on the Revolutionary Army. We learn more about their members and their incredibly ambitious goals which has been long overdue in my opinion, although the commanders as wonderfully quirky as they are were slightly underwhelming. At the moment I just really don't see them as a threat to the entirety of the marines and the world government but at the same time I try to keep in mind that the revolutionaries don't conduct business in the same brute force manner as every other power faction in the world. Their people were very specifically chosen for their particular method of contribution to the cause like Bellow Betty who actually has a truly terrifying power of being able to inspire people into action. So as with most things for me during this arc, the jury is still out on them. And now we come to Shanks. Look every time this dude makes an appearance the one piece world comes to a complete halt and this is certainly no exception. In fact it left us with one of the most puzzling questions of the entire arc. I mean we do know why he's here it's to speak about a certain pirate which could be Luffy Blackbeard or a third party entirely, but it was quite strange that the Gorace would actually accept an audience with one of the most dangerous pirates in the world. And what made Shanks's appearance at Marijoy even more unexpected to me was that Shanks had already had a cameo earlier on in the reverie arc reacting to Luffy's new bounty. So these six chapters contain a good old one-two double punch of Shanks which hey I greatly welcome. But in essence what this arc accomplishes is the gathering together of the one piece world on a scale we've never before seen while simultaneously expanding it far beyond our current knowledge base. Through various aforementioned teasers as well as the hints I haven't even touched on like the silhouetted appearance of Greenbull the reverie arc poses more questions than it answers in typical one piece world building style and that is why I love it so. But that pretty much does it for the reverie. Next week will be, wait you thought the arc review was done? No not quite because next week we've got some work to do as I will be using all of these insights we've gained over the past 30 videos to begin a comprehensive one-piece arc ranking. If you enjoyed this video then feel free to like, favorite or subscribe and if you are in any way keen on supporting this independent channel then please do feel free to check out my Patreon discord server or Twitter the links to which are in the handy description below. Finally please do comment with your thoughts on the reverie This has been the Grand Line Review and I'll see you next time.