Thriller Bark Arc: A Deeper Look At Its Mythology

Even if it's your favorite arc, there might still be a few things you didn't know about thriller bark. For example, did you know that eiichiro oda once considered making gecko moria into a pastor with a split personality? That would have been a wildly different story. From this arc until the timeskip, most of this arcs consist of the main characters being beat down and facing enemies stronger than they are, which teach both the readers and the characters how strong they need to be later on. Thriller bark started with the straw hat crew on the thousand sunny headed towards fishman island.

They needed to face the horrors of the florian triangle. We saw a grave yard of ships and suddenly a deep mist. During their journey through the florian triangle, the straw hats arrive on a seemingly haunted island called thriller bark, where they encounter the warlord gecko moria. Using his devil fruit abilities, moria steals the straw hats' shadows. Thriller bark arc has the following examples: Lola to absalom (although she actually turns out to be a sympathetic character who becomes nami's ally), and absalom to nami. All just a dream : Thriller bark is the last arc before we really jump into the main plot of one piece. Its there largely to do some last minute work with setting up our expectations, as well as get our final straw hat on the crew.