Oda Has Already Revealed The Next Rocks D. Xebec, And It Isn’t Blackbeard 

One Piece is currently in the Elbaf arc, and Oda is shaping this arc brilliantly, leading many fans to believe that it has the potential to be the very best arc in the whole series. While that remains to be decided, given that it is far from its end, what can be said with certainty is that it has been absolutely phenomenal so far.

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One Piece: Rocks D. Xebec’s Bounty Was Huge, But Oda Has Revealed A Bigger Bounty Already

Rocks D. Xebec is a legendary pirate with an insane bounty. This other One Piece pirate has a bigger bounty.

One Piece also recently introduced Rocks D. Xebec, someone fans have wanted to introduce in his story for about 7 years now. Rocks’s story is now being explored in the manga through a flashback. It was revealed to the fans that Rocks is the father of Blackbeard, and naturally, most fans consider Teach to be his second coming. The truth of the matter is that Rocks’s real successor has already been revealed by Oda.

Rocks D. Xebec Makes His Debut In One Piece

• Rocks Appears In Loki’s Flashback
• He Killed An Admiral At The Reverie

One Piece chapter 1154 officially revealed Rocks D. Xebec to the fans, and it goes without saying that this character is extremely exciting. Rocks appeared briefly in the chapter, but he will continue to feature in the next few chapters of the manga as well. The first mention of Rocks came through Jarul and Harald, who spoke of the murder incident at the Reverie. It appears that Rocks infiltrated the Reverie and then went on to kill an Admiral of the Navy who stood as guard at the event. Then, Rocks proceeded to flee and this earned him a bounty in the billions. While the exact bounty hasn’t been revealed to the fans just yet, it is sure to be very high.

8 years later, he appeared in the country of Elbaf, and it is there that he met Loki for the very first time. Now, these two will get to know each other better, and of course, Loki will come to admire him for the kind of person that he is.

Blackbeard Is Rocks’s Son, But Loki Carries Rocks’s Will

Loki Is Obsessed With Rocks D. Xebec

One Piece chapter 1154 showed not only Rocks’s full character design to the fans, but also went on to show the fans who his son was. Oda confirmed in the chapter that Rocks D. Xebec is the father of Blackbeard, which is why most fans now associate Blackbeard with Rocks. Of course, this is only valid, especially given that Blackbeard clearly intends to follow in his footsteps, becoming the ruler of the Pirate Island and even calling his own ship The Saber of Xebec. But, that doesn’t make him the successor of Rocks.

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There is one character that Oda has already revealed who appears to be far more worthy, and that’s Loki. Loki admires Rocks from the bottom of his heart, and it is also likely that Rocks was the reason he stopped being suicidal.

Rocks Is Loki’s Shanks

In Loki’s mind, Rocks is his idol, regardless of whether he’s dead or alive. More than that, Loki admires Rocks in a similar manner to how Luffy admires Shanks. Loki isn’t Rocks’s son, but that matters little in a series where Inherited Will is a core theme. Blackbeard may be Rocks’s son, but the legacy will be carried on by Loki.

One Piece Chapter 1155 will be out this week. As usual, One Piece is going to drop on Sunday. In Japan, One Piece drops at 12AM JST on Monday. However, the vast majority of international readers will see the chapter available on July 20. The official release date of One Piece Chapter 1155 is July 20, 2025. Fans can read the chapter for free on Manga Plus.

One Piece

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 Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu 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)