Monkey D. Luffy & Portgas D. Ace — June 2018
Did Oda just show the future fans were afraid to see?
Eiichiro Oda casually revealed what Luffy and Ace might look like at 40 and 60.
But instead of pure hype, Japanese fans reacted with discomfort, laughter, and fear.
Was this reassurance… or a glimpse of a future no one actually wanted?
Luffy at 60 Looks… Wrong?
2: Anonymous Pirate
Ace looks cool, but Luffy at 60… yikes.
3: Anonymous Pirate
Now we can finally die without regrets.
6: Anonymous Pirate
The jump from 40 to 60 is way too extreme.
At 40 he just has a beard.
7: Anonymous Pirate
Stop making him look homeless.
10: Anonymous Pirate
Luffy doesn’t look like his dad or his grandpa at all.
Ace’s Future and the Shanks Comparison
9: Anonymous Pirate
60-year-old Ace is basically just Shanks.
Does that mean his mom or dad had Shanks’ bloodline?
The “Something Went Wrong” Future Is More Interesting
8: Anonymous Pirate
The “something went wrong” future version is 100% more interesting.
Questions from One Piece Fans
4: Anonymous Pirate
Smoothie’s ability.
Q:
Hello, Oda-sensei. While I was reading Chapter 894, I noticed something — isn’t Smoothie really huge?? Why is that? What kind of ability does she have?? And also, why is her sword wet in Chapter 894?
/ An anonymous Oda fan
A:
In the end, due to page limitations, I couldn’t fully draw it, but Smoothie is a
“Shibo-Shibo Fruit” user (“shiboru” in Japanese means “to squeeze”),
a Dehydration Human.
She can squeeze things to turn them into juice, or drain moisture from opponents she cuts with her sword, leaving them completely dried out. She stores the extracted moisture inside her own body, which allows her to grow larger, and she can also release that stored moisture as an attack.
She’s strong.
/ Oda (Author)
👉 Why Japanese Fans Read This So Harshly
Japanese readers don’t treat future designs as harmless fun.
They instinctively read them as endpoints — proof of whether a character’s life turned out well or not.
That’s why Luffy looking “homeless” at 60 triggers unease: it feels like failure, not freedom.
👉 The Real Fascination Is the Bad Timeline
The strongest reaction isn’t to the “happy” future — it’s to the one where something went wrong.
Fans aren’t just curious how characters age.
They’re obsessed with the cost of the journey, and whether becoming Pirate King leaves anything intact.
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