One Piece Episode 1172 Puts Elbaph's Children in Peril
By placing the children of Elbaph in direct peril, the episode locks the audience into the arc's outcome and gives the Holy Knights a concrete threat to resolve.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Episode 1172 of One Piece raises the stakes in the Elbaph arc. The Holy Knights threaten the island's young children, and the giant warriors fight back without success, with Saul among those in action. The episode's centerpiece is Loki's hammer strike at the tree, a roughly four-minute animated sequence that sells the blow as an end-of-the-world event. The review carries a community score of 4.0.
The episode's horror lands on its visual design. Cartoonish nightmare creatures, ghosts, skeletons, and beasts of legend move in crude, deliberate animation, and the children walk in sleepwalking lockstep beside their misshapen figures. Ominous string-heavy music carries the dread through the sequence.
The giant warriors put up a fight that comes to nothing, and Loki's single hammer swing at the tree takes up roughly four minutes of the runtime, framed with purple light and a cackle as the detonation spreads. The episode is streaming on Crunchyroll.
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- Anime News Network One Piece (2026-) Episode 1172