Top 10 saddest moments in Kuma history
Top 10 saddest moments in Kuma history
In anime, sad stories are not uncommon. In fact, most anime, especially shounen anime, are known for having heartbreaking stories for their main characters. But few anime have sad stories as well as One Piece which, even with its hundreds of chapters and characters, has not lost its touch when it comes to heartbreaking stories. Our topic today is this: the 10 saddest moments in Kuma history.
was introduced in the story as one of the seven Shichibukai who acted as an antagonist in both the Thriller Bark Arc and the Sabaody Archipelago Arc. However, it was later revealed that Kuma was also a member who had never allied with the . In the recent Egghead Arc, Kuma's story is finally revealed through the memories he left for his daughter in his care.
Before we begin our ranking of the 10 saddest memories in Kuma history, we would like to remind our readers that the contents of this article have not yet been adapted into the anime and may be considered spoilers, so a spoiler warning is in effect.
Top 10 saddest moments in Kuma history
10) Kuma leaves the revolutionary army for Bonney
Seven years ago, when Bonney was 5 years old, a doctor came to see Bonney who suffered from sapphire scales like her mother. The disease begins with tiny blue scales covering a small part of the affected person's face. But after coming in contact with natural light, it spreads throughout the body and eventually kills the affected person.
The doctor told Kuma that Bonney's illness was incurable and that she would die before she was 10 years old. After learning this, Kuma searched all over the world for a cure and eventually left the revolutionary army to stay with Bonney and take care of her. This gesture proved how much he loved Bonney beyond his conscience to help people.
9) Kuma tries to escape from God Valley
Thirty-eight years before the present time, the historical event occurred in which Gol D. Roger and Gol D. Roger joined forces to defeat the . Unknown to the world, the island of God Valley had transformed into a native hunting ground where the Celestial Dragons hunted the island's natives as well as the slaves they brought in.
Unfortunately, Kuma was one of the slaves brought to be hunted in God Valley. After suffering the mistreatment and cruelty of the Celestial Dragons, Kuma attempted to flee. This action is proof of the unbearable pain he endured at the hands of the World Nobles. It's heartbreaking to see how far a little boy was pushed.
8) Kuma endures intolerable pain every day
One of the most intense scenes in One Piece involves taking all the pain on top of his own already injured body into Thriller Bark to protect his captain. At that moment, the man who made it possible was none other than Kuma. In Kuma's memories, it is revealed that Kuma also had the same experience in his youth.
After escaping from God Valley, Kuma and most of the slaves settled in the Sorbet Kingdom where Kuma became a priest at a church. Every day he used his powers to extract the pain from the elderly and sick and take it himself to spare everyone. Experiencing it once sent Zoro into a coma while Kuma had to endure it almost everyone else.
7) The Kidnapping of Ginny
Romances and love stories, while present, are not very common in One Piece, but when Eiichiro Oda writes a love story, he makes sure to completely break our hearts. This is proven once again with Kuma and Ginny's incomplete love story. Kuma and Ginny, along with the other slaves, escaped to the Sorbet Kingdom, and from there the two grew up together.
Over time, they fell in love with each other but Kuma didn't marry Ginny because he didn't want her to be a target of the World Government because of her heritage. They eventually became revolutionary commanders. However, the day before they met after a long time, Ginny was kidnapped by the World Government, leaving Kuma heartbroken.
6) Kuma lies to Bonney about his whereabouts
After Kuma learned that Bonney only had five years to live, he was understandably broken. However, when he discovered that Bonney had partially heard the conversation and now thought she would be better by the age of 10, he experienced a new kind of hell. He couldn't tell his beloved daughter that she was about to die, so he lied to her.
Kuma told her that she would be cured before she turned 10 and that they would then visit many new places, filling the girl with joy. The thought of how much it must have hurt Kuma to lie about such a thing is very painful and it is without a doubt one of the saddest moments in Kuma's history.
5) Kuma’s letters to Bonney
After Kuma agreed to become the prototype Pacifista, he was forced to stay away from Bonney while he did whatever the World Government asked him to do as Shichibukai. At this time, Bonney was back in the Sorbet Kingdom but under the constant vigilance of Alpha, a CP8 intelligence agent.
Since Kuma could not and would never see his daughter again, he continued to write her letters. In his letters, he told her about all the places he had visited that she would have liked to visit and repeatedly reminded her how much he loved her. The letters were full of a parent's love, but they never reached their intended recipient, thanks to Alpha destroying them before Bonney could even learn of them.
4) Arrested by the world government
Ever since Kuma was a child, his life has been full of pain and suffering. This is why there are many saddest moments in Kuma's story, each more painful than the last. Born to an ordinary father and mother, Kuma's true heritage was eventually revealed to the world government.
This led to the World Government forcibly arresting Kuma and his parents, despite Kuma being a child and his mother being a normal human. After that, the three suffered unbearable cruelty as slaves of the celestial dragons on Mary Geoise.
3) Death of Kuma's father
Forced to become slaves of the Celestial Dragons, Kuma and his family suffered unbearable mistreatment at the hands of the World Nobles. Eventually, Kuma's mother died due to cruelty and his father had to tell him about his mother's death. Grieving, father and son both tried to falsely reassure each other that they were okay.
To cheer Kuma up, his father told him about the Sun God Nika and danced to the sound of the Drums of Liberation. That's when a celestial dragon slaughtered Kuma's father in front of him. The family's previous suffering and the fact that Kuma was now completely alone in the world and under the rule of his evil masters make this moment one of the saddest in Kuma's history.
2) Ginny's death
One of the saddest and most heartbreaking moments in Kuma's story is the death of Ginny. After being kidnapped by the World Nobles and forced to become the bride of a Celestial Dragon, Ginny returned to the Sorbet Kingdom with a baby and a terminal illness. In her final moments, she called the Revolutionary Army and told Dragon and Ivankov to take care of her caring Kuma.
However, before she could tell Kuma how much she had always loved him, Kuma teleported home, unable to hear her confession. But even then, it was too late and Ginny was already dead. This moment is so heartbreaking, not only because of the tragic and unfulfilled love between Kuma and Ginny, but also because it is the moment Kuma vowed to raise Bonney to be his own child.
1) Kuma agrees to become a human weapon to save Bonney
As we have seen so far, Kuma's story is so full of tragic moments that it can be considered one of the saddest stories in One Piece. But the moment that absolutely broke our hearts was when Kuma selflessly agreed to become a human weapon without his free will, just to cure his daughter of her fatal illness.
At his wit's end to find a cure for Bonney, Kuma was eventually suggested to meet Vegapunk by Dragon. Vegapunk confirmed that he could cure Bonney but in exchange, Kuma had to donate his blood so he could make the clones that would later become known as Pacifista. Kuma graciously accepted his condition, knowing that Vegapunk wanted to save people with these new weapons.
However, Saint Jaygarcia Saturn saw this as an opportunity to use the Buccaneer and demanded that in exchange for Bonney's cure, he himself become a cyborg and give up his free will so that he would never be able to go after the world government. Kuma was forced to become a pawn under them as Shichibukai and never see his daughter again.
Despite the injustice of it all, Kuma accepted them all just for Bonney. He was willing to give up his freedom, his humanity, and even his love for the daughter Ginny had left behind and raised for years. It's a moment that will make any One Piece fan cry.
Here we conclude the 10 saddest moments in Kuma history. With this story, Kuma became one of the best and most tragic characters in One Piece. In the final chapter, he even comes to Egghead Island to protect Bonney despite losing her free will. This is how much he loves his daughter infinitely.
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