Chapter 1162 Just Turned Kaido Into One Piece’s Unlikely Hero
One Piece Chapter 1162 turns the God Valley flashback into a powder keg, giving every major player a defining moment—yet it’s Kaido who steals the show, seizing a Devil Fruit and setting off a game-changing shift.
Chapter 1162 dives back into the God Valley flashback and, honestly, it is loaded. Everyone on that island gets some movement, but the chapter basically hands the spotlight to Kaido. He grabs a legendary Devil Fruit, he swings at Imu, and you can see the moment his entire life veers off course.
Kaido’s turning point: power gained, everything else lost
Here’s the gut punch of God Valley for Kaido: he wins big on power and loses bigger on meaning. At that point he was a young juggernaut trying to stand shoulder to shoulder with the monsters of his era inside the Rocks Pirates. When that crew imploded after God Valley, he didn’t just lose a job. He lost the only thing that felt like a family, comrades who steadied a rough past, and a leader he believed in.
What filled the crater? Emptiness, then obsession. From that point on, strength became the whole identity. The chapter reads like the root of the self-destructive streak we see later — the fixation on a worthy death that defines so much of Wano. It is not hard to connect the dots from this collapse to the man who became one of the series’ great villains.
Yes, Kaido vs Imu actually happens
It’s a deep-lore moment: Kaido steps up against Imu during the God Valley chaos, right after securing that Devil Fruit. It’s wild on its face and it matters thematically. The confrontation underlines what the chapter keeps pushing — Kaido was close enough to the true levers of the world to glimpse them, and that perspective reshaped his ambitions forever.
The Joy Boy fixation, explained
Wano makes it explicit: Kaido wanted to see Joy Boy, and on some level, he wanted to be Joy Boy — to kick off the greatest war and crush the World Government’s rule. That dream echoes Xebec’s, which is why Kaido likely saw Xebec as his personal Joy Boy. The faith King later places in Kaido? Kaido once put that same faith in Xebec. God Valley ripped that belief away. From there, the logic becomes brutally simple to him: only Joy Boy could actually accomplish what Xebec wanted. So Kaido starts chasing the moment when Joy Boy returns, just to witness the change he could not force himself.
And then the story delivers the payoff: he is ultimately brought down by the new Joy Boy — Luffy — which is a clean, cruel circle for a man who spent years aching for that exact presence.
Why 1162 reframes Kaido
This chapter makes the character click. It shows how much he lost in one day, how he internalized Joy Boy as a symbol that outstripped any crew or captain, and why his path bent toward nihilism dressed up as strength. He is still a villain, sure, but you can see the bones of a tragic lead in there. Different outcome at God Valley and maybe we are talking about a very different Kaido. Oda building a spin-off around his pirate years would not be the worst idea in the world.
The broader flashback keeps humming
Beyond Kaido, 1162 keeps advancing every major figure caught up in the God Valley incident. It is one of those chapters where the lore advances and the character work hits at the same time — the rare combo that makes a flashback feel urgent instead of perfunctory.
What’s next
- Next chapter: One Piece Chapter 1163
- Release date: October 26, 2025
- Where to read: Viz Media
- Where to watch the anime: Crunchyroll