Is Oda Steering One Piece Toward a Naruto-Style Letdown?

Spoilers for One Piece chapter 1164 ahead. The fandom is buzzing thanks to a spoiler tease that drags Davy D. Jones, Joy Boy, Rocks, and God Valley back into the spotlight. Some fans think Oda is steering the ending into Naruto territory. Let’s walk through what set this off, why people are worried, and why others think that panic is premature.

Why people think One Piece is about to Naruto its ending

This kicked up when a popular One Piece X account, @WorstGenHQ, teased chapter 1164 with a graphic of Davy D. Jones and Joy Boy. They even used the Pirates of the Caribbean Davy Jones as a placeholder image, which tells you how little official art exists for Oda’s version right now. If you buy the hint, 1164 puts those two legends front and center.

Then a fan jumped straight to the big conclusion: this is proof that One Piece is setting up a Naruto-style endgame where modern rivals inherit the conflict of ancient rivals.

"With every new chapter, more proof that One piece will have the most basic shonen ending 😂

Y'all better say sorry to Kishimoto"

- @Myglobalbun, Oct 27, 2025, tagged #ONEPIECE1164

The theory, in plain English

• Davy D. Jones and Joy Boy are being framed as ancient foils, like Naruto’s Indra and Ashura Otsutsuki.
• Blackbeard is presented as a descendant of Davy D. Jones, while Luffy is tied to Joy Boy via inherited will; in this read, they are the current 'reincarnations' of that old rivalry.
• Rocks D. Xebec and Gol D. Roger map to Hashirama and Madara as the previous era’s titans.
• Imu stands in for Kaguya as the shadowy, era-spanning final boss; Nika aligns with Hagoromo as the mythic counterweight.
• Because we still know almost nothing concrete about Davy D. Jones, some fans speculate he and Joy Boy were one-time friends or friendly rivals.

Why the anxiety spiked right now

The Elbaph arc has been moving at a weird, whiplash pace. What looked like it would be Loki’s backstory suddenly swerved into Rocks D. Xebec’s history and the truth behind God Valley. We’re in flashbacks inside flashbacks, and Oda’s cranking the lore firehose to max. It’s a lot. That avalanche has some readers worried we’re heading toward a neat, hand-wavy wrap-up about inherited will and 'ending the cycle of hatred' the way Naruto did.

The counterpoint: Oda’s been laying track for years

Here’s the big difference the other side keeps pointing to: Naruto’s late-game lore drop was abrupt. Kaguya showed up with barely any groundwork, and while Indra and Ashura were name-dropped, the execution did not land with a lot of fans.

Oda is the opposite. He’s been foreshadowing this stuff for ages. The Void Century was teased as far back as Water 7. Joy Boy and Davy D. Jones have been whispered about in bits and pieces. Sun God Nika? You can trace that thread back to Skypiea. Imu has been in the text for nearly seven years now. Even if the current chapters feel dense, the scaffolding has been there.

Do the character parallels actually line up?

Not cleanly. If you take the God Valley material at face value, Luffy is almost nothing like Gol D. Roger in temperament or approach. Blackbeard might be tied to Rocks by blood, but he’s painted far more purely villainous than Rocks ever was. One Piece also doesn’t read like a story preparing to forgive the World Government or give Blackbeard a redemption epilogue. And Luffy vs. Teach is not Naruto vs. Sasuke; there’s no tragic bromance here, just ideological collision courses.

Bottom line: I get the nerves, but maybe hold fire until 1164 drops and we see how Oda threads Davy D. Jones, Joy Boy, and the Elbaph/God Valley dump together. Where do you think One Piece is actually heading? Drop your theories.

If you want to catch up: One Piece and Naruto are streaming on Crunchyroll, and both manga are available on VIZ Media.