“The Island of Monsters”
Elbaf has been building toward one night since the Straw Hats landed. Chapter 1198 is that night: a broken Holy Knight, a rain god who pays with her own arm, a third face for Imu, a prince who finally transforms — and a Luffy nobody in the fleet recognises.
Released · Sunday, November 8, 2026
Chapter guide
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Three ways in: the full reader below, the five-beat summary of what happens, and the two chapters that set it up.
Five beats in reading order: Sanji's finish, Zaza's arm, Imu's third form, Loki's fall and Luffy's new shape.
Open the summaryThe chapter that sets all of it up. Sanji finally breaks Killingham's Omen armour, and the fight — and his own idea of himself — turns.
Read Chapter 1197Killingham's Ivankov nightmare, and the reason 1197 had to end the way it did. The full sixteen pages, with a page-by-page summary.
Read Chapter 1196Spoilers
The chapter runs in five beats, in the order they land on the page. With the chapter out, every point below is confirmed rather than leaked.
Chapter 1197 ended on a kick that cracked Killingham's Omen armour without closing the fight. 1198 opens with the follow-through: the armour goes, the Holy Knight goes with it, and the man who spent two chapters lecturing Sanji about weakness ends the chapter running. It is the same picture Oda drew when Sommers fled from Zoro — a God's Knight discovering that a Straw Hat is not a wall you can posture against.
The rain deity Killingham pulled out of his Kirin fruit is still wrapped around the ship with Elbaf's stolen children aboard. She does not hand them over gently. She tears off one of her own arms and throws the children clear with it. In a chapter this loud, it is a startlingly quiet image, and the clearest sign yet of what Elbaf has already paid.
The figure on the Empty Throne has only ever been shown in fragments — a shadow, a hand, an eye. Here Imu steps further into view as something with an elongated torso, a long neck and enormous horns. Readers who have been tracing the Harley mural will notice the silhouette drifting closer to the devil painted on it.
Five chapters of build-up pay off as the prince of Elbaf finally fights in full hybrid Zoan form. Imu presses him about the ancient technology hidden on the island, gets nothing, compliments his strength — then ends the fight with a single strike. Loki's last line is about Luffy, who left the battlefield without explanation.
Gaban and Usopp are still asking where he went when the scene cuts to a rooftop: black hair, a tail, fangs, an ape's muzzle. He drops onto Zaza and bites her apart. Gaban's read is immediate and unsentimental — whatever Luffy is now, it is a Zoan.
Page order follows the official release. Volume printings can still adjust small details.
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The complete chapter, page by page. Scroll to read — the gold bar at the top tracks your progress.
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Chapters
Chapter 1198 is the Elbaf finale. These are the two chapters that lead into it, both readable in full.
Released1198
The Island of Monsters
November 8, 2026 · 14 pages · 4 spreads
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Released1197
Love Is Defense
November 1, 2026 · 16 pages
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Released1196
There's No Worth in a Love That Longs for Death
October 18, 2026 · 16 pages
Read chapter 1196Recap
Two chapters of Sanji versus Killingham, and the reason Elbaf's finale arrives with this much weight behind it.
Sanji's answer to Killingham was never going to be armour. 1197 spent its pages on the idea that the cook's weakness was never strength but self-worth, then paid it off with a spinning back kick wrapped in Conqueror's Haki that shattered the Holy Knight's spear and helmet. By the final panel Killingham is bleeding out of the fight and Sanji has stopped apologising for existing.
Killingham's cruellest trick was never physical: he rebuilt Sanji's two years in Kamabakka Kingdom as a nightmare, with Ivankov as the thing Sanji could not face. The flashback did the quiet work — Ivankov's lesson that a man who does not value himself cannot defend anyone — and Sanji walked back into the fight with the nightmare dismantled. A one-week break followed, which is why 1197 landed in November rather than October.
A break follows this chapter, so there is no new One Piece on the following Sunday. Chapter 1199 lands on November 23, 2026 — the chapter most likely to name Luffy's new form or show it in full. This page is updated when it does.
Editorial
Oda has spent the Elbaf arc asking a single question in different keys: what does a god look like once you finally see one? Chapter 1198 is where the answer stops being metaphorical. Imu's third form is not a silhouette on a throne any more, Loki's hybrid is not a rumour, and Luffy is not the grinning rubber boy the fleet thinks it is following.
The structure of the chapter is telling. Three transformations land in roughly the same number of pages, and each one moves someone's ceiling: Sanji proves a Straw Hat can break a God's Knight, Imu proves a God's Knight is nothing beside him, and Luffy proves the captain has a floor nobody has measured. That is a lot of ladder to build in one issue, and exactly the kind of ladder Oda likes to kick away afterwards.
There is a quieter thread too. Zaza's arm, the children thrown clear, Loki asked about ancient technology while his island burns: Elbaf's finale is being written as a cost ledger, not a victory lap. Whatever 1199 does with the break, the arc has already told us that winning here will look like surviving.
FAQ
Sanji breaks the last of Killingham's armour and the Holy Knight flees, Zaza MMA tears off an arm to throw Elbaf's stolen children clear, Imu reveals a third horned form, Loki fights in hybrid Zoan form and falls in one blow, and Luffy returns as a black-haired, ape-like Zoan who bites Zaza apart.
Sunday, November 8, 2026 at 16:00 UTC — 08:00 in Los Angeles, 11:00 in New York, 17:00 in Berlin, 21:30 in Delhi and 01:00 on Monday, November 9 in Tokyo.
The Island Where Monsters Dwell, translated in some releases as The Island of Monsters. It runs in Weekly Shonen Jump issue #50.
14 pages, four of them double-page spreads. The full chapter is readable in the reader on this page.
Yes. Weekly Shonen Jump takes a scheduled break, so Chapter 1199 lands on November 23, 2026 rather than the following Sunday.
It helps. Chapter 1197 is where Sanji's fight with Killingham turns, and Chapter 1198 picks up mid-motion. Both 1197 and 1196 are readable in full on this site.
Languages
The manga pages are English. The chapter summary and the Elbaf arc context are available in six languages.