holy shit...there's no way i could cover this all in an evening. I just opened it up and it's freaking packed.
Keep this in mind people!!!!!!!!
Oda probably didn't write all of this himself, but his seal of approval is on it. Which means unless it's a very minute detail, any broad statements are probably acceptable.
I'm just gonna mention stuff i find interesting because there way too much info in here.
Usopp's opening candid comments:
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unexpected hobby of zoro: Zoro likes to flip through picture guides of weapons, as well as collected book of bounty heads.
Sanji's name was naruto!: Originally sanji was named naruto. But naruto started serialization, so he changed his name to sanji.
Various ideas of nightmare luffy: There were ideas such as "polite and serious" luffy with a side-part hair style. Him taking in shadow of a swordsman to use swords was already decided as well.
Ace's tattoo: Sabo's initial was carved into ace's tattoo! (duh)
luffy was terrible at lying even back when he was a little kid! (duh)
dadan was originally a man: Early design of dadan, he was a male. He wore a kasa hat, shades, and smoked a pipe.
The pretty lady shown in the pic... Is the current dadan when she was young.
Ace and garp's conversation had hidden meaning: Without letting the readers know, they were actually talking about roger! (duh)
spooky face on chopper's head!?: This was originally going to be used in sky island, robin doing a face flower on back of chopper's head. It was way too creepy to be used.
Chopper's early design was a zebra-raindeer that smokes cigar. Holy hell.
Chopper will never fall in love with a human. He can befriend them and respect them, but he won't find them attractive as a mate.
Early franky: Franky's early designs were slim, tall man who spent much of his life in jail. He could forge weapons, but could not use them.
Franky's super underwear holds his crafting "tools" at all times.
Usopp and garp's interaction: Although it was cut due to page limitation, there was a scene originally where garp and usopp have a conversation!
Usopp shows his concern about his dad in the red hair pirates, and garp asks usopp to take care of his grandson.
Eye-patch pirate will show up later in the series
early designs: Cigar-smoking raindeer as doc, naruto/sanji as cook, a skeleton as a musician, a sniper as first mate, a female navigator, and a swordsman warrior.
Most of these have carried through in the series, but the shipwright was a midget and franky was a skinny weaponsmith.
Ever notice how there are lots of ships with animal heads on 'em? Long ago, really far back, in a ceremony for a ship's maiden voyage [note: There's a proper name/translation for the ceremony in english but i'm not looking it up right now] people prayed for the safety of the ship and sacrificed an animal for it. Putting that sacrificed animal's head on the ship was the origin of animal figureheads on ships.
In other words that means...there was a lamb and lion sacrificed for merry and sunny!!!
(just lying about the merry and sunny thing)
"ten or more members"
small corner brings back luffy's declaration about crew members. They suggest this means he'll get, "at least," one new member in the new world. Note that in the same blurb, they count the current number at nine.
We've been reminded that the three boys in syrup all have their own dreams.
The splash mangas suck. Thy really dropped the ball. They've been squished to fit two on a page so they're very small. Lame. However, each one comes with brand new comments in addition to the title.
Woah! Helmeppo's 'determination' that was only hinted at in the cover story: "someday i'll be stronger than you dad! I'll be the one to bring you in!!"
there are collection of each member's 'animal pairing cover' between mini-arcs. Is it just me or is that not sweet as hell?
Apparently we may now consider galdino a member of buggy's crew.
Never noticed this but i believe they intend to point out jango sailed off in luffy's old boat. Haven't confirmed.
Jango's eyes may have been a play on words for the japanese word for 'love', 'ai'. Not confirmed as intentional by oda.
They bring up davey jones specifically, so looks like we will indeed be hearing more about him.
They suggest that ener has yet more ambition and he's heading towards it with his army.
More wb crew names:
Spellings not confirmed in english
andre- frankenstein/andre the giant-lookin' guy.
Hermy(sp)- the old fat lady pirate
ramba- spartan-looking dude
vizarre- iron-jaw guy
epoida- snuffkin-lookin' dude.
Karma- octopus head
baron lightning mcguy (fuck-off awesome name)- guy with huge nose and chin and lightning stache.
A o- weird dude with round teeth and big mouth, looks ever so slightly like wanze.
Derakuahi- i literally wrote that in romaji cause i have no idea what the gag is offhand. Looks like and arab...uh...turnip? Freaky circle eyes.
Eylewan- the walrus
blondie- pigish-looking fat guy. Don't remember him actually.
Amadob- guy with a crown.
Will add katakana later if you guys didn't know these yet.
Moriah is the official spelling.
Jinbe is the official spelling.
Dracule is now without question the official spelling.
No space in doflamingo.
Racklo- marine giant that looks similar to akainu.
Ronz- marine giant with full helmet.
Norland's name comes from an 'island' 'not being there'. Or in other words, 'no land'.
Hiruruk's name comes from the german word for 'medical treatment'. Ivotas? Anyone? What's the correct spelling?
They suggest 3rd in command on roger's ship was 'bronze so-and-so' and even though they haven't shown up yet...
Okay guys, aside from the sketches, which are awesome, that's it. There's a lot of sketch material, but i'm guessing you've probably seen 'em all already and someone already translated them. Peace!
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thanks guys. I have a great idea of what info was already posted now. I'll get to work.
Look for notes on the sketches coming here.
Chores
robin and nami take turns doing their own laundry every day .
The boys do it all together once a week.
Oda planned to redesign merry from the start. He even has a sketch from the start of the series that's damn close to the final version.
Original full crew
pic 1 & 2
in these first two pix they have no names, simply jobs. This was his idea for the crew two years before the start of the series. Interesting notes. The sniper, who became usopp, is listed as the first mate. We can see brook there with a kamikaze headband and no afro. The creepy dude on the left appears to be a botanist or perhaps gardener, not sure, it simply says he likes plants. Also note the words 'sniper' crossed out by his name. The aspects of this character would, as we're just finding out now, be entirely absorbed by the character usopp who is starting to use plants. The little guy on the far left is actually the shipwright, can you believe it? Now we know where oda thought up the idea of those catfish in his hacchan story!!!
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