#so does Arlong

[woodenela]

There was not a single crumb of Zeff in the new trailer 😭

I will stay strong & wait for the release then ;_; lolTaz keeping his bri'ish accent, his arguments with Zoro are gonna sound so fun😂

[cosmicrhetoric]

my personal fave "luffy holds a mirror up to someone's soul" moments. aka the whole point i think

[puppyeared]

met a celebrity at work

[theonescreencap]

hey guys. just finished marineford 👍

[hauntingblue]

Oh now the villagers know..... and arlong burned the town to punish her..... for some reason

[slaughtergutz]

Important thing to add: Hachi and Kuroobi are makin takoyaki in class????

[peppermintpegis]

netflix one piece live action feels a little like fanfic in that it makes sure it hits all the important notes but doesnt do all the work to make them hit which works in fic where the reader is supposed to bring all the emotional story investment from the original but doesnt work in a multi million adaptation that is supposed to be able to stand on its own or even serve as an intro to the series. it even does this in service to have more koby and helmeppo gay moments in this essay i w

[logicalbookthief]

If the live action show is the only version of One Piece you’ve ever seen, I’m begging you to watch the anime version or read the manga arc for Arlong Park, because while the show is good as a whole, it did not do Cocoyashi Village and its characters the justice they deserve.

[maburp]

Rewatching one piece from the beginning is so enlightening like I finally understand how each crew member survived each arc!

Zoro - bro trains everyday and lives on motivation which is why he survives no matter what like a cockroach. Literally buried under a building? Not a problem with his three sword style building slasher move!

Sanji - his family has unnatural strength… which is why he’s able to survive being hit by literally 1000 volts in skypeia arc!!! Or fight Arlong with a fractured rib cage???…. to avoid spoilers that’s all I’ll say,,, watch whole cake arc

Ussop, Nami, Chopper - crazy lucky. can dodge good and use their brains on adrenaline bc of previous circumstances and makes them really good at beating enemies without having to actually use fists. And they always have friends who have their back!

Luffy - same breed as Zoro. also is made of rubber so when things like rocks bury him he’s like “wow! That was funky and fun! Do it again!”

Robin - five billion hands. Enough said.

[problemswithbooks]

There's a few minor characters in a later One Piece arc that disprove your theory re: inheritance of fish-like traits, but your world-building speculation is really interesting!

Actually one of Big Mom’s young sons looks fully Fishmen. De-Chat.

Got these two asks so I looked into it a bit more.

Something I find really interesting is that Big Mom's kids, De-chat and his mermaid sisters look nearly the same as full-blooded fishmen and merfolk. Big Mom is interesting because she doesn't really look human due to her size but is apparently just a little to short to count as a giant. It might be possible that she has giant ancestors somewhere in her past--but also who knows, she could also have fishmen or merfolk ancestors as well.

Again, this is just me trying to make sense of One Piece biology that was never supposed to make any sense. Oda only designs characters based on how they look and fit into the story. He's not going to limit his artistic talent to reality or make world building rules that might also put restrictions on what he can draw.

But for me, how I'd make sense of Big Mom's kids looking so much like their seafolk fathers is to say that somewhere in her background she has a fish-person or merfolk parent. Given how Oda says their dna works, with it remembering any secondary species (like whale shark, or goldfish) it makes sense that human hybrids generally get more human traits because one parent lacks a secondary species to pull from. Meanwhile, both fish-people and merfolk are human, so the genes have more ways of combining in a way that emphasis human traits.

But if someone has seafolk ancestors their dna would still carry that secondary species, even if they themselves do not have any fish traits. If they then had children with a fish-man or mermaid that child could have a higher chance of inheriting fish traits. This could explain why Big Mom has such pure looking seafolk children.

Meanwhile other hybrids we see like Sapi look nearly entirely human except for a fin on his head. Dellinger is interesting because he looks almost fully human as well, but most of it seems to be because he can hide those traits. He can choose whether or not to have human teeth, or hide his fin.

I'm no expert on dna or genealogy so my head-cannon is probably nonsense, but to me seafolk kind of feel like eeve in a way, where they're dna is kind of unstable. Whenever they have kids what they look like is a complete crap-shoot, where anything is possible. On top of that it doesn't seem like their abilities or size is always determined by their fish traits. Some of them look nearly human, except with non-human skin tones, while others look extremely inhuman--like Zeo or Hammond.

Which again is very purposeful on Oda's part. He's drawing cool characters. The reasons why they look the way they do doesn't matter to him at all. I just try and come up with reasons because I find it fun.

[conspiracy-crows]

How was I able to tear through Marineford so so fast, crying the whole damn time

But I am STRUGGLING to get through parts of Dressrosa????

Like, not for artistic reasons but for sheer angst and nail biting?!? I'm on the backstory bits(ch 727) and I have to keep doing something else for a few minutes because my heartrate cannot take thisssss

[silasplaskett]

what is UP with the race allegories in one piece....

[manchasama]

I am...baffled and disappointed.

I was watching a fansub of the first few Onepiece episodes, and was completely thrown off by them translating nakama as "friend". Like, no? That is not right. Just leave it as nakama please it's so much less offputting than Arlong going "Nami is my friend". That absolutely does not work.

Then on a whim I decided to google what fansubbers would still be using nakama, only to find at some point the fandom became absolutely poisonous about not only the term nakama, but leaving japanese in at all.

"It's a deliberate troll of old fansubbers!" "They just didnt' know how to translate it so they left it in." "It means friend/comrade/crew and they should just have used the REAL word!" "They thought leaving Japanese in made them edgy and cool"

Like...y'all realize YOU sound like the assholes here? Then of course there's the people who are like "You should never leave the japanese in the translation!" purists who I just don't understand. Misconception of words aside, because that is their OTHER argument, if you want it purely english, watch the dub maybe.

There ARE untranslatable concepts, and what I remember is fansubbers used to put their heart and soul into trying to convey the concept instead of literal translations. And sometimes, leaving the original term with a translation of subtleties works better. If you are mad at the fandom for assigning it further meaning beyond that (which I never really...picked up on? Nakama has different meaning for everyone, it's not a one-stop "closer than family" term?? Literally never heard anyone say that except for the people complaining that people say that), then I don't think you like fandom at all.

[dbphantom]

romance dawn bubblegum-gum

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

also on the subject of "whoops the main character got written out of the story," if luffy isn't there, then there's nobody to go after arlong and stomp him immediately after he has the marines seize nami's savings, meaning she's just stuck in that situation where she's just been crushed and also everyone she's been trying to save has now decided to go throw themselves on arlong's crew's blades.

so maybe after that happens, she does manage to talk the cocoyasi residents into waiting a little bit longer, but only until, like, the very next time she returns. so when she goes out again with zoro (who i guess at this point is in the know about her situation), they're like, ok, fuck, we gotta pick up the pace. we can't just keep scraping up pennies anymore, we gotta go Big. what's the biggest most lucrative thing we can go after rn. ...so maybe they wind up pursuing the krieg pirates to the baratie

[escapaldi]

It's OPLA Day! Get ready for the internet to be even more obnoxious than it already is about what might end up being one of the few good live-action adaptations of anime, let alone out of many of the cartoon-to-live-action adaptations that have happened over the past 15 years even though the anime was already an adaptation, but i digress.

I, however, won't be extra-obnoxious until at least Monday, since that's when things align so I can watch it. Anything involving it (at least at first) is going to be tagged with OPLA as well as One Piece, so use that tag blocker if you gotta.