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Pagina 24
D : Quanti anni hanno, Rufy, Zoro, Nami e Shanks?
R: Ho ricevuto molte domande riguardo alla loro età. Sono state le più numerose. Attualmente Rufy ha 17 anni, Zoro 19 e Nami 18.
Per quando riguarda Shanks non so dov'è adesso, ma credo che ne abbia 37, perché quando stava nel villagio di Rufy aveva 27 anni, mentre Usop ha la stessa età di Rufy, cioè 17 anni…

D : Perché i loro nemici sono così strani?
R: Come? Sono Strani?! Pensandoci bene, forse sì, però penso che la stranezza sia interessante, vero?

D : È vero che Eiichiro Oda, può allungare le mani e le gambe? L'ho letto su una rivista…
R: Ehi! C'era anche scritto che era un segreto!

Pagina 44
D : Che cosa fa con i regali ricevuti dai suoi fans?
R: Sono nella mia camera. Le lettere e le cartoline che ricevo le leggo tutte, perchè mi danno la carica, e per questo posso continuare a lavorare. Grazie…

D : Il modello o l'origine del nome di Zoro, deriva da Francis Roronoa il pirata?
R: Esatto, ho preso il suo nome da Francis Roronoa, che dicono sia stato il più feroce dei pirati dei Caraibi, e anche Morgan e Albida sono nomi di pirati esistiti davvero…

D : Per quanto riguarda Bagy il clown, quei capelli che escono fuori a destra e a sinistra del cappello, sono veri? Oppure è una parrucca? Se sono i suoi veri capelli, allora ce li ha lunghi…
R: Sì, quante domande… Guardate le due immagini qui sotto…



Pagina 66
D : Perchè a Rufy manca sempre la concentrazione?
R: Forse perchè è un po' stupido! Eh eh…

D : Anche il suo tesoro è un cappello di paglia come quello di Rufy? Se non è così, che cos'è il suo tesoro?
R: Il mio tesoro? Naturalmente siete voi, i miei lettori…

D : Perchè i capelli di Moji sono così?
R: Si allungano molto in fretta, se non li tagliasse, diventerebbero così…



D : Ho inventato un nuova tecnica di attacco di Rufy

Prima si fa gonfiare la pancia con la tecnica del Palloncino Gom Gom…
Poi si fa un buco con la Gom Gom Pistol (si può usare anche la spada di Zoro)…
Grande esplosione! Il nome di questo attacco è Gom Gom Big Bang…
R: Grazie per averlo inventato, anche se così Rufy muore…

Pagina 86
D : Quanto si allunga il braccio di Rufy?
R: Abbastanza. Per adesso si allunga di 72 Gom Gom, ma giorni fa Rufy ha detto che vuole farlo arrivare finno a 100…

D : Grazie a lei ho potuto superare l'esame di ammissione al liceo, la ringrazio molto…
R: Ah, sì? E come ho fatto?!

D : Come ha fatto a dare i nomi ai personaggi?
R: I nomi…? A volte li invento, a volte prendo i nomi di veri pirati…

D : Perchè Rufy non uccide mai i nemici? Non ha eliminato nè Moji, nè il tenente Morgan, nè Hermeppo… Però Zoro ha sconfitto Morgan, come mai?
R: Sì, questa è una bella domanda. Prima di tutto Morgan è ancora vivo, adesso è in carcere.
In quel periodo la gente combatteva credendo nelle proprie idee e rimettendoci anche la vita. Rufy infrange gli ideali degli altri. Per i nemici è la cosa più brutta. Quando le loro idee vengono calpestate è come se fossero morti… Quindi uccidere è una questione secondaria…

Pagina 106
D : A lei piacciono gli animali? Ne disegna sempre uno sulla copertina…
R: Sì che mi piacciono, ma non in modo esagerato. Però mi piace disegnarli, mi diverto a disegnare una cosa soffice. Soprattutto mi piacciono i panda che dalla nascita hanno un aspetto buffo, e il gufo che ha una faccia sempre sorpresa…

D : Il vestito di Krahador ha dei disegni di cacca, vero? Oppure hanno qualche altro significato?
R: È proprio cacca…

D : Vorrei conoscere le misure di Nami, la prego…
R: Domanda molto seria, d'accordo… Nemmeno io le so, quindi adesso vado a misurarla…
Nami: Come? Le mie misure?
Oda: Ah, c'eri, ti stavo cercando… Ahi!
Nami: Posso anche farmi misurare, ma costa molto caro, sai?
Oda: Eh? Ma quanto? Cosa?! Così caro? Non posso pagare! Ahi!
Nami: Se non hai soldi non c'è niente da fare. La prossima volta portali con te, hai capito?
Oda: Maledetta! Però un giorno la misurerò di sicuro. Aspetta ragazzo, manterrò la promessa…

Pagina 126
D : Perchè Zoro ha sempre una panciera da vecchio?
R: Come sei impertinente! Siediti lì e ascoltami bene! La panciera è un vestito da combattimento di alta moda, e per i giapponesi è anche il miglior vestito per proteggersi, e io ne vado molto orgoglioso. Ricordatelo bene!



D : Faccio una sola domanda, chi è Mikio Itoo? Prima apparizione: dietro al vice capitano nella terza vignetta di pag. 162 del volume 1. Seconda appaizione: sulla bottiglia della prima vignetta di pag. 14. Terza apparizione: dietro a Rufy nella stessa vignetta di pag. 84.
R: Avete osservato bene. Infatti c'è. Il suo nome è Mikio Itoo ed è un pistolero del fumetto di Hiroyuki Takei, l'autore di "Shaman King". In "Rurouni Kenshin Samurai Vagabondo", è apparso come un artista viaggiatore con il nome di "Mikio Itoo". Sono tutti compagni del deserto. Quante volte mi ha salvato la vita con la sua pistola. Comunque molto presto apparirà davanti a tutti voi…

Pagina 146
D : Potrebbe scrivere il suo profilo? Il nome è vero?
R: Sì, è il mio vero nome, sono nato il 1° gennaio del 1975, sono capricorno e sono del gruppo sanguigno A. Per il calendario cinese sono nato nell'anno del coniglio. Mi piacciono i film e sono un grande lavoratore…

D : Quando ha deciso di fare il fumettista? E che cosa ha fatto per diventarlo?
R: Ho deciso di diventare fumettista quando avvevo quattro anni. Quando ho scoperto che esiste in questo mondo la professione di fumettista, ho pensato: così non dovrò lavorare! Invece quando frequentavo la seconda media ho cominciato a disegnare sul serio. Ho fatto tanti schizzi, e anche adesso faccio gli schizzi mentre elaboro la trama…

D : Una domanda un po' da maniaco: nella quarta vignetta di pag. 93 del 1° volume di "Mizu no Tmodachi Kappman" (by Masaya Tokuhiro), cera scritto Eiichiro Oda, perchè? Faceva l'assistente?
R: Hai proprio indovinato. Infatti facevo l'assistente. L'ho fatto in "Police Gang Midoriyama" di Shinobu Kitani, in "Junglo no Oota Taachan" di Masaya Tokuhiro, e infine in "Rurouni Kenshin" di Nobuhiro Wazuki. Da questi tre maestri ho imparato tante cose, e ho un grande rispetto nei loro confronti…

D : Vorrei sapere quante sono le specie di frutti del diavolo e che effetto hanno sull'uomo?
R: Non posso ancora rivelarlo, ma ho sentito dire che ne esistono più di cento specie, e poi che siano tanti ad aver ottenuto delle capacità grazie a questo frutto…

Una cosa singolare della coppia Zoro/Hiyori e l’assenza della gag tipica di Zoro che si perde.
Sia quando Zoro la segue prima della morte di Yasue, sia quando Hiyori gli dice che lo guiderà lei per recuperare la spada Shusui.

I finally managed to get my hands on One Piece: Loguetown Arc, the official Oda-approved novel written in 2000 by Tatsuya Hamazaki that retells the events of Loguetown with the addition of Oda’s intended story elements for the arc (if you recall, he had to cut things from Loguetown because he wanted the crew to enter the Grand Line in chapter 100).

This novel has some truly great ZoTash moments, as it delves deeper into the characters’ thoughts and memories, more than the manga and anime do. It really surprised me in a few places.

So, without further ado, here’s my translation of what I think are the most interesting parts.

Note: Bolded is mine. I highlighted the best or most significant lines.

1. Tashigi finishing off the two pirates as seen from Zoro’s POV:

Instinctively, Zoro grabbed the hilt of his sword, and the few exposed inches of the blade sparkled in the sun. He stopped immediately, because he saw something that made him pause. It was a matter of seconds: the woman drew a sword from what seemed to be a simple shoulder bag. Zoro’s eyes widened observing the speed of her movement. But it wasn’t just that. The way she drew the sword, the way she set her body in position before attacking, the movements of her legs… everything was executed in accordance to the best sword techniques.

[…]

The girl was undoubtedly an expert swordswoman, with an enviable technique.

2. And here’s Zoro’s reaction when he sees her face after picking up her glasses:

The girl put on her glasses and breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at her benefactor in the eyes. Zoro absently looked back at her, but then something made him flinch. He swallowed, while his face changed expression. Then he blushed and his heart started beating faster. Forgotten images from the past were standing in front of him as if by a miracle and his mind was in a ferment. The image of a girl took shape and a name started to obsessively invade his thoughts. Kuina?!

3. Zoro’s thoughts right afterwards:

He frowned and angrily bit his lips, deeply upset. He thought of the moment he met her eyes and ran away like a coward. It was as if that woman who terribly looked like Kuina had knocked him out with a single look and he, Zoro the feared pirate hunter, had panicked. Her presence had turned his life upside down. Even in his rugged heart there was a soft part capable of having feelings for another person.

Note: You guys, if I didn’t have this book in my hands with Oda’s name on it I’d think this was fanfiction. Also, “Zoro has a soft side too” is exactly what Sanji says 12 years and 600 chapters later in Punk Hazard, at the beginning of a chapter focusing mainly on Zoro and Tashigi (687).

4. In the sword shop, after seeing Tashigi clumsily trip and run into a wall of swords:

Zoro looked at her under that pile of swords and regretted comparing such a klutz to his Kuina.

Note: this above is the first of many instances in which it’s stressed that Tashigi’s personality is very different from Kuina’s.

5. Now face-to-face with Tashigi, Zoro reflects again on her physical resemblance to Kuina:

When their eyes met, Zoro frowned even more, distraught by her resemblance to Kuina. If it weren’t for her age and the longer hair that covered her ears, the resemblance would have been even more striking. Kuina had died when she was a child, while this girl could be around 20 years old. However, the complete lack of makeup and her youthful appearance gave her the looks of a younger girl.

6. And here’s Zoro again on how she’s definitely not Kuina:

Judging by her senseless talk [Tashigi is talking about Zoro the pirate hunter not realizing he’s right in front of her], he had now come to realize that she, inside, was completely different from Kuina. What the shop owner had said, that she was a bit dumb, was frankly accurate. Kuina was exactly the opposite, energetic and brave, and preferred action to words.

Note: Zoro really does put Kuina on a pedestal, still idolizing her as an unreachable goal.

7. They meet again under the rain when the SH Pirates are trying to escape. Here we also get Sanji’s POV, before switching to Zoro’s:

A woman was waiting a little further, in the middle of the road. It only took a glance to Sanji’s expert gaze to know she was a beautiful girl. Her short black hair was wet and falling on her face. Her hand was fixed on the hilt of her sword, ready to unsheathe it at any time. A woman that Zoro couldn’t have forgotten.

[…]

The woman that so resembled Kuina was indeed a Marine, therefore the worst enemy for a pirate like him.

8. During their fight:

The skill of both opponents and the quality of the steel of their swords kept the fight even. Zoro realized the girl was undoubtedly superior to him in the technique of drawing the sword, and was glad he had unsheathed his beforehand. But otherwise Zoro possessed an ability with which she couldn’t compare. However, he realized he couldn’t afford the smallest distraction against an expert opponent like her.

Note: I think their fight is beautifully written. And interestingly enough, the novel stresses how it’s not completely unbalanced in Zoro’s favor, in contrast to how the manga and the anime depict it.

9. And after Zoro wins, here’s Tashigi’s POV:

Zoro was looking at her with the sneer typical of the hunter who has cornered his prey. Tashigi wondered how he could be that skilled. She thought bounty hunters, being more attached to money than to their weapons, couldn’t possess the feelings that made a swordsman one with his sword. But Zoro seemed different.

10. Here are Zoro’s thoughts after he shouts at her for reminding him of Kuina:

Zoro wanted to keep telling her off, but realized he’d got carried away by the memories of Kuina. Even if the resemblance was striking, Tashigi’s character was very different from his dead friend’s.

11. And finally, a few interesting thoughts from Sanji:

“That idiot! He’ll be sorry if he hurts that girl!” While running, Sanji kept looking back and sending angry looks in that direction. He was jealous that a lazy brute like Zoro had some connection with that pretty girl while he, despite his fame, had found no one yet.

Note: don’t worry Sanji, your time to shine will come– in about 18 years.

The parts I didn’t translate are pretty much the same as the manga, with no relevant changes or additions.

I really like how this novel presents Zoro and Tashigi’s relationship as something made of complex emotions, where each of them sees something more in the other that goes beyond appearances.

Of course the novel dwells a lot on Tashigi looking like Kuina because that’s the main plot point in Loguetown, but it also suggests that “inside” she’s actually different, anticipating how Zoro would eventually overcome the Kuina resemblance. And it also tells us Tashigi already sees something different in Zoro too, something that sets him apart from common criminals.

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One Piece Party 6 includes a short story that’s basically the Loguetown arc revisited with Bartolomeo as a spectator:




If I understood correctly the gag here is that Tashigi is worried about offering Zoro a tissue to wipe his sweat but not about the sword stuck in his foot.

I love Barto’s “look at those two idiots” face:



My favorite part is the arms shop scene, where the swords are personified as Oda drew them in an SBS:






I’m not translating the dialogue here because it’s basically the same as the manga. I will only point out that Wado Ichimonji wrote “papa” on Zoro’s forehead asdfghjkl

I recommend checking out the entire volume, I think it’s the funniest OP Party so far (and there’s more Zoro and Tashigi that I didn’t put here or this post would have been too long).

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Ci voleva una gallery su O-Kiku

LuNa analysis: Strong World in the context of Oda's story
This post is a bit of a "remake" and a bit of an "update" of my first actual analysis on LuNa.

Thanks to several interviews and official sources, we know Oda played a significant role in the development of the One Piece Film series. In fact, it all started with a movie written by Oda himself: Strong World.



He put a lot of effort into this movie, and many fans both inside and outside Japan admit this movie had its fair share of LuNa moments. But, I'd like to focus on this matter from the perspective of the manga.

Let's go back to the Arlong Park arc. Luffy always trusted Nami and put his faith in her even people around him were giving him seemingly good reasons not to do so. One remarkable example of this is in chapter 75 when Luffy is informed by Johnny (someone trustworthy) what Nami apparently did to Usopp, and Luffy not only kept holding onto his faith in Nami, he also threatened Johnny for saying such things about her:




Why is this so relevant? Because during the Whiskey Peak Arc he came to doubt Zoro because of the words of a random wounded man...




...and even doubted Robin during Water 7 before Nami told the crew the truth behind Robin's desertion.




But not even once he doubted Nami

After listening to most of Nami's recorded message, Luffy gets enraged! Why? Luffy never doubted Nami, he always relied on her blindly putting his faith in his navigator, to an extent greater than his trust in Zoro or Robin. So after thinking his navigator doubts him and his capabilities he got really angry...




...notice that he never got angry at Robin and Sanji for doubting his strength or power.

As another clever reader put it, he gets angry at Robin “for not worrying about her own safety, not because Robin doesn’t believe” in his strength...




And he got mad at Sanji for not being honest to himself when he tried to justify the choice of abandoning the crew and his dream.




But, from Luffy's point of view, the one who's not allowed to doubt his capabilities is Nami. There’s the probability he was expecting all his trust and faith in Nami to get reciprocated.

Turns out Nami does return that feeling. Why can we say that? Remember the movie's ending: Nami finds out everyone in the crew got her hidden "save me" at the end of her message... everyone but Luffy. Then when Luffy is about to play the recorded proof of Nami's unwavering faith in him, what does she do? She tries to get rid of the "edvidence" out of embarrassment So the crew listening to the recording? Not a big deal for Nami. Luffy listening to the recording? She feels the need to destroy the edvidence.




We know these moments were completely intentional because Oda stated he wrote Strong World as "hero saves the heroine" story. Since Luffy is the hero (One Piece is pretty much about his journey), it makes sense the author would want to focus on how the hero's relationship with the heroine (Nami) has a remarkable effect on him, and vice versa.




Someone once explained that Strong World encapsulates and sums up what One Piece is all about. That includes the exceptional strength of the bond between the hero (Luffy) and the heroine (Nami) of this manga.

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