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[hoeru]

Come to think of it... Sanji's pirate name appears to me to be a "tricky" foreshadowing to his fate being treated by okamas all the time (Bon Chan, Ivankov's kingdom and the Okama Mermaids).

"Black Leg"/"Kuroashi" is a reference not only to his fighting style - there's a bird named in Japanese "Kuroashi ahoudori" (= "Black-footed Albatross") that looks like this:

And following the name pattern: Women do get the bird names! And of course: The Okama made him fly!

Oh... And there's a character in one of the Romance Dawn one shots looking like Sanji with one of his eyes hidden under hair.

P.S.: Uriel, I found the thread. ;P

 

[beck26]

this is what im talking about...

luffy was inspired from a random guy in the dragon ball series...oda's imagination really impresses me...he turned a random character into his main character LOL.

 

[hokageji]

@Beck26:

The previous post was great, i didnt think WB would be related to hogan, but it makes a lot of sense. The Bandana, the bleached moustache, the height..

I thought Oda got his idea of Grandline from visiting Las Vegas.
As you are driving there from California, the first casino you see is whiskey pete, first island is whiskey peak. You have Venetian which is like Water 7, MGM like little garden, circus circus, bellagio and others which give you a similar feel. This could just be me trying to correlate both though....

Anyways,

I thought Pell looked like Brandon Lee from the Crow..
Mihawk like Zorro (from the mask of Zorro)

Also, Franky seems more like Superman to me, with his underwear outside, besides that, he is truly the man of steel.

 

[beck26]

good point!!!! im about to bring out the places that oda had inspiration of and we think alike LOL ^_^b

 

[Ratatosk]

Re: ONE PIECE REFERENCES / INSPIRATIONS???

lets start with the strawhats:

MONKEY D. LUFFY
also from this guy: tom sawyer, the carefree and adventurous dude from american tales: http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/upload/yuiupload/1692788991.jpg

Nah, Tom Sawyer had an adult safety net for when shit got real (although probably not by today's standards) and half his adventures were make-believe; Huckleberry Finn was the Luffy of those stories, had to fend for himself and had far more dangerous adventures, leaving his hometown for good on a raft, helping an escaped slave, happily trusting & making friends with con-artists & murderers & crazy people etc.

Also: 70s post-apocalyptic anime Future Boy Conan always reminded me of Luffy..

I never knew about that Dragon Ball guy

 

[Geez]

...So what do you think about that ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g3KfXZRPX4

 

[Crazytype]

Jimbei being introduced in chapter 69. They talk about Fishman Island and Jimbei being responsible for letting lose Arrlong, and him being a shichibukai.

http://www.mangareader.net/103-2142-8/one-piece/chapter-69.html

 

[hoeru]

But that is a character introduction without revealing how the character looks like... Toriyama did the same with Vegeta and Freezer...

BTW, Toriyama. With the Dragonball republishing as Kanzenban, Oda and other Jump mangaka created some tribute images. Here's Oda's:

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Forgot to add the source: http://www.daizex.com/multimedia/images/artists/

If you're curious on other jump artists. (but you have to be fast IMHO since they are merging the portal with kanzentai.com to kaizenshu.com)

 

[Crazytype]

Still he already wrote the whole backstory at that time. I think it's amazing.

 

[Schabrak]

He couldn't have written the whole plot, because he never imagined the manga to last this long. Oda just gave a fishmen, Arlong, a reason to be in the weak East Blue. I'm not saying that he hadn't a fundamental structure for some arcs and changes though.

edit: Well he had to give him some background information and used that chance to give a hint to Jinbe, whom we haven't seen until in the prior to last arc of the the Paradise part of the manga. I only had a problem with whole, but with the revocation all is fine.

 

[Crazytype]

He couldn't have written the whole plot, because he never imagined the manga to last this long. Oda just gave a fishmen, Arlong, a reason to be in the weak East Blue. I'm not saying that he hadn't a fundamental structure for some arcs and changes though.

I'm not talking about the whole plot, but at least it was mentioned that Jimbe and Arlong were both in the same pirate crew and split up. Some nice details there already.

 

[hoeru]

Hm. I just spotted this one in chapter 434 right between Lucky Rou and Yasopp:



So, Rockstar wasn't killed by the Whitebeard Pirates.

 

[Schabrak]

It would have been awkward if he didn't come back from the "friendliest" of the Younkou crews for delivering a warning.^^

 

[hoeru]

Put two sticks in your nose and mouth, take a basket and do some funny dance.

AFAIR, that dance was seen last time with sticks and baskets in chapter 522 when Luffy dances with Daisy and Sweet Pea...



Apparently on FMI, they don't have any baskets, but some sticks. ^^

Spoiler: Chopper and Luffy in chapter 650

Oda used it many times before...

Spoiler: Chopper and Franky in chapter 488

Fits perfectly to Binks' Sake

Spoiler: Chopper in chapter 486

I haven't checked Skypiea nor Arabasta, but the origin seems to be after Chopper left Sakura.

Spoiler: Luffy in chapter 154

Spoiler: Luffy and Usopp in chapter 154

and shortly afterwards

Spoiler: Chopper in chapter 154

 

[Ryuma00]

I was re-reading Jaya Arc and find fake chopper on the cover:

more than 350 chapters before fake chopper appear

 

[BurnSchulz]

As we all know there are many of rogers ex pirates on the seas.
After i saw this:

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I first noticed the Hat. It looks like the one Little Oz Jr. had on his head.
And as we know Ace made this Hat für Little Oz on Wa no Kuni.

So i guess this could be a foreshadowing of a Character wich will introduced on Wa no Kuni.
And because he is freinds with Krokus, wich as we all know was 3 years on rogers ship, he could be part of Rogers ex crewmates.

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Additional i want to say that i have a clue wich one of Rogers old crewmates it might be.

Because of the Buggy / Shanks flashback we knew that Rayleigh was very detailed in character:

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So and the other very detailed person i noticed, wich is unknown til now is on this page:

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The Person in the top left panel with the sunglasses.

So its a tiny clue, but i am sure that this person will be introduced sooner or later.
Even if its not the person from the Coverstory.
I guess the informations from the Buggy / Shanks flashback are foreshadowning enough on its own.
On this page are other crewmates:

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I think someday there will be a huge Roger Flashback for sure. But we will see some of theese crewmates alive just like Rayleigh.

/sorry just corrected the picture tags

 

[Schabrak]

Just a little additional information: That ave wielding guy was named Scopper Gaban in the Deep Blue data book, unlike Bronze as some[me included] have suggested after Silvers Rayleigh was introduced, following his schema of precious metals[Gold.D. Roger].Also he was discussed to be the person on the 631 cover, as all of the Roger Pirates had to retreat somehow or make a name for themself. I don't think there's a need for more named characters in that pirate crew with two[Shanks & Buggy] already being big support chracters; one having played a role at the Mugiwaras entrance to the Grandline; one starting the Pirate Age and Silvers preparing Luffy for the last part of the story.

 

[BurnSchulz]

Ah ok. I dont have access to the Deep Blue databook. Scopper Gaban makes Sense though.

Its ok when they dont introduce too much of rogers Crewmates. But to know the story behind Gold Roger will be interesting for sure.
Very very sure. And i want to know it

 

[Schabrak]

Why did I never notice it... Law is most likely desgined after Mystery, the PUA. The similarities are just to big, the beard, the hat, the rings, his facial features.

 

[Mad_Scientist]

When Luffy said the reason why Chopper joined their crew:

http://www.mangareader.net/103-2261-11/one-piece/chapter-154.html

As you can see Chopper indeed have 7 different transformations:

http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Hito_Hito_no_Mi#Post-Timeskip_Transformations