East Blue, Alabasta, and Sky Island Change Log 2/24/24
East Blue and Alabasta has been updated with some minor font fixes for certain pages with the edited italic font (Vol. 6-24) and the incorrect font for certain pages with edited italic bold font (Vol. 1-5)
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Fixed two instances where Navy was mentioned instead of Marine(s)
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The Gum-Gum, Zoro Attacks, and Eneru add-ons have all been updated as well, with Eneru matching the by volume system, rather then by saga/arc/chapter
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The Sky Island revision has been completed
See explanation post here for Add-ons, or go to download page here
take everything back from what I said for one piece fillers nami is SO out of character in these little stupid stories?? a kid was threatened to die and she literally said she doesn't care bc she is not a good enough of a person? And said that Luffy is dead so it's better for them to leave??? what the hell?
Before I show off all the additional changes, I just want to say that I used Enel as the main translation here! It's far more popular as a name, but if you are one of those die-hard Eneru fans, I have an option for you as well! You just need to do a couple extra steps that will only take a couple of minutes (read more on this post)
Along with fixing all Zolos, here are the other changes in the sky island saga
(See Master/Pinned post for this saga's download links)
Changed 'Real Poneglyph' to 'Rio Poneglyph'
Altered scenes to change 'El Dorado' to 'The City of Gold'
Changed Burgess and Teach's laughs
Changed 'Boing-Boing' to 'Spring-Spring'
Edited more instances of the whitebeard logo to match the current, as well as Marco's tattoo
Changed 'Teech' to 'Teach' and 'Ogre' to 'Augur'
Changed "Marijoa' to 'Mary Geoise' (Mariejois is used for the alternate version)
Changed 'Octopus Fritters' to "Takoyaki' (this mainly affects the hachi cover story)
Changed 'Ganfor' to 'Gan Fall'
Changed 'Kami' to 'God' and "Vassals" to 'Priests'
Changed 'Karasumaru' to 'Little Crow'
Changed 'Varse' to 'Vearth'
Fixed a scene where usopp and nami mistakenly say 70 million, after being told 7 million
Changed scenes where chopper is referred as a racoon/racoon dog to tanuki
Changed 'Holly' to 'Holy'
Changed Zoro's speech in this scene
Changed 'tower' to 'belfry' when in reference to the golden bell
altered robin's nicknames for the strawhats (adding miss or mr.)
So, after I finished re-reading One Piece up to before the time skip, I tried to rank the Sagas and the Arcs, according to my personal opinion and emotions.
I'm quite confident about the Sagas ranking, but maybe I have few doubts about the Arcs. Anyway, this is what I feel right now.
Thoughts on Bonney and her situation? I feel so bad for her… :[
oda has always been really good at introducing information about characters through their backstories that recontextualizes a lot of their behavior in hindsight, and i think bonney is maybe one of the most skillfully done examples of this in the whole comic.
i started suspecting some time before reaching her backstory that she might be younger than she generally appears, because it struck me as consistently odd how everyone on egghead seemed to mention knowing her as a child and how fast she’d grown up, but having that information confirmed in her flashback completely changes her as a character in a way i find really compelling and fun.
like, throughout egghead i have been mentally comparing bonney a lot to law. from the start she’s playing a similar role as he does in the dressrosa saga, as the arc’s supernova ally-of-circumstance, and the similarities between them only grow deeper as we learn more about her history and motivations. bonney is really similar to law in a lot of ways; she aligns herself with the strawhats while on a revenge quest for the death of her adoptive father, who sacrificed himself in order to cure her of her childhood terminal illness.
the main difference, of course, is that bonney is twelve.
she’s twelve! and she was ten before the timeskip. which means she’s about as old in the present of the story (10-12) as law was in his flashback (10-13), or as ace and sabo were in the post-marineford flashback (10); that’s the age and maturity level she’s at. she’s twelve years old and she misses her dad. her tragedy is fresh and recent and she hasn’t quite grown around it yet, and she still has her whole future ahead of her.
i really liked the reveal that her devil fruit basically relies on her being a kid with a big imagination full of infinite possibilities. it’s very thematically resonant with her role as the emotional and narrative core of the arc set on egghead, the island of the future. any future she envisions for herself she can make real!
related to this, she also relates to religion and myth like a child does, where it all may as well be real because anything still could be. when kuma tells her about nika, she envisions someone who’s really somewhere out there in the world who she could find. the sun’s in the sky- maybe they’ll find him up on the sky islands?
and the thing is that she’s right!
bonney is a kid and the futures she dreams become real, because her ability to imagine the impossible hasn’t yet been beaten into submission by the horrible weight of reality. saturn tries to break her spirit and depower her before he kills her by crushing her ability to picture any future for herself, and it almost works.
and then there’s nika, and everything becomes possible again.