A

Close your eyes.

B

Exhale.

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Feel your body relax. And let go of whatever you're carrying today.

C

Well, I'm letting go of the worry

D

that I wouldn't get my new contacts

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in time for this class. I got them delivered free from 1-800-contacts. Oh, my gosh, they're so fast.

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A

Sam. This is the One Piece podcast, episode 927 for the week of July 20, 2026. My name is Zach.

B

And my name is Ed.

A

And on today's show, we have. I'm going to start first with our archivist, Ken o', Connor, this week. Ken, how's it going?

C

I'm going before Stephen. What?

A

Well, he's the guest of honor today, so it's a little higher than second. Yeah, now he gets to go second today. That's how that works. You always save the best for the last. Although now I fast sound like I'm insulting you, but it's more that you're not going to be talking for the next hour and a half. So I'm giving him a little reprieve before we start by having this conversation.

C

I just appreciate being here. Hello, everyone.

A

Hi, Ken. Thank you for coming.

C

Of course.

A

And very special guest. You may. And well. What did I say? Very. What's up? Very special guest. I just said guest of honor. There we go. Translator for One piece in weekly Shonen. Jump in Manga. Plus we have Stephen Paul with us. How's it going, Stephen?

D

Good. I can't believe that I used to think Jill was cool. That's my first thought after last week hearing myself so rudely dragged in the mud on my own podcast.

A

God, I'm trying to revolve.

D

Here I am.

A

What she said.

D

She called me a loser, but for

B

which reason, loo hur.

D

You'll have to go back and listen.

A

Okay. Wow. I think we've talked about podcast amnesia before, but like, when I do a podcast, at least it immediately leaves my head when I press the stop button on the record, which is awful because I would like to remember things. Anyway, speaking of remembering things, see what I did there? What are we doing today, Steven?

D

We are going to be discussing Volume 115 of One Piece that just came out the first week of July. And we've got it as as hot and fresh as it possibly can be with our schedule.

B

One piece more like 115 piece.

D

Yeah, that's not a very popular KFC bucket order, but are you serving?

B

Yeah, maybe if you're having a World cup watch party.

D

Yeah. Yeah, that was pretty. Pretty good. Way to go, Spain.

A

Yeah. Yeah. Literally just before we started. Yeah, that's to Spain and all the Spanish out there.

B

And good job, France. That was a very exciting game. You almost did the funniest thing possible.

D

Yes, yes. The third place game.

A

But for those who we're not talking about sports for the first time in a while, believe it or not. So for those who don't know, Stephen, for like the last, I was trying to.

B

These sports are just banned here. This is not official podcast sports business.

A

Yes, that's for another time. So, yeah, we're Talking about Volume 115 this week, a volume so hot off the presses that only Steven has it.

D

Yes.

A

I tried to get it in New York City when I was there, and they're like, nope, we don't have that. For some reason I ordered it. And they're like, nope, Dino's holding out on you. Yeah. And they're like, nope, we just have it a few blocks away and maybe tomorrow you'll get it just in time. So thank you, Steven, for sharing with us what we need to know here as we wait for delivery. At least Ken and I. Yeah, me

C

and Zach are in the exact same scenario. Pretty much.

A

Yes. It's fun. Excited for that, though. Before we get started, want to mention our Patreon. You might notice the amazing art that Kirby has done for this week that we have. Not that Kirby hasn't even yet created as we speak here, but that you are looking at right now. If you want to see alternate art, alternate titles, sketches, all that stuff, you could go to patreon.com one piece podcast and for $5 a month, you get that. You get forced to watch 4Kids, our series from like many years ago, as well as deleted scenes from our documentary. The One Piece podcast goes to japan@oppjapan.com, but the deleted scenes are there. And a lot more stickers. Stickers it was gonna be. That was my last but not least thing I was doing.

C

Okay, go ahead, Brian.

A

But do you remember the sticker that we got? I know the Loki was last month. This month is. I know which one it isn't. I'm just trying to remember which one it is. Do you remember?

C

You want. You want the choices between the two of them?

A

No, didn't there. Wasn't there a winner?

B

Was the first sticker club. The Loki in the inner tube.

A

No.

C

Yeah, maybe that was the original sign up one. I think.

A

I think the buggy one ended. Yeah. So it's. It was. Sorry, it was the Kamehameha with Kobe and Garp versus the buggy and Gold Rogers pose the latter of those one. So buggy once again failing upward and onward. So you can get, if you sign up now through the end of the month, you could get that sticker. If not, you could vote on next month's sticker from Steve. So huge thanks to Steve. Check him out everywhere you get your Steve. Here goes. Um, I think that's all I got. Anything, any rants or news that you guys want to.

C

I just want to add on just to further promote ourselves. Please. The Loki sticker, like, it's the most beautiful sticker I've seen in quite some time. Like all the stickers have been great, but the one, the Loki sticker, like, it doesn't do it justice when you take a picture of it. It has like a shimmer like holographic effect on the sticker itself. It's really pretty. I don't know how Steve did that or what he had to do with the company that makes the stickers, but it's a really strik sticker. I was very like blown away by it personally.

A

Steve is not one to skimp on details, as we know.

C

Yeah, no, he really killed it. So join the club. Stickers are fun.

D

Speaking of other podcast stuff, I don't know, just we've been talking about the World cup crowning new champions. Did we ever discuss the finale of our story tournament?

A

I was going to bring that up too, because it occurred to me as Ken was talking. Ken, can you give us the final results for the COVID story tournament that has been taking place on Discord and what's next for us?

C

Okay, so. Well, one at a time.

A

Yeah, those were two part questions.

C

So for the COVID story, going from fourth place to first, coming in fourth place was Buggy's crew after the battle, which we had ranked S tier.

D

S tier, yeah.

C

Third Richies. Ah, Richie. Third place. The saga of the self proclaimed straw hat fleet, which we had ranked a tier. Second place.

B

Everybody loves Orumbus, everyone.

C

I think the entire podcast audience is very orlumbus pilled. I saw many people. I get it.

A

It's true. To be fair, after rereading that the Cavendish stuff is hilarious. The Bartolomeo stuff. It's the bootleg stickers and stuff that's in that cover story. Oh no, the pin version of the. Yeah. I don't remember if it was a pin or a sticker, actually. You're right, but go ahead. Sorry, Ken.

C

That one is just very good in general. It's like when you order like an appetizer sampler at a restaurant, and all the appetizers are good and it's only a couple of them, but they all hit. I'm like, all right, this is really good.

A

The ideo one is the one that doesn't hit, but the rest of them, it's like the one that everyone leaves over that you get a really good one. They pick out everything except for one of the things.

C

Yeah. It's the one thing no one wants. Second place was Gangbaja's oh My Family, which we had ranked a tier. And then coming in first place is Enaru's Great Space Mission, which we had ranked S tier. So all in all, like, the top four were S tier and a tier. Everything was pretty.

A

I gotta say, for me, I think waffle is the only thing missing here. Like that. I pretty like. I like this top four. I think everyone did a good job.

C

Where did waffle. Where did waffle fall out? Wapple lost to Eniru. That's the issue. Like, yeah, if Wapple had been somewhere else, he would have gone, I think, a little bit further.

A

Yeah. No, I get it. I'm not saying it was wrong, but I'm saying that's if for my point.

B

Is the one where waffle gets peed on by a dog.

C

Yes.

A

More than once.

C

Several chapters of Waffle getting peed on by a dog.

A

That's why it was so good.

B

I remember the important parts, the private

C

parts, but our next one. Zach, I actually want to talk to you about. We'll talk about this probably off the show, but our next one will be a ranking of kings. We are going to be doing a bracket of every single king character, whether they be named king. They are a king. They were a king. They've been referred to as a king. They have K I N G in their name in some way, shape or form doing it.

A

Even if it's just like the word ranking, like, you know, even though it has.

C

There's only like one character like that. So I'm like, you know, that's funny. Throw it in there. So I don't have the list in front of me, but I remember I went deep to find anyone who has even been called a king, a reference to as king. I went pretty far.

A

Okay. Okay.

B

I'm gonna vote for Burger, Ham, Lincoln

C

he is a king.

D

He's a king.

C

Yep. Yep. I just don't know if we want to do. If we want to just do that quote unquote raw and just completely randomize it, or do we want to do the same thing we did with the COVID stories and do a episode where we do a tier list?

A

That one. That one. I think you got to randomize.

C

Cause you want to randomize. Okay.

A

Cause who cares? I think that's really the answer there.

D

Zach does not want to do a tier ranking.

A

No, no. I say it with love, but some of them were going to be like,

C

okay, like you were so giddy to rank the COVID stories now.

A

It's like, we could do it, but whimsy.

C

No, it's fine. I think this one will benefit from being completely, I think random.

A

I think if you're going to do one batch at random, this is a good one because no one's going to get like really upset about it. Except for that one person. You know who I'm talking about? I don't a lot of it's like

B

that, but the Harrison Ford on Conan of like, try asking some. Someone getting a bullshit question about Indiana Jones and just being like, who gives a shit?

A

Yes, that's. Now I say that with love because I also love the inane and the waste of time sort of categories and tournaments. So I do say that with love. I just don't think our tiering it is gonna do anything.

C

No, it will not. It will not benefit any of these guys.

A

Like with this. It did. I think this was a. Yeah, it was a good idea here and it worked out very well. Same with like story arcs and stuff. But anyway, look forward to that. Join our discord to join in on that fun. Any other. Oh, any other news that you all wanted to leave it up to you

C

guys like actual news or do we talk about the box sets or.

A

With box sets are coming out the.

D

Oh, that's right.

A

For volume, it's one. So for those who don't know, Viz puts out these really huge literal boxes

B

and there's usually a good like a bonus prize in them.

A

Well, before we get to the bonus.

C

The meat of it, volumes 91 through 111. It comes with a double sided color poster and an exclusive paper play sheet for the One Piece trading card game.

D

They should have put a couple cards in there.

C

When I.

B

This is what the placement would have been at the family restaurant at One Piece Tower.

C

When I saw Viz's post about the box set, I scanned over very quickly and just saw One Piece trading card game. And in like, the post, I'm like, they didn't put a fucking card in it, did they?

A

I thought they did at first. So I'm a little.

C

Did you imagine people just buying like, 10 box sets and, like, just dumping the manga like, in the streets?

A

The problem with these things with. With these, like, situations in abstract, they do sound very funny. I know they're not in. In actuality, but just imagining someone running through with a bunch of these insanely huge and heavy box sets just to get a cord does.

B

Or running through the store, like, jingle all the way. Turboman.

A

Yeah, but with a box set that's like multiple box sets, which is like 40, 50 pounds. I think this thing weighs as much as my son. Like, it's very heavy. I'm not calling my son heavy. If you were a box set.

B

Children are heavy.

A

Children are heavy when you lift them all day. So, yes, that's coming out, believe it or not. I think. I think you would believe it. Around almost 3/4 of this box set is wano. And the rest of it, it makes sense. And it totally makes sense. I was surprised the whole thing wasn't wano.

C

Oh, can we talk. Can we talk about really quick how Sabo.

A

That's from a color spread.

B

Is it?

C

Okay, yeah.

A

Sabo, Hancock, Lucci. Although Lucci is, like, barely there and barely in wano garb,

C

but he's an egghead, so it makes sense. Kind of just there that.

A

Do you remember that color spread where it's like the straw hats facing a bunch of the people from. I think it was from Stampede. I think that's what this was from.

D

It was either that or it was the, like, top 30 of the LA of the previous WT100 or something like that, where he put all the other characters in.

A

Well, everyone's in Wano garb. That's what that's from.

C

It's just funny because they were not in wano. But that was the WT100.

B

They should have called this one the WT200.

D

But what does this have to do with the box set?

A

It's on the COVID of the box.

C

On the box.

D

Oh, it's on the box set itself.

C

It shows Sabo, Hancock and Rob Lucci and like, wano garb, even though they were not in Wano.

A

It's definitely from a color spread. I believe Stampede, because they all were kind of major characters in Stampede, so. As was everyone else. That's all I got there. Wasn't there another card game thing that you were talking about, Stephen, before. I don't even know if that's apologize

D

because people were scalping the. The. The. Yeah, the Shonen jump issue and. And then they had to cancel like their next planned card pack in magazine release or something. So I, I think officially now Shueisha has realized the monster they have unleashed. And so we might see, you know, some, some changes in their approach to promotion.

A

Oh yeah. Psy Sai sent this to us.

B

This is the, the one piece card game is like the Szechuan sauce.

C

The show's too fucking.

D

Yeah, it's a meme. It's. It's a meme now.

A

Yeah, yeah.

D

But we, yeah, we've been talking about this for several weeks now with the. We have the, the baseball games and weeks. All the other stuff.

A

Maybe a year of us talking about this because I remember there was like.

D

Well, yeah, yeah, it's. It's been happening. I'm just saying it's been. Yes. Really? Yeah. This last couple of weeks.

C

It's not just one piece either. It's every card game.

D

Every card game.

C

There was the Lorcana incident recently of people charging at dis. Like it's ridiculous. It just. It's getting worse and worse and I just, I'm waiting for this trend to end.

A

Yeah. As they do. I mean, it will at one point and then people will be left having paid $100,000 for a card.

C

Oh yeah. Kirby in our chat mentioned it happened with the round one one piece promotion too.

A

Oh yeah.

D

Is that. Is that a different.

C

I don't think they were cards, but they were like postcards or something like that. Like it was some kind of like just exclusive limited time thing. And of course people are going to charge and.

A

Am I sitting on a fortune over here? Is that.

C

Oh, it was the tcg. Okay, I was wrong. It was the tcg. Kirby.

A

Nevermind. Then I'm not. Because I think I looked up the value of the card after we discussed it in the magazine issue and it was not. It was not. It was not as much as you would expect because these things wane and people stop caring about it. Anyway, we have some manga to go through and by that I mean let's go through the SBS for volume 115 right after this.

B

Right.

D

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This is the manga recap for volume 150, the title of which I should have asked. Steven, Steven, what was it again? Strongest.

D

The strongest thing in the world.

A

Okay, that's what I thought it was. And I forgot. Okay, Steven, you're going to take us through the COVID and also the author comment, the SBS and a lot more.

B

The Undercover as well.

A

The Undercover. Before we get into it, though, if you're looking to read along with us, you have to go to an import store as of this recording. So, like a Kinokuniya or an Amazon. Japan, if you're. Or book off. What other ones are there around the country that people could get? I forget.

D

Yeah, that's.

A

Those are the big three. I think those are the big three. That's what it is. Yeah. Go ahead, Stephen.

D

All right. Yeah. Volume 115. This just came out in early July, and we shall talk about the COVID here. Yeah, very. A pretty simple cover. Not as crazy as many others. It's just gear five. Luffy in the foreground. He's holding a big old lightning bolt like the cartoon character that he is. We have Lightning Bolt.

B

Lightning Bolt.

D

He's larping. We have Gunko with. In her evil form with her wings and trident. And then Ragnar, who we discovered is blue.

B

He's got like white walker colors from Game of Thrones.

D

Yeah, well, they had the. I thought they were blue in the eyes, but yeah, he just has little. Little dot eyes.

C

He's Pachirisu colored from Pokemon.

D

That's right. That was what we discussed.

B

Yeah.

D

Yeah. And then, of course, the background is taken up entirely by the imposing figure of Loki with his purple hair and protruding tongue. And we have a. A diagonal pattern of yellow, red and purple, which I said is perfect for the summertime. These are the popsicle colors

C

and.

D

But yeah, it's. It's nice enough. I don't think this is super memorable cover. But I. I don't dislike it either.

B

It's cool enough, but there's no like emotional heft or resonance to it, like.

D

Right, right.

A

Even though this is a very emotionally hefty. I mean, this is the end of the flashback as we'll discuss. And Harold's not on it. And. Well, kid Loki might be on it. I don't know how old this Loki is. This Loki could be any age.

D

Yeah.

B

Current age, Loki, Current age.

A

It could be. But he could also be 40 here

B

instead of just an extra giant.

A

Or 60.

C

Just picture it. I'm picturing Ragnar with a popsicle stand now because he has the ice powers. Just making popsicles.

D

Nice.

A

Oh, he totally would. Yeah, right.

C

How cute would that be?

A

Ugh. I love Ragnar.

D

Yeah, and they don't. They don't even have to melt. He can just keep them frozen.

C

Bit of a tangent. Where do we stand on calling him Ragnar versus Rattatas? Like to be.

D

Ratatoskr is the model name.

C

So that's. But his name is Ragnar.

D

Yeah, the hammer is Ragnar.

C

Yeah, right, the hammer.

A

Let's not forget. It's like if we were talking about lasso. Remember we're talking about a cannon. Right. A gun or cannon. A gun.

D

Yeah.

C

They named the cannon Lasso.

A

So we're saying really? We love this inanimate object. And it's an adorable inanimate object, which isn't that far fetched, so.

C

Correct. Yeah.

A

Yeah.

D

I was also noticing that with Gunko with her, like her arrow wraps around her legs. She does. And the fact that, like they're cut off. It is very reminiscent of Monet's like bird legs to me.

A

Oh, yeah.

D

Just. It looks a lot like that kind of big bird style.

B

Yeah, it's a bird I was thinking of.

A

Love it.

D

Yeah.

A

Big news. Doesn't Big News Morgan's have something like that too? Maybe not. Does he have the weird feet?

B

Does he have the weird backwards knees like Xavier Renegade Angel?

A

No, we never see Big News Morgan's feet.

D

It's. We only see like his. His top half.

A

No, I'm looking.

C

I'm looking at you.

A

You do that

D

look up every single instance of Morgan's appearance.

A

Why don't you Google Big News Morgan's feet?

C

Okay. He's got the. He's got the backwards leg thing like a bird. But he wears like. Like spats, like shoes.

A

I want you to send that photo to me.

C

I Am posting it right now in the discord.

A

Don't take that out of context, Delaney.

C

Go ahead.

D

Send me all your pictures of feet.

A

Give me all your big news. Give me all your big news. Morgan's feet photos again. Don't isolate the footage.

D

Mr. Jameson, we do have an undercover as. As Ed mentioned with the usual spot, the Panda Man. This one, I think is a pretty straightforward one. It's not too wacky. We just have a single Panda man poking out from under the brim of Loki's large helmet. And he's just throwing up a little peace sign there to see the girl from the ring. Yeah. Oh yeah. Like, look at. Look at his luxurious hair that he's got here. Incredible, incredible Panda man hair. Making a joke about Loki's hair. But yeah, it's. It's. It's fun, but it's not the wildest Panda Man.

A

I should be asking this every time we do an undercover. Where would you have put Panda Man? Or what situation would you have put Panda man in with this cover?

C

That's a fun question.

D

I. I would have had him do. I would have had him riding the lightning. I would have had him do like the Doctor Strange Love like on the. Like on the upper spike of the lightning. Have him doing like the Yeehaw Rodeo writing. That would be fun.

B

Slim Pickens.

A

Yeah.

D

Yeah, exactly.

A

I think. I don't know. Where would I put Panda Man? I think sliding down the tongue. Loki's tongue.

C

That's a good one.

D

Oh yeah, that's. That's good.

C

Yeah.

A

Like a water slide.

D

Yeah. Oda would do that for sure.

A

He would.

B

100.

A

That is the most. Oda. Yeah. Okay. Or. Or he would do something else. Much less savory anyway.

D

But speaking of savory, let's go to Oda's comment on the inside flap.

B

Yes. And the drawing is the. It looks like the steak that Luffy was sitting on the COVID of Jump last week.

A

That's true. It does.

D

Yeah. It is a quite a red steak there. Although the outside is. Is quite well done. And it seems to be resting on some wooden surface with like some. Either blood or the sauce, the glaze beneath it. And Oda's comment is for this volume, we'll first have you read it without any extra flavor. Just about 20 pages. And then the next 80 pages or so we'll have you read it with a light dusting of salt and about. Around. About page 100. Then we'll have you read it with a healthy dollop of tare glaze sauce and we'll finally have you finish off the Usopp Gallery with a splash of dashi broth. And that. That will provide the most ideal mealtime accompaniment. Volume 115 bon appetit. So, yeah, awesome.

C

I kind of love that he's been having a lot of fun.

D

I take away from this that he's been having a lot of steak lately.

A

That seems different, right? He loves his. He is. He is very luffy. There's one thing we know about Oda. He loves his meat. Isolate the footage.

D

Yes, he does. Yeah. And we've. We've talked about this in the. The news because Oda had like a whole comment about it. But this volume has 13 chapters. It is. I think if you include the ads, it's a chonker. And it is almost 250 pages. So it is quite large for a shonen jump volume. And that will take us from basically. Okay, so last volume we basically finished all the God Valley stuff in the flashback. And so this is kind of once we get back to Loki and Harold and it goes through the Ren. The end of the flashback back to the present. And then we end with first the chapter where Emu says I must leave the Holy Land. I. I must leave the Holy Land. And. And then the. The final chapter. Of course this is why Oda crammed it all in. There is the. The. The steeple top reveal of Emu and his seemingly corporate. Although I don't know, I guess apparently some people argue that his original form should have been a parrot or something.

C

We are not talking about.

A

No, I definitely want to talk about that. But not now. But definitely. Because the answer to that is yes, he is a parrot. That person. I never say this. Reddit was 100% right. Okay, don't isolate that footage either.

D

Yeah. So having 13 chapters, you would imagine there must be a ton of SBS in this one. The answer is actually not really because it is split between regular SBS segments. And then we have the Subaru Kimura voice, the voice actor sbs.

B

The new Frankie.

D

The new Frankie. Yes. So we'll go through that as well. So I will start us off here on our first SBS segment, page 24. And we have a fun reader submitted illustration. All of the SBS headers are a reader submitted and is going back to Dressrosa with a sugar and the little black bears.

A

Is that Flapper? Because remember Flapper turned into a little black bear.

D

I don't remember which like. No, I don't. I forgot about Flapper. And then there's like the. The flunkies that were looking over the tontatas in the factory. And they are.

B

It's got like a loaf of bread for a head.

D

Yeah, this one guy looks really up. Yeah, it's pretty good.

A

Yeah.

B

One bear wearing like an Uncle Sam

A

hat, I think, because he was.

D

Yeah, that's what they were wearing. And so our first question here, this is a fun one. So you're going to be reminded of this scene. So they put it in there. It's the scene from the flashback when Rocks shows up and he does the whole like. You're going to say yes to two questions because that's the answer I want to hear. And it's. And it was like one, this is. This is Elbaf, the kingdom of the giants, right? And number two was. Herald's here, right? And that's what he says to. Was it to Loki? I forget who. Yeah, it was Loki. Yeah, it was. And. And so the reader's submission here is. All right, you're going to say yes to these two statements, Oda Sensei, because that's the answer I want to see. Number one, the SBS has already started, right? And Oda's like, yes. Number two, there's going to be perverts here again, right? And Oda's like, yes. Wait, what?

C

No.

D

Oh, shit. Oh, damn it. I started the SBS without me and there are no perverts here. Not a single pervert. And so our. The. The immediate followup here is about Shanks's Bounty poster. The one where he's facing head on to the camera, but he's like looking completely sidelong. Like his eyes are like peering out of the corner of his eyes. And it says on his Bounty poster, whose panties are Shanks staring at? Oh my God. And Oda's like, he's not. He's like, oh, all the Shanks fans are gonna jump you now. He's like, you should get jumped. So he's wishing harm upon this, but

B

the eyes are saying whale tail.

D

I mean, he is looking very intently at whatever. Whatever he's looking at in that. That picture. And the follow up to that is Odachi. Don't worry, I have sprayed the anti Sonata spray. There will not be any more Sonatas. And just like, whoa. They sell that. Ah, thank you. That's so great. Thanks. I really appreciate that. Yeah. And so the follow up here, so you see a little picture of Nami in a bath towel is a question. Which of these is Nami's special attack? Number one, is it the PI PI press? Number two, is it the PI PI slap or number three? Is it the PI PI beam from Sanadachi?

A

Ew.

D

And so Oda's like, man, it's so hard to choose but oh, I could really go for the PI PI press not. What did you. Did you think I was going to say that Sanada? And then. And then he's like talking to the person before that. He's like. Excuse me, your spray. Your spray is not working. Look, you have to. You have to spray it. Like spray it right on him. Just. He's like, spray. Yes, yes, right on him.

C

Wait.

D

Oh no. He multiplied. The sonatas multiplied and the text is getting smaller and smaller as the.

A

Oh, it's the thing from segment.

D

Fade out.

A

The Sorcerer's Apprentice thing from.

D

Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. The brooms and that too. Yeah. So there we go. We get the. We get the dirty jokes out of the way and we will head to the. The next one. Our header illustration here is. It's. It's funny because it's cute, but it's also kind of creepy the way that. That I. I heart op. Who always does one of these. It is Stussy in her. In her youth with her vampire bat wings. And there's a bunch of bats. So Stussy's got the bats.

A

Could also. Could also be a current day Stussy.

B

That would be Ms. Bucking.

A

No. So it could be all. Yeah, it could be her use. Yeah.

D

Or.

A

Yeah, sorry, I forgot.

D

Well, is that only the clone Stussy who is like the vampire?

C

We've never seen old Stussy or original use a bat power. Yeah. So it could just be the clone, right?

A

No, no, I think these are the. This is the like the seven Warlord bats because it also has the world government thing. I think that's what these are supposed to be.

D

Interesting. Okay, so maybe it's just a bat secret agent.

B

He was carrying the mail in his claws.

D

Yeah, yeah. It's got the little cross.

C

It's her Smash Bros invite.

D

Yeah, Stussy joins the scramble or whatever.

A

I had a bat at my house today. So this. Not today, this week. Sorry.

C

Stussy go to bat.

A

So I had an owl and now a bat. I don't know what's going on. But Oda, I blame you specifically.

D

All right, our next one is the. The question here is one that unfortunately I don't think I can actually translate based on prior context. So we'll see what I have to end up doing. So the question is. So we know that the Long Arm tribe, which is the. The Tenagazoku that they live in a country called Tanagana Kingdom, which is basically just a joke on the name we saw. I believe this was post Marineford, like right. Right before the. The Luffy, the. The. The ASL flashback. And so, you know, I. I wonder, do the Long Leg tribe, do those people have their own kingdom? And also I understand that Ruskayna used to have a kingdom of its own, and I would love to know the name of that. So Tenagena is just like. So it's Tenaga Zoku means Long Arm. And Tenagena, it's just like Longi Arm Army Kingdom or something. You know, it's. It's basically just repeating the name. Would you like to know the. The creative solution that the previous translator used to. To. To refer to this kingdom in the viz version go for is the Long Arm Kingdom. So he just, you know, did not. Did not do any word whatsoever. Yeah, he just said, okay, well it's supposed to be the Long Arm Kingdom, so we'll just call it the Long Arm Kingdom. So Oda says that the Ashinaga, the Long Leg, their kingdom is the Ashina Gainone Kingdom. So it's again, same thing. It's like, oh, you have such long legs, basically. And Ruskaina, which I believe is just Ruskaina, that has always meant like, oh, you're not home. Like Rusu means not home.

B

So like lived.

D

Yes. Yeah, yeah. So, so like Rusuban, Denmark would be like a phone answering machine. So it's like the thing that answers when you're not home. So Ruskaina means like, oh, I guess nobody's home. And he says that the previous name was the Otankaina Okoku, which would mean like, oh, you are home Kingdom. Yeah, so like neither of those kingdom.

A

Is that the one that they. Is that the translation for the monkey,

D

The Monkey King, or. I think that was the island. Maybe it was Shikaru, which. Which does mean like there is humidity here.

B

Island.

D

Yeah.

A

Okay. It was the island. Okay.

D

Or wait, no, Muggy. I think Muggy was the kingdom and Ruskina was the island.

C

Oh, Gloom Island, I think it is.

A

Or Gloom I. Gloom.

D

That was a different one.

C

That was a different one.

D

I think that that might have been. That might have been Brooks island or something. Anyways, yeah, we'll see what I. What I have to do with that one. But interesting. Not the first. Not the first case in this SBS where I have some. Some tricky word, you know, work to do ahead of me.

C

Do you have to match the previous name to the original.

D

That's the thing is like, yes, I think probably, like, sometimes what I'll do is if. If it's not. If it doesn't work, but like, the. The Japanese stuff is fun or interesting. I'll just be like, well, the Japanese name was this. And then I can put like, in parentheses what the translation is. And so that. That might be a way to get

C

around Long Leg Island.

D

Right, but it's still. Yeah, it's still, you know, it's still like admitting that the English version doesn't have that wordplay in it already. So, yeah, it's not ideal. So our next question here is about Gloriosa, who of course, we have now seen in her youth and in her modern older age. And so this reader says, I have question about Gloriosa. Was she based on Brigitte Bardot, who is a French actress? I believe she just passed away in the last.

B

A few months ago. Yeah.

D

Yeah. And Oda's like, whoa, you noticed? Yes, that's right. He's like, yeah, if you. If you just look this up on. On the, you know, just do an image search, you will see exactly what I was going for here. So when I did Grandma Nyon, I drew her with the. With the idea of this is what happens when a beautiful woman ages. And that was kind of the inspiration for the way that he drew her features. And so, you know, when he drew Gloriosa as a younger woman, then, yes, he. He based her look on the young Brigitte Bardot when she was a. When she was a movie star. So it is basically she is based on the beautiful French actress in both in her youth and in her old age.

A

Yeah, she does kind of look like.

D

Look like a little. I mean, yeah, Grandma's definitely.

C

I can definitely see it.

A

And the lips. You can see it. And the eyes, like the.

D

The kind of the. The little cheekbone, poofy cheekbone thing that yon has.

A

That's very.

B

Dimples. Like the opposite of dimples.

D

Yeah. And then we get the. The question everyone has been asking in chapter 1165, we saw polo Graham, is that Marco's father who asks this? I have noticed. I have noticed that if you connect their names, you get Marco Polo.

A

Oh, thank you. This comes from Captain Obvious.

D

Yeah.

A

Well, you.

D

You asked who sent it in that it is Panda Man's daughter is the.

C

You had a kid?

D

Yeah. And you made fun of them. Poor Payne. Immense daughter.

C

Yeah.

D

Oda says, yeah, I don't think I can hide this one. Lol. Yes. You. You are correct. This would mean that Marco's full name is Polo. Marco. He says at the time of the God Valley incident, Marco had already been born, but he was not yet a pirate. And later on, after the death of Graham, who was kind of like Whitebeard's partner, Whitebeard took in his son onto his ship. And Marco grew into being, you know, the most trusted of all of Whitebeard's.

B

He was the first division captain.

D

Yeah, His. His right hand man.

A

He was. Yeah.

B

Basically the first was the second division captain.

A

Correct. After the other.

D

I guess so Was.

A

Who was that? Was it Thatch?

D

I don't know.

C

Wasn't there one spot left open for Odin that someone took over?

A

Oh, I think it was.

C

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

D

All right, so on to the third sbs. The header here we have Young Shanks and Buggy. And we have another person who looks just like Shanks, but with slightly longer hair.

A

Shamrock, perhaps.

D

And they are forming. They are forming the sbs. And I just occurs to me now, this is what happens when we don't have Team Dark on that. I have not been keeping up to date with the state of Shuggie Nation after the reveal of Shamrock. I can only imagine the kind of depraved scenarios that they have been on.

A

This right now, tell us the depress.

B

Shanks, Buggy and Shamrock.

C

Shamrock.

D

Yeah. Oh, the spit roast. They're doing there.

C

All right, you there, there's our episode image.

B

No.

D

Oh, dear. So we have. You said it. This is. This is going to be the accountability corner for for oda. This is a long time coming. This has been a gag.

A

I see this already.

D

And I'm like, already tell.

A

He actually addresses this.

D

Okay, wait, so we have. We have a picture of Pel in his falcon form. And even if you can't read Japanese, you might notice that the number five is in this bubble.

B

Yes.

D

And so the. The question is. Hey, I have a question. When Pell said that there were only five types of confirmed flying powers in the world, which ones are they? Because there are so many flying powers that I can't tell which ones they are. Please explain.

C

This is the best SBS question. Oh, my God.

A

Who sent this in? We'll send them some flowers.

D

Takafumi.

B

Like this.

D

A wizard did it. Yeah, yeah.

A

No, it was. What's this? It was the. The guy who fixes doors.

D

Minatomo. Yeah. Otis says, oh, oh, you want to get into this? He like, laughs.

C

Taking off the gloves.

D

So he says. So he says. Okay, so I've been hearing this for Years now.

A

Shocked it took this long.

D

He says, from. From my perspective, like, my. My question is, how are all the people of the world understanding this information that applies to the entire world? You know, like, who was out there saying, oh, we discovered that there's a couple of tontatas who can fly. And, you know, they have little pictures of Cub and beyond, who were, of course, little bug flying bug tintatas. They had bug fruits. So, yeah, like, who is taking those statistics into account? Who's figuring all of that out? So my. My answer, like in my. In Lore answer, is in parentheses or in quotation marks. As far as Pell understands or as far as he has heard is the answer. So his answer is to throw Pell under the bus and say, pell doesn't know shit.

A

Yeah, he should be dead. What would he know?

C

Back under the bus where he belongs.

A

Back under the bus.

B

Yeah.

D

But the. The answer continues.

B

Back under the bus.

A

That's what I was doing.

D

Back to Winterbag. He. He says, but this line. This line has an extra meaning specifically for me, which is. It was meant to be a kind of limitation on myself to say, yeah, we know, Oda. Yeah, Yeah, I can think up of a million different ways for people to fly, but don't get too crazy with them. He says, you know, we've seen technology in this world where, you know, you look at it like, culturally speaking and scientifically speaking, and you're like, why aren't you guys inventing planes? But in this, you know, the worldview, the setting of the world of One Piece is one where, you know, the course of advancement just went slightly askew. So this is just a world where we just don't. Didn't quite go down the path of doing airplanes. And the reason for this is because it's a pirate manga. You know, you got to have. It's the sea, it's the. It's the ships, it's the sailing.

A

Sea trains.

D

Yeah. You know, you don't. Like. You know, he. He wrote this to. To tell himself, like, it's got to be about the ships. So you can't create. You can't make this a world where everyone is just zipping and flying around through the air.

B

Is this bleach?

C

It's.

A

You stole. You stole my joke again.

C

I was gonna say it's all about the ship, Spider Man. It's all about the ships

D

and sees. Yeah, so. So that's why, you know, even in the future, it will be rare to see people flying. And that's the stance that I'M thinking about. And he says, and I'm going to stick to that.

A

So I'm so basically introduced another guy who flies.

D

Yeah, well, you know, maybe he's getting this out now. Just to like, state for the record where his mind was at. Before he goes off the deep end,

C

I have two things to say. One, I want to like, go back and find out what the, like, when he like, okay, only five. I want to see what the said.

D

Actually.

C

No, no, but I want to know, like, if you go back and you from the start of the manga, who is the sixth person that flies? Who's the one that broke the camel's back and that.

A

I don't even think he, like, thought about this a ton after.

C

He's like, I don't think so either.

A

I think this is something I do all the time, is that I'll say something out loud to give myself accountability and then I still won't follow through with it. So, like, I 100% agree with, you know that. I get that that's the most human thing I've seen Oda say in a while. However, his explanations suck because it's just not that. Come on.

C

I was gonna follow up by like, okay, so no planes in one piece. That's fine. Now I'm looking at buffalo riding, baby. Five, like, Like a plane, right? Flying around with the propeller fruit. There's no planes in one piece, guys.

A

Are we forgetting skywalk? Like, you could just learn how to walk on air then. Like, at that point.

D

Yeah, I think, I think that Oda, like, I don't think Oda is saying this as an excuse. Like, I think he knows on the face of it how absurd it is. He's. I think he's just like, this is his, like, coming clean moment where he admits and knows how silly it looks. I think when he says it that way.

A

I think Otis even said this. But like, he doesn't want, like, just fights in the air where everyone's fighting each other. He said that at some point, I think. Or he intimated that because that's what a lot of shonen manga and anime and, you know, it becomes that. But everybody wants to Dragon Ball. I hate to tell you, Oda, you're kind of doing that right now. Like right this second. Like, if at any time, to answer this question, this was a very odd choice.

D

True, true.

C

I just like the idea that Pel's dumb and like, he like read on Facebook there's only five flying free. He's been spreading misinformation for years.

A

My biggest problem with this is that Pell, a Zone user, doesn't realize there are other animals that fly. More than five, I'm going to say. And he's like, a specific type of bird, which means every single species of bird probably has a devil fruit for them, including, let's say, an albatross. So, like, we know that. And then insects that fly. There are a ton of animals that fly. Bats, we just talked about.

D

Yeah, I don't think he's counting, like, every species of bird as a separate thing. I think, you know, he

C

is one. Yeah. Isn't there a book of devil fruits that was referred to? Like, that's how, like, Sanji read about, like, the fruits when he was younger. But that book, what if hell just had a really outdated version? There was only five. Like, no, I read the book, guys. Only five in there.

D

No, I do like the idea that, like, he gets all his facts from, like, amazing science facts on Facebook, where it's just completely unsourced random crap that someone put up there.

A

I could see being the Facebook user of the bunch.

D

It does. It does remind me of that. You know, the Tenkaichi Budokai, where you first see, like, tension Han and Chowzu floating, and Goku's like, whoa. And then it's just like, oh, that's. That's it. Like, it there. There's no going back from this. Like, it's going to end. Yeah, everybody's flying.

A

Oda been doing that with one piece, and I think he very much was trying to avoid that. But we're like, yeah, we're getting to the climax. I get it. And also, we're in a land of giants. You kind of have to be able to get.

B

Didn't Zorro have to be thrown in dressrosa?

A

He did. He did. He did. You're right. I mean, that wasn't flying. That was more falling with style.

D

Yeah. Thank you.

A

Okay, we could go to the next one now that we reamed Oda appropriately, this one.

D

Okay, here's another one that I'm gonna be tortured by. So this one is. Hey, Otisan. So for Shamrock's birthday, I was thinking that since. So basically this is like a ridiculous, you know, joke, like an obvious insane stretch in Japanese. So it's literally. It would be since he's trying to wreck up Elbaf and he seems like he likes cucumbers, so. So it's like, so Sanzan, which would be like, like, horrible or to. To ruin San, meaning three. And then he seems like he would, like, Cucumbers. Cucumbers are cutie. So Q meaning 9. So could we have his birthday be March 9th? Which if you know Shanks. That is already Shanks's birthday.

A

So basically roundabout way to get Exactly.

D

To pretend, you know, and. And Oda's like, you know, that he's twins with Shanks. So his birthday is already March 9th. Right. And then he's like, has nothing to do with cucumbers. So yeah, it's just a. It's just a goofy way to. To point out that. Yes.

B

That seemed the asker started from the premise. I mean, he knows it. That they're twins. So working backwards from that point.

D

Right, right. So I have to find some obnoxious way to make it a three. March 9th.

C

It's a very good joke.

A

You could definitely. I mean, yeah, the. The reader definitely was funnier than Oda in that. I'll put it that way.

D

Yeah.

A

So, yeah.

D

Yeah. All right, next sbs. Here's. Here's some fun stuff. Here's the, like the Oda sketches page and our header here.

A

We talk a lot about this. Sorry, I just noticed what's happening.

D

Our header here is. It looks like Yamato has a gigantic dango skewer that is making SBS on it.

A

I think that was Ken's awe. I think you took that too. Yeah.

D

And there's a cute little otama and looks like Tsuru probably with her Kinemon's wife. And yeah, Yamato's got a little drool going on. I'm thinking about those delicious dango. Very nice. And so the. The question is. Odachi. Konnichiwa. Hello. I love the kids from Elbaf. They're so cute and adorable. How old are they? And is their school an elementary school? So Oda says, yes, the walrus. Think of the walrus school as an elementary school. The kids there are all between the ages of 18 and 36, since they're giants. And so I will introduce.

C

Just divide by three. It's not over. No, no, no.

A

It's not that I don't understand it mathematically. It's. How could you? You've lived 18 years. Okay, whatever. Go ahead, go ahead.

D

So the. Yes, he says, so I'll just introduce the kids who got caught. So the 10. 10 of them that we know. And he's also got extra parentheses with their equivalent human ages in them. And he also adds, the only ones you really need to remember are Colin, Ylva and Bjorn. And so.

A

Oh, thank you.

C

Forget the rest of those idiots.

A

So I really shouldn't care about any of them. And the fact that they've been.

D

Yeah, yeah.

A

Only care about three of them.

D

Right? No, it's funny that he says that too because I think he did a great job at differentiating them all and giving them all like different details. So, yeah, he has his little pencil sketches here of them and so we'll go through them in by number. So number one is Colin, who is 20 years old. That's about seven years in human ages. He is the son of. Of Gabon and Ripley, still his parents at 20.

C

Yeah.

D

He's in parentheses. He has little like notes on like, like identifying features for them. And it's kind of hard to make out. But I believe for Colin it says he's fascinated with the. The giant pirate crew and does not go to school. That's kind of like his first thing that we see with him.

A

He's skipping school.

D

Yeah. Number two is Ilva. She is 21. Again, seven years old. She's the good girl and she is the. What did I say it was like the great great granddaughter of Jarrul. Something like that. Great great or great great great. And he included the sketch of her mom, who is very adorable. She has a little button nose and a very skinny.

B

I think I mentioned this at the time, but Ilvo is also the name of the. Of a. Thorfinn's sister from Finland Saga.

D

Yeah. Yeah, it was cool to get to use that name again. Number three was Scaldi. He's the guy with the goggles and the horns. He is 34, which would be age 11. And he is. He. Oda's note is he has a wicked face or a mean face. And we see his. His mom also has horns. Number four is. Where is it Olav who is Oimo's grandson? This is the. The guy with the very squarish face and the horned helm. He is 19, which would be six years old and he hates pirates. Number five is Karin. She's the one who has like the little kind of tantata style nose and the big headphones. She is 23, which would be 7 years old. And she is described. I don't remember this specifically in her scenes, but she's described as having, well, with the Japanese. Japanese called komyusho or like like difficulty communicating, which you could. I. Depending on the context, you could translate that as like just shy or like withdrawn or in some cases maybe even like autistic.

A

But I was thinking that maybe that's like a particular representation because of the headphones. Because I also.

C

Yeah.

D

Could be. Could be. Yeah. I'll have to go back and look at the. The scenes where they were all, like, interacting with their. They were, you know, asking for help

A

from Cool Nod Oda. I think that's a first in the 20.

D

Yeah. Number. Number six is Mag. He's the. The big guy with the pump, the little Frankie pompadour. He is 30, which makes him 10 years old.

A

Sure.

D

And he. He hates pirates. Really hates pirates. And his mom's sketch is very cute. She looks like Jim Bae.

A

She does.

B

She's filling up her entire circle.

C

There's Mrs. Yimin Jinbei and me.

A

Well, no. Giant Jinbei.

D

This is Giant Jinbei.

C

Giant female Jinbei,

A

Giant mom Jinpei. Yeah.

D

Giant mom Jinbei, Big mom Jinbei.

A

Okay.

D

All right. Yeah, write that one down.

A

It's being. It's being done.

D

Okay. Number seven is Ronya, who we all remember as having the funky teeth with her. Yeah, her. Yeah, her big ponytail.

B

I love her.

C

She's great.

D

Yeah. I love her design. Yeah. And her. Her dad has the same hairstyle, too. She is 27, age 9, and she is described as the. Would this be like the class president,

B

the class rep?

D

Class rep. Yeah, something like that. I'm not sure. I'm not sure if they have multiple classes. These are the only kids.

A

They're all different ages. But maybe it's like those, like, you know, you would have, like, an old schoolhouse and it's just.

D

Yeah, the Prairie Schoolhouse or whatever where. Yeah.

C

There must be more kids on Elbaf. I think it's just.

D

Yeah.

A

This is in the west side story area. Maybe there's just. Maybe it's a rural outpost where also the king lives. Lives.

D

The castle is.

A

And everything happens.

D

Yeah.

A

It makes no sense.

D

The Western village. Yeah, the Western village. Number eight is Bent. Who is the kid with the droopy, spiky hair.

C

It's like.

A

Yeah.

D

The bent hair. Yep.

A

I'm trying to have a.

B

Looks like icing.

A

Yeah. Dripping icing.

D

Yeah.

C

Not here for Christmas. Hell. On his head.

A

That's. That's it. That's how you remember.

D

What was his name? Yeah, Bent. He's 25, which is. Which would make him eight in human years. And he is the one who is scared of Mother. The one who has, by, by, by proxy, has terrified the rest of Elbaf with his sleep tit. Mother.

A

Yeah. Good job, Bent. Get bent.

C

She's got the classic.

B

Ok. Bahan hair.

C

Yes, yes, yes.

A

Yeah, we've seen her. Like, I don't actually know why there's A scare.

D

She scares her husband. She scares her husband, too.

A

Yep.

D

Number nine is Johanna. She is the. I guess you would call her the pretty one with the horns, who is 28, which would make her. Sorry, girl.

A

Squad down. Sorry, go ahead.

D

Yeah, yeah, she kind of. She's doing the hands on the hips thing. She's the one who is the orphan who does not have any parents. And you will remember in that sequence where they're. They're asking. In fact, I think that was the chapter of what the strongest thing in the world was. The emotional. You know, the parents reaching out. And she was the one who. Anj, the teacher.

A

Yes.

C

Yes. I love that.

D

It was very, very, very sweet.

C

Yeah, I like these kids. I don't want them to die.

A

Well, we have one more left.

D

We have one more left. Yes.

C

This one can.

D

Bjorn, who is Roto's little brother. He's the one who looks like he has the Sanji haircut, the emo haircut. And he is 33, which makes him 11 in human years. And Roto, if you recall, is 63, which would make him 21. And the note there is that hates his nerdy older brother, but is also a nerd himself, which also feels very true to real life.

A

These are. Yeah, I want to say love all the. The kids are all great. I actually wish we had more time with them ahead of time. I don't know how the anime's been handling that, but I'm assuming.

D

Yeah, well, we see a lot of. Yeah, we see a lot of them in those initial school scenes where they're like, no, you pirates are bad, blah, blah, blah. And, you know, Luffy and Usopp are like, what? What's wrong? You're being such brats. Pirates are cool. So we do get some characterization before,

C

but in the manga, we really didn't get names or anything until they were marching on Gungo's arrow, getting threatened to

A

be murdered for the eighth time and not the 15th.

C

No one cares about children until they're in mortal danger. But they've been in the anime a

A

lot, so isolate that footage, too. No, I do want to say, if I were a giant, I'd be having my Bar Mitzvah this year. So you're all invited. And it's going to play music exclusively from the year 2000. So please enjoy

D

Millennial Nevermind.

C

Thank you. I like mine better.

D

All right, next one. This is our. This is the last of the traditional SBS pages. Very cool header this time where we have both Kid and Captain John, who are the two Canonical owners of the magnet. Magnet fruit also. Both are. Yeah, yeah, true. Yeah. Well, I wonder who the third will be. They are. They're doing a magnet fight over the B. So they're. They're making the S sbs. They're very cool. Tons of detail in this one. Very nicely done.

A

Who would kid most hate to have his devil fruit fall into the hands of. Let's think about that while Stephen reads these questions.

D

All right, so here one more translation difficulty here. This one is Oda explaining Roto. We were just talking about Roto being the nerdy brother. So this question is Orachi Hesso. What is Tasso, which if you recall, I know I did talk about this. I. I gave my explanation. Yes. When, when we, when it first appeared. And I did kind of go over all of this stuff. But now we get to hear Oda explain it himself. This is what I translated as ultra rare. When he goes, ultra rare, Nami ultra rare, Zoro, blah, blah, blah. So Oda says, okay, so I'm really not the expert. I'm. I am not knowledgeable enough to speak with expertise about so called nerd speak or nerd slang. Sure, you're not otakugo, he calls it, but in the past there it was, it was common that, you know, when you had a stereotypical otaku, they would say stuff like dego zaru, which is basically samurai speak. And you would say, when you were referring to something cute, you would say tan something tan, mami tan or whatever. And that was sort of like the nerd speak way of, of talking. This is, this is probably like most prominent in like the 2000s. And he says separately from that there was some online slang. There's an online slang culture where if you took the katakana for n and then you have sou. So if you, if you've ever learned katakana, if you've ever done like Japanese 101 and they teach you hirayana and katakana, then you already probably know that there are a couple kana that are like traps for students because they look almost alike, but the angle is like slightly different on some of the strokes. And so one of those pairings is. And so. And then re. Also they're like on a spectrum where it's like, okay, is the, is it like more horizontal or is it more diagonal or is it more vertical? But otherwise they look almost the same. And so especially when you're dealing with like hand drawn stuff where it's not like perfectly, you know, consistent printing fonts, it can be really hard for people who aren't used to it to recognize them. So Oda's answer here is, back then, you would have stuff where people would intentionally use. So instead of. So you would have words like chisoco instead of cinco, which is dick, or pasokon. For PC would be paso coso. And so when you combine that with the something tan, then you would get something tussle. That's what people started calling that stuff online, or at least that's how I understand it. This was back in the age of the moe culture. And he says now you would call it Oshi culture, you know, with the, with the idols. Oh, my Oshi. It's like Stan culture. He says, yes, and I'm sure it will probably change into something else in the future as well.

B

His daughters explain it to him.

D

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. In fact, I don't. I forget if I mentioned this, but, like, speaking of 2000 stuff, back in the day when they were doing the Kerogunso, the Sergeant Frog anime, there was like, there. There was a minor character that appeared in a couple episodes where like, all the frogs were like, obsessed with this guy called Dance Man. He was basically like John Travolta in. In Saturday Night Fever or whatever. Like, just like a disco dancer guy. And his name was one of the ending themes. Yeah, his name was. Yeah, right, right. He was like saying, he quote unquote saying one of the ending themes. And they're like, oh, yeah, it's Dance Manu Maso. Yes. They tried to get him for like, like a party or something. There was like a, you know, they got tricked, basically. And so there's like an imposter. And his name was like Daso Numaso. And so it was basically like, it looked the same thing, but it was a fake version of him. And they were super pissed off about it. And so that's, that's an example of, you know, this popping up in other

A

media voice by Eric Vale, by the way.

D

So there you go. Yeah, so I think if, if, if you recall when I explained this stuff, when he started doing this, I was like, okay, so this would not make any sense whatsoever in the English version. And we don't put. We don't put suffixes. The only time that I think that's ever latched been like, taken root in the English version is probably Cami, when she calls everybody chin. And I think that was probably the right choice for that instance because it. That is unique to Kami that, like, that's just a thing that she does. And it's kind of a take on.

B

It's not a Japanese thing, it's a mermaid thing.

D

Yeah. I mean you, you could, you could argue that it's definitely a thing that people do in, in Japanese for, for nicknames for their friends. But it, it works for, for that it. But in this case, because it is specifically a signifier that Roto is a nerd. And like, kind of like a stereotypical nerd, that, that, that was what the Japanese audience would take away from that, at least the people who recognized it. And so that was where I, instead of having it be part of his speech patterns, I tied it into his like collector mentality. And so I, I called them, you know, ultra rare to compare them to like characters in like a mobile game that you roll, you know, you spend your crystals and you roll to get the ultra rare character and then you just try again and again and again until you get the character that you want.

B

Really gets across that Roto is a really sort of a wet handed mouth breathing nerd.

D

Exactly.

C

Yes.

D

I couldn't have said it better myself.

B

You kind of mentioned at the time, I think he looks like the guy from Perfect Blue.

D

Yeah. He's got the greasy hair and the, you know, just the sallow, the face

B

like melted candle wax.

D

So yeah, so that was my, that, that was my, my take on that. And I'm still, I'm I'm glad. You know, sometimes when you, when you make, you know, adaptations like that, sometimes it's like, oh, once, once it goes beyond the, the initial reveal and it kind of drags on and you see it in more and more instances, in more and more contexts, it starts making less sense. And you know that, that is still kind of a concern of mine. But I do feel like all things considered, I, I don't know how I could have found a better way to, to represent that. So I'm still pretty happy with, with Ultra Rare Nami. Anyways, next question. We have Odachi Hesso. Can you tell us the age and favorite food and least favorite food of Rox D. Zbeck? So Oda says, oh, here Zach, this is your, it's your time to shine. Let's get his height, his height measurements here.

A

It's my time to shine.

D

That's right.

A

Oh, oh, that.

D

I have to look them up your centimeters. Yes, we need cent. We have to, we have to convert centimeters here.

A

Okay, wait, like, why is that my time to shine? Okay.

D

Okay. Rock is 435 centimeters.

A

That's 14 foot three as normal human Beings are.

D

How tall is Blackbeard? Is he even close to that?

A

Let me look. Yeah, I don't think he is. He's 11 foot three.

D

Okay.

A

Tiny little man. Maybe he grew over the time.

D

Yeah, it's like a tree. He's going to grow years after year.

A

True.

C

Kind of his leg and count the ring.

D

Yeah. Yeah. So Otis says he was 43 at the time of God Valley. If he was alive, he would be 81 today. That is seven years older than Whitebeard. His. His favorite food are yami nabe or darkness nabe or dark Darkness hot pot, which, as I learned, is apparently. It's like. What would you call it? Like a suicide. It's like everybody brings ingredients, but. But you don't know what anyone else's ingredients are. And then you have to turn off the lights, and then you throw them all in together, and then you find out, like, what the mixture is

A

that describes. I was just gonna say that describes the daisy bat fight.

B

Sort of way susceptible to sabotage.

C

But is that the joke? Are you supposed to make it bad or is it supposed to be like, ooh, are we gonna get it?

D

I think it's just like. I don't know. Yeah, it's like, what do they do, like, all bring beef? Wasabi roulette. If you ever had a wasabi roulette.

A

Yes, I have wasabi roulette.

C

That's fun.

A

I always lose. I always.

D

The spice of life. Yes. He also likes whole roasted lamb or sheep or whatever. And strong Bacardi, which is interesting to me because it implies that the brand name. The brand of Bacardi existing. Yeah.

C

Maybe on the rocks. Bacardi.

D

Yeah. Maybe Oda forgot that rum is the name of the.

A

Rum is the name of the drink.

C

Oh, that's so funny.

A

I do like the fact that certain brand names somehow transcend into the one piece world.

B

He took a sponsor like Bacardi 151.

D

Yeah. His least favorite foods are cheese and milk.

A

Bacardi on the rocks is very funny. Sorry, I just got. Took me a few minutes, which is.

D

It's funny because his hair is blue. Ch.

C

So he's lactose intolerant then.

A

Ah.

C

My one weakness, dairy.

D

Oh.

C

That's why Imu beat him. Because moo cow. I get it.

D

Oh, my God.

A

I'm just not even.

C

Listen. If everyone's gonna say Emu's a parrot. I can make lactose intolerant jokes about parrots.

A

That's because emu is a parrot. Your lactose intolerant jokes are stupid.

C

They're hateful.

A

They're hateful against the lactose intolerant.

C

That's what they call me. Hateful Canoven.

A

Here,

D

our last one for. Our last question for Oda. Here is. Hey. So Joy Boy's voice actor is Urara Takano. Urara Son is the very first person in the world to ever give their voice to Luffy. Ota says. That's right. Yes. When it comes to voice actors, he says for very important characters, they will send the audition tapes directly to me so that I can decide. But in the case of Joy Boy, I made a request myself. Yes. Urara Takano was the person who gave Luffy his voice in a special. A special one piece animation that was done for an event. You know, I guess it was like a movie roadshow or whatever they called it back before Toei Animation's one piece started. And he says. So why would I have. Why would I have specifically asked for this person? Lol. You know, inviting you to, I suppose to question the connections between Joy Boy and Luffy. Anyways, this volume we have the SBS with the new voice actor of Frankie, Subaru Kimura. So our usual SBS ends here. We'll see you next volume.

A

Cool.

D

So we then have. Because we of course we have 13 chapters worth of, you know, in between pages Oda, they. They tossed in a little bit of Usopp Gallery Pirates here, which here specifically in this page, which of course you. You will not be able to see if you buy the English version, unfortunately, since they don't reprint these. This Japanese fan art. But I really do love this one. That is Ilva like doing a little pose with her big, big helmet. And she's standing in front of Jarl and his enormous beard.

A

And the sword through his head.

D

And the sword through his head. Yeah. It's just. It's a very nice family portrait there.

B

And is that a. It's like a sculpture of Afro Luffy.

D

Yeah. Yeah. It is a. Yeah, it's a figure. It looks.

A

I'm surprised there isn't an official one, but.

D

Right.

A

Okay. What. What happens next?

D

Next? Sorry, I just wetting the old whistle here. Next we have the Subaru Kimura pages, which always involve some banter between the actor and Oda before they get into the reader questions. For this one, we do have. We have a picture of Kimura. I can't tell if this is like.

A

Looks like a fan.

D

Oh well, yeah, there's a fan illustration that's clearly Subaru as Frankie Post Timescape Frankie with some Vega Cola bottles making the sbs but there's a photo of him. I can't tell if it's supposed to be like, he's got a spoon. It looks like.

A

Looks like a kebab.

C

The giant thing of meat there. Right?

A

Odd choice in images or is that

D

supposed to be a parfait or something?

B

I don't know.

C

Everyone loves parfait.

A

It really looks like a spit of meat. It looks like a spoon there, though.

D

Yeah, I think it is supposed to be.

A

You should have one of those, like those like, special knives that they use on shawarma.

D

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

C

The long knife. Like, literally anything else would have made more sense.

A

It looks like a flimsy plastic spoon.

D

It's a little white plastic spoon. Yeah.

A

You know what? Don't look at it.

B

I don't know why, but he kind of looks like Greg to me a little bit.

A

It.

D

I think this guy actually. Well, yeah, he's got the backward hat, but I think this guy actually looks very similar to our friend Jammer.

A

Oh, my God. Yes, he does.

D

I can see it now.

B

Yeah.

D

Who has not been on the show for a while, but yeah, a good

A

friend of the show, but who sounds like Alex. And he looks.

D

Yes, like Frankie's voice actor. He looks like Frankie's new bike.

A

He really has no unique features. They just were all borrowed from other things.

D

Yeah. Shame. So, yeah. Oda introduces the segment. He says, this is the first time

A

we've done spoons on spits. Go ahead. Sorry.

D

First time we've done a voice actor SBS since hoki san in volume 102. That was, of course, after Jim Bae became an official Straw Hat member. And the original nine from Luffy to Book were done from volumes 52 to 64. Just to let you know how long of a gap there was between all of them. I.

B

It was 63 volumes ago, right?

D

Not quite.

B

It started 63 volumes ago.

D

Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I think you're right. But 64 was where it ended. So, yeah, since Frankie's voice actor has changed, we're gonna do it again. We're gonna try out the hits. We will give the. The aniki of the crew, the big brother, the shipwright, Frankie's new voice. And it turns out he is a cola otaku, Subaru Kimura in the house. And so, yes, he says, all right, here, let's let. Because of his skills, we can do this. And so he puts in a reader question, which is to Subaru Kimura, please introduce yourself in German. Really cool. Like. And Oda Sensei, you can interpret, interpret for him and Softish Gans and Planet, which I did put into Google Translate. And it said like, I'm. I am Subaru Kimura. I'm like the biggest and baddest guy on the planet or something like that.

A

German and English are very close, so you could see the words a little bit. Yeah.

D

So Oda's like, ah, okay, yes. So I'll interpret that for you. This is what he's saying. Hey, everybody, I'm Subaru. Since all of the other straw hat voice actors are super old now, I'm gonna be the new star. I'm gonna destroy all of them with these fists.

A

Wow.

D

But he says yes. So as you can see, he's extremely energetic. And. And Subaru's like, I would never say that. Please, no, don't. You're gonna.

C

This is gonna.

D

You're gonna make it so awkward for me later on

A

when I do try and destroy them.

D

Oda's like, no, no, no, it's fine. It's German. Nobody understands what it is. And. And he's like, no, that's exactly. That makes it even worse. He's like, okay, so what I said is. And then Oda's like, hey, Subaru, so do you know what SBS stands for? Which that's. That was a gag that he did with all of the. The voice actors originally. And he's like, wait, wait, wait. Can I answer the other question first? He's like, okay, all right, I know. I know how this works. Okay, so it's supposed to be. And in Japanese he says, senpai tachi ga bokemokutta taietsuda shindo ina. Which would be like the thing that all of my senpais told bad jokes in. Ugh, what a pain. Or something like that. And so it is like, there. You heard that, everyone? This is what kind of man he is. He's disrespectful to senpais. You know, get smacked and

B

hitting him over the head with a paper fan.

D

Yeah. And he's like, wait, wait, wait, I. I thought that was like. I thought that was the bit. I thought you were supposed to be like that. And. And then it was like, okay, here you go. Here are your questions. Thump. You know, big stack of postcards. Have fun. And so then it continues on where. Oh my God.

A

188.

D

Okay, yeah, here we go. And we get a little. There's a drawing. This is the same person who did the Stussy drawing, but it is all of the buggy crew. Yeah, the buggy crew, plus Mr. 3 with their very exaggerated Chibi proportions. That's pretty cute. And we. We have what appears to be Subaru. He might be in drag, I don't know. He's definitely wearing a wig. A blonde. A long blonde curly wig. And so, yeah, here's the reader. The reader commentary and banter and whatnot. So he said the first one is Subaru. I hear that you love cola, just like Frankie. How many bottles of cola do you drink in a day? And Supiter says, I drink in terms of bottles, like from the bottle, which I assume means glass bottle. I drink two every day. Cola is best. Cola is awesome when it's coming out of the bottle, which I do feel like a lot of people agree with that, although I think it might be overstated.

A

I haven't had soda in a very long time and I do miss it. It's great, but yeah, that could. Soda is not great for you, but it's delicious.

D

The next reader says, if someone called you pervert, how would you respond? And he says, I would say more, you know, at this point, pervert or freak or, you know, whatever. Hentai is the greatest of compliments. And the next person asks Subar, what kind of pervert do you think you are?

B

How.

D

What kind of pervert would you describe yourself as? And he says, the kind of pervert who would build a shelf in his house to hold 1,000 cola bottles. Which sounds like it must be an actual fact with the way that he said that there are no pictures of that. Yeah, exactly.

B

The next one, they clipped that bit from that one color spread where like, is that Frankie killing his cola in the river?

A

Oh, yeah, that was from just before the time skip. I know that's the watercolor.

B

Yeah.

D

But I don't know if this is a river. It looks like they have the little bamboo, like, spout. Spout, like the balancing spout thing in the back. So it might have been more of like a summertime. Yeah, like the noodle or like the refreshing. Something like that. But yeah, it is definitely a picture from a color spread. The next question says, now that you have joined the straw hat crew, what was the biggest surprise to you? And he says it would be the fact that the. The group chat is bouncing every single day. Is in. In Japanese, it's the group line, since everyone uses line there. The, The. The social media app, the chat app. So, yeah, I guess they have their own straw hat group chat there. He's like, yeah, everyone gets along so well. And I was like, I was just blown away. I was like, yes, this is a crew. So he was very excited to. To join in on that.

B

It's not a pen, it's a crew.

D

Right? Yeah, it is a crew. So next question is Subaru, I understand that you can speak Japanese, English and German. Is it possible that you can also speak Robotease just like Frankie, which was. What was that? That was like a. Like just after the. Just the start of the timestamp, right, when they. Yeah, when he's like hitting his. Pressing his nose.

A

He's just like robo at the end of things.

D

Right, right. And he's like, I'm studying it now. And. And then we have a little throwback to any is slobby or I guess to water seven. So, Kimura san, when you were taking over the role of Frankie, what else did you take over along with it? Or what did you receive along with it? And he says, red Speedo.

A

You, of course.

D

Yeah, I think. Did they do that gag on like the Jump Festa stage? I want to say they did that.

C

Yeah, yeah, yeah, they did.

A

And it was used.

D

No, who knows? I mean, with Yao, to be fair,

A

Yao really embodied that. Yep.

D

Yeah. So the next or the last segment here of questions is. So, Subaru, did you also inherit Yao's pattern of calling Oda Eiichiro? Because that's what he calls. He calls him Eiichiro.

B

That's very familiar.

D

Yeah. I believe that Oda has known Yao longer than anyone else. Going back to pre.

A

Pre one piece by.

D

I think.

A

Yeah.

D

Or it was from. Was it from the press tour that they did for that production IG or something like that?

A

Yeah, I think him, Kidadani and Yao, Kitadani and Oda knew each other either at the very beginning of things or even before. I don't. I forget their meeting story. I think we've gone through it at some point.

D

Yeah, he did. He. He definitely knew him before. Yeah. Was cast in the. The.

A

Even Django, I think.

D

Yeah, yeah, I think so. He says. So this reader is. Is saying. Yeah, I'm guessing you probably haven't, you know, got worked up the courage to call him Eiichiro yet, so let's use this opportunity to try it out. And so he just goes. Which I'm sure is very weird for a Japanese person to do. The next question is, what is your favorite line from Frankie? And it turns out it is. I had to look this up because it's. You can tell it's clearly from Dressrosa because it's Frankie in his, like, Hasidic outfit. And Luffy and his is what we

A

called it at the time.

D

Yeah, yeah, Robopeos. It was. What was it? It was like, if you see your chance, don't miss it or something like that. I forget the exact.

A

It was just before the Coliseum with the Devil Fruit he was speaking about.

D

That's right. Yeah. It was about Aces Fruit. Right.

A

I don't know why I remember that. And I could barely remember what I talked about last week, but here I am.

D

Oh, good call. Yeah. So next one is a question for Subani. What is it about Frankie that you look at and you're like. I'm just like this. And he says, it's the fact that we both love cola and we are both prone to tears. So, yep, two very prominent Frankie attributes. The next one is Frankie's master, his shisho. His mentor is Tom san. So Subaru, who is your mentor. And he says, my mentor, my shisho is Tomokazuseki, who of course is a famous voice. I forget if he has done a one piece role or not. I wouldn't be surprised if he had answers.

A

Or if he was Tomo Zaku.

B

Tomokazu Seki.

D

Yeah.

A

Also funny.

B

That was everywhere in like the early 2000s.

A

Yeah. Oh, he plays Lucci and Hatori.

D

Lucci. Okay.

A

Yep.

C

Wow.

B

Both.

D

Both characters. That's. Yeah, that's really talented.

A

I don't know how he does both. Hattori is such a all consuming role.

C

It's a demanding role.

A

Yeah, it is.

D

So, yeah. He says his mentor is Tomokazu Seki. I owe him so much, both publicly and privately.

B

So he was Poochie Jojo's bizarre adventure.

A

Oh, I thought you were gonna say in the Simpsons. And now I'm disappointed.

D

Yeah, the next one is. Okay, so this is this. These bits kind of go together. So the next question is, if you had to give yourself a nickname or an epithet, what would it be? And so he says. So I'll say what he says in Japanese, which is kompura gorima mori seiyuu. And I had to look up what this means because apparently this is like a shtick that he has.

B

Is it a gorilla joke?

D

No, actually it is. So the. The background here is that Subaru, when he was 14, he was chosen to be the voice of Jayan the bully in Doraemon. I don't know if that means it was a series or if that was like some of the movies or what, because obviously Doraemon has been around for many, many, many years. And so he apparently promised. So Kompura here is short for compliance. And in Japanese, the. The English word compliance, when they say that, it means, like, standards. It's like, you know, upholding decent behavior.

C

Right?

D

Like, you're not going to violate standards and cause a scandal. And gori is short for gorigori, which means like. Like, super.

B

Like, raw.

D

Like. Yes. And then Mamori is protect. So in other words, it's like. It's like Mr. Super well Behaved Voice Actor. So apparently that's. He's used that to refer to himself before. And so he's just kind of repeating that here. So he's Mr. Super well Behaved, you know, clean as a whistle. So the next question is. This is for Kimura.

C

Hi.

D

Is it true that, like, Frankie's. Your penis is 8cm?

A

And was that confirmed?

D

Zach, can we get a version of that?

A

Give me a second. Give me a second.

C

Give me a sec.

A

That is 3.149 inches. Oh, my God. That's very close to almost pie.

D

Yeah. Wow. And so he says he has a pie disk.

C

That's where you all go.

A

He has a pie disk.

D

And so he says, yes, that's right. It is 8 cm wide.

A

Yeah.

D

And. Oh, God. And. And Oda says, like, wide girth. He's like, oh, Oda cuts in also. Yeah, Oda cuts in. He's like, wide also. Like, no one ever. That's ne. There's never been an announcement that Frankie's penis is 8 centimeters. Like, that's not. That's not official. And he's like, yeah, so eight meters.

A

That's. Yes, yes.

D

So. So with that very sharp interruption there, we are out of time for Subaru. Thank you very much, but I'm afraid we just cannot have that last question. That is not acceptable. We do not. We do not allow dirty jokes here on this segment. So much for. So much for your compliance. So much for your compliance and standards. And he's like, oh, but the. I mean, the reader asked it, so I just. I just want to answer the question. And he's like, yeah, that's. That's great, but, you know, you're. You're lying. Like, clearly, you said that you have a. You said that it's 8 centimeters wide, like, from end to end. And he says, yeah, yeah, that's about right. And then Oda says, okay, show me in parentheses, sexual harassment. And then Subaru says, okay, here's. And then in parentheses, public indecency. And. And then Oda's like, oh, like. Like exclamation points. And then a little shock mark. He's like, Whoa. Shiver, shiver, shiver, shiver. So apparently he has seen. Seen the truth.

A

I think it would have been funnier if you hear a tape measure like onomatopoeia.

C

Yeah, yeah.

A

No, like the. Yeah, yeah.

D

And. And then he says. And then Subaru says, well, all right, everybody here is that. That was it. Everybody. And just. Just so you know, you. In case you were curious, the thing that I said in German was, I am Subaru Kimura, the. The. The best and coolest super dude on the planet.

A

And so 8 centimeter penis is what he said.

D

And he says, take care of. Of Hro from now on. You know, I leave him in your hands. Enjoy. You know, see you next volume. Have fun.

A

What else is in the.

D

We have a little bit more Usopp gallery. Of course. I'm not sure if any of these are like, super duper worth.

C

Those little dolls are creepy.

D

Pointing out. Yeah, somebody made their own little, like, sort of stick dolls.

A

Like a kind of.

D

Yeah, they kind of. Right. They look like little Lego Duplo people.

C

Olipocket esque.

A

I really just like seeing Rotten Tomatoes in big letters. Yes.

D

Okay. That's why I took. I. I took a picture. Yeah. Since they were.

A

I figured that was why.

D

Right.

B

They.

D

They were, of course, without their. Their copies of the volume are held at the post office on this Sunday afternoon. So I took pictures of all this stuff to. To send to them. And yes, I. The Netflix ads, which are not really. I mean, they're ads, but they're also. They're just like bragging, which they love to do. And I just had to include the first one because they are. They are touting, you know. Okay, super. You know, season two from the first week, three straight weeks, number one in the world. Top 10 in 92 different countries and territories. From the Netflix weekly global top 10 rankings. First week, number one in 63 different countries and territories. And it's just so funny to read, like, in Japanese, like, rotten tomato. And then the critics score tomato meta yak percent. You know, it's like 100 on the tomato meter. And. Yeah, it's just. I don't know, there's just something about seeing that in Japanese. Very funny, considering it's funny seeing like,

A

for me, like, basically Japanese text and then Rotten Tomatoes.

D

Yeah.

A

Just in big letters.

C

That's great.

D

And if that wasn't enough, then on the next page, they have the full list of all 92 countries where it was in the top 10.

A

Pick your favorite.

C

You didn't believe us. It's all here in black and white.

A

Even reunion. Reunion. I think that is. Is that a country off of Africa?

D

Yeah, it's in the Indian Ocean. Or it's close to the Indian Ocean.

A

Wait, I'm curious since. Look, I think we've all been learning a lot about little countries that are very good at soccer for the World Cup. Yeah. Like Cabo Verde and it was Curacao. So this one has this. This nation who I'm sure 90% of them are listeners of ours. Just under a million folks. So it's just when. I mean, like, they're bragging that they're at 92, you know, in 92 countries, which, remember being number one in a country of 910,000 people where, like, how many people watch Netflix out of the total? You could kind of do the math. You're getting to probably a pretty small number.

D

Yeah.

A

In the United States. Like, what percentage of the population has a Netflix account, watches Netflix and then out of those. And watches it regularly and then watches one piece. Like, I'm sure it is.

D

It is funny, too, that, like, they also do the thing where they put the. Like the laurel wreath around the statistics. Like, it's. Like.

A

It's.

D

Like it's con or something. Yeah.

A

Winner of the top 10 in the Netflix 92 countries. In 92 countries.

D

And just. Just to drive home the point, the. The Japanese tagline here is, you know, top 10 in the 92 countries. Don't be late to ride this wave. So, you know, just putting the pressure on. Like, make sure you check in for season three.

A

I see New Caledonia there, I think. Is that the. So it's at the top. Right. Where the. Can you picture.

D

I believe that's in Oceania is.

A

It's definitely like a very tiny country that I'm not even sure is completely independent, but might be. I don't want to, like, step on any political. Because I know nothing about it.

C

I just want to do the.

A

It's French. It's a French territory. So I mean, they might be like one of the. But it's just there. I do agree with the Animaniacs potential, but there's just a few of these that are very interesting choices to the fact that you're listing them out loud. They should. Not out loud. Anyway, good for them. I'm not trying to. I'm glad there's representation for those nations, too, but it's just. It's just an interesting choice to list those all out on two different pages when your volume is too large and you had a whole apology about it anyway.

D

Right. And, yeah, and just so you know, the priority here, too. Then there's more Usopp Gallery pirates. So they made sure to put the Netflix ad before the fan art.

A

Who did that? Usopp Gallery. That's with Jacob.

D

But yeah, they drew.

A

Excellent. It's very funny. I guess it's part of the Usopp Gallery, but it's the header for it, so.

D

Right, right.

A

Very good. I like Jacob is probably one of my favorite parts of that show. And then you had. I guess. Is this a correction at the end? Is that the last thing we're looking at here?

D

What's that?

A

The Elbaf pirate ship you added.

D

Oh, yes. That was the one bit of retouched art, I believe, which they had drawn with Elbaf with the F on the ship. Sail first.

A

Oh, we did talk about that. Yeah.

D

They went back and they changed it to ELBAF with the pH.

A

Good for everybody.

D

Somebody got yelled at.

A

Was it Oda? I still like that more. I know it isn't, but whatever. Any questions since we don't have it. Ken, do we have questions for Steven? Is there, like, something we're missing here?

C

Do I personally have questions for Steven?

A

Yeah. Do you personally have questions for Steven about. Not really. Just general about the book.

C

I feel like everything was very well explained and translated.

A

I agree.

C

Thank you, Steven.

A

Putting you on the spot.

C

It's always a lot of work every time you do one of these. I always appreciate you reading for a. Of people lot. Like two hours straight.

A

Oh, shit. Have we been going for two hours straight?

D

Managing my dry mouth after a certain amount of time.

A

So why don't we do this? Why don't we take a break, let Steven, you know, get his voice back.

B

Yeah.

A

Recuperate. And then we'll do some peace together where we'll ask Stephen some. Where we'll ask questions.

C

Yeah, it's a very Steven heavy. Well, there's a couple Stephen questions in there.

A

We'll see. So. So we'll do a short piece together and then we will round off.

D

Sounds exciting.

A

See you on the other side. Yep. Elbaf bar mitzvah. Super scary. All right. Sorry, that doesn't really work. Super.

C

Loyalists becoming men. Men becoming men, becoming giants.

A

That's so good.

C

Sorry, Delaney.

A

This is the Piece Together segment where we take your questions, comments, theories, but not the ones that Pell sent on Facebook. We're not. They're just not based in fact. And also, we don't take questions from Facebook. We do take questions, though. I assume, Ken, you knew you were doing this Segment.

C

Oh yeah, I just assumed at this point.

A

Okay, Ken, what segment is it?

C

Zach, this is dis piece where we answer all the questions our lovely Patreon followers put to us in the disc piece channel in our discord. And starting off with a one from last week. Steven, you were not here, but.

A

Oh yes, thank you for remembering. Yes.

C

Yeah. S and P asked this last week and said, hey, O. Opp Hoping Steven will be on tonight. He was not. Are the Nate. Yes, he's on tonight. Are the name vohu come from the phrase tohu wa bohu? Other acceptable transliterations tohu wa vohu. If so, why vohu and not bohu? Seemingly a more commonly used term.

A

Bohu.

C

No academia is it because of the meaning nothingness, void. And you want to choose something, point closer to that. Psych. Apparently it's the same word that appeared in the second world of the Harley. I bought the new volume release and saw you change it to emptiness and change the word. The word in third world to void instead. And they gave a picture of the updated viz volume with the changed Harley.

D

That's right. Yeah. So that is correct. That the. The. The sword of what I call it blade of nothingness. Vohu. It comes from the Hebrew. I believe it's like the very first line of the Bible or something. That's like in the beginning there was nothing and then there was like, do

A

I have to go get my Bible?

D

I mean, if you want to.

A

Yeah, I have one from my El baf mitzvah. That is, let me go see. I could see what the Hebrew definition is for this, but.

B

Yeah, go ahead.

A

So.

D

Yeah, and so that. That apparently there's. There's different. What, what would you call angle anglicizations of it? Like there's tohu wa bohu and tohu va vohu. And I, I looked and I could not see. Like it's one of those things where, like, you know, when you read explanations on like here's this Hebrew thing from, you know, from the, the Hebrew Bible that's. That predates, you know, Christianity and all this stuff. And it can be spelled like this or like this or like this. And there's never. I've never really seen, like, you know, like, like this is the one that's common now. Or this was like the old fashioned way to do it or this, whatever. It's always just like, oh well, you could read it this way or this way, this way. And so I don't know, like, is there a version?

A

What was I doing here? Oh, wait.

D

So keep Going, so, yeah, so basically what. What happened was I went. I, you know, I looked at. I reverse engineered it. So I just looked, okay, what is bohu? And that. That was the katakana and.

A

Oh, bere sheet. Yeah, I'm definitely pronouncing that badly. But that is what it. That's where it comes from. But that didn't.

D

I don't know. And so, yeah, so I. I basically looked it up and. And the first thing that I found was Vohu with a V. And then I think I looked a little further and saw that there was also Bohu with a B. I could not really discern, like, what the. The difference in those transliterations would be. And so I. I kind of just. It was sort of like, you know, when a referee makes a call, it's like, okay, not enough evidence to overturn the call. On the. On the field sort of thing. I was like, okay, I'll just go with vohu. And, you know, it does. Admittedly, I think V usually sounds cooler than B when. When we do words in English. So I just kind of left it at vohu. And, you know, that's just kind of what I use. It is a reference to, you know, the nothingness before creation, which, as it turns out, is pretty apt for all of the, you know, the imagery and the conceptual stuff that the. The world government and the king of the world and all that stuff, you know, comes from. So.

A

I don't think it's the first word of the Bible, but there is. It's. Because it's in the second sentence that they.

D

Yeah, I mean, right at the very start of the Bible.

C

That's like.

A

I cannot emphasize how I have not opened this in 20 years. I haven't, but I.

D

It was entrusted to you wisely, I can see.

A

Yes.

D

Yeah. And then I did. Yeah. You've probably noticed then that I did tweak some of the text, which I think when we did the Harley. The. The first chapter, I think I had pointed out that there were, like, a few issues that I had with how I had ended up on it. And, you know, I had spent, like, all day working on it, and I was like, well, I don't like that. You know, this is here because there's, like, multiple different words meaning, like, emptiness or void. And I ended up with void in the one that was not the same as the word that goes with void. Century. And so, like, I. Basically, as far as I remember, I. You know, I haven't looked at this stuff since I turned in the volume corrections but from what I remember, like, I basically straightened it out so that like void went with the part that has the same kuhaku, which is the word that goes with void, century and stuff. So just trying to make things a little neater for, you know, the in universe lore to make the connections a little easier to draw. But yeah, that's what I remember about doing the Harley again.

C

Should we read the updated Harley or is that overkill, you think?

D

Yeah, let's just go. It's just a few words that you can buy the volume. Yeah, buy my book.

C

Got it.

A

Yeah. And more importantly, we have to wait for Kaylie to come back to do that.

C

Right, right. That's a good, good video if you haven't seen that. And then S and P just followed up, just asking again, like reposting the question, said, if Steven has any other thoughts and changes in the Harley in the volume release, it'd be appreciated. And we've addressed that. So thank you, S and P. Thank you. All right, we're up to today's questions. First up, we got Big Mike. Oh, no. The toxic conservative fans on the One Piece podcast are complaining about the horny SBS questions because don't make me take my bible out because of their views. It's bad enough they were making fun of President Obama last week, and now this. Don't worry, everyone. I'm here to turn the Piece Together segment into a sex positive environment where everyone can send in their questions without any shame, starting with mine. What other female characters would you like to see in the skimpy egg headed island outfits like the ones worn by Nami and Robin. Mine are Hiyori, Viola, and an honorable mention to Yamato in an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt hoodie and a tiny Speedo.

A

You know, I'm just gonna say I'm gonna put my bible back. This doesn't really have anything to do with this question. I'm sorry to cut in about that. I just am letting you guys know

C

that's probably really Big Mike right in front of Zach's Bible.

D

I'm very positive about Frankie's chode. I don't know where this reputation comes from.

C

His 8 centimeter. Are we answering this or should we move on?

D

Oh, we have to answer the question.

C

Who do you want to see in an egghead outfit?

A

No, we don't,

D

Ripley.

A

We read the question. The thing is about the egghead outfits is that they're stupid. They're not like.

D

They are. They are stupid.

A

They're not. Thank you, Steven.

C

I like the Hawaiian hoodies. Those are cool.

A

The Hawaiian hoodies are as cool. I wouldn't go as far as cool. Sanji looks stupid too. Jinbe was probably the best of the Hawaiian shirt gang. Luffy's outfit was great. Everyone else's. And choppers. Choppers is cute.

C

Choppers is good.

A

Like, I think everyone else has sucked, if I recall.

C

I don't have any fun of Usopp's. Usopp had like, the One Piece jumpsuit.

A

Yeah. Oh, maybe that's why. Maybe he's the One Piece. So, like, look, if you wanna, you know, get rid of my puritanical views. The egghead. The egghead outfits are like the worst choice because they're just. They're Oda for the sake of Sonata, you know. There's just like nothing interesting there.

C

In my opinion, that was the error. Like, oh, he's drawing all the buts more than usual.

A

That part I'm not complaining about. But the. Oh, maybe I am.

D

Oh, you're not

C

Big Mike. Your influences, definitely.

D

Uh.

A

Oh, my puritanical values. I should bring that Bible back. Why don't we go to the next question?

C

That's a good puritanical view. Okay, next up, we got King Doji. Hey, Opp. I'm listening to last week's episode and y' all are talking about Luffy needing a low point and such. And such. What if Luffy somehow goes inside and connects to the will of the Gum Gum Fruit? A little too Naruto esque. Or my hero Academia esque.

A

Hmm.

C

I. I've been worried for a while.

A

That's Naruto esque. I'm just. I know they're part of Naruto. That's like, about where I got in the manga. Like, I read randomly chapters. I did not read Naruto religiously and I skipped a lot. But I do remember that I've always

C

been worried with the fruits. If they carry on something from previous users or because, oh, now that Sabo has Ace's fruit, Sabo every, like, connect to Ace somehow. Because they both share the same fruit? Or because the Zo Fruits have a will or a mind of their own. Will Luffy ever have a talking to Nika moment? Even though we still don't know if Nika was a real God or just the idea of a God. But if there was a Nika, can Luffy talk to Nika through the fruit? Because the Zo Fruit, like, it's. That's the thing. Like, it should have a mind of its own. There should be a Nika Inside that fruit.

A

Just like the jacket and the jacket. Jacket fruit has a mind of its own.

C

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Well, that's parrot.

A

I'm joking.

C

Oh, okay, okay.

A

Because it's a stupid fruit.

C

It's your favorite fruit.

A

Just because I was matched with it that one time on that thing.

C

There's only one jacket. Jacket, fruit. According to Pel,

A

she's probably right about that.

D

As far as he knows, there's only one clue.

A

How many different jackets could there be? You know, there's 11 jacket fruit. There's a jean jacket, fruit.

C

Cardigan. Cardigan.

A

God. God, Gar. Oh, no. I gotta get that Bible back now. Because. Oh, what a heathen. Yeah.

D

Someone was having dreams about inflatable spandex stuff.

A

There was an actual question, and I could totally see that happening where it's. That's almost kind of what did happen. I don't know. How is Oda going to get out of this one?

D

It's all in the same kind of vein, just in terms of maybe not so much of like reach into the power itself, but like the whole sort of destiny angle. I do think that in general, it's sort of like the challenge for Oda is to. Is to show how Luffy can kind of quote unquote, fulfill the destiny while still being his own person. Like. Like he's doing it. And you can see that it's. This is just Luffy. And it is always what he would have done. Because we know who Luffy is as a person. And to try not to make it seem like. Like, you know, he's a zombie living out Joy Boys example or. Or whatever.

A

Oh, I didn't even think of it like that that could happen.

D

It's like a. Yeah, well, it's. It's like there's a fine line the distinguishing those things. And it's not necessarily like a very clear one. So I think that's just kind of like. That's the onus on Oda right now is to like to do it in a way where we still feel like this is Luffy.

A

That would be kind of lame on another level too, in that, like. Well, I guess that is kind of like the inherited will thing. But like, if your soul lives on through like a devil fruit, but is dormant, like what an existence that doesn't.

C

King Doji mentioned the My Hero Academia thing where in that he talks to all the previous users of the Power, like in his head, he has little powwows with them. I just don't want Luffy in a room talking to Joy Boy and Nika. Like, all right, we're the three people here.

A

What are we gonna do?

D

The Black Panther thing?

C

Yes, yes, exactly.

A

You know what?

C

It been.

A

Could have actually the one way it could work. If he does it. None of you guys watch DS9, so I don't have any of my folks here. But the. Why am I blanking? But like, Dax and Jedzia Dax. And that is a. What are they called now? Oh, my God. I'm losing my. My perspicacity. But what I was going to say is they. That the trails. Sorry. They have like. It's that symbiote relationship where there's like a little being living inside of them. And then that little being, like, goes on to the next user basically, and so carries forth the memories of the previous people. And then they kind of become an amalgamation of them. I don't want that specifically, but

D

I

A

guess it could be interesting if Devil Fruits are literally inherited wills. I just doesn't feel like something Oda would want to do. Like, it doesn't.

C

It would just suck if like the gum Gum Fruit, like, Joy Boy was like, piloting inside of it. And like. Okay, let me.

A

They did mention. They did mention. Remember that? Like, it evades escaping.

B

Yeah,

A

I could see it. I don't know if I'd like it. It's a fine line.

C

It's a fine line.

A

I just don't want him to become. Now I'm Dark Luffy and I'm super badass and I'm gonna.

C

Yeah, we've already had Shadow Luffy

A

image that every screen cap thing on YouTube is. Yeah, that's what's gonna happen.

C

I think Oda has put enough lines in where Luffy's like, I don't know who that is. Or Stop calling me that name.

D

I don't care.

C

Even if that was what is happening or that's the answer. If Luffy just ignored it or didn't care and didn't affect anything, I'd be okay with that.

A

I could see. I think what would actually happen is that Luffy, like, if. If Joy Boy's will lived somehow within that or his memories or something like that lived within the Devil Fruit, it wouldn't be like, now I'm. Now Luffy. Is that. I don't think. I think it would be something like Luffy. Like, the one time we get an inner monologue is it's gonna be him consulting, like, with like, inside his head about this. Maybe. I don't see it coming out though. Like, you know what I mean? I don't think externally it would be. I don't know.

D

I mean, that is true. We never see inside Luffy's head. So the one time he's been talking

C

to Joy Boy the entire time he could have been.

A

That actually would be a very funny reveal. It's. Oh, he didn't have inner monologue for that reason. Yeah.

C

By the way, I love hate that.

A

I love hate that too. If we were any other channel, we would have one of those really creepy AI YouTube thumbnails. But instead we're going to have the

D

spit verse something much better. Yeah.

A

Yeah.

D

Classier.

A

Yes, classier. Certainly.

C

Yes. Classier. All right, next question from Matt R. I get it. Hey, Opp. With it being another break week, I wanted to share a one piece game I play in my head when I'm running to distract myself with Joy Boy. I call it the Devil Fruit game. I list the devil fruits in chronological order of appearance, starting with the gum Gum fruit.

D

Good lord.

C

Some additional rules I follow is that I'm not super strict on the order of appearance like an alabaster. As long as I can list all the devil fruits that appear, I'm good. I also don't count fruits until their official confirmation. So Doflamingo wouldn't count until Dressrosa. I usually make it to around Marineford until I lose my focus. How far accurate can you guys make it?

A

Chapter one.

C

Gum Gum Fruit.

A

Like, I don't. That is just so. It's Goma Komanomi Human fruit. But seriously, I don't think I could get very far in that. That's not like my forte in like

D

things I remember build up to it. Right. Like you have keep a running tally. Because it sounds like he does this every time. Or it's like a common sort of meditative thing.

A

I have things that like, I have memorized that I'll be like, okay, if I ever get a concussion. I can't list all of these things I think about in my head.

C

I think you could be good up until like Reverse Mountain. Because you gotta think like, it's just Luffy.

A

Luffy and Buggy.

C

For the longest time, there's nothing on.

A

Is there really?

C

There's nothing on Baradier. There's a. There's Smoker and Dragon.

A

Yeah, you're right. You could get pretty far without that many.

C

Once you hit like. Like reverse.

A

The grand line. The grand line?

C

Yeah.

A

I mean, that's on purpose, I'm sure.

D

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's interesting. Usually when I'm like running or walking or whatever. That's like. It's basically like shower time. It's like shower thoughts. Like your mind just wanders to whatever. And then when it's over, I have no idea what I was thinking about, but, like, it feels amazing. You're just like, oh, wow, I got so many like, tangled thoughts out of my head. Yeah, exactly.

A

But, well, my most recent one, I was thinking about podcast stuff that I wanted to do, so there you go. That's what goes on.

C

As you do. As you do.

A

As I do. What's next?

C

Next? Next question. Low key. Still alive. It's our good friend Slay. Hello, my fellow heist planners.

A

Wait a second.

C

Off week. So how are you? What's been going on lately? Want to shout out any cool books, podcast, or shows you've loved lately? Have you been holding space for Wanze?

A

No.

C

Have a great week.

A

Holding space for.

D

I've been watching the new season of House of the Dragon, which has been pretty awesome. Very, very happy with that one.

C

I got the Brandon Sanderson bug finally. So I read through Way of Kings, then Warbreaker, and now I'm on Words of Radiance. And if you don't know him, they're just these giant, thick high fantasy novels. But I've been very impressed with him so far.

D

Did you consult all the dozens of YouTube videos about the proper reading order?

C

Every single friend has told me, you're doing it wrong. You're doing it wrong. No. Why'd you do that? Why'd you do that? I'm like, so. There's no pleasing anyone, but I do it your way. I have so far. I have made the right choices so far. I think I.

A

This is the problem. Since I read for a living, I can't. I don't read, like, after I'm done because, like, I can't. Like, it's like, one of those things, you know, when you. Well, I'm not saying I do what I love, but if you. You know, when you do do what you love, it's hard to do it as a hobby also. Or what you do at work.

C

Yeah, I mix audiobooks, like, with the physical. Like, if I'm driving, I'll have the audiobook on and then I'll resume.

A

Yeah, but I kind of, like, really focus. And the problem is I focus all day at work. I focus all day at home because kids and I have no focus left, and I just want to veg and so, like, I'll play a very, like, cozy game or something and then go to sleep or. Well, what I've been doing. So I've. They're not cozy, though. But I've been watching a witch in Mongolia, Jadugar.

D

Jadugar.

A

Which is incredible. I mean, unsurprisingly, it's Sai and Saru. I think I mentioned this last week, but, like, I read the manga and I know what happens. And it's still. It's like one of the very rare circumstances where I'm like, oh, this is still like super engaging, super cool, experimental. It's like just so, I want to say fun because it is a very dark story, but it is so interesting. And I'm gonna definitely. Vinland Saga, I think is next on my. Because I really have the historical fiction, anime slash manga bug right now with. Or the thing and. And that.

D

Yeah. The thing that I really like about historical fiction, like in, you know, in manga or wherever else, is that, like, the. The closer they are to the history, like, the less predictable because, you know, it's history. It's not. It's not like, you know, history doesn't happen in story form. It doesn't like, introduce characters to send them on like, stereotypical journeys. So, like, you just. It's just very unpredictable in many ways. And that. That can be really exciting if you're, you know, kind of jaded and used to all of these sort of typical ways of telling stories.

A

And it's especially good, like, I don't have any knowledge, so. Ja Dugur, for those who don't know, I'm trying to think of how much I could explain. It basically takes place during like, the height of the Mongolian empire. It is something I know nothing about that point in history. Like, that is a very blank spot. Much like, I don't really know much about Viking history. So I think Finland Saga is going to be fun for that reason. And for Orb, you know, there was a lot about medieval history, which is also not like now. It just sounds like my interest in history. But those are three, you know, eras that I'm not read up on. So it. They all are surprising, as you mentioned, because you don't know what happens next.

D

There's a.

A

And you learn things which I like.

D

There's a manga. They might have made an anime out of this. I don't know. It's from like the 2000s and probably into the 2010s called Hyogemono or Hiu Gaimono. It, you know, it's spelled differently on. In English, but it's basically. It's like the story of Sen Norikyu, who was basically like the Buddhist priest who kind of established the format of the tea ceremony back in the, in the Sengoku period. This sounds like. Yeah, well, and it was, it was when like all of these, you know, samurai generals and leaders, like that was like the craze. It was like the thing that you did in, when you're not out in battle was like, oh, you have to, you know, have these special tea ceremony, you know, you have to have this wonderful wabi sabi, like pots and in, you know, imperfect vessels and things like that. And like, so it's kind of like the story of the guy who helped establish that and then. And because it's historical fiction, there's just all these characters and if you've ever read like Sengoku period stuff, it's really complicated story of like, you know, the, the scheming and the who is. Who is fighting against who and who their alliances are and stuff. And so like, as a story it's really complicated and hard to follow like which characters are doing what. But it's, it's done in such a way that like, you know, like his, his sort of invented character that we follow who gets crazy into tea ceremony stuff. You know, it tells a really interesting story with all these historical figures in the background.

A

And what's the name of it?

D

So Hyogemono.

A

H. It's like that in English also?

D

No, I don't know. I don't, I don't believe it's ever been published. But yeah, in it would be pronounced H Y O U G E M O N O but in the old fashioned way. So like the way that they spell it on the COVID it is H E U G E M O N O. Really, really cool. I don't know, there might be a scanlation for all I know. I don't, I don't know. But I have the Japanese volumes. Obviously.

A

There's been a lot of success in adapting those. Kind of like I'm. I'm very excited to keep reading. Which witch in Mongol is the name of the Right. A witch. And Mongol I think is the name of the manga and Jadugar is the name. So like. But I am. It is. It's like, it looks like Astro Boy, like kind of like 50s. It's such a. Interesting mess.

D

Yeah, the character designs are great.

A

Yeah, I would get figures of them if it wasn't. It still feels kind of weird because they're also based on actual people, a lot of them. Anyway, that's what I've been up to. Podcasts. Have I been Listening to anything new? I don't know. It's this one piece podcast I hear about.

C

That's the only podcast I listen to.

A

That's the only podcast there is. There's no other one. You have no choice.

C

Voice

A

and Wanse. No, I don't hold space. Nothing for Wanse. Go ahead.

C

Okay, next up we got Wispy. Hey, Opp, what are your one piece Subway takes?

A

What does that mean?

C

I don't know what that means.

A

Like I don't know what that means.

C

I'm just gonna Google one piece Subway

A

and see if anything pops up or Subway takes. Yeah, it could be. Or Peace Subway.

D

Is this like a. Like a TikTok trend or something?

A

It might be.

C

I'm seeing like there are some subways in Japan where they have these giant murals of one piece stuff. But doesn't. I think I've seen that before.

D

Oh, it's a Subway Ticks is an Internet talk show hosted in the New York City subway.

A

I've seen that. I actually know what they're talking about. The There is a subway talk show.

C

Are they doing podcasts on a subway?

A

Kind of like. I know Zoran Mamdani did that.

D

Oh, okay.

A

Like years ago at this point. But I don't know if that's what they're referring to. So let's move on to the next question. I'm going to let Wispy explain themselves and then vote for you if you

C

want to resubmit that question, please.

B

Yes.

C

And our last one is from Ice Fisher. Tenacity. This is a little bit of a different one, a long one, but we'll see how this goes, I think.

A

Well, so wait, this is about the dub, right? So I want to do this one when Steve is on. Otherwise, what are we going to do? Unless Ken, if you have strong opinions about it.

C

I don't have any strong opinions. I was going to list them down if you had any. Like to like shout out anything that caught your.

A

I think we should do this when we have some dub heads on because it's dub related questions. So that one, I think we should. Yeah.

C

We will archive this then for later.

A

I suspect Steven last week and then we'll do this one for next week.

C

But this is very, very thorough. Ice Fisher listed a bunch of recommendations who they want for voice actors for the Elbaf arc. So if you're part of our Patreon, you're in the discipe section. You want to see all their suggestions. They did a very thorough. It's like six images worth of voice actors. It's very cool, actually.

A

Yeah, I don't feel completely qualified to have a of, you know, this is not my fault.

C

I don't know enough bad voice actors.

A

Yeah.

C

Yeah. Okay, so I think that was our last question then.

A

I think with that we could wrap up.

C

All righty.

A

Grab a Bacardi on the rocks because this has been the One Piece podcast for July 20, 2026. Thank you both for coming on the show. Thanks to Ed for coming on. Check him out. Edward E. On bluesky. Check out Kirby wherever you get your Kirbys links are in the description from Nintendo. No Kirby the artist for this episode.

C

You can follow Kirby kirbyj on bluesky.

A

Thank you. I didn't want to misquote the name Cam. Where can people find you?

C

You could find me anywhere online under kindking01, whether that be blue Sky, Instagram, anywhere. I'm pretty easy to find. And please check out the op collab on Blue Sky. We are now. We're still posting a character a day from volume two. Yep, we're in Ogashima now. So he posted a Kaido image. If you listen to the podcast yesterday, a big mom image will be going up today. And a couple days ago, Kirby actually we posted Kirby's young white beard art, which is quite incredible. I think that was the first piece that he did for the collab when we were running it a couple years ago. So yeah, check us out online.

A

Steven.

D

StevenPaul BSky Social. Yeah, just we'll be back next week with another one piece chapter. Kane's still going strong. Crude Mesawas folly getting some real interesting stuff going on there. So yeah, read them. Read them before they're over or after they're over. It's whatever you want.

A

We don't judge. I recommend. You could find me@zacklogan.com on Blue Sky. You can find us@onepiecepodcast.com on Blue Sky. Also on the website, the URL One Piece podcast calm patreon.com One Piece podcast. You could support us. Please do. If you haven't we mentioned that it's the only podcast that exists, so I think for that reason alone you should help support. Podcasting needs the help, but specifically us. The money does go help to pay our editor, our artists and the many wonderful people who help contribute to the podcast. And also hopefully some projects that we'll be able to talk about at some point. This is me putting myself on notice in the same way that Oda did with the five different yes, Zach, make

C

a bunch of promises right now there's

D

only five different projects that we.

A

There's only five different projects we're working on and are totally gonna happen within the next few weeks.

C

All in the year.

A

Yeah. All within the end of the year. Yeah. If I say them out loud, it'll definitely not happen. Yes. You can find us One Piece podcast anywhere you get your social media. YouTube.com One Piece podcast or Apple podcast, Spotify, the rest of them. Fuck ice. Don't forget that. Yeah. And particularly this week, I was going to say, but really every week, anything I'm missing that's happening that I should be telling people about, really relying on you folks this week. Steven, thank you so much for walking us through volume 115. Volume 116 will come out at some point, I think this year, probably. Yeah, usually it's quarterly, probably like October. So we look forward to talking about that. Then next week we'll be doing chapter 1189. And until then, my name is Zach. We'll see you next time. Time, everyone. Goodbye.