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author=Mirak
None of these "ships" make any sense.

Also, is this Bonnie? Wasn't she captured by god damn Akainu?

She escaped during the timeskip and seems to be on the run from the Marines. There's a big ol' mystery around that girl. I wouldn't mind her joining the crew, especially since it seems she doesn't have her own, but I'd be afraid she'd help Luffy in eating through all their money. XD


Ships don't really have to make much sense. One of the big things about OP is that there's a lot of unknown links between people, and a big ol' ocean where they can meet. For example, Kalifa was on the run with the other CP9 agents after their failure at Enies Lobby. They could quite easily have met Foxy on their adventures and had him beat them (by cheating and using his fruit) so that they joined his crew.

Or Ace and Blackbeard were closer than we were led to believe and that's why Ace was so determined to get him, since scorned lover was added into the equation of brother-killer.

(The real-life pirate that Ace is based on was the one who first created the idea of brotherhood and set down the 'laws' about not killing your shipmates and a general code of conduct. Black Bart (who Kuma was based on) made that code popular and added more to it.

Ace/Akainu is like Ace/Smoker, where the Marine and Pirate played cat and dog. Usually ends in death, though I saw some stuff where it ended with a faked death and keeping Ace in a sex dungeon. (We're talking shipping here - it can get pretty crazy, yeah. The Ace/Akainu ship is not a happy one, that's for sure.)

Luffy/Skysquid is easily explained by a sudden sexual awakening for Luffy from having stowed the squid in his pants that one time. And Luffy is ridiculously shippable with near-everything/one. The most common ships for him are members of his crew, Law (of course), Crocodile (it's like Ace/Akainu but with more innocent Luffy/depraved Crocodile >.<; ) and many, many others.

Zoro/Hancock is easily explained with a 'what if' scenario where Zoro got lost mid-transit (because that would be right) and landed on the wrong island, met and subdued Hancock and, well, just went straight along. It makes a certain amount of sense since Zoro is one of the other crew members who doesn't show interest in the opposite gender, so wouldn't be overwhelmed by her beauty.

Chopper/Crocodile is, I believe, risen from an SBS where Oda said Crocodile likes cute things (or alluded to it in some way. I'm not sure, but that's what some people who ship it claim) and the fact that Chopper is cute and was in Alabasta during Croc's reign. It's definitely another What If.

That's the fun part of OP, though - it's so easy to just go "What if...?" and come up with a very viable outcome based on a few changed pieces of story.
Like, what if Blackbeard had also managed to make it up the Knock-up stream?
What if Luffy had trained a bit harder before the War of the Best and thus, hadn't toppled at the decisive moment?
What if Chopper never joined the crew, but they still needed a doctor, so they found someone else to fit the bill?
What if Aokiji accidentally froze Robin all the way through and they hadn't been able to save her?
What if Garp had given Luffy to one of his Marine friends to raise instead?
What if Kuina hadn't died, but had been blinded by the fall? (There's a really good fanfiction based around this idea.)

It's a very flexible world, with a lot of lovable characters, which makes it rife for messing around in. ^.^


@Pizza: I get that a lot of people like Bepo, but I didn't really like his silly acting. I can see why people would like him or see him as cute and adorable and want a talking polar bear of their own, but he just didn't appeal to me. Maybe I just don't like bears? XD

The Alabasta arc had some filler episodes which was annoying.

The Davy Back Fight can go die in a fire (the only good thing to come from it was Afro-Luffy. Foxy and his little crew can go fuck themselves. That arc in the manga was half as long but noooooo, the anime crew had to add a second fucking round. I am so salty about that. It was the worst.)

Sky Island seems to be that either people loved it or didn't. I'm one of the ones that did, but there wasn't much in the way of padding in it.

There really isn't much in the way of filler and a lot of the filler is good filler (like the G8 filler which was so good that they even brought Johnathon back into the main arcs of the anime for the War of the Best).

It started out that the anime would cover 1+1/2 - 2 chapters of the manga each episode, but since it caught up to the manga, it could have done three things - either taken a hiatus until Oda got ahead a bit, focussed on another mini filler arc or slowed down the pace a bit by going 1 chapter per episode and adding a bit of filler to that.

Japan doesn't take kindly to breaks, and besides, with Oda's illness of the time it wasn't really a good idea to let it fall behind, so they decided against that.

Instead they figured to slow the pace a bit and hope that Oda managed to pull ahead. Of course, this didn't happen since Oda has to have mandated rest periods as per doctor's orders, so the anime has still managed to catch up to the manga, despite their best efforts at trying to not add filler.

One thing that I wish they'd done instead is invest in some of the cover stories as mini-arcs. Oda tends to add them in as little events following other characters in the world and I know a lot of people have wanted to see certain ones animated (like Enel's journey to the moon or CP9's after-Enie's Lobby arc). Honestly, that would have been better, I think, or even just filler arcs which can be easily cut.

That said, the slow down is only an issue when you're watching week to week. One Piece isn't a show where you should do that. Instead you need to watch it in clumps of episodes - going back and watching about 10 in a row (or even an arc at a time, if you've the time) makes for a lot better pacing and an overall better experience.


Or you could just read the manga. That is a thing you could do and is highly recommended that everyone do anyway.

Gravity, methinks, though Earth fruit might be an interesting idea that I hadn't considered.

Y'know... I wonder if there's a Sea Sea fruit or Water Water or Swim Swim and whether it'd allow the user to actually be in water and not effect them.