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One Piece
Volume 2: Versus Buggy’s Crew!!
Captain M’s Rewrite
Version 1.0 (Original release)
Covers and Frontpages
One Piece vol. 2: Versus Buggy’s Crew!!
Written and drawn by Eiichiro Oda
Front cover: Luffy stands behind Buggy, Cabaji and Mohji on the streets of Orange Town.
Blurb: Luffy, dreaming of being King of the Pirates, is joined by Pirate Hunter Zoro as he heads for the Grand Line! But on the way, he gets caught up in a battle between the Buggy Pirates and Nami, a thief who specialises in stealing from pirates. But what if Nami has the navigational skills the fledgling crew desperately needs…?!
Author avatar: A hare holding a pocketwatch being held up by the ears.
Author Intro: “Generous
host,
Your guests have arrived.
Where would you seat them?
Those who must sit by the entrance
Cannot be at ease.”
It’s got a nice ring to it, right? It’s a Scandinavian pirates’ song.
Illustration: Luffy, Zoro and Nami leaving a tavern.
Recap, page 1 – 2
Recap: The story of One Piece volume 1 to volume 2
After Luffy picked a fight with some bandits, he was thrown into the sea and attacked by a sea monster, the Lord of the Coast. Shanks swooped in to save his life! But it cost him his arm…
Ten years later, and wearing Shanks’s old hat, Luffy embarks on his own voyage. His journey to be the King of the Pirates has begun.
Starting out by looking for crewmates, Luffy encountered “Pirate Hunter” Zoro under arrest at a Marine Base. He saves Zoro from a cruel Marine sailor and they set out for the Grand Line.
But on the way, Luffy is carried off by a giant bird and the two are separated… Zoro, still on the boat, picks up some castaways, crewmen of a pirate called Buggy. Meanwhile Luffy is dropped in a nearby town, where he meets Nami. She’s a thief who specialises in stealing from pirates, and she’s made an enemy of Buggy’s crew.
Nami seems to have the navigational skills the crew desperately needs, but it looks like she’ll only get them into trouble…
Monkey D Luffy
His
dream is to be King of the Pirates! And to meet Shanks again! He’s a rubberman.
“Red-Haired” Shanks
Captain
of Luffy’s favourite crew. He taught Luffy about the dangers of the sea.
Roronoa Zoro
Aims
to be the World’s Greatest Swordsman! They call him “Pirate Hunter.”
Nami
A thief who targets pirates. She seems to hate them!
Buggy’s
Crew
Mohji,
Buggy, Cabaji
Table of Contents
Contents: Chapter
9: Femme Fatale – 7
Chapter 10: The Fight at the Tavern – 29
Chapter 11: Run Away – 53
Chapter 12: Dog – 73
Chapter 13: Treasure – 95
Chapter 14: Reckless!! – 115
Chapter 15: Gong – 135
Chapter 16: Versus Buggy’s Crew!! – 155
Chapter 17: Different Levels – 173
Chapter 9, page 1
Title: Chapter 9: Femme Fatale
Cover illustration: Zoro sits on the back of a bull, cleaning one of his swords, while Luffy climbs a tree in the background.
Chapter 9, page 2 – 3
Luffy and Nami discuss things by a pile of beaten pirates on the empty streets of a well-off town.
Nami: That’s right!
I steal from pirates and only pirates!
I bet we could turn a major profit if we worked together!
Narration: Pirate thief
Nami[1]
SFX: Don!!
Luffy: Nope! I don’t wanna team up with you.
Nami: …! Wait a minute!
SFX: Tmp tmp
Swip
Nami: So what’s
the deal with the hat?
You got so mad when he touched it! Is it expensive?
Luffy: It’s my treasure!
Nami: Aha, treasure…! So
there’s jewels inside it…?
Oh! I know, is it a treasure map?!
Luffy: Go away. I’m busy.
SFX: Silence
Elsewhere in the town, at the pirates’ headquarters at a local tavern.
Narration: Roof of the tavern
SFX: Murmur murmur
Blah blah
Buggy: So you haven’t caught the thief yet…
Chapter 9, page 4 – 5
Pirate: W-we’re still looking for her, Captain Buggy.
Buggy: What I want to know is…
…how the hell’d she get her
mitts on our map of the Grand Line so easily?!!! Huh?!!
And right when my feet were itching to take our act there…
…to have a real blast!!!
Pirate: It was just a small blunder, Captain.
Some snot-nose left the key to storeroom
out where…
Buggy: What was that?!!
Buggy flies into a rage, hurling furniture from the roof.
Pirate: I said, some snot-nose…
Buggy: Don’t say it ‘snot my real nose!!!
Pirate: What?!!
SFX: Crash!!
Buggy: You think my nose looks pretty funny, right? It looks fake to you.
Pirate: N-no Captain!! …!! You’re making a huge, horrid mistake!
SFX: Rmmmmble
Shake shake
Buggy: Huge, red and fake?!! [2]
Pirate: Whaaaaat?!!
Buggy: You’re dead! An execution extravaganza!!![3]
Pirate: Please C-c-captain!! I never meant…!!
Buggy: Say my name!!!
The pirate’s legs flail uselessly as he seemingly levitates, clutching his throat.
Pirate: Gak!!!
Cap…tain… Bug…gy…
SFX: Don!
Pirate: !!!
…I… can’t breathe!!!
SFX: Float
Kick kick
Chapter 9, page 6 – 7
Pirates: …there it is!!
His D-d-devil Fruit power!!!
SFX: Gasp!
Buggy: Roll out the cannon!!
Narration: Captain of the Buggy Pirates
Buggy the Clown
SFX: Dodon!!
Pirate: But I never…!! Save me…
Buggy: Light him up!! Extravagantly!!
SFX: Flail flail
Pirate: Aaaaaaaa!
The levitating pirate is annihilated by a point-blank cannon blast.
Buggy: Bring back the map!!
And everything else worth a ducat in this fleabag town!!
SFX: Tmp tmp
Aaaaaargh
Kaboom!
Pirates: Y-yes sir!!!
Captain Buggy!!!
Chapter 9, page 8 – 9
Luffy and Nami occupy an empty house in the town.
Nami: Okay.
You were separated from your crew at sea.
How many men?
Luffy: Just one other guy. Is this your house?
Nami: Nah. Work keeps me on the move. I don’t
know who lives here.
All the locals went into hiding…
…trying to keep away from the Buggy Pirates at the tavern.
Luffy: Is he really that scary?
This Nami pirate?
Nami: I’m Nami!!
Buggy’s the pirate!!!
Don’t mix me up with him!!
As a pirate…
Buggy’s infamous for his cannons.
At one other town, some kids made fun of his nose…
…so he blew the whole place to rubble.
Even worse…
…they say he’s got some weird powers.
Luffy: Where’re all the townsfolk, anyway?
Nami: They’re all hiding!! I just told you!!
Luffy: Ah. So you’re looting their houses.
Nami: How dare you!! Didn’t I just say I only steal from pirates?!
SFX: Slam!!
Nami: Don’t talk to me like some dirty
plunderer!!
You’re such a pain!!
Luffy: Hey, take it easy!
Hahaha
Nami: …
SFX: Sigh…!
Chapter 9, page 10 – 11
Nami: My goal is to make 100
million berries!!
Then, I’ve got a village to buy!!!
Luffy: Buy a village?!
A hundred million’s a lot to get from normal pirates…
Nami: There’s a plan for that.
Check it out!
I just swiped a map of the Grand Line!
SFX: Bam
Nami: I’ll start with all of Buggy the Clown’s
treasure.
Then I’ll hit the Grand Line…
…and get even better treasure from even bigger pirates!!
How’s that?
Feel like making a killing together?
I could use your kind of strength.
And of course you’d get your fair share!
Luffy: Do you know a lot…
…about navigation?
Nami: Yeah!
Of course!! Are you kidding me!
You won’t find many people who’d best me as a navigator.
I love the sea!
Luffy: Alright! Yeah!! That’s great!!
We’re heading for the Grand Line too!!
Chapter 9, page 12 – 13
Nami: Really?!
Luffy: Yeah!! You could be our navigator!!
Join my pirate crew!!
Nami: !
…!!
No way!!!
Luffy: ?
Nami: …sigh…
I didn’t know you’re a pirate.
Forget it! The deal’s off!! No way I’m working with you.
I’m starting to get it… That’s why the treasure map in your hat’s
so important…
Luffy: I told you there’s no map!
Nami: Yeah right! There’s gotta be! Why else would that ragged old thing be so valuable?
Luffy: This hat’s my treasure
‘cos a friend gave it to me a long time ago!!
That was when I swore I’d find a crew and be a pirate
myself.
Nami: Hmph!! It’s all pirates with you.
You and everyone else in this era!!
Chapter 9, page 14 – 15
Nami: There’s nothing in the world I hate
more…
…than pirates!!!!
I only like money and tangerines!![4]
(Damn it, he’s just another stupid plunderer…)
(He doesn’t seem to have anything worth stealing. but there’s gotta be something I can use him for…)
Luffy: Come on, be my navigator!
Nami: I told you no!!
Shut the hell up, pirate!!
(That’s it!)
SFX: Grin
Nami: Then again, looks like you could really use the help. I’ll think about it on one condition.
Luffy: Great! Things were going pretty bad. What’s the condition?
Nami: Come with me to where Buggy is.
Nothing more than that. Just a small favour!
Luffy: Alright, let’s go.
Where’s this Buggy at?
SFX: Stomp stomp
Nami: Hang on a sec, I’ve gotta get ready!
Luffy: What’s with the rope?
Nami: Just a rope. Got a problem with
that?
(As if you’d ever get me to play pirates!)
Chapter 9, page 16 – 17
Shortly after, the pair approach the tavern.
Nami: Just at the end of the street here.
That’s the tavern they’re staying at.
Luffy: Now what? What’re you gonna do?
SFX: Bam
Catching him by surprise, Nami ties Luffy up head to toe.
Nami: Just wait…
SFX: Swip
Luffy: …
Huh?
Nami: …and you’ll…
…find out!!
Pirate boy!!
Luffy: Hey! What’re you doing?
SFX: Squeeze!!
Thump!!
On the tavern roof, the group that had been chasing Nami have returned.
Buggy: What do you mean!!!
How the hell’d the map thief get away
from you?!!
You’re telling me one scrawny thief did this to three
strongmen!!!!
Domingos: We’re so sorry, Captain Buggy!!
But!! There was this other guy there!! Super tough…!!! Wearing like this old straw
hat… Her boss!!!
Buggy: Execution extravaganza!
Domingos: !!!
Nooooooo!!!
SFX: Shudder
Chapter 9, page 18 – 19
Pirate: Captain Buggy!!
Buggy: What!!!
SFX: Glance!!
Pirate: It’s the thief…
She came back on her own…!!
Buggy: Excellent!! Bring her here!!
…Wait, what?! All on her own?!!
What’s her game?!!
Huh?!!
Pirate: I dunno, but… she’s here.
Buggy: Fine then!! Put her on!!
Domingos: Ah!! It’s him!! That’s the guy, Captain!!
Her boss who fell outta the sky!!
Nami enters and throws a trussed-up Luffy before the pirates.
Luffy: Oof!
SFX: Thud!!
Nami: I captured the thief and brought
him back!! Captain Buggy the Clown, sir!!
And I got your map back too!
Buggy: !
Luffy: …
You tricked me, jerk!!
Buggy: Thank you for your service.
But… Why did you do it…?
Chapter 9, page 20 – 21
Nami: My boss and I had a
disagreement!
I’m sick of him. I wanna join the Buggy Pirates
instead!!
Buggy: Huh?
…
Gyahahahahaha!!
You’re sick of him!! Hahaha, girl, what a gag!! Fine!! I like you!!
You’re in!!
SFX: Hahahaha
Nami: (Infiltration successful! Now I just
steal his treasure and take the Grand Line map back…)
(…and get the hell outta here!!)
Luffy is locked into a cage.
Luffy: And you can forget about joining my crew!!
SFX: Clang!!
Zoro’s little boat pulls into the port.
Funan Bros: We’ve arrived, Master Zoro!!
SFX: Hehe!
Zoro: Huh… It looks like a ghost town.
I can’t see anyone at all…
Funan Bros: Uhh…
To be honest, our crew took over the town.
What’re we gonna tell the captain?
We can’t go back empty-handed.
Just tell him what happened!! That girl’s probably on the other
side of the ocean by now.
Zoro: Take me to see this Buggy
guy then.
Maybe he saw where Luffy went.
SFX: Don!
One Piece Storyboard Showcase!! Part 1
Storyboard for chapter 8, page 6.
Chapter 10, page 1
Title: Chapter 10: The Fight at the Tavern
Cover illustration: Nami and a pig depart a desert town with a chest of solen pirate treasure.
Chapter 10, page 2 – 3
Buggy’s crew throw a wild party on the tavern roof.
Buggy: The Grand Line map is back in my mitts!!
Narration: The Drinker Pub tavern
Buggy: And we’ve found a new crewmate!!
Everything’s going my way!!
Ladies and gentlemen, drink your fill!!
We’re blowin’ this stand for a battle extravaganza!!!
SFX: Don!
Pirates: Yeeeeah!!!
SFX: Woohoo
Buggy: Nami!! Green bally broads have to drink too!!
Nami: Yes sir!! I’ll drink my share, Captain Buggy!!
SFX: Burp
Pirate: Hey new girl!! Drinking contest!
Nami: You’re on!!
SFX: Glug glug glug
Nami: I win!
SFX: Yeah!!
Nami: (Heheh!
Too bad for them I hold my liquor like a champ! If they keep going like this…)
(…I’ll have no problem swiping their treasure! Pirates are so
easy to fool.)
Chapter 10, page 4 – 5
Luffy gnaws at the bars of his cage.
Luffy: Nng!
Gnar!
SFX: Clang clang clang
Luffy: Ah… Looks like they’re having fun…
That’s how the pirates’ life is supposed to be!!
SFX: Yeee-har har har
Luffy: Huh?
Nami: Hey boss! How you doing?
Luffy: Shut up and let me outta here!!
I’m hungry too.
Get me some food!
She slips him something.
Luffy: Mmmm!
You’re not so bad. Maybe I’ll let you in the crew after all.
Nami: No freaking way!!
SFX: Hahaha
Munch munch
Nami: Don’t you get where you are?
These pirates’ll probably sell you
somewhere, at best.
But hey, if my plan goes well…
…maybe I’ll unlock the cage on my way out.
Nothing personal!
Luffy: Just open it now.
Buggy: Gyahahahahaha!!!
You picked the wrong henchman!! Right, thief boss?!!
Nami: !!
SFX: Flinch!
Chapter 10, page 6 – 7
Luffy: Whaddaya mean? She’s not with me!
Buggy: Yeah, yeah. I know how you feel.
After a backstabbing like that.
SFX: Heheh…
Buggy: Now, even though I got it back, you
still stole my treasure. There’s a punishment for
that!!
I know just what to do with you.
Luffy: Let me go?
Buggy: That’s right, I’m going to let you…
…go to hell!!!
Idiot!
Men!!! Load the Special Buggy Balls!!!
Pirates: Yeeeeah!
SFX: Woohoo!
Don!!
Pirate: Buggy Balls ready, Captain!!
SFX: Bam!
Buggy: Take aim!
Give them a preview of my power!!
Crew: !!!
Chapter 10, page 8 – 9
The cannon is fired into the town, its blast tearing through a whole row of buildings.
Crew: ?!!
SFX: Ka-babababoom!!
Wshhh
Nami: …
Buggy: Ladies and gentlemen, the most extravagant bomb there is!!! Smaller towns go in one shot!!!
Between my Special Buggy Balls and my Devil Fruit I’m
gonna rule
the Grand Line!!!
SFX: Yeeeeeeeeah!
The cannon is now aimed at Luffy’s cage.
Buggy: Your turn, Nami!!
Prove your loyalty by blowing your old boss to pieces.
Show me you’ve got what it takes to challenge the world!!
And it had better be extravagant!!!
Nami: !
Luffy: !
SFX: Don!
Nami: Kill him…?!
Me…?!
Come on, Captain Buggy!!
We don’t have to do that!!
Let’s… drink more instead! Drink! Have another round!!
That guy’s not worth it!!
Chapter 10, page 10 – 11
Buggy: Do it.
Nami: Uh…
Pirates: Just do it! Blast the shit outta
him!!
Shoot him! Shoot him!
SFX: Yeeeeeah woohoo
Pirates: Shoot him!
Nami: …!!
SFX: Gulp…
Pirates: Shoot him!
Shoot him!
Shoot him!
Shoot him!
Shoot him!
Nami: …!!
SFX: Rah rah
Nami: (…oh no… How’d it come to this…?)
(If I don’t do it… they’ll definitely kill me…!!)
SFX: Rah rah
Nami: (He’s only a pirate…)
(…but if I kill him I’ll be just as bad!!!)
Luffy: …
Buggy: Nami!!! Stop stalling and light the fuse!!!
SFX: Shiver!!
Shoot shoot!!
Chapter 10, page 12 – 31
Luffy: Your hands are shaking.
Nami: !
Luffy: That’s what you get…
…for taking on pirates unprepared.
Nami: …!! Unprepared? For what, killing
in cold blood?
Is that what prepared means to a pirate…?
SFX: Shoot!
Shoot!
Luffy: No.
Pirates: Stop wasting time!!
Luffy: You gotta be prepared to risk your own life!!
Pirates: Shoot him!
Shoot him!
SFX: Yeah!
A pirate steps past Nami, striking a match.
Fuwar: Come
on, new girl.
Ain’t you ever used a cannon before?
Nami: !
SFX: Fwshh…
Slip
Fuwar: You
just get fire…
…and put it to the fuse…
Nami assembles a staff from three segments strapped to her leg.
Nami: …!!
SFX: Clack clack!!
Chapter 10, page 14 – 15
She strikes the pirate down.
Pirates: ?!!
SFX: Thwack!
Pirates: Huh?!!!
SFX: Crack…
Luffy: !!
Nami: Oh no…
(Damn it…! That was stupid…!!)
Buggy: Nami, what the hell was that?!! After I welcomed you to my crew!!! And gave you the honour of lighting the fuse!!!
SFX: Roar
Luffy: Oh, you’re saving me after all?
Nami: Don’t be stupid!!
I did that without thinking!! …I did it because…
…because I couldn’t even pretend to be some evil pirate a minute
longer!!
Chapter 10, page 16 – 17
Nami: Pirates like you killed someone
I love…
…so I hate them more than anything!!!
Luffy: …
Ah, so that’s why you hate pirates…
The fallen pirate’s match has landed on the cannon’s fuse, igniting it.
Luffy: Aaaa!
The fuse is liiiiiiit!!!
SFX: Don!!
Fzzzzzzz
Luffy: Crap!!!
I’m doomed!!!
SFX: Clang clang clang! Clang!!
Fzzzzz
Buggy: No more games, bally broad!!
Kill her, extravagantly!!!
The pirates’ Fuwar squad charges, knives drawn.
Fuwars: Here comes extravagance, girly!!!
Nami: !!
SFX: Hyaaaa!!
Nami: Still burning…
SFX: Fzzzzzzz
Chapter 10, page 18 – 19
SFX: Fzzzzzzz…!!
Luffy: Dammit! Don’t explode me!!!
SFX: Clang clang clang!!
Nami swings desperately, but the pirates tumble like acrobats around her weapon.
Nami: …
Fuwars: Missed us!!!
Nami: ?!!
SFX: Whup
Fzzzzz…
Luffy: I’m not giving up!!!
SFX: Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
The fuse burns close to detonation. Nami abandons the fight to smother the flame with her hands.
Nami: …!!
SFX: Fzzzzz…
Nami: !
SFX: Hissss…!!
Nami: Argh…!!!
SFX: Sizzz…
The pirates lunge at her undefended back.
Luffy: …?! Hey…!!
Behind you!!
Fuwars: Hyaaaa!!
Nami: !
Chapter 10, page 20 – 21
Zoro leaps in, hitting all the pirates back at once with sheathed swords.
Zoro: How many of you does it take to fight one girl?
Fuwars: ?!!!
Nami: !
SFX: Smack!!
Nami: Who…
Luffy: Zoro!!!!
Pirates: !
Zoro?!
Zoro: You hurt?
Nami: …I’m okay…
Luffy: Wow, good thing you made it!!
You gotta get me outta this
thing!
SFX: Whd whd
Zoro: Stop playing around, Luffy…!
First the bird and now a cage…
Idiot!
SFX: Tap tap…
Pirates: Did he… really just
say Z-Zoro?
Like “Pirate Hunter” Zoro?! Why’s he working with a thief…?!
Nami: So the crewmate he mentioned was…
…“Pirate
Hunter” Zoro…?!
How’d that happen…?!
Chapter 10, page 22 – 23
Buggy: You seem to be the genuine Roronoa Zoro.
Are you here to take my head?
Zoro: Nah… I don’t care about that.
I gave up pirate hunting…
SFX: Do-oooooohh…
Buggy draws his knives, spinning them and holding four at a time between his fingers.
Buggy: Well I do care. Killing you will boost me into the big leagues.
Zoro: Don’t try it. You’ll die.
SFX: Spinn…
Pirates: Go get him, Captain!! Chop him to little bits!!!
SFX: Yeah
Buggy: Take me serious or I’ll bleed you dry!!!
Zoro: …!
Fine, if that’s how you want it…!!!
Buggy lunches at Zoro, who, in a single three-sword attack, cuts through one of the pirate’s arms, one of his legs, and the middle of his torso.
Buggy: !
SFX: Slice!!
Luffy: Wow!
He went down easy!!
Nami: …no way…
Pirates: Heheh…
Vikings, page 1
Text: The word “pirate” means “sea-faring plunderer,” which is exactly what they did. Throughout history there have been many different kinds of pirate in different eras and parts of the world.
I want to talk about one of my favourite kinds of pirates: the Vikings.
Over 1,000 years ago, these marauders set out from Scandinavia and attacked many different countries. They hailed from the countries now known as Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Why are they called Vikings? Because it’s what they called themselves! Why did they call themselves that? You’d have to travel back a thousand years to ask them!
Map labels: Europe
Scandinavia
England
This Area
Chapter 11, page 1
Title: Chapter 11: Run Away
Cover illustration: Luffy races a leopard.
Chapter 11, page 2 – 3
SFX: Thu-thump!!
Zoro: …
Not much of a challenge…
Pirates: Heheheh…
Zoro: …?
Luffy: Hey Zoro! Get me outta here already.
Zoro: !
Yeah yeah.
Nami: (Something’s wrong with these
pirates.)
(Their captain’s been killed, but they’re
laughing…!!)
…?!
Zoro: You’re not going anywhere without
a key.
Even I can’t cut steel.
Luffy: Oh.
Pirates: Heheheh!!
Hahahaha!!
SFX: Hahahaha
Zoro: What’s so damn funny!!
Just give us the key!! I don’t have to hurt anyone else!!
SFX: Haha haha haha
Luffy: …?
What a bunch of weirdos…
SFX: Hahaha
SFX: Shunk!
Zoro: !!
Chapter 11, page 4 – 5
Buggy’s severed hand drives a knife into Zoro’s side.
Zoro: ?!!
SFX: Thump!!
Blub…
Luffy: …?!! Zoro?!!
Nami: …?! …the severed hand!!!
Pirates: Hahahahaha!!
SFX: Hahahaha
Zoro: Shit!! What the hell is this…!!!
SFX: Shluck!!
Splurt…
Wsh…
Zoro: The hand…!! It’s floating…!!
SFX: Throb throb…
Buggy: The Split Split Fruit…!![5]
Zoro: ?!
SFX: Whoosh…
Chapter 11, page 6 – 7
Buggy’s severed body parts float around and reconnect with each other, healing seamlessly.
Buggy: That’s the Devil Fruit
that I ate!!!
You can chop and hack me up however you want, I’m already a splitman!!!
SFX: Don!!
Nami: …!! …he came back together…
I thought Devil Fruits were just a myth!!
Zoro: …!!
Luffy: A splitman…
What a freak!!
Narration: Rubberman
Buggy: You’re lucky I missed the instant
kill… Roronoa Zoro!!
But that’s still a serious wound. Show’s over!!!
SFX: Smirk…!
Zoro: (He got me good!! I came to save Luffy, but look at me now!!)
(They told me he’d eaten a Devil Fruit, but I still got careless!!!)
Pirates: Yeah! Go Captain!!
Finish him!! Cut him up!!
SFX: Raaaaaaah
Spin spin
Nami: (Not good!! The table’s turned
again!)
(This is gonna end with all
three of us dead!!)
Luffy: …
Chapter 11, page 8 – 9
Luffy: No fair getting him from behind!!
You big nose freak!!!
Pirates: !!!
SFX: Gasp
Nami: You idiot, say anything but…
Buggy detaches his own hand, which flies with a dagger straight into Luffy’s cage.
Buggy: I’ll give you big nose freak!!!!
SFX: Bam!!
Whoosh!!
SFX: Shunk!
Luffy: !!
Zoro: Luffy!!!
Nami: Ah…
Luffy has caught the blade between his teeth. He bites down, breaking it.
Luffy: I swear…
…I’m gonna kick your arse!!
Crowd: ?!!
SFX: Don
Buggy: Oho!
Kick my arse?
Chapter 11, page 10 – 11
Buggy: Gyahahahahahahahaha!
Kick my arse?!!
You’re hilarious!!! When the three of you are about to die!!!
Gyahahahaha!!
Nami: It’s over… We’re done for…!!
Luffy: Hahahahaha!!
You can’t kill me!!
Buggy: How are you gonna
kick my arse from in there?!
C’mon boys!! Look at him and laugh!!
SFX: Hahahaha
Luffy: Get outta
here!!
Zoro!!!
Zoro: …! …What?!
Nami: …!! Hold on… You aren’t really
telling him to run away…!!
What happens to you?!
Zoro: …
Got it.
SFX: Don!
Chapter 11, page 12 – 13
Nami: (Damn it!! They’re not making any
sense! This is why I hate pirates!!)
(I need my own escape plan…!!)
SFX: Gah!
Buggy sends both his hands flying to slash at Zoro, who fends them off.
Buggy: You’re not going anywhere, Roronoa Zoro!!!
Split Split Cannon!!!
SFX: Kablam!!
Shing ching!!
Zoro: …!!
Pirates: Hahahaha!! Zoro’s turned tail!!
He can’t get away from Captain Buggy!!!
Zoro reaches the cannon, and with a titanic effort flips the barrel back so it’s aimed at Buggy and his crew.
SFX: Tmptmptmptmptmp
Grunt!
Creak…
Splurt
Nami: No way…!!
SFX: Bam!
Pirates: !!!
Aaaargh!
He’s aiming at us!!!
SFX: Aaaa
Aaaa
Buggy: Nooooo!!!
That thing’s still got a Buggy Ball in it!!!
SFX: Aaa
Aaa
Chapter 11, page 14 – 15
Luffy: Yeah!!
Zoro: Light it up!!!
Nami: Uh…
…oh… I’m on it!!
SFX: Twitch!
Zoro: Hurry!!!
An explosion tears across the roof of the tavern, blasting up a huge cloud of smoke.
Buggy: Don’t!!!
Hit the deck!!!
SFX: Kaboom!!
Aaaaaaaaaargh
Zoro: Now’s our chance…!!
Who’re you, anyway?
Nami: I’m…
…a thief.
SFX: Fsh fsh fsh
Luffy: She’s gonna
be…
…our navigator.
SFX: Grin
Nami: Are you still going on about that?!
Shouldn’t you be thinking of how to get out of your cage?!
Luffy: Oh yeah, good idea.
Nami: …
Zoro: Nah, don’t worry about it.
Stay right where you are!!
Chapter 11, page 16 – 17
Buggy: Don’t let them get away, damn it!!
SFX: Fsh fhs
Koff koff
Swsh swsh
Zoro heaves Luffy and his cage together onto his shoulder, even as blood spurts from his wound.
Zoro: Argh…!!
Luffy: Zoro, put me down!
You’re gonna squeeze your guts out!
Zoro: Let ‘em fall!
SFX: Spluuurt!!
Nami: How can you…!!
SFX: Ooh…
Zoro: I’ll do things how I want!
Nami: !!
SFX: Spluuuuur
Boom
Zoro: So don’t get in my way!!!
Nami: (How’s he able to do that…?!!! He’s just a pirate…!!!)
The smoke clears. Luffy and his allies are gone.
Buggy: Where are they?!!!
SFX: Fsh fsh
Pirates: They’re all gone, Captain!!!
Zoro!! Nami!! Even the cage!!!
No way!! It took five of us to move that thing!!
SFX: Don!
Pirate: Oh crap, they took it too!!!
Buggy: Took what?!!!
Pirate: The key…
…to the cage!!
Chapter 11, page 18 – 19
Zoro drops the cage on a rooftop a few buildings down.
SFX: Clang!
Luffy: Oof!
Zoro: Whew…
SFX: Throb throb…
Luffy: Dammit!
Stupid cage! Open!!! Open!!!
SFX: Clank clank clank clank
Zoro: We’re in bad shape here…!!
But we gotta see this thing through now!!
Pirates: Back on the first floor?!!
Not there!!
Down on the street?
Can’t see ‘em!!
At the tavern, Buggy throws the broken furniture around.
Buggy: Screw those three little gillies!!!!
Think they can clown around with me do they?!!!
SFX: Crash!!!
Buggy: Say my name!!!!
Pirates: Pirate Captain Buggy the Clown!!
Buggy: Damn right!!!
They weren’t just ordinary thieves!!!
I consider this a declaration of war!!!
SFX: Rmbrmbrmbrmb
One Piece Storyboard Showcase!! part 2
Storyboard for chapter 12, page 3
Chapter 12, page 1
Title: Chapter 12: Dog
Cover illustration: Luffy, Zoro and Nami pose, each ready for a fight.
Chapter 12, page 2 – 3
Buggy: Listen up, men!!
I built this crew to be the most
extravagant terror on
the seas!!
SFX: Don!
Buggy: Are we gonna let three punk thieves clown on us?!!
Pirates: No sir!
Buggy: I can’t hear you!!
Pirates: No sir!!!
Buggy: Now shut up!!!
It’s time to show those fools how scary real pirates can be!!!
Roll out the Big Cat Act!!!
Mohji enters, riding his enormous lion, Riche.
Pirates: Yeah!! It’s First Mate Mohji!![6]
First Mate Mohji’s Big Cat Act!!![7]
Mohji: You
called?
Captain Buggy.
Richie: Grrrrr…!!
Narration: Buggy Pirates First Mate
Mohji the Liontamer
SFX: Don!
Mohji Mohji Mohji Mohji
Mohji: May I take Roronoa Zoro’s head?
Buggy: It’s all yours.
SFX: Mohji! Mohji! Mohji!
Chapter 12, page 4
Zoro trudges through the town, holding his wound with one hand and dragging the cage with the other.
Zoro: That’s far enough from the tavern.
They’ll take a bit to catch up.
SFX: Huff huff
Drip drip
Zoro: I’m glad we got away…
…but we gotta do something about the damn cage…!!
Luffy: Yeah, I can’t fight anyone if it won’t open!!
SFX: Clang clang clang
Skrrrrrrr
Zoro collapses.
Zoro: That’s it, I’m outta
blood.
Can’t take another step…!!
SFX: Fwump…!
Chapter 12, page 5 – 6
A dog appears, sitting motionless by the fallen Zoro.
SFX: Don!
Flinch!!
Zoro: …what’s with this dog…?!!
Luffy: Dog? Oh, there is a dog.
SFX: Silence
Luffy: Is it real?
Hey Zoro, it’s not moving at all.
Zoro: Who cares…
It’s the dog’s business if it moves.
Our business is getting you outta that cage.
Luffy pokes at the dog’s eyes and is bitten for his trouble.
Luffy: Maybe it’s dead.
SFX: Doink
Chou Chou: !
Luffy: Yeow!!
SFX: Chomp!!
Luffy: Get off, stupid dog!!
Chou Chou: Woof woof!
SFX: Clang clang chomp chomp
Zoro: Are you even trying to take this seriously?!!
SFX: Spluuuuuurt…
Luffy: Stupid dog!!
Zoro: Ugh… Not enough blood for this!!
SFX: Flop!
Fwump!
Silence
Nami: What are you idiots doing…?
It won’t take long for buggy to find you in the middle of the street!
SFX: Don!
Chapter 12, page 7 – 8
Luffy/Zoro: Hey, navigator.
Nami: You wish!!!
I just came to pay you back for saving my life back there.
Luffy: Pay me back?
Nami drops a key in front of the cage.
Luffy: Oh!
SFX: Ting!
Luffy: The key!!!
You stole me the cage key!!
Nami: It was stupid of me, but… yeah.
Instead of maps or treasure, all I got was your dumb key.
Luffy: Yeah!! I thought I’d never get outta this thing!!
Zoro: …whew… Rough start, but my rescue’s starting to come together.
As Luffy reaches for the key, the dog picks it up and swallows it.
Luffy: Ah.
SFX: Chomp
Gulp
Silence
Luffy grabs the dog by the neck.
Luffy: Stupid dog!!!!
That’s not food! Spit it out!!!
SFX: Snatch!!!
Luffy: Damn it!
Chou Chou: Woof woof!!
An armour-clad figure approaches the distracted group.
Boodle: …!
Chapter 12, page 9 – 10
Boodle: Hey!! Brats!!
Leave Chou Chou[8]
alone!!
SFX: Don!
Narration: Mayor of the Port Town
Boodle
SFX: Don!
Luffy: Chou Chou?
Zoro: Who’re you, old man?
Boodle: Me?
I’m the local mayor. In other words…
…I run this town!!!
A short time later, Zoro has been given a bed to rest in. Luffy remains in his cage outside.
Luffy: Where’s Zoro?
Boodle: Resting at my house, just next door.
I told him to go to the doctor at the refugee shelter but…
…even though he lost all that blood, he said he just needs to sleep it
off!!
SFX: Snore snore
Nami: And Chou Chou is the dog’s name?
Boodle: That’s right.
Luffy: Why’s he still here?
Boodle: He’s a guard dog.
I just come by give him food. In other words, I feed this dog.
Nami: So he’s
guarding this store then.
A pet food store…
SFX: Munch munch
Chapter 12, page 11 – 12
Boodle recalls the life and departure of Chou Chou’s owner, Hocker.
Boodle: The owner was an old friend of mine.
He set it up about ten years ago.
Chou Chou was with him from the opening day.
The two of them made a lot of good memories in this old shop.
And so did I.
Hocker: Listen,
boy!! You’re in charge while I’m gone!
Be good and don’t eat the merchandise!!
Chou Chou: Woof!!
Boodle gives Chou Chou a bowl of food.
Boodle: Look at those scars.
He’s been fighting the pirates.
Still protecting the store.
Nami: No matter how much the shop means,
it’s cruel to leave a dog to fight pirates.
Is the owner at your refugee shelter?
Boodle: No… he’s not.
He died of an illness.
Luffy: !
Boodle: He left for the hospital three months ago.
Hocker: It’s
all in your paws, Chou Chou…
…just until I’m back on my feet!
Chou Chou: Woof!!
Nami: Then this whole time…
…he’s been waiting for his master to come back?
Boodle: …! That’s what people say… but I don’t think that’s it.
Chapter 12, page 13 – 14
Boodle: Chou Chou’s a smart dog.
I think he knows his master is dead.
SFX: Munch munch
Luffy: …
Nami: Then why keep guarding the store…?
Boodle: This store…
…is his treasure.
It’s all he has left of his beloved master now.
I think that’s why he continues to guard it.
I’ve been trying to move him to the shelter…
…but he refuses to leave his post.
He’d probably starve to death before he moved.
SFX: Fsh
Lap lap
Nami: …
Nami and Boodle flinch from a terrible noise.
Richie: Roooooar!!!!
Nami: Huh?!
SFX: Flinch!!
Nami: W-what kind of beast is that…?!!
Boodle: T-that’s one of the pirates!! Mohji the Liontamer!
SFX: Grrrrrrrr
They flee around the nearest corner, leaving Luffy and Chou Chou in the street.
Luffy: Hey, now that something’s coming…
…gimmie the damn key.
Crowd: Run away!!!
Chou Chou: Grr.
SFX: Tmp tmp tmp
sigh
Chapter 12, page 15 – 16
Mohji and Richie approach Luffy’s cage.
Mohji: Well,
here’s one of them…
I’m Mohji the Liontamer, First
Mate of the Buggy Pirates.
Richie: Grrrrrrrrrr!!!
SFX: Dodoom!!
Mohji: Hohoho… Did your friends leave you behind?
Poor thing, and you tried so hard to get away…
You’ve made the captain furious…
Which means you’re really in for it.
Richie: Grrrrr…
Grrrrr…
SFX: Snff snff
Luffy: What’s with that weird fur hood?
Mohji: What…!!!
How rude!! This is my real hair!!!
Luffy: That’s even weirder.
Mohji: Shut
up!!!
Maybe you think you’re safe inside your cage…
…but you don’t know how scary I can be…
Chapter 12, page 17 – 18
Nami and Boodle peek from their hiding place.
Nami: Don’t try to piss him off…
Boodle: What a fool…
SFX: Shiver shiver
Mohji: All
creatures in the animal kingdom bend to my will.
Even this mutt here.
Mohji offers his hand to Chou Chou for a trick. Chou Chou bites him.
Mohji: Shake.
Chou Chou: Growf!
Mohji: Yeow!!
Anyway. You’re just some nobody thief.
Luffy: Gave up already?
Mohji: You’re
nothing to me.
Tell me where Roronoa Zoro is hiding.
Richie: Grrrr…!!!
Luffy: No way.
Mohji: Sic him!! Richie!!!
The lion tears the cage apart in its effort to devour Luffy.
Richie: Grrrrrrrrr!!!
Luffy: !!
SFX: Crash!!
Nami: The steel cage!!!
Boodle: Oh no!!! That poor kid’s done for!!!
Luffy: Yes! I’m outta the stupid cage!!!
Crowd: ?!
SFX: Whap
Chapter 12, page 19 – 20
A single swing of the lion’s paw sends Luffy flying through a nearby building.
Richie: Graaaw!!!
Luffy: !!!
SFX: Kersmack!!
Vsh
Mohji: Instant
death! That’s what he gets for missing with me.
Alright, Richie, let’s track down Roronoa Zoro.
We’ll be famous if we can kill him.
…! What’s wrong?
SFX: Sniff sniff…
Mohji: I
see… A pet food store.
Fine, eat up.
Just be quick about it.
Chou Chou: !
Richie: Grr…
SFX: Fmp…
Chou Chou stands firm between the lion and the store.
Chou Chou:
Grrr…
Grrrrr!!!
Luffy sits unhurt on the next street over.
Luffy: Woah, that surprised me.
I went through the whole house.
SFX: Whew
Luffy: At least I’m out of that cage!!
Okay, now I just have to beat up all those guys…
…and make that thief Nami my navigator!!!
SFX: Grin
Vikings, page 2
Text: These guys were really scary. They would storm in through the inlets, attack ships and villages and slaughter everyone they met, including holy men. They stole food and valuables and burned the rest to the ground before they left. It’s almost hard to believe.
But from their perspective, they were just trying to make a living. The spoils of their raids were used to better their villages. They were warriors by trade who considered a life spent in battle a mark of pride.
Some say the word Viking comes from “vik,” meaning “creek” or “inlet,” meaning those who attack from the inlets.
Chapter 13, page 1
Title: Chapter 13: Treasure
Cover illustration: Luffy and Nami catch a tortoise while fishing. Zoro sleeps in the background.
Chapter 13, page 2 – 3
Luffy reunites with Nami and Boodle.
Boodle: Woah!!
Luffy: Huh?
Boodle: Hey, you’re still alive, boy!!
Hey! You shouldn’t’ve survived that!!
Luffy: ?
Why not?
Nami: You were blasted through a whole house and walked away without a scratch! that’s weird!!
Luffy: Who cares if it’s weird.
Boodle: But why are you here, anyway?! Why take on those pirates?!!
Luffy: I just worked out why!
I’m gonna get a map of the Grand Line
and a navigator!!
On the other street, Chou Chou defends the pet food shop from Mohji.
Chou Chou:
Woof!
Woof!
Mohji: What’s
wrong with this mutt…?
Is it trying to keep us out of the store?
Chou Chou:
Woof!!
Woof!
Woof!!
Mohji: Are
you the guard dog…
…for this dinky little shop…?
Richie: Grrrrr…
Chou Chou:
Woof!
Woof!! Woof!!
Chapter 13, page 4 – 5
Richie swats the dog away with a paw. Chou Chou recalls his master.
SFX: Smack
Chou Chou: Yipe!!
SFX: Skiddd!!!
Chou Chou: …
SFX: Whap
Chou Chou: Grrr…
SFX: Fmp fmp…
Chou Chou:
Woof!!
Woof!! Woof!!!
Hocker: Look!!
Chou Chou!! It’s finished!!
Starting today, we’re making this business a success!
Chou Chou: Woof!!
Chou Chou bites into Richie’s leg, but the lion slams him into the side of the building.
SFX: Chomp
Chou Chou: !!
SFX: Smash!!
Thud!
Hocker: Stock’s moving slow. Who knew being an entrepreneur was so hard?
Chou Chou: Woof.
Boodle: Slow day…? Fine! I’ll eat some!! Ring it up!
Hocker: Hahaha! Well you look enough like a dog, Chief, you might as well eat like one too!
Boodle: You idiot! I’m trying to help you!!
Chapter 13, page 6 – 7
Chou Chou: Woof!! Woof!!
Mohji: My
oh my.
He doesn’t know when to quit…!! What, is your favourite food in
there?
Hocker: We sold 100 boxes today!
Chou Chou: Woof.
Hocker: Chou
Chou!! I told you not to eat the merchandise!!
Hahaha! The little guy’s my pride and joy!!
Listen, boy!! You’re in charge while I’m gone!
The dog charges at the lion a final time.
Richie: Grrrr…
Chou Chou:
Woof!!
Woof!! Woof!!
Nearby, Luffy leaves Nami and Boodle.
Luffy: I’m gonna
check on Zoro.
I think the weirdo in the fur hood was after him.
Boodle: You fool!! The lion’ll kill you for sure this time!!
Mohji and Richie move on, Mohji with a bite mark on his arm, Richie chewing on a box of pet food.
SFX: Crunch crunch munch munch
Fmp fmp…
Mohji: Damn
mutt bit me…
Ow, it’s drawn blood.
Whoever owns that place has a nerve…
…thinking a dog could stop me.
Luffy returns to the site of the pet food shop.
Chou Chou: Woof woof!!
Luffy: !
SFX: Tmp tmp
Chou Chou:
Woof!!
Woof!! Woof!!
Chapter 13, page 8 – 9
The store is an inferno, burning down while a bloodied Chou Chou cries in front of it.
Chou Chou:
Woof!! Woof!! Woof!!
Woof!! Woof!! Woof!!
SFX: Fwooosh
Chou Chou:
Woof!! Woof!!
Woof!!
Woof woof!!
Luffy: …
SFX: Fwoooo
Boodle: This
store…
…is his treasure.
Chou Chou: Woof!! Woof!!
SFX: Crackle crackle…
Oooooo
Chou Chou:
Woof!!
Woof!! Woof!!!
Boodle: It’s all he has left of his beloved master now.
Chou Chou: Woof!! Woof!! Woof!!!
Boodle: I think that’s why he continues to guard it.
Chou Chou:
Woof!!!
Woof!!!!
Luffy appears in Mohji’s path.
Mohji: !
SFX: Bam!!
Chapter 13, page 10 – 11
Mohji: …?
It’s you…!!
…?! I could have sworn… Aren’t you meant to be…!!!
Didn’t I kill you…?!!!
Luffy: You can’t kill me that easy.
I’m a rubberman.
SFX: Don!
Mohji: Rubberman? You got lucky once, but it sounds like you hit
your head…
That doesn’t make any damn sense…
Mohji leaps off the lion’s back as it charges.
Mohji: You’re a fool to come crawling back to me!!! Rip his head off!!!!
Richie: Roooooar!!!!
SFX: Fwip
Luffy: It’ll take more than a lion…
…to kill me!!
Luffy twists his arms together like a corkscrew and grabs Richie’s mane with both hands.
SFX: Spin spin spin spin!!
Mohji: No!!
What’s wrong with your arms?!!
How…?
Richie: Grawf?!
SFX: Grab!!
Chapter 13, page 12 – 13
He takes the lion into a spinning over-the-shoulder throw, slamming its head into the ground.
Luffy: Gum Gum…
SFX: Whiiiiiiiirr
Luffy: …Hammer!!!!
SFX: Kabam!
Mohji: ?!!!
Richie…??!
What!! …What’s wrong with your body?!!
Luffy: A long time ago I ate the Gum Gum Fruit…!!
Mohji: Gum
Gum Fruit…?!!
That means… A Devil Fruit power, just like Captain Buggy…!!!
SFX: Oooh
Mohji: Alright!
I g-g-get it! Take whatever treasure you want!!
And my ap-ap-apologies!! For everything!!
Luffy: You can’t say sorry now.
Nothing you can do will bring back that dog’s treasure.
SFX: Rmmmmmmmbl
Chapter 13, page 14 – 15
Luffy: I’m just here…
…to kick your arse!!!!
SFX: Don!!
Luffy stretches out to grab Mohji’s collar, then reels him in for a knockout punch.
Mohji: Eek! It stretched again!!!
Luffy: Take this.
Mohji: Aaaaaargh!! P-please stoooooop!!!!
SFX: Aaaaargh
Streeeeeetch
Mohji: Help…
!!!!
SFX: Smack!!
The pet store blaze has burned out. Chou Chou sits motionless by the rubble while Nami and Boodle watch.
Chapter 13, page 16 – 17
Nami: All these pirates…!!
They’re all the same…!!!
They destroy everything you hold dear!!!
Boodle: …
Luffy: Huh?
SFX: Tmp
Nami: !
Oh, this pirate’s still alive…!
I was hoping the lion got you.
Boodle: Hey… watch what you’re saying.
Nami: I should kill you myself before you raise a crew and find your own town to pillage!!
Boodle: Stop it, girl!!
Luffy: …
You couldn’t beat me anyway.
Nami: What?!!
SFX: Nyeh
Snap
Nami: Let’s find out right now!!
Damn pirate!!
Boodle: You two need to settle down and make nice!!
SFX: Tmp tmp
Luffy places a battered box of pet food in front of Chou Chou.
Chou Chou: !
SFX: Plonk
Nami: That’s…
Chapter 13, page 18 – 19
Luffy: That’s the only one I could save!
It’s all they left for you!
Chou Chou: …
Nami: (He…)
(He went back to fight the lion…)
(…for the dog’s sake…!!)
Luffy: You put up a great fight! Good dog.
Well, I Didn’t see it myself…
…but I know you did good!
Chou Chou picks up the box and carries it off, pausing to turn and acknowledge Luffy before exiting.
Chou Chou: …
SFX: Tap tap
Turn
Chou Chou: Woof!!
Luffy: !
Yeah!!
Good luck to you too!!
Chou Chou:
Woof!!!
Woof!!!
Nami: Aww…
At the tavern.
Buggy: Mohji got beat?!!
Pirate: Yes, Captain.
Buggy: Load all the Special
Buggy Balls we have left!!!
Show’s over!! We’re blowing up this town!!! Let’s burn it all to the ground!!!
One Piece Storyboard Showcase!! Part 3
Storyboard for chapter 11, page 16.
Chapter 14, page 1
Title: Chapter 14: Reckless!!
Cover illustration: Luffy, wearing a sea captain’s coat, poses like a vampire with a flock of bats.
Chapter 14, page 2 – 3
Badly battered, Mohji and Richie have crawled back to the tavern.
Buggy: So… you made it back, First Mate Mohji.
Mohji: I’m…
so sorry.
(I have to tell him that kid’s a rubberman…)
Captain Buggy…
SFX: Huff huff weez weez
Buggy: What?! The straw hat guy
beat you?!
You were meant to take down Zoro!!
Mohji: Yes…
I… under… estimated… him.
(Tell him… rubberman…)
That… kid’s a…
He’s a…
SFX: Shake shake huff huff weez weez
Mohji keels even as he tries to get the words out, then falls unconscious.
Mohji: Rub…!!
…!!
SFX: Wobble wobble…
Mohji: …man…
SFX: Thud!!
Pirates: …?! I… don’t get it…!!
First Mate Mohji was trying to tell us something.
He could barely stand. It must’ve been important.
I caught rub man…
But… what would a rub man do?
Buggy: I see… So he used a deadly rubbing technique on you…?!
Pirates: !
The captain’s figured it out…
Buggy: You buffoon!
Beat by a masseuse?!! [9]
That’s the last straw!!!
Are we ready to make like a fireball outfit yet?!! Hurry!!!
Pirates: Y-yes sir!! Captain Buggy!!!
Mohji: Rubberman…
Chapter 14, page 4 – 5
Chou Chou makes his way out of town, toward a building where a crowd of villagers wait.
SFX: Tmp tmp tmp
Narration: The town’s refugee shelter
Villagers: Huh? What’s that?
It’s Chou Chou from the pet food shop!
SFX: Tmp tmp tmp
Villagers: Glad you’re okay, boy! We were worried
about you.
It is Chou Chou!
Poor thing’s really hurt. Damn pirates must’ve done it.
Let’s get him bandaged up.
Poro: Hey, what happened to the mayor?
Villager: You’re right… He said he was off to
feed the dog.
It’s strange that Chou Chou came back without him.
SFX: Murmur murmur
Villagers: Something might’ve happened to the mayor…!
I’m worried too.
I’ll go look for him.
SFX: Murmur murmur
Poro: You fool! Don’t! The mayor’s not
stupid enough to just let himself get caught.
He knows the town better than anyone.
Problem is… he cares about it more than anyone too…!! Maybe he
cares too much…
Don’t do
anything crazy out there!!
As long as we’re all alive, we can rebuild the town
whenever we want.
Boodle: I know that. I’m just going to feed the dog.
Poro: I tried to warn him, but who knows what he’s thinking…
In town, with Luffy’s group.
Luffy: ?
Chapter 14, page 6 – 7
Nami: Sorry for yelling at you!
Luffy: Huh?
It’s alright. someone important to you got killed by pirates.
I get it. It hurts, right?
But I don’t wanna hear the details.
Nami: …
Boodle: …Ooooooh…!!!
I can’t stand it anymore!!!
Nami: What?!
SFX: Don!
Boodle: None of who’s doing what is right!! In
other words, the world’s not fair at all!! Chou Chou and these kids are fighting our battle for us!!
What kind of mayor can only sit and watch his home be destroyed?!!!
Nami: Take it easy, Mayor!
Boodle: No longer!! There are some fights a
man can’t back away from!!!
Am I wrong, kid?!!!
SFX: Blam!
Luffy: That’s right!!!
Old guy!!!
SFX: Don!
Chapter 14, page 8 – 9
Nami: Don’t encourage him!!
Luffy: ?
Boodle: This started 40 years ago!!
This place was a wasteland…!! We built our homes from nothing!
SFX: Shaaa
Boodle: “Let’s make our town here.”
“We can forget the old one that the pirates destroyed…”
Crew: !
Boodle: …we started with a few small houses.
But little by little, our population grew.
We worked hard to expand the town and make it a place of business!!
And look at us now!! A thriving port town!!
Us old-timers watched it spring up from nowhere!!
We made this town!!
SFX: Don
Nami: …
Boodle: This town and its people are my
treasure!!!
What kind of mayor can’t protect his own town?!!!
I will fight!!!!
Chapter 14, page 10 – 11
Distantly, Buggy gives an order.
Buggy: Special Buggy Ball!!!! Fire!!!
An explosion tears through a row of houses, passing by Luffy’s group, showering them with debris.
Crew: ?!!!
SFX: Kaboom!!
Chapter 14, page 12 – 13
Boodle: Argh!
Nami: Eeek!
SFX: Ooooo
Nami: …!!
Boodle: Nngh…
My house!!!
Luffy: Oh no!!!
That’s where Zoro’s sleeping!!!
…!!!
SFX: Oooom…!!
Boodle: The kid in the sash…?! He must be dead…!!
Luffy: Hey Zoro, are you alive?!!
!
Huh?
Zoro sits up in the dust cloud, holding his head but sporting no new injuries.
SFX: Crack crack…
Zoro: Ugh…
What a terrible way to wake up.
SFX: Don!
Chapter 14, page 14 – 15
Luffy: Great!
You lived!
Nami: …
How could anyone live through that…?!!
Boodle: …!!
It’s like they’re tearing the heart from my chest…!!!
Nami: Mayor?
Boodle: I can’t forgive this!!! I won’t lose another home!!!
SFX: Clutch!!
Oo…
Boodle: These bastards think they can just show
up…
…and trample over the last 40 years of our lives!!!
SFX: Grr
Boodle: I am the mayor!!!
I will not tolerate harm to my town!!!
Boodle brushes off Nami’s attempt to hold him back.
Boodle: Time to fight!!
Nami: W-wait, Mayor!
Boodle: Let me go, girl!!
Nami: You’ll only get yourself killed!! You’re being reckless!!
Boodle: I know it’s reckless!!!!
SFX: Don!
Nami: !
Chapter 14, page 16 – 17
He speeds off, leaving the others in the dust.
Boodle: Just you wait…
…Buggy the Clown!!!
SFX: Raaaaaaah
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Nami: The mayor…
…was crying…!!
Luffy: Really? I didn’t see anything.
Zoro: This is finally getting good!
Luffy: Shishishishi! Yeah it is!
Nami: You shouldn’t be laughing!!
Luffy: Don’t worry! I liked that old guy!
I won’t let him get killed!!
Nami: You must be pretty confident to stand there laughing about it!!
Luffy: We’re going to the Grand Line.
So we need to steal that map again!
Join up with us!
You need the map too, right? And the treasure!
Luffy holds his hand out, Nami claps it.
Nami: !
…
I’m not being a pirate.
Can we call it a temporary
alliance instead?
We’ve still got our own goals!!
SFX: Slap!
Chapter 14, page 18 – 19
At the tavern, Buggy and his crew crowd around the cannon. Boodle rushes to the front of the building.
Buggy: Second shot!!!
Pirate: All clear!!!
Buggy: Ready, fi…
Boodle: Buggy the Clown!!!
Come out here now!!!!
SFX: Bam!!
Buggy: …? Who the hell is that…?
SFX: Glare…
By the mayor’s demolished house, Luffy’s group prepares for battle.
Nami: You’re coming too?
With the wound in your gut?
Zoro: It got better.
Nami: How?!!
SFX: Fwp
Zoro: They hurt my pride
more than my body before.
Let’s do this!
SFX: Squeeze!!
Luffy: Yeah, let’s get ‘em!
Nami: I can’t believe this…
SFX: Don!!
Crack crack…
Vikings, page 3
Text: When I was a kid, I used to love this cartoon on tv called Vicky the Little Viking. It was about the adventures of Vicky, a boy who wasn’t very strong but was very clever, and a group of Vikings who were strong but not very clever. Their adventures were exciting and entertaining.
Labels: Mother Ylva
Vicky
Vicky’s Father (the captain)
Bad-tempered Sven (Vicky’s enemy)
Vicky’s Merry Crew
Musician
Father: Gahahaha
Musician: Jooooy!
(He’s always saying that)
Text: That’s all I remember of it. Well, it aired more than 15 years ago, so people my age (I’m 23) might remember it. If it’s ever rebroadcast you should check it out!
This is probably what got me into pirates.
Chapter 15, page 1
Title: Chapter 15: Gong
Cover illustration: Luffy, Zoro and Nami ride a woolly mammoth.
Chapter 15, page 2 – 3
Boodle yells up from the ground while Buggy calls down from the roof.
SFX: Dodon!!
Buggy: Who are you and why are you calling for me?
Boodle: I’m the local mayor! In other words,
the guy who runs this town!! I’m Boodle!!
Fight me!!!
Cabaji: …
SFX: Hmph
Pirates: Bwahahahahaha!!
You wanna fight the captain?!
Do you actually think you can win?!!
Boodle: !
SFX: Hahahahaha
Cabaji steps forward from the crowd of pirates.
Cabaji: Captain Buggy.
Buggy: What, Cabaji?
Cabaji: Leave this one to me…
Cabaji pulls a full-length sword out of his throat.
SFX: Gulp
Pirates: Yeah!! Chief Cabaji’s Acrobat Act!!
SFX: Ulp ulp ulp…
Yeah
He leaps in a series of flips and lands on a unicycle on the roof’s railing, balancing a spinning top on the end of his sword.
Pirates: Watch him fly!!
SFX: Sproing!
Flip flip flip
Chapter 15, page 4 – 5
Cabaji: It’s
been a while.
I was starting to feel rusty…!!
Narration: Buggy Pirates No. 2 Officer
Chief of Staff
Cabaji the Acrobat
SFX: Shing!!
Bam!
Whizzzzz…
Wobble!!
Pirates: Alright!! Go get him!! Chief Cabaji!!
SFX: Cabaji!! Cabaji!!
Boodle: …
Buggy: He was talking to me
you fool.
Stay out of it!!
Pirates: Aww… I wanted to see Chief Cabaji’s acrobat act.
Cabaji: …
SFX: Boo boo
Buggy: So what’s
this about, old man?
You trying to make a name for yourself?
Boodle: Shut up!! I’m protecting my town!! My town is my treasure!!!
Buggy: What?
What a moron! Treasure means gold and silver and jewels!!
It’s only treasure if its sparkle and shine brings glory to its
owner!!
SFX: Gwahahaha
Buggy: But a town, treasure?!!
You gotta be kidding me!!!
Chapter 15, page 6 – 7
Boodle: Silence, whelp!!!
I wouldn’t expect the likes of you to understand how I feel about this town!!!
Now get down here!!!
Buggy: Go down there?
SFX: Sneer
Buggy launches his hand and grabs Boodle by the throat, lifting him up.
Buggy: Suppose I don’t want to!!
SFX: Blam!!
Boodle ?!!
SFX: Thwack!
Pirates: Hahahahaha!!
Get him, Captain!!!
Boodle: …!
SFX: Yeah
Koff koff
Flap flap
Boodle: You… monster…!!!
Boodle repeatedly punches the hand at his neck.
Boodle: This is…
…nothing to me!!!
SFX: Wham wham wham
Boodle: Argh!
SFX: Wham wham!!
Buggy: Hey that hurts!!
You’re mostly punching your own throat you know…!!!
SFX: Throb…
Squeeze!!
Chapter 15, page 8 – 9
Buggy: Ordering me to go down there?! Who’d
you think you’re talking to, old man?!!!
How about you say my name!!!
Boodle: (I can’t die until I get him back at
least once!!!)
G-gack!!
Buggy: Soon I’ll even be the ringmaster of the
Grand Line!!
All the flashiest, most extravagant treasures of the world will be within my
grasp!!!
All the treasure in the world!! No one else can have it but me!!!
SFX: Rooooar
The cannon is aimed down at Boodle.
Buggy: If the town means so much to you,
fine.
I’ll blow you up with the rest of it.
Boodle: !!
You bastard…!!
Fight me properly!!!
Buggy: Oh please… You’re not worth the
effort…
Prepare to fire!!!
Boodle: !!
SFX: Roooar
Boodle: I won’t let you hurt this town!!!
Come here and fight!!!
Buggy: !
Huh?
SFX: Twitch!
Chapter 15, page 10 – 11
Buggy: !
The straw hat guy…!!!
Luffy pulls Buggy’s hand away from Boodle.
SFX: Don!!
Boodle: Hack cough cough!!
Luffy: I came back to kick your arse!
Just like I said!!!
The hand returns to its owner.
Buggy: I can’t believe you’re trying again
after last time…!!
You bastards!!!
SFX: Snap!!
Buggy: I’ll kill you all!!!!
Nami: Got it? You guys do all the
fighting you want…
…but I’m just here for the map and the treasure.
Zoro: Whatever you say.
SFX: Don!
Chapter 15, page 12 – 13
Boodle: You kids…
Don’t do this. It’s not your place.
This fight is my own!!
All: !
Boodle: It’s my town to protect!!
Don’t get in my way!!!
SFX: Swsh!
Luffy takes Boodle’s head from behind and slams him into a wall. He falls, unconscious.
SFX: Slam!!
Boodle: ?!!
Nami: …what!!!
Buggy: Ha?!
Zoro: …
Boodle: …!!!
SFX: Slump!!
Thump!!
Pat pat…
Nami: Hey…!! What the hell!!
What’s wrong with you!!!
How could you do that to the mayor…!!!
Chapter 15, page 14 – 15
Luffy: He was in my way!!!
SFX: Don!!
Grin
Buggy: …!!
Zoro: It’s for the best…
If we’d left him alone he would’ve done something stupid
and got killed.
He’s safer knocked out.
Nami: You’re insane!!
Luffy: Hey!
Big nose!!!!
Nami: Uh oh.
SFX: Don
Buggy: ??!!
SFX: Gasp!!
Nami: Whyyyy??!
Zoro: …??!
Buggy: Fire the Buggy Ball!!! Explosion extravaganza!!!!
Chapter 15, page 16 – 17
The cannon fires. Zoro and Nami scatter while Luffy stands his ground.
Buggy: Just die!!!!
SFX: Blam!!
Fyoooo
Nami: Why’d you piss him off, you idiot!!!
Zoro: Hey luffy!! Get moving!!! You’re gonna get blown up!!!
SFX: Fyoooo
Luffy: Your stupid cannon…
…won’t work on me.
SFX: Grin
Luffy sucks in air to inflate his body like a balloon. The Buggy Ball impacts his swollen stomach.
SFX: Fyoooooooo!!!
Luffy: Gum Gum…!!!!
SFX: Huuuuuff
Crowd: ?!!
Luffy: …Balloon!!!!
SFX: Fwomp!!
Chapter 15, page 18 – 19
Luffy: …!!
SFX: Streeeetch
Buggy: Who the hell is this freakshow?!!
Pirates: …?!
He’s catching the Buggy Ball…!!!
Luffy bounces the ball back into the tavern, which explodes.
Pirates: And shooting it back!!!!
SFX: Boing!!
Zoom!
Zoro: …could’ve warned us.
Pirates: !!!!
SFX: Kaboom!!
Aaaaaargh
Luffy: Alright!! That took out a few of ‘em!!
Let’s get started!!
Nami: What’s wrong with you!!
Zoro: Had me worried there…
One Piece Storyboard Showcase!! part 4
Storyboard for chapter 14, page 17.
Chapter 16, page 1
Title: Chapter 16: Versus Buggy’s Crew!!
Cover illustration: Three panels show Mohji combing his hair, Buggy pouring a glass of wine over a pile of gold and Cabaji brandishing his knives.
Captions: First Mate
Captain
Chief of Staff
Chapter 16, page 2 – 3
Pirates lie scattered and injured among the rubble.
SFX: Whooooooo…!
Krak krak krak
Nami: What was that?!! Everything about you’s weird!!
Like when you fought the lion and lived!!
Human beings can’t do that!!
How did you make yourself swell up like a balloon just now?!!
Luffy: Gum gum…
…Balloon!!
SFX: Don!
Nami: Yeah but how
did you do it?!!
Freak!!
Movement amidst the debris.
Luffy: !
SFX: Crunch crunch…!!
Bam
Nami: Ah…
SFX: Shiver!
Buggy and Cabaji remain standing, having held up other pirates and Richie to shield themselves from the fireball.
Buggy: Oh, the extravagance, you trying to steal the show from me…
Chapter 16, page 4 – 5
Nami: Hiding behind his crew…
Cabaji: This has to be the worst humiliation to happen under our flag, right captain?
Buggy: I’m so furious, words fail me…
SFX: Oooooh
Mohji pulls himself from the rubble.
Mohji: Shit…
I passed out…
What happened here…?!
Buggy: !
Cabaji: Mohji… So you survived…
SFX: Crack crack…
Mohji: ?!
Cabaji…!! What the hell are you doing to Richie?!!
Cabaji: …Ah,
this kitten?
I was afraid my clothes would get dirty, so I volunteered it to shield me.
SFX: Thud
Mohji: Hey Richie!! Are you okay?!
Richie: Cough!
Cough!
Cabaji glares at the lion, who flees and cowers behind a piece of debris.
SFX: Glare
Richie: Mrrroww!!
Mohji: You bastard!!!
SFX: Flinch!!
Shake shake
Shiver shiver shiver
Chapter 16, page 6 – 7
Mohji: Gah!!
The straw hat man!! Look out for him, Captain Buggy!!
He ate a Devil Fruit just like you!! He’s a rubberman!!!
Nami: Rubberman?!
Luffy stretches his cheeks.
Luffy: Yeah, see?
SFX: Stretch
Buggy: …a Devil Fruit…!!!
Buggy grabs Mohji by the neck and flings him at Luffy’s group.
Buggy: So that’s how his cannonball catcher gimmick works…
Mohji: Uh…
Buggy: But Mohji… If you knew that…
SFX: Grab
Buggy: Why the hell didn’t you say so?!!!
Mohji: I tried to!!!
SFX: Fling!!
Mohji: Aaaaargh!
Outta the way!!!
Luffy: !
SFX: Whooosh
Luffy: You get outta my way!
SFX: Fwup
Luffy intercepts the flying Mohji with an overhead kick.
SFX: Whack!!
Mohji: !!!
Chapter 16, page 8 – 9
Nami leaps over Mohji as he skids away.
Luffy: Fight’s on!!
Nami: Woah!
Mohji: …!!
SFX: Skrrrrrr
Cabaji charges on his unicycle.
Cabaji: I’m the Buggy Pirates’ Chief of Staff, Cabaji the Acrobat!!
Luffy: !
SFX: Zoom
Squeek eek eek eek
Cabaji: This blade will avenge my crewmates’ pain!!!
SFX: Wshhhh
Zoro intercepts the acrobat’s sword with his own.
Cabaji: ?!
SFX: Clang!!
Zoro: If it’s swordplay, you want me!
Cabaji: It’s
an honour, Roronoa Zoro…
…to be the swordsman who cuts you down.
Luffy: !
SFX: Throb
Luffy: Hey Zoro, sit this one out.
I can take him.
Cabaji: (The
wound the captain gave him…!! It’s all he can do to stand up and look tough…)
Haha…
Cabaji surprises Zoro with a firebreathing move.
Cabaji: Acrobatics:[10] Fire Father!![11]
Zoro: Argh!!
Chapter 16, page 10 – 11
Zoro: …!!
As Zoro retreats from the flames, Cabaji drives a foot into his bandaged knife wound.
SFX: Swoosh!
Luffy: Ah!
Nami: No…!!
Zoro: !!!!
SFX: Wham!!
Zoro: Aaaaaaaargh!!!
Shit!!
Cabaji: Oh come now, did I really kick you that hard?
SFX: Hehehe!
Nami: What a cheap shot!! He’s aiming for the wound…!!
Cabaji uses his sword to raise a cloud of dust and fans it at Zoro.
Cabaji: Acrobatics!!
SFX: Stab!!
Grind grind
Cabaji: Murder in the Sauna!![12]
Zoro: !
SFX: Whoosh!!
Chapter 16, page 12 – 13
Zoro: You call that acrobatics…?!!
It’s just a cloud of dust!!
SFX: Wsh wsh
Huff huff
Drip drip
Zoro blocks Cabaji’s sword, but takes second kick in the side. His wound gushes.
Zoro: !
SFX: Clang
Splurt
Cabaji: Heh heh!
Zoro: Wha…
SFX: Swhoosh
SFX: Kabam!!
Zoro: !!!
Aaaaarrrrghh!!
SFX: Splooosh
Nami: He did it again!!
Zoro: …!!!
Cabaji: What’s wrong? You look absolutely pathetic, rolling around and crying…
SFX: Slump…
Chapter 16, page 14 – 15
Cabaji: Your
partner’s bizarre powers caused us a lot of trouble.
Pirate Hunter or not, it was a mistake to make an enemy of the Buggy Pirates.
SFX: Eek eek
Zoro: Hahh!!
Hah…!! Hah…!!
Nami: He shouldn’t be fighting with that
wound!!
Why’re you just standing there?! He’s gonna get
killed!!
Luffy: …
Cabaji: Roronoa Zoro!!
You’re dead!!!
SFX: Zoom
Cabaji charges again but Zoro smacks him off the unicycle with his katana’s hilt.
Cabaji: Ack?!!
SFX: Smack!!
Nami: Wha…
Luffy: Yeah!!
Buggy: !
Cabaji: ??!
SFX: Thud!!
Zoro: You’ve pissed me off!!
I hope you had fun kicking my wound!!
SFX: Chack…
Huff…
Chapter 16, page 16 – 17
Zoro slashes at his wound with his own sword. Blood sprays.
SFX: Slash!!
Crowd: !
Cabaji: What?!!!
To himself?!!
Nami: ?!
Luffy: Yeow!!
Buggy: !
Zoro: Whew!!!
My dream is to be World’s Greatest Swordsman…
Cabaji: What are you doing…!!
SFX: Drip drip
Zoro: Is this enough of a handicap?
I’ll prove I’m on a different level to you.
SFX: Don
Kachack
Luffy: Wow! So cool!
Cabaji: …so
this is Roronoa Zoro…
You’ve got to be kidding me…!!!
One Piece Storyboard Showcase!! part 5
Storyboard for chapter 15, page 4.
Chapter 17, page 1
Title: Chapter 17: Different Levels
Cover illustration: Luffy, Zoro and Nami dance and hang out with a crew of penguins.
Chapter 17, page 2 – 3
SFX: Bam!
Nami: Ugh…! He looks like he’s about to collapse.
Luffy: Get him, Zoro!
SFX: Yeah!
Zoro: I can’t afford to lose…
…to anyone who calls himself a swordsman!!
Cabaji: I
see… You’ve got a strong will… You’re protecting yourself.
You want that serious injury to be an excuse for your utter defeat.
Zoro: …You’re wrong!!
If I couldn’t beat you with little a scratch like this…
…I’d never live to see the top…!!
SFX: Shing!!
Cabaji: …!!
Bastard…!!!
Buggy: …
Chapter 17, page 4
Nami: Hey!
Luffy: Hm?
SFX: Pat!
Nami: That shed behind the tavern you
blew up…
…is where they keep their treasure.
But Buggy’s probably got the map with him.
SFX: Oooooh
Nami: While the rest of the pirates are
knocked out…
…I’ll take the treasure and slip away!
It makes no difference to me…
…if you guys win or lose this battle!
Chapter 17, page 5 – 6
Nami: But if you do manage
to win and take the map…
…maybe our alliance can continue!
I’m off! Good luck!
Luffy: Yeah, thanks!
SFX: Tmp tmp
Cabaji: I’ll show you the best of my Acrobatics!! Roronoa Zoro!!
Zoro: …
SFX: Whirr…
Buggy: …
Cabaji launches a swarm of spinning tops at Zoro.
Cabaji: Acrobatics!! Flight of the Hundred Kamikaze Tops!
SFX: Whizzzzz!!
Zoro: !
He rides the unicycle vertically up the side of a building.
Cabaji: Acrobatics!! Mountain Climb!
SFX: Zoom!
Squeek eek eek eek eek
Chapter 17, page 7 – 8
Zoro slices through the flying tops. Meanwhile Cabaji leaps, flipping, from the top of the building.
Zoro: …!!
SFX: Ching ching ching ching!!
Cabaji: Acrobatics!! Summer Evening Fireworks!!!
Zoro: !
SFX: Boing!
Don
Luffy: So high!!
The acrobat aims his sword down for a plunging attack.
Cabaji: Unicycle Thorn!!![13]
SFX: Zmmm
Fwooom
Zoro: !
Buggy: …
SFX: Smack
Chapter 17, page 9 – 10
Buggy launches his hand into the fray.
Buggy: Low-Flying Split Split Cannon!!
SFX: Blam!
Zoro: !!
SFX: Whooosh
Buggy: Cabaji!!
I’ll hold him still, you finish him off!!!
Cabaji: Yes sir!
Zoro: Oh shit…!!!
SFX: Zoom!!
Luffy stomps on Buggy’s hand before it can reach Zoro.
Buggy: ?!!
SFX: Stomp!!
Buggy: Aaaargh!
Zoro: Luffy!
Chapter 17, page 11 – 12
Luffy: Keep your hands off Zoro’s fight!!!
SFX: Don!!
Buggy: You little…
SFX: Grin…
Zoro: Heh…
Cabaji plunges, but Zoro rolls clear of the attack.
Cabaji: I don’t need a hand from the captain to kill you!!
SFX: Zoom!!
Wham!!
Zoro: !!
Cabaji: Damn it.
Zoro: Huff… huff…
SFX: Drip drip
Zoro: Let’s stop…
I’m tired…
Cabaji: ?!
SFX: Huff huff
Chapter 17, page 13 – 14
Cabaji: You’re
tired? Heheheheh. What, are you
getting anaemic?
So you’re finally giving up! It wasn’t like you ever had a chance…!!
In fact, considering your condition, you put up quite a good…
Zoro kicks the unicycle out from under him.
Cabaji: ?!!!
SFX: Kabam!
Cabaji: Argh…!!!
Zoro: I meant I’m tired of playing
along…
…with your stupid circus tricks!!
SFX: Glare!!
Cabaji: …!!
In that case I’ll finish you off now!!
With old-fashioned swordsmanship!!!
SFX: Shing!!
Zoro: Oni…
SFX: Shing…
Chapter 17, page 15 – 16
Zoro cuts through Cabaji, using all three swords. The acrobat gushes blood, then falls.
Zoro: …Giri!!!![14]
Cabaji: !!!
SFX: Slash!!
Buggy: Cabaji!!!
Cabaji: Shit…!!
How are the Buggy Pirates being beaten…!!
…by common thieves…?!!
SFX: Thump!!
Zoro: I’m no common thief.
SFX: Scruff
Huff huff
Chapter 17, page 17 – 18
Zoro collapses.
Zoro: I’m a pirate!!
SFX: Whud
Cling cling
Zoro: Luffy…
I’m going to sleep.
Luffy: Yeah, you rest.
I’ve got it from here.
SFX: Flex
Buggy: You guys really think…
…you count as pirates?!!
Luffy: That’s right!
Now hand over that Grand Line map!!
Buggy: So that’s what you’re after… Well the Grand Line’s not the kind of place fleabag pirate acts
like yours can visit as they please.
What do you think you’re gonna do on
the Grand Line?!!! Have a nice little sightseeing tour?!!!
Chapter 17, page 19 – 20
Luffy: I’m gonna be King of the Pirates.
Buggy: …!!
SFX: Boom
Twitch twitch
Buggy: Stop clowning around!!! What kinda stupid
show are you
running?!!!!
You, King of the Pirates?! What’s that make me, God of the Pirates?!!
All the treasure in the world is mine!! Wake up and quit
dreaming!!!
Luffy: Let’s find out then.
I’m sick of listening to you.
SFX: Don!
Crack crack
Buggy draws his knives.
Buggy: Blah blah blah!! You watch your
mouth, rubberman!!
…!!!
SFX: Bam!
Shing!
Buggy: Even your stupid hat
reminds me of someone I knew a long time ago.
That damn Red-Haired…!!!
Luffy: …Red-Haired?!
End Line: [2] Versus Buggy’s Crew!! [End]
Endpages
SBS Corner
Text: SBS Corner!!
Introducing the SBS Corner!
The name comes from the Japanese words for “I’m Taking Questions,” Shitsumono Boshuu Suru no da.[15] And that’s exactly what I’ll be doing!
It starts in the next volume.
Questions about One Piece? Requests for things the manga could do next? I’ll take anything and everything!!
Just put SBS on an envelope or postcard and send it in.
I’ll answer some of the questions and try some of the ideas.
Send to:
Post 119-0163
Tokyo-to, Kanda Post Office, P.O. Box 66
Shueisha, JC One Piece
“SBS!! And Usopp Gallery Pirates”
Papercraft Luffy, page 1
Title: Let’s Make a Bouncy Luffy Corner!!
Captions: Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Papercraft Luffy, page 2 – 3
Text: What You Need
Scissors, glue, colours, cardboard and a strong spirit.
How to Make
1. First, colour the pieces. (Have fun).
Parts III and IV should be skin-coloured.
2. Cut around the dotted line of part I and along the edges of parts II, III and IV.
3. Glue part I onto the cardboard
Bam!
4. Wait for the glue to dry. (Be patient.) (Try dancing while you wait.)
5. Cut around the edge of part I, cutting through the cardboard. (You’ll need to be strong.)
Then cut out the thick lines near Luffy’s feet and stand him up.
6. Glue the base of parts III and IV together and fold them over repeatedly.
Glue here
And then
Fold
Fold
Fold
It should get all zig-zaggy, just like this. Now glue the other ends together and every part is complete!!
7. Attach. (Awaken, Luffy!)
The zig zag goes to the square on Luffy’s shoulder.
Part II goes on the end to complete it!!
Sproing
Illustration: Luffy, Zoro and Nami riding a dragon.
[1] Nami means ‘wave’ in Japanese. There’s nothing about this meaningful enough to bother trying to adapt, not that fans would accept a name change for such a major character anyway.
[2] Jokes surrounding Buggy’s nose rely on a lot of soundalike words in a way that doesn’t translate exactly. In Japanese, the phrasing used by Buggy’s crewmate when he says the key was left on the table sounds like “round nose.” Next, he tries to tell Buggy he misunderstood, using a word that sounds like “big red nose.”
[3] In Japanese, Buggy uses the word hade, best translated as ‘flashy,’ ‘showy,’ or ‘gaudy,’ regularly as a descriptor, adjective or adverb in ways that don’t fully make grammatical sense when translated directly. This has proved hard to adapt, as a line like “die flashily” isn’t something that rolls easily off the tongue in the middle of an angry outburst in English. I’ve gone with ‘extravaganza,’ as a common bit of ringmaster hype language, which can also be flexibly shortened to ‘extravagant’ when it needs to be an adjective. Buggy’s dialogue will also have snippets of circus and carny lingo where it makes sense to use them.
[4] The tangerines Nami loves so much are actually a distinct fruit called mikan in Japanese. Mikan are a real fruit, but so unknown outside of Japan that most previous translations have just named them for their close relative, the tangerine, instead. I decided tangerines were too closely associated with Nami in the English fanbase to be worth trying to change.
[5] In Japanese, Buggy’s fruit is the Bara Bara no Mi, or literally ‘Section Section Fruit.’ Previous translations called it the Chop Chop Fruit, but I thought Split Split better reflected both the Japanese name and the fruit’s actual abilities.
[6] Mohji’s role is literally “vice-captain” in Japanese.
[7] Most accurately “wild animal act,” but a Big Cat Act is more traditionally circus-y, and the lion is only animal he uses anyway.
[8] The dog’s name has been romanised a few different ways through the years. Chou Chou is used by Oda in the header for the volume 9 SBS and in chapter 619. However, the spelling was revised to Shushu in the Vivre Card databook and WT100 website. Since this release includes only the manga and not any databooks or other promo material, I went with Chou Chou, as it creates the fewest contradictions with things the readers will actually see.
[9] Mohji is attempting to say the Japanese word for rubberman, ‘gomuningen.’ What comes out is only the first and last syllables, go and gen, which Buggy mishears as ‘gokigen,’ or ‘cheer up!’ Unfortunately, there’s no soundalike in the English dictionary that creates the same joke. Previous translations have substituted ‘rough man,’ ‘rub man’ (interpreted as Luffy being a masseuse), and ‘ruh man’ (interpreted as romantic) to give Buggy something to overreact to. I liked the official release’s ‘rub man’ best and stuck with that.
[10] Cabaji’s moves are introduced as ‘acrobatic techniques’ despite some of them being general circus tricks and some not relating to circuses or acrobats at all. The names he uses for them clash just as badly, referencing everything from turns of phrase to Japanese literature. This discrepancy exists in the Japanese text, so there’s no way to fix it without replacing every single name with my own ideas, which felt like too much of a liberty.
[11] ‘Fire Father’ references a Japanese saying that could be translated as “earthquakes, thunder, fire, fathers.” It compares the wrath of a dad to natural disasters and acts of God.
[12] A murder taking place in the concealing steam of a hot spring or onsen is a common trope of Japanese whodunnits. To keep the Japanese cultural references distinct to Zoro, I used the more global idea of a steamy sauna instead of a Japanese-coded onsen.
[13] Most literally “Wheel Stab.” In Japanese, this is a pun hinging on the similarity between the words for ‘wheel’ and ‘flower.’ The word used for ‘stab’ can also mean to insert a flower into a floral arrangement or a vase. Essentially, he’s saying both “one wheel stab” and “one flower placement.” Replacing ‘stab’ with ‘thorn’ keeps a small floral allusion.
[14] Zoro’s Onigiri obviously references the rice balls he ate in the previous volume, but it’s also a pun. ‘Oni’ is a kind of demon or ogre, while ‘giri’ can mean to slash or slice.
[15] The SBS initials are romanised extensively through the future of this question corner. Trying to translate the name just isn’t worth it without finding a phrase that forms the same acronym, and I couldn’t think of anything.
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