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One Piece
Volume 3: Something I Can’t Lie About
Captain M’s Rewrite
Version 1.0 (Original release)
Covers and Frontpages
One Piece vol. 3: Something I Can’t Lie About
Written and drawn by Eiichiro Oda
Front cover: Luffy and Zoro pose over the bow of their small boat, Luffy wrapped in a billowing coat and Zoro brandishing his swords.
Blurb: Luffy goes head-to-head with Buggy to win a map of the Grand Line, and to get Nami on his side. But it turns out Buggy also ate a Devil Fruit. And what does the clown pirate know about Luffy’s childhood hero, Shanks…?!
Author avatar: A skeleton wearing ragged pirate clothes.
Author Intro: If I ever got a whole year off, I’d like to do a serious study of different drawing techniques and materials. Then I bet drawing would become even more fun. Who said it’s a small world?
Illustration: Luffy, seen from above, looks up and gives a thumbs up.
Recap, page 1 – 2
Recap: The story of One Piece volume 1 to volume 3
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.
Finally underway and putting a crew together, Luffy and his first companion “Pirate Hunter” Zoro aim for the Grand Line. Along the way, they got drawn into a fight between the Buggy Pirates and Nami, a thief who specialises in stealing from pirates. Luffy learns that Nami has the navigation skills his fledgling crew desperately needs, and Buggy has a map of the Grand Line, and decides to take on Buggy himself! Together, he and Zoro take out the two top officers of the crew, leaving only Captain Buggy standing!
But Buggy also has the power of a Devil Fruit, and he seems to know something about Shanks…
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!
Town Mayor Boodle
Chou Chou
Captain Buggy
Contents: Chapter 18: The Pirate Buggy the
Clown – 7
Chapter 19: Devil Fruit – 27
Chapter 20: What Thieves Do – 47
Chapter 21: Towners – 67
Chapter 22: You’re a Strange Creature Too – 87
Chapter 23: Introducing Captain Usopp – 117
Chapter 24: Something I Can’t Lie About – 137
Chapter 25: Eight Hundred Lies – 157
Chapter 26: Captain Kuro’s Plot – 177
Chapter 18, page 1
Title: Chapter 18: The Pirate Buggy the Clown
Cover illustration: Nami teaches cartography to a lemur while Luffy sleeps on the railing of a ship.
Chapter 18, page 2 – 3
Cabaji, Zoro, Mohji and Boodle lie unconscious. Luffy and Buggy face off.
SFX: Bam!
Don!
Snore
Snore
Don!
Boom
Luffy: Red-Haired…?!
You mean Shanks?! You know him?!!
Buggy: …hm?
Well then… I’ve got your attention now.
So what if I know him?
Luffy: Do you know where he is?
Buggy: Great question… Do you think if I
knew I’d tell you?
But if I didn’t
know, I sure as hell wouldn’t tell you either…!!
Luffy: I don’t get it!!
You sound dumb!
Buggy: Watch your damn mouth!!
Chapter 18, page 4 – 5
Buggy: I’m saying I’m not a nice enough guy
to just tell you what you want to know.
Even if it’s your dying wish!!
Luffy: Alright then, I’ll beat it outta you!!
Buggy stamps his feet, causing knife blades to flick out the ends of his shoes.
Buggy: Gahahahaha!! You’ll be dead…
…before you get the chance!!!
SFX: Stomp stomp
Buggy: A rubber body won’t bounce this back.
SFX: Snik
Luffy: That’s right.
SFX: Nod
Buggy: Spliiiiit Spliiiiiit…
SFX: Whup whup
Buggy’s body splits at the waist. His severed hips and legs pinwheel toward Luffy, who leaps over them.
Buggy: …Rice Cracker!![1]
SFX: Whizz!!
Luffy: !
SFX: Leap!
Buuuuuzzzzz
Buggy: And now that you’re in the air…
Chapter 18, page 6 – 7
Buggy flings his knives at Luffy, who dodges by stretching his arm to a nearby column and pulling himself out of the way.
SFX: Swish swish swish
Buggy: …you can’t possibly dodge this!!
Luffy: !
Why not?
SFX: Grab
Streeeeetch
Zwip zwip!!
Sproing
Buggy: Hahah!!
This is getting interesting!!
Luffy throws a stretching punch, but Buggy dodges it.
Luffy: Sure is!
Gum Gum…
SFX: Fwup!!
Snap
Luffy: …Pistol!!!
SFX: Kabam!!
Buggy: !
SFX: Fwoosh
Buggy: Such an fascinating power, but…!!
Chapter 18, page 8 – 9
Buggy swings a knife at Luffy’s elongated arm. Luffy grabs the building behind the pirate.
Buggy: …this stretched out arm…
…is wide open!!
SFX: Grab!!
Buggy: I’ll chop it…!!
Luffy snaps toward Buggy, his free arm tensed for a clothesline blow.
Luffy: Gum Gum…
Buggy: …off?!!
SFX: Zoom!!
Buggy’s head detaches and floats up. Luffy’s attack passes harmlessly through the space where it used to be.
Buggy: Split Split Emergency Exit!!
Luffy: …Scythe!!
SFX: Wooooooosh
Luffy: !!
SFX: Pop!
Swish!!
Chapter 18, page 10 – 11
Luffy’s momentum sends him crashing into the rubble of the tavern, but he pops out a moment later, unharmed. Buggy’s head reattaches.
SFX: Kershoom
Buggy: Hahahaha!
Can’t Gum Gum me that easy!!
SFX: Snap
Luffy: Hmph!!
SFX: Crash!!
Luffy: Damn it…
He keeps going to bits.
SFX: Pat pat
Shing
Nami: …!!
What kind of fight is this…?!!
It’s like I’m dreaming…
Pirates: Hey… Did you see that…?
Pretend you’re still knocked out, idiot…!!
I-if we get in their way…
…we’re dead for sure!
Chapter 18, page 12 – 13
Buggy launches his hand, a set of knives between his fingers. Luffy catches it inches from his face.
Buggy: Split Split Cannon!!!
SFX: Blam!!
Whoosh
Luffy: !
Gotcha!!!
SFX: Bam!!
The hand splits again, further up, and continues its flight. The knives slash Luffy’s face and nick the brim of his hat.
Buggy: Detach!!!
Luffy: !
Argh!
SFX: Slash!!
Luffy: !
SFX: Thunk
Buggy: …
?
SFX: Whooooooh
Drip drip
Luffy: You bastard!!!
SFX: Ooo
Buggy: What’s the matter? My moves don’t make the cut?
Luffy: How dare you…
…cut my hat!!!
SFX: Oooooh
Chapter 18, page 14 – 15
Buggy: What?
Luffy: This is my treasure!!!
I’ll never forgive anyone that damages it!!!
Nami: !
Luffy: This hat’s my treasure ‘cos a friend gave it to me a long time ago!!
Nami: (I thought nothing fazed this guy…)
(…but that really pissed him off…!!)
…
Buggy: …
It’s really that
precious to you?
Luffy: Of course!!
SFX: Fwip…
Buggy throws a single knife, baiting Luffy into dodging.
SFX: Fling!!
Luffy: !
Woah!!
SFX: Zwip!!
As he moves, the hand with the remaining knives flies after, targeting the hat in his hand.
Luffy: ?!
SFX: Zwoom!!
Buggy: Then you should take better care of it!!!
Chapter 18, page 16 – 17
All three blades pierce the hat. The hand, straw hat still impaled, returns to Buggy.
SFX: Stab!!
Luffy: !!!!
Shanks: You can have my hat.
Keep it safe for me.
Buggy: Gahahaha! This ratty old hat isn’t treasure!!!
SFX: Gahahahaha
Bam!
Hahahaha
Grrrr!!
Nami: …!!
SFX: Hahahaha
Shanks: This is my favourite
hat.
So promise you’ll come bring it back…
Luffy charges at Buggy.
Shanks …after you’ve become a great pirate.
Luffy: That hat is my promise with Shanks!!!
SFX: Zoom!!!
Chapter 18, page 18 – 19
Buggy throws the hat to the ground and spits on it.
Buggy: Oh?
…this is Shanks’s old hat?
I thought it looked familiar…!!
SFX: Slap!!
Buggy: We sailed on the same ship a long time ago.
SFX: Ptoo
Buggy: …you could even say…
SFX: Splat
Buggy: …we were friends when we were just apprentice pirates.
Luffy: !!
Shanks is a great man…
You think you’re his friend?!
Buggy: !
SFX: Fwsh!!
Luffy leaps at Buggy. He pops his head off to dodge, but Luffy strikes him in the gut instead.
Buggy: Split Split Emergency Exit!!
SFX: Pop!
Luffy: Don’t compare yourself with him!!!!
Buggy: ?!!!
SFX: Wham!!
Prototype Designs, page 1
Illustration: A sketch of early designs for Buggy, Mohji, Cabaji and an unnamed member of the crew.
Text: Boogie the Clown[2]
Romance Dawn Prototype
Chapter 19, page 1
Title: Chapter 19: Devil Fruit
Cover illustration: Luffy cleans the teeth of a hippo.
Chapter 19, page 2 – 3
Buggy’s head reattaches as he topples, winded.
Buggy: …!!!
SFX: Snap!!
Buggy: Argh!!!
SFX: Thud
Luffy: Look what you did to my treasure, damn it!!
Buggy: Urgh, cough, cough!!
Luffy picks up his hat and wipes it on the downed pirate.
Luffy: You even spat on it!!
Buggy: Ack! Bluh! Nasty, stob it!!
Luffy: It’s your spit!!
SFX: Wipe wipe wipe
Luffy pulls at Buggy’s cheeks.
Luffy: Don’t ever act like…
Buggy: Ow ow ow ow ow!
Luffy: …you and Shanks could be friends!!
SFX: Tug tug tug!!
Buggy: Bah… I don’t know what your
relationship with shanks is!!
But I can say whatever I want about him!!!
SFX: Tug tug
Buggy: Now take this!!
Spliiiiiiit Spliiiiiit…
Luffy: !
Chapter 19, page 4 – 5
Luffy chops Buggy in the face.
Luffy: No going to bits!!!
Buggy: …Ca-argh!!!
SFX: Wham!
Pirates: …hey…
Is it just me… or is the captain kinda losing?
Nah… Don’t be stupid!
Captain Buggy never loses! He’ll get serious any minute now!
… I think!!!
…!
Nami: …!
Oh no, I got too caught up in the fight!
I’ve gotta grab the treasure
and get outta here!
SFX: Gasp!
At the refugee camp.
Narration: The town’s refugee camp
Villagers: Something has to be wrong!!
The Mayor’s been gone for hours!
Poro: …
SFX: Murmur murmur
Poro: That fool…
He’s got the whole town fretting.
Villagers: Something’s definitely happening in
town…!
Yeah… Those were cannon blasts before…
SFX: Blah blah
Poro: Fine then.
I’ll check out the town.
Everyone else stay here!
Villagers: !
SFX: Bam
Chapter 19, page 6 – 7
Villager: I can’t let you go alone!!
I’m coming too!!
Poro: Fool! The town’s crawling with pirates!!
And Buggy’s crew are infamous for fighting dirty!!
Villagers: That’s why we’re all coming!!
How could we live with ourselves as a community…
…if we didn’t stand up for the mayor!
Poro: !
SFX: Yeah!!
Villagers: You can’t talk us out of it.
We’ve all made up our minds!
Poro: …!
…
Do whatever you want!!
Villagers: Let’s go!!
SFX: Rah!!
In town, by the demolished tavern.
Buggy: Never in my life…
…have I hated anyone as much as him!!
That red bastard…
…robbed me of a great treasure!!!
Luffy: !
Buggy: I’ll never forgive him for it!!
Flashback begins. A pirate ship, a young Buggy and Shanks tussle on the deck as the crew watches.
Pirates: Oh boy, they’re fighting again.
Hahaha, fight, fight!! Neither of you lose!!
SFX: Rah rah
Chapter 19, page 8 – 9
Buggy: I say it’s the North Pole!!
Shanks: Well I say it’s the South Pole!!
Buggy: You’re still on about that?
Shanks: Of course I am!! It’s right!!
SFX: Rah rah
Smack! Smack! Smack!
Rayleigh, one of the ship’s officers, smacks both apprentices over the head.
Rayleigh: That’s enough!!
You brats are always fighting!!
Buggy: Ow!
Shanks: Oof!
SFX: Bonk! Bonk!
Rayleigh: I don’t see what it’s got to do with
you which pole is colder!!
If you want to know so bad, sail to both and find out yourselves!!
Now stop acting like idiots.
Crew: …
SFX: Hahahaha
Pirates: Enemy ship
approaching north by northeast!!
Alright!! Let’s get ‘em!!
Battle stations!!!
SFX: Raaaaaaah
Shanks: You look pleased, Buggy.
Buggy: Course I am!! An enemy ship’s like a big treasure chest!! A pirate’s nothing without something to loot!!
Shanks: Hmm, I guess so.
Buggy: You guess so?!! There’s nothing else to it!!
SFX: Chak
Buggy: You’re a sucker!! You and the rest
of this crew!
None of you appreciate treasure like you should!!
You’ve lost sight of what real pirates are all about!!
Chapter 19, page 10 – 11
Swords and axes fly as the pirate crew board the enemy ship and a vicious battle breaks out.
Pirates: Yaaaaar!
Gyarg!
SFX: Gaaaaaaah
Shing!! Ching!
Pirates: Raaaah!
Urk!!
SFX: Gaaaaaah…
A short way away from the melee, Buggy discovers an aged scrap of paper.
Buggy: Hm?!
What’s this?
SFX: Ooooooohh…
Flap…
Narration: It was a map to a great treasure
sunken to the ocean floor.
I couldn’t stop shaking…!!
Buggy: A tuh… t-t-tuh… t…
…treasure map…!!
I’ve never seen one before!!
SFX: Bam!!
He rolls it up and tucks it into his shirt.
Buggy: (N-no one’s paying attention.)
(Gahahaha! I’ll keep it to myself then.)
SFX: Gaaaaaah
Slip
Buggy: (Hell yes!! From here on out…)
(…I’ll be living extravagantly!!!)
SFX: Don
That night, the pirates are celebrating their victory. Buggy stands apart from the rest.
Pirates: Hahahaha!!
Another great victory!!
Drink, drink sing and party!!
SFX: Hahaha
Shanks: Hey buggy, join the party! We got some great loot from that ship!!
Buggy: !
SFX: Slam!
Hahahaha
Buggy: G-g-great loot…? I didn’t steal any!!
And I don’t know nothing about it!!
Shanks: ?
What’re you talking about?
Chapter 19, page 12 – 13
The pair sit together by the railing.
Buggy: I guess someday…
…we’ll have to leave this ship.
Shanks: Yeah, off on our own.
SFX: Slump
Shanks: Once I get my own ship…
…I’m going to see the whole world.
As a pirate, of course.
Buggy: Hahah!! Still being a sucker then!
Shanks: Oh yeah?!
Buggy: You’re decent in a fight, sure, but
that’s it.
I might’ve considered you as a crewmate if you didn’t act so stupid.
Shanks: On your
crew?! As if!!
The two of us think different. We’ll be walking our own separate paths.
That’s what pirates do!!
SFX: Glug
Buggy: Hahahaha!!
What would you know about what pirates do…?
If we ever cross paths out on the sea, we’ll be enemies, fighting to the death.
Agreed?!
Shanks: Sure.
Pirates do that too.
SFX: Drip
Buggy: …I don’t get you sometimes…
SFX: Hmph
Buggy: So what was that about great loot before?
Shanks: Right… We found a Devil Fruit.
Chapter 19, page 14 – 15
Shanks: I’ve heard they’re incarnations
of the Sea Devil.
If you eat it, you get demonic powers but the sea turns
against you as a punishment.
Captain said anyone who wants it can have it.
Buggy: Gahahahaha, no one’d want to
be a cannonball for the rest of their life.
(Hmph! Whoever eats that thing is a total moron.)
(You can’t get all the treasure on the seabed if you can’t swim!)
SFX: Sneak…
Shanks: Can you believe that weird
fruit…
…would sell for 100 million berries?
Buggy: That much?!!!
SFX: Bam!!
Buggy: (A hundred million’s more than ten A-rank treasure chests!! There’s a goddess of fortune smiling on me!!)
A new day. Buggy holds the Devil Fruit aloft with the crew watching.
Buggy: I, apprentice pirate Buggy…
…will eat the Devil Fruit!!
SFX: Don
Pirates: Dahahahaha! You kids never
think things through!!
I believe in you, Buggy!!
He stuffs it in his mouth whole.
Pirates: Yeah, he really did it!!!
SFX: Gulp!!
Pirates: So, do you feel any different?
Buggy: Not… really…
SFX: Silence
Pirates: Huh, was it a fake?
I guess devil fruits are a myth after all.
Buggy: (Heheheh!! You were right the first time!! It was a fake I switched with the real one last night!)
Chapter 19, page 16 – 17
Later, in private, Buggy revels with the Devil Fruit and map in hand.
Buggy: My extravagant
bit of showmanship
worked!!
I don’t need to be an apprentice anymore!! Better jump ship before they catch
me.
Between the money from selling the fruit and the treasure from the map…
…I’ll have the funds to found a great pirate fleet immediately,
then steal even more…
SFX: Hahahaha
Shanks appears. Buggy stuffs the fruit into his mouth to hide it.
Shanks: Hey Buggy, whatcha up to?
SFX: Flinch!!
Slip
Chomp
Shanks: ?
What’s up with your face?
Buggy: (S-scared me half to death there.)
Shanks starts to walk away.
Shanks: Don’t go stealing food again.
The cook’ll get mad.
Buggy: (That… was way too close…!!)
Shanks suddenly returns. Buggy swallows the fruit in his surprise.
Shanks: Oh yeah, Captain said…
SFX: Jolt!!!
Gulp
Buggy: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
SFX: Aaaaaaaaaaaaa
He grabs Shanks by the shirtfront.
Buggy: W-w-w-why… y-y-you…
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Shanks: ?!
SFX: Grab!!
But in his anger, he’s let go of the map, and it now floats over the side of the ship.
Shanks: What’s that bit of paper?
Buggy: Aaaaaaaaaa my map!!!
SFX: Flit flit
Aaaaaaaaaaa
Buggy dives after the map, but finds himself unable to move after he hits the water.
Shanks: Hey!! Buggy?!
SFX: Kersploosh!!
Buggy: ?!!
(What the…? My body won’t move…)
SFX: Blub blub…!!
Chapter 19, page 18 – 19
Buggy: Gasp… Glub!! …Gulp…!!!
Helb me…!!!
SFX: Splash splash splash!!
Pirates: What’s wrong, buggy? Aren’t you a
great swimmer?!
Shanks, what happened?
Huh?! What’re you doing?
Shanks leaps after the floundering Buggy.
Shanks: I’ll save you!!
Pirates: Woah, Shanks!!
Flashback ends.
Buggy: That’s what happened!! I ate the hundred million berry fruit!! And became a cannonball!! And lost the treasure on the seabed!!
Luffy: Wow, so Shanks saved your life.
Buggy: Forget that part!!!
SFX: Fwip!!
Buggy separates at the waist. His torso levitates high into the air.
Buggy: That bastard set my life plan back ten
whole years!!!
But I made new plans!! If I can’t get the treasure under the sea,
I’ll settle for all the treasure on the sea instead!!!
All thanks to my Split Split Power!!
Luffy: !
Buggy: And now, anyone who touches my
treasure…
…no matter how small or weak they are…!
Luffy: Huh!
From his vantage point, Buggy has spotted Nami looting the treasure shed behind the ruined tavern. He flies toward her.
Buggy: Can’t be allowed to live!!!
SFX: Zoom
Nami: Ah…
Design Process, page 1
Text: The Pirate Buggy the Clown
Design Process part 1
Illustration: A sketch of the current Buggy design.
Buggy: Execution extravaganza!
Text: About the picture on page 26.
Who’s this Boogie the Clown? I’m sure that’s what you thought. Well, that was my first sketch of Buggy and his crew. And yes, his name was going to be Boogie.
And why’d it change to Buggy?
I was watching this movie, and there was a guy in it called Boogie. “Woah, it’s the same name! Crap, that means I can’t use it now.” (0.2 seconds of thinking later…) “Mine can be Buggy.”
Why’d you give him such a big, red nose?
To make him look more like a clown, of course!
And who’s the guy on the left of the Boogie sketch?
Yeah, who is that? Who indeed, I hadn’t given any of Boogie’s crewmates names yet. The idea was that he’d have a strongman, an animal tamer and a strange swordman.
This was only one step in the journey to the page, with a long way left to go.
Chapter 20, page 1
Title: Chapter 20: What Thieves Do
Cover illustration: Zoro cuts down bamboo for a panda.
Chapter 20, page 2 – 3
Nami: !
Buggy: Hands off my treasure!!
SFX: Ooooh
Nami: Crap! He saw me!!
Buggy: You can’t get away with fooling me,
Nami!!!
I’ll cut you to extravagant
little tatters!!!
Luffy: …
Buggy: You’re not getting a single bloody berry!!
Nami: Eeeek!
SFX: Heave heave!!
Ooo
Buggy’s hips and legs have remained near Luffy. Luffy kicks him in the crotch.
Buggy: Oof!!!
SFX: Whud…
Nami: Huh?
Chapter 20, page 4 -5
Buggy’s torso drops to the ground and writhes in agony.
Buggy: Aaargh!!!
Nami: !
SFX: Thump…
Buggy: Low b-b-blow… rubberman!!!
How dare you… aim for my…!!!
SFX: Twitch twitch
Luffy: Don’t forget…
…I’m still your opponent!
SFX: Flail flail flail flail
Nami: I’m safe…
SFX: Whew
Luffy: Hey!! Drop the treasure and get
outta here!!
He’s just gonna go after you again!!
Nami: !
Run away without the treasure?! No way!!
I’m not leaving a single bit of my treasure behind!!!
Buggy: Y…!! Your treasure?!
Nami: That’s right, my treasure!!
I’m the pirate thief and you’re my pirate prey!
Which makes all this treasure mine!!!
SFX: Don!!
Luffy: Right.
That makes sense.
SFX: Don
Whap
Chapter 20, page 6 – 7
Buggy: You gotta be kidding me!! My
treasure belongs to me!! You think just stealing it makes it
yours?!!
What kind of upbringing did you have?!!
Nami: A pirate
telling me I’m the bad guy?
You know you’re wasting your time, right?
Buggy: What?!
Nami: I don’t think I’ve been bad enough…
…to take a lecture from you!
SFX: Don!!
Buggy: …!!
…Get ready to die, Nami…!!
SFX: Scowl
Buggy: Spliiiiiit Spliiiiiit…
Nami: …!!
SFX: Twitch
Buggy’s body comes apart into countless flying segments that whip around the area.
Buggy: Festival!!!
Nami: Eek!
Luffy: Woah!
SFX: Pop!!
Chapter 20, page 8 – 9
Buggy: Gahahahaha!!! Try and save your friend now, rubberman!!
Luffy: Dammit, he split into even more
bits!!
I can’t fight him like this!!
SFX: Whoosh whoosh whoosh
Buggy’s feet, cut off at the ankles, walk past on their own. Luffy pounces on one.
Luffy: Huh?
What, the feet don’t fly?
SFX: Tap tap tap
Luffy: Gotcha!!
You foot!!
SFX: Grab
Buggy’s head and knife-wielding hands chase Nami.
Buggy: Dop my treasure!!
Nami: No way!!
SFX: Zooom
Luffy pulls the foot out of its shoe and starts tickling it. The laughter of Buggy’s flying severed head is nightmarish.
SFX: Shuk
Buggy: Huh?
SFX: Flinch
Tickle tickle tickle
Buggy: Gahahahahahahaha… S-stopithahaha!
Nami: Eeeek!!
SFX: Wooooo
Luffy mashes Buggy’s toes into the ground.
Luffy: How about this!!
SFX: Crunch
Buggy: Argh…!!
Nami: Yaaah!
SFX: Yeow!!
He pinches and pulls the foot’s skin.
Luffy: This guy’s tough… Take this!!
SFX: Pinch!!
Chapter 20, page 10 – 11
Buggy: Gyaaaaaaaa!
Nami: Aaaaa!!!
SFX: Aaaaaaaaa
Buggy’s head turns to face Luffy.
Buggy: You cut that out!!
Luffy: …
SFX: Flip
Nami: …!!
Huff!
Huff!
SFX: Heave heave
Nami swings her sack of treasure at Buggy.
Nami: Why don’t you…
SFX: Swiiiiing
Buggy: !
Nami: …cut it out!!
Buggy: !!!
SFX: Kabam!!
Luffy: Got him!!
Buggy managed to catch the bag with his flying hands.
SFX: Grin
Chapter 20, page 12 – 13
Buggy: And the treasure returns…
…to its rightful owner…!!
Nami: !
SFX: Glare
Nami: …!!
No…!! Let go!
SFX: Tug tug
Buggy: Let go?! No, you’re gonna let go!!!
Luffy runs towards them.
SFX: Tmp tmp tmp tmp tmp tmp!!
Buggy’s hands fly around to Nami’s back, knives ready.
Buggy: It’s my treasure!!!
Nami: ?!
SFX: Shing!!
Luffy: I just told you…
SFX: Fwip
Buggy: Huh?
Chapter 20, page 14 – 15
Luffy kicks Buggy’s head, sending it and the treasure sack flying. Gold scatters as the bag bursts.
Luffy: …I’m your opponent!!!
Buggy: Buh?!!!
Nami: !
SFX: Slam!!
Crash!!
Luffy: …
Really got him!!
SFX: Shoom
Chapter 20, page 16 – 17
Luffy: That last one…
…was for the mayor!!
SFX: Wipe
Grin
Nami: …
SFX: Huff huff
Nami: Thanks for saving me.
Luffy: Ah, don’t worry about it.
Oh right, the map!
Nami: Oh no!! My treasure’s scattered everywhere!!
Luffy pilfers the map from Buggy’s body.
Luffy: Alright!!
Now I’ve got a map of the Grand Line!!
SFX: Bam!!
Buggy’s head rises again.
Buggy: Hey…
Not so fast, rubberman!!
Luffy: !
SFX: Ooooh
Nami: !
Luffy: Crap, you’re still alive.
Buggy: I’ll kill you!!!
SFX: Huff huff
Buggy: Reassemble!!
Split Split Parts!!!
Chapter 20, page 18 – 19
Only Buggy’s hands and feet return to him, forming a comically small and misshapen body.
Buggy: Huh?!!!
SFX: Pop!
Clatter!
Nami has the rest of Buggy’s parts tied into a bundle.
Nami: Are these…
…what you’re looking for?
SFX: Bam!
Buggy: Gack!! My parts!!
Luffy: Hahahaha!!
Great work, thief!
I’ll do the rest!!
SFX: Stretch!!
Luffy stretches his arms far back then lets them snap forward for a two-handed strike that sends Buggy flying away.
Luffy: Get outta here buggy!!
Gum Gum…
SFX: Boooooing…!!
Buggy: Stoooooop!!!
Luffy: Bazooka!!!!
Buggy: !!!
SFX: Kablam!!!
Aaaaaaaaaaa
One Piece Storyboard Showcase!! part 6
Storyboard for chapter 17. Page 19.
Chapter 21, page 1
Title: Chapter 21: Towners
Cover illustration: Luffy and a tiger nap after a meal.
Chapter 21, page 2 – 3
Luffy: We won!!
SFX: Don
Nami has gathered the treasure back up into its bag.
Luffy: You’re joining my crew, right?!
Nami: We’re just in an alliance!!
But fine! Only because you guys could make me filthy rich!
Say what you want about Buggy, he knew high quality treasure when
he saw it!
This one bag has to be worth at least 10 million berries.
SFX: Squeeze
Grin
Nami: This stuff weighs a ton. I’m gonna divide it so you can carry half.
SFX: Bam!
Luffy collects his hat, staring at the holes torn in the top.
Nami: !
…
That hat really meant a lot to you, huh? Too bad…
Luffy: Yeah. But hey, I can still wear it!
I feel better now I blasted Buggy away!!
SFX: Fwump!
Chapter 21, page 4 – 5
Pirates: …hey, he sent Captain Buggy flying.
W-what the hell are we gonna do…?!!
Let’s just keep playing dead.
Good idea.
SFX: Slump!
Luffy: Hey Zoro, wake up!
We’re leaving.
Zoro: Huh?
SFX: Pat pat
Zoro: …!
You took care of things…?
Luffy: Yeah. We got the map and the treasure.
SFX: Aah…
Zoro: …ugh. I don’t know if I can walk yet.
Nami: Of course not. If you could, I wouldn’t believe either of you were human.
SFX: Groan!
Luffy: Why’re you bringing me into this?
Nami: You’re even weirder than him!!
Luffy: Oh yeah.
I gotta wake the mayor too!
SFX: Don!
A crowd of townsfolk arrived, armed.
Villager: You there…
Nami: !
SFX: Tmp
Villagers: We’re citizens of this town.
Did the pirates have a mutiny or something…? Tell us what you
know…!!
SFX: Grrr…
Nami: Ah… The locals.
I was worried you were reinforcements.
SFX: Phew
Nami: Well, what happened here’s kind of a long story but…
Villager: Hey!! The mayor!!
Chapter 21, page 6 – 7
Villagers: Oh no!! Hang in there!!
Damn it!! What happened to him?!!
It was the bloody pirates!!
Luffy: Oh, sorry.
I knocked out the old guy!
Villagers: !
SFX: Don
Villager: You what?!
SFX: Glare!!
Nami: Hold on! They didn’t need to know that!
Luffy: Well, you saw me.
Nami: Sure I did!! But I know you had a good reason…
Villagers: You did this to the
mayor?
Don’t give us your excuses!!
Identify yourselves!! Are you pirates?!
Luffy: !
Nami: (Oh no… They’re furious!! If they find out we’re thieves and pirates they’ll kill us…!!)
Luffy: We’re pirates!!
Villagers: !!!
SFX: Don
Villagers: I knew it!!
SFX: Shing
Zoro: Hahaha!
Nami: You idiot!!!
Luffy: Well we are!!
Chapter 21, page 8 – 9
Luffy carries Zoro as he and Nami flee.
Luffy: Run for it!
Villagers: Hey!! They’re making a break for it!!
Get ‘em!!
Nami: Yikes!!
SFX: Swoosh
Villagers: You ain’t getting away!!
We’ll avenge the mayor!!
SFX: Ooooo
Nami: Why’d you have to go and complicate things!!
Luffy: I like this town!!
Nami: So?
SFX: Oooooo
Luffy: They all got so angry…
…just because of that one old guy!
They’d be mad no matter what we told ‘em!
Nami: …!
SFX: Ooo
The group makes a sharp turn into a side street.
Villager: They’re going into the alley!!
SFX: Swip!
Chou Chou blocks the mouth of the alley, baring his fangs at the townsfolk.
Chou Chou: Woof!
Villagers: Woah!
SFX: Flinch
Chapter 21, page 10 – 11
Nami: Chou Chou!
Luffy: The dog!
Villagers: Chou Chou, no!! Get outta the way!!
Those guys’re evil pirates!!
Chou Chou: Woof!! Woof!!
Grrrrrr!!
Woof woof!!
Villagers: Why’re you stopping us, Chou Chou?!!
Chou Chou: Woof!!
Villager: Chou Chou!!
Let us through!!!
Chou Chou: Woof!!!
Woof!!!
Luffy: …
The group arrives at the port.
Nami: Phew, that was too close. Chou Chou
really saved our butts.
How’d it all end like this?
Luffy: Don’t worry about it. We did what we wanted to do!
Nami: Fair enough I guess.
Luffy: Is this your ship?
Awesome!! It’s cool!
Nami: …sure, if you say so.
I stole it from some stupid pirates.
SFX: Don
Luffy: Huh?
Nami: Ah?!
Funan Bros: We’ve been waiting for you, thief girlie!!!
SFX: Bam…!!
Chapter 21, page 12 – 13
Nami: Oh… You guys…
Funan Bros: We figured you’d come back to the ship
eventually.
Heheheheh, imagine our surprise, finding our stolen boat
back here.
You haven’t forgotten what you did to us, right…!!
SFX: Don
Luffy: You know these guys?
Nami: Uh…! Kind of?
Funan Bros: More than kind of! This
meeting must be destiny!!
I see you brought some friends.
That’s fine, we can punish them too.
You’ll learn how bad it is to take other people’s things.
Hey you, Quit ignoring me.
Raise your damn head!!
SFX: Whap whap
Zoro glares up at the pirates. When they realise who he is, they leap into the sea and swim for safety.
Zoro: What?!
Funan Bros: ?!!!
Aaaaaaargh!!!
Nami: Huh?!
SFX: Splash splash splash splash splash splash
Chapter 21, page 14 – 15
Near the tavern.
Villagers: Ah! The mayor’s coming round!
We’re so glad you’re alright!!
Boodle: Nngh…!!
Villagers: What happened, Mayor?!
Boodle: What the…
Poro: It was like this when we got here.
You didn’t see what happened?
SFX: Don!
Boodle: …!!!
Villager: Oh yeah! There were three suspicious people hanging around before…
Boodle: The kids…!
Are they alive…?!!
…that damn boy!! He should know not to treat an old man so roughly!!
SFX: Slam!!
Villagers: Don’t worry, we chased those vandals
away!!
I’d still love to get my hands on ‘em!! It’s like they were laughing at us!!
They can’t possibly understand the pain of our homes getting destroyed!!
Let’s round ‘em up and…
Boodle: Shut your mouths!!!
Villagers: !
Boodle: I’m the only one who gets to be mad
at those kids!!!
The rest of you don’t dare say a bad word about them!!!
Villager: But Mayor…!! Why are you sticking up for those pirates!!!
Boodle: They’d better not’ve left without saying anything!!
Chapter 21, page 16 – 17
Boodle starts running, shedding his armour as he goes.
Boodle: Which way’d they go?!
Villager: Uh…!! Toward the port…
SFX: Clink clank
Villagers: Hey!! Mayor!!
SFX: Stomp stomp!!
Boodle: Damn them!! After everything they
did in my town!!
I’ve got a lot of strong words for those damn kids!!!
SFX: Stumble
Stomp stomp stomp stomp
Crash crash
Luffy’s boat and Nami’s stolen vessel raise their sails.
Luffy: Alright! Let’s go!
SFX: Flap flap!
Luffy: Hey, yours has Buggy’s flag on it.
Nami: Yeah, I stole it from him. I’ll replace it later.
Boodle races up to the dock.
Boodle: Huff!
Huff!
There’s a whole earful coming at you…!!
Hold it right there, you kids!!!
Luffy: The old guy!
Boodle: (I didn’t care if I died…!!!)
(In my despair, I really thought I’d be okay with it…!!!)
SFX: Huff huff
Chapter 21, page 18 – 19
Boodle: Thank you!!!
I’m in your debt!!!!
Luffy: Don’t worry about it!!
Take it easy!!
Boodle: !
Words can’t express…!!
Later, the two boats are on open waters.
Nami: You did what?!
All the treasure you were carrying?! Five million berries?!
Luffy: Yeah. Their town was wrecked. They’ll need money to fix it.
Nami: That was my treasure!!!
Nami tries to push Luffy over the side.
Luffy: Stop!! I can’t swim!! If you want it so bad go back and get it!!
Nami: I can’t do that now!! If you ever do that again, you’re dead!!
SFX: Aaaaaaaaa
Zoro: Dahahahaha…!!
Narration: With their new crewmate, Nami the Thief, and two boats, Luffy’s crew sails onward.
Nami: Idiot!
Luffy: What? Now it’s funny?
Nami: Shut up!!
SFX: Bonk!!
Luffy: That didn’t hurt!!
Narration: Little do they know they must face the Forest’s Judgement at their next destination…
One Piece Storyboard Showcase!! part 7
Storyboard for chapter 23, page 4.
Chapter 22, page 1
Title: Chapter 22: You’re a Strange Creature Too
Luffy makes mochi with a group of rabbits.
Chapter 22, page 2 – 3
The two ships sail along. Zoro sleeps. Nami works with a needle and thread.
SFX: Coo coo
Luffy: It’s fixed!!!
SFX: Don
Nami: It’s a temporary fix.
I just sewed up the holes.
But it’ll hold as long as you don’t poke at it.
Luffy: I got it, I got it. Thanks!
You did a really great job!
SFX: Poke poke poke
Luffy’s finger goes through the top of the hat.
Luffy: Oops…
Oh no!
Nami: !
SFX: Snap
Nami pricks Luffy with the needle.
Nami: Weren’t you listening?!!
Luffy: Owwwww!
SFX: Stab!!
Luffy: Don’t stab me! That hurts!!
Nami: Well you don’t respond to being hit, do you?!
Luffy: I sure don’t!
Zoro: Will you guys shut up? I can’t
sleep.
I’m getting hungry too…
Chapter 22, page 4 – 5
Zoro: Give us some of your food.
Nami: You two are insane.
Don’t you know anything about sailing?! You don’t have any
supplies!
You’re not respecting the sea at all!!
Luffy: Hey! I see something!
Nami: Frankly, I’m shocked you lasted this long.
Zoro: Eh, we manage.
Luffy: Yeah! An island!!
Nami: Ignore it.
It’s clearly uninhabited. just keep…
Luffy and Zoro have furled their sail and are rowing toward the island.
Nami: Stop!!!
Luffy: Maybe we’ll find another new crewmate there.
Zoro: As long as we find some food too! Nami’s right, we’re not taking this seriously enough.
SFX: Don
Creak creak
Soon after, ashore.
Luffy: It’s a deserted island!!
There’s nothing here!! Just a forest?
SFX: Don
Don
Nami: I told you what it was.
You won’t find anyone for your crew here.
Luffy: Hey Zoro, come on!
Chapter 22, page 6 – 7
Luffy: Hey! He’s fallen asleep!!
Nami: Let him rest. He’s still injured, remember?
SFX: Snore snore
Grab
Luffy: Yeah I guess. Let’s go!
Nami: Go where?!
Luffy: Maybe there’ll be people in the woods.
Nami: There won’t be anyone. Wild animals and monsters, maybe.
A strange creature with fox and rooster features wanders past.
Cockox: Cluck cluck
Cluck
Bawk
Luffy: Hm?
Nami: Huh?!
SFX: Tmp tmp
Nami: What is that?
Cockox: Bakaw!
SFX: Tmp tmp
Luffy picks up a furred snake with rabbit ears.
Luffy: Check it out!
I found a weird rabbit!!
Nami: It’s… It’s weird alright…!!
It looks more like a mutant snake to me!
SFX: Hiss
A maned pig trots out of the woods.
Luffy: What about that lion?
Nami: That’s a… pig, right?! A mutant pig.
SFX: Trot trot
Grrrrr…
Nami: Something about this forest’s… wrong…!!
Gaimon: Come not a single step closer!!
Luffy: Huh?
Huh?
Nami: What?! Who said that?!
Who are you?!!
Gaimon: Who? Who am I? I am the Guardian of the Forest…!!
Chapter 22, page 8 – 9
Luffy: Guardian of the Forest?
Gaimon: Yes, and if you value your life, leave at once!!
Nami: …
Gaimon: You’re pirates, aren’t you?
Luffy: Yeah!
Nami: Why would a forest guardian care about that?
Gaimon: I thought as much…
Don’t dare to take another step forward!!
It would be your last!! Do you think you could survive the Forest’s Judgement?
Luffy: Who cares?
What’re you asking me for?
Nami: What in the world…
Luffy: This guy’s weird.
Gaimon: What was that?!! Straw hat brat!!
Nami: Where are you?!! Come out!!
Luffy: He’s around here somewhere.
Gaimon: Hey!!! I told you not another step!!!
SFX: Tmp tmp
Gaimon: Face the Forest’s Judgement!!!
Luffy: ?
Nami: Huh?
A bullet slams into Luffy from behind, but his rubber body bounces it away.
Luffy: Oof!
Nami: Eeek!!!
SFX: Kablam!!
Stretch
Luffy: Hya!!
Nami: !!
SFX: Boing
Gaimon: …?!!
…what?!!
Nami: …what a fright. Was the Forest’s Judgement
just a pistol?
So bullets can’t hurt you either…!
Luffy: Yeah, but I still don’t like ‘em! That surprised me!
SFX: Whew
Gaimon: Wh…what…
What are you?!!!
Luffy: What are you?
Chapter 22, page 10 – 11
Luffy and Nami discover a smoking gun and treasure chest with a strange green ball coming out the top.
Luffy: The shot came from this way.
Gaimon: !
Nami: Look, there’s a pistol!!
Luffy: What’s this?
Nami: It’s definitely suspect…!
Gaimon: …
SFX: Don
Feet appear at the bottom of the chest. It dashes forward, then trips and topples.
Nami: Ah!! It’s moving!!
SFX: Tmp tmp
Luffy: …
SFX: Trip!!
Splat
The treasure chest is flipped over to reveal the face of the man stuck inside in a crouching position. The green ball is his enormous afro.
Gaimon: Hey!!! Help me up!!!
SFX: Don!!
Nami: It’s… human.
Giamon: I said help!
Luffy: Haha, is he a sponge? It’s a spongeman![3]
Nami: He’s stuck, but he’s still acting indignant…
SFX: Struggle
Flail
Later, Luffy, Nami and Giamon are talking by the coast.
Gaimon: The Gum Gum Fruit…
So, a Devil Fruit.
I’d heard stories of them…
…but you’re the first man I’ve met who actually ate one.
Narration: Island resident
Gaimon
SFX: Don
Luffy: You’re the first man I met who’s
stuffed in a chest.
Are you a jack in the box?[4]
Gaimon: Well… I suppose I scared you when I popped
out and…
Hey, I’m not a toy!!!
I’m actually stuck in this thing!! I can’t get out!!
I’ve been all alone on this island for 20 years!!!
You can’t imagine how painful it’s been!!!
Nami: What?!! T-twenty years?
You’ve been alone that long?!
Gaimon: Yes… Twenty long years…
Chapter 22, page 12 – 13
Luffy: You’re an idiot.
Gaimon: I’ll kill you!!
Nami: …
SFX: Fume!!
Gaimon: Twenty years is… such a long time.
My hair and beard won’t stop growing.
My eyebrows meet in the middle now.
It’s been 20 years since I spoke to another human being.
Luffy grabs Gaimon by the jaw and pulls.
Gaimon: Ow! Ow! What’re you doing?!!!
Luffy: He’s not moving…!!
Gaimon: Stop, stop, stop! You’re ripping my head off!!
SFX: Tug tug
Gaimon: Don’t be stupid!! I don’t get to
exercise in this thing!
My body’s grown to take the shape of the box!!
I won’t hold together without it anymore!!
Nami: But…
how did you end up on this island?
Gaimon: You said you were a pirate.
Luffy: Yeah. I got a crew of three already.
Gaimon: Well I was a pirate too, once!
Luffy: Wow!
Gaimon: It was great! There’s nothing like
risking your life adventuring for treasure!
The most fun there is!
Have you found any treasure maps?
Luffy: Nah, but we’ve got a map of the Grand
Line.
I’m gonna find the One Piece!!
Gaimon: What…!! The One Piece?!!
You aren’t seriously tackling the Grand Line, are you?!
Luffy pulls the map out and shares it with Gaimon.
Gaimon: Uh?
Which parts are the Grand Line again?
Luffy: Um… You don’t know, Mr Sponge?
Gaimon: I can’t read maps!
Luffy: Me neither!
Nami: And they call themselves pirates…
Pathetic…
SFX: Hahahaha
Nami: See this?
You know what the Red Line is, right?
SFX: Flap
Gaimon: Yeah.
It’s the continent that divides the seas.
Nami: Correct! Look at the world’s eastern
and western seas!![5]
The landmass that divides them…
…is called the Red Line!!
Now, starting from the capital city on the Red Line…[6]
…draw a perpendicular line around the world, dividing the seas again.
That’s the Grand Line!!
The only man who ever conquered[7]
it was “Pirate King”
Gold Roger!
They say it’s the most dangerous sea route in the world.
Luffy: And the One Piece is
definitely there somewhere.
All we have to do is sail around the world!
Gaimon: Don’t be stupid!! It won’t be that
easy!!
That place has another name. They call it the pirates’ graveyard…
Long ago I saw the men…
…who made it back from the Grand Line.
Chapter 22, page 16 – 17
Gaimon: They were like the walking dead,
their spirits broken.
I could tell from the look on their faces…
…they’d encountered horrible things on that sea.
Dread pirates, terrible monsters…
They couldn’t bear to speak of it…
…but their state was proof enough…
…of the terror of the Grand Line.
Nami: …!!
SFX: Gulp…
Gaimon: You’ll never find the One Piece in a
place like that.
It’s impossible to separate the truth from the rumours.
A mere 20 years since the start of the Great Pirate Era…
…and it’s already just another legend.
Get it now? The One Piece is a dream inside a dream.
Luffy: I dunno.
I think I can do it.
Nami: That’s dumb! It’s smarter to get
rich off of realistic treasures…
…then get out before we die!
Luffy: I’ll find it! I’m pretty lucky!
Nami: …where does all that confidence come from?
Gaimon: …
You wanted to know why I’m on this island!!
Luffy: Oh yeah. Why’s that?
Gaimon: There’s something here…
…I cannot abandon.
Chapter 22, page 18 – 19
Luffy: Why not?
Gaimon: It happened 20 years ago.
I landed on this island as a pirate.
We were following a map…
…that said there was treasure hidden here.
Flashback begins. A pirate is assembled before their ship at the island’s shore.
Captain: This island is a waste of time!!
Two hundred men searching for three weeks…
…and all we found is one broken, empty chest!!
SFX: Klunk
Captain: All hands back to the ship!!
Pirates: Aye aye!!
What’re you doing, Gaimon?
We’re about to leave.
Gaimon: I know!
Narration: Gaimon
(20 years ago)
Gaimon: Hmm, for the past three weeks…
…the captain’s been barking orders from in front of that plateau.
Did anyone actually get on top of it? I wonder…
Gaimon scales the plateau.
Gaimon: …hng… …gak…
SFX: Crunch crunch
Grab
A collection of closed treasure chests sits atop the plateau.
Gaimon: !!!
Narration: I couldn’t believe my eyes…!!!
Gaimon: It’s… It’s up here!!
I… I found it!!
SFX: Don!!
The edge of the plateau crumbles and Gaimon falls, landing folded up in the empty chest at the bottom.
Gaimon: Hey!!! Every…
?!!
SFX: Crack
Gaimon: Yaaaaaaaaa!
SFX: Fyooo
Whump!!
Narration: I landed in the chest and got stuck there…!!
Chapter 22, page 20 – 21
Narration: When I came to…
…my crewmates had already set sail.
Gaimon: Oh shit!! They left meee!!!
SFX: Shuf shuf
Aaaaaaaaaaaa
Gaimon: Now hold on!! Could it be?!
Does that leave all the treasure for me?!!
Score!!!
Aaaaaaargh!
I can’t climb it like this!!! I can’t get out at all…!! I’m stuck!! Help me!!!
SFX: Tump tump
Gaimon: Guys, come back for meeeeee!!
SFX: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Flashback ends.
Luffy: …no one really came in 20 years?
Gaimon: Oh no… they came.
Lots of them…!!
All pirates… All looking for treasure…!! But none have withstood the Forest’s
Judgement!
Once I saw it I was bound to it.
I can’t abandon the treasure on that plateau!!
But I’m stuck in this stupid chest!!
All I can do is defend it from others!!!
But it belongs to me!!!
Luffy: Yeah!! It’s yours!!
You found it first!!
Nami: Alright Mr Gaimon!! We’re helping!! Right now!! We’ll get your treasure down for you!!!
Gaimon: What?!! Really?! That’s great!!
I’m so glad it told you about it!!
SFX: Don
Luffy: Aren’t you meant to steal from pirates?
Nami: Shut up!!! I’ve got some principals!!!
Chapter 22, page 22 – 23
At the foot of the plateau.
Gaimon: This is the place.
It’s been a long time…
…since I last came here.
SFX: Don
Luffy: Why’d you go so long…
…without asking anyone for help?
Gaimon: Because I couldn’t trust ‘em.
Besides…
None of the others ever tried to talk to me.
Damn it!! Damn it!! The treasure’s so close!! Damn
it all!!!
Today’s the day!!
I couldn’t be happier!!!
Nami: Okay…
Off you go.
Luffy: You’re making me do it?
SFX: Wap!
Nami: You don’t think I could climb that thing, do you?
Gaimon: It’s all up to you, Straw Hat!!
Luffy: Alright…
Luffy reaches his arm to the top and catapults himself up.
SFX: Stretch
Grab
Gaimon: Wow!!!
SFX: Sproing
Gaimon: Get it!!
Chapter 22, page 24 – 25
Luffy appears on the edge of the cliff, holding a chest.
Luffy: I found treasure chests!!!
Five of ‘em!!!
Gaimon: Great job!!
Chuck ‘em down then!! Hurry up!!
Just don’t hit me!!
Wahahahaha!!
Luffy: Nah!
Gaimon: What?!
…
Nami: W-what are you doing?!!!
Stop joking and throw them down!! All of them!!!
Right now!!!
Luffy: Nope, I don’t wanna!!
Nami: What the hell are you…
Gaimon: It’s okay!! Please!! He said he doesn’t want to!!!
Nami: And that’s not okay!! How can you say that?! It’s your treasure…
Gaimon: Straw Hat!
…you’re…
…you’re a good man…!!!
Nami: W-what do you mean…?!!!
Gaimon: I had a feeling…
I always knew…
…it was a possibility…!!
I just…
…tried not to think about it.
Luffy: …
SFX: Thunk
Chapter 22, page 26 – 27
Gaimon: They’re empty…
…aren’t they…?
SFX: Sob sob sob
Nami: Oh.
Luffy: …yeah.
They’re all empty!!
Gaimon: It happens all the time…
…with treasure maps…!!
Boo hoo…
By the time you find the map, someone else has taken the treasure…
Nami: But that means…!! The treasure you
guarded for 20 years…
…was just some empty chests…
Luffy: …
Dahahahahahahahahahaha!!
It’s all good then!! You’re lucky it only took us 20 years to get here!!
SFX: Hahahahah
Luffy: If we’d taken 30 years you might’ve just died already!!!
Gaimon: Straw Hat…
Nami: Luffy…
Luffy: There’s one treasure you know is
still out there! The One Piece!!
Come be a pirate again with me!!
Gaimon: You…!! You’re…
…inviting me to join your crew…!!
Chapter 22, page 28 – 29
Later, at the shore.
SFX: Shaa
Luffy: …are you sure?
You really wanna stay here? Still?
Gaimon: Yes.
Thank you for inviting me…!!
There’s no treasure, but I’m still the Guardian of the Forest.
Nami: How come?
Gaimon: Because of the many rare animals living in the forest.
Nami: Oh yeah! like that weird… snake and pig we saw.
Gaimon: To be honest, more people came
hunting exotic animals than treasure.
Over the last 20 years I’ve really grown to love those strange creatures.
I can’t leave them behind!!
Luffy: You’re a strange creature too.
Gaimon: I’ll kill you!!
In a way, I’m relieved there’s no treasure.
I can just relax and enjoy the island now!
Luffy: Alright! Too bad you’re staying, I like you.
Gaimon: You’ll find some great
crewmates out there!!
Go find the One Piece…
…and use it to buy yourself the whole damn world!!
Luffy: Yeah! That’s the plan!
See ya!!
Gaimon and his hoard of bizarre creatures wave from the shore as the two boats sail away.
Narration: Leaving the strange gaimon behind…
…the two ships continue their voyage to the Grand Line.
Colouring Corner
Illustration: Luffy and Zoro enjoy drinks while Nami works on a map on a cozy waterfront boardwalk
Chapter 23, page 1
Title: Chapter 23: Introducing Captain Usopp
Cover illustration: Luffy and Zoro work with a frog to build a barrel.
Chapter 23, page 2 – 3
The two boats sail open waters.
Nami: We’re being reckless.
SFX: Don
Luffy: How?
Nami: We can’t enter the Grand Line like this!
Luffy: You’re right! The sponge
guy gave us a lot of fruit…
…but we need meat to keep our strength…
Nami: I’m not talking about food!!
Zoro: Yeah, we’re outta booze too.
Nami: Forget the food and drink!!
We’re going to the Grand Line, the most dangerous route in the
world.
It’ll be swarming with dangerous pirates hunting the One Piece…
…in their powerful ships.
We’re shorthanded and our boats are tiny.
We can’t possibly survive the way we are now.
Luffy: So what’re we gonna do?
Nami: We’re going to prepare!
That’s what!
There should be a village to the south of here. We’ll
stop there!
The first thing we should do is find a better ship.
Luffy: And eat some meat!!!
On a nearby island, a young man, Usopp, watches the sea from a clifftop.
Usopp: Once again…
…a beautiful day dawns on the sea!!
SFX: Coo coo
Shaaaa
Narration: Village youth
Usopp[8]
SFX: Don!
Cheep
Cheep…
Usopp charges into his quiet town.
Usopp: The horror!
SFX: Tomptomptomp
Usopp: We’re all doomed!!!
The pirates
are attacking!!!
Pirates are here! Piiiiiiirates!
Run for your lives!!!
SFX: Waaaaaaaaaa
Villager: What?! Pirates?!!
Usopp: Piiiirates!!
Mornin: Ah! Usopp’s right on schedule. I’d best leave for work.
Usopp: Danger!!
Villager: There he goes again.
SFX: Rustle
Chapter 23, page 6 – 7
Usopp: Just kidding!!!!
Wahahahahahaha!!!
SFX: Don
Usopp is struck by a thrown cooking pot.
Usopp: Ow!
SFX: Bonk!
Villager: That’s it, you lying brat!!
You’re not getting away this time!!!
A mob of villagers assemble, armed primarily with brooms and bats, and chase him away.
Usopp: Uh oh…
…here they come!!
SFX: Slam slam slam!!
Villagers: Get back here, you turd!!!
Usopp: Wahahaha! Catch me if you can!!!
SFX: Thump thump thump
Villagers: Damn it!! He got away again!!
It’s every damn day with him!!!
When I get my hands on him I’ll teach him good.
Usopp: …
Usopp hides in the branches of a tree.
Villagers: Where the hell’d he get to?!!
SFX: Rustle
Usopp: Heeheeheeheehee!!
I fooled the whole village again!
Usopp: That’s my good dead for the day!!
I brought a little excitement to this boring village!!
A pair of kids with toy swords wander up.
Kids: Hey! There he is!!
Usopp: Huh?
Oho!!
You guys!!
Pepper: Good morning!!
Captain Usopp!!
Carrot: The Usopp Pirates have arrived!!
Narration: Village boy
Pepper
Village
boy
Carrot
SFX: Don
Usopp: Pepper! Carrot! Just
you two?
Where’s Onion?[9]
Carrot: Probably sleeping in.
Right?
Pepper: Yeah, probably.
Usopp: Too bad, he sure sleeps…
A third kid charges in from the road out of town.
Onion: Aaaaaaaaaaaah!!
Usopp: ?!
Onion: The horror! Aaaaaaa!
Carrot: Hey! It’s Onion!
Pepper: What’s he yelling about?
SFX: Tomp tomp tomp
Onion: We’re doomed!! Ack!! Huff huff huff!
The pirates are heeeeere!!!
Narration: Village boy
Onion
SFX: Thump thump thump
Chapter 23, page 10 – 11
Onion: It’s true!! I Saw it with my own
eyes!!
A ship with a skull and crossbones landed at the north
shore…!!
Group: You’re lying!
Onion: I’m serious!!
It was Buggy the Clown’s jolly roger on the sail!!!
SFX: Rmbrmbrmb…
Usopp: For real?!!
Onion: For real! We’re in danger!!
Usopp: Oh dear!! Snack time already!!
Kids: Don’t run away!!
SFX: Whoosh!!
Usopp: The truth is, I have Gotta-Eat-a-Snack-or-I’ll-Die Disease!
Kids: Liar!!!
SFX: Ugh…
Carrot: Don’t you wanna be a real pirate, Captain?!
Pepper: You can’t wimp out around other pirates!!
Onion: There’s only three of them anyway!!
Usopp: Wha…?! Three?!!
It’s… not a huge ship?
Onion: Nope… Just two little boats.
Usopp: Alright!!! Usopp Pirates,
move out!!
We’ll defend our village!!
SFX: Don!!
Usopp: Let’s go, crew!!
Kids: …
SFX: Yeah
Kids: …yes!!
Yes Captain!!
Chapter 23, page 12 – 13
At the north shore. Luffy’s crew have moored their two boats.
Luffy: Wow, there’s really an island!
Nami: Of course there is.
It was right here on the map.
Luffy: I guess so.
SFX: Tunk…
Luffy: And there’s a village here?
Nami: Yeah, but it looks like just a little one.
Usopp’s group watch from an overlooking cliff.
Usopp: Hey Onion! That them? The pirates…?
Onion: Yeah! The jolly roger was on the sail!!
Pepper: They don’t look that scary.
Carrot: No way.
Usopp: …
Zoro: Whew… Feels good to be on solid ground again.
Luffy: Come on, you slept the whole way.
Zoro: By the way.
What do you think is up…
…with those guys?
Usopp: !!!
SFX: Gasp!!
Chapter 23, page 14 – 15
The kids make a break for it, leaving Usopp.
Usopp: You guys!!!
Don’t just run!!!
Kids: Waaaaaaa! They found us!!!
SFX: Don!
Gack
Usopp: …
I am Usopp, captain of a great pirate fleet and
ruler of this village!!!
Far and wide, the name of Captain Usopp is feared and revered!!!
SFX: Dadon!!
Usopp: If you’re thinking of raiding the
village think again!!
My 80 million followers will stop you.
SFX: Don
Nami: You’re lying.
Usopp: Argh!! Busted!!
SFX: Bam!!
Nami: So you admit it.
Usopp: Arg! Walked into that one!!
She’s too good!!!
SFX: Babam!!
Luffy: Hahahaha! You’re funny!!
Usopp: Don’t laugh at me!!
SFX: Hahahaha
Usopp: I’m an extremely proud man!!!
I’ve got so much pride, everyone calls me Proud Captain Usopp!!
Chapter 23, page 16 – 17
Later, in town. Luffy’s crew and Usopp are finishing their meal.
Narration: A restaurant in the village
Usopp: What?! Crewmates?!
SFX: Chatter chatter
Usopp: And a big ship, you say?!
Luffy: That’s right!
Usopp: Wow, what a great adventure!!
SFX: Chatter chatter
Blah blah
Usopp: Well you won’t find a warship
or anything around here…
But there’s a place that might have something for you.
Nami: Where’s that?
Usopp: That one big mansion
near here. The owner’s real wealthy.
Ask there.
But the thing about the owner…
…is that she’s a frail young woman.
She’s weak and sick… And bedridden…!!
Nami: Hm…
How does a girl like that end up with a mansion?
Luffy: Hey lady!! More meat!!
Zoro: And more booze!!
Usopp: Are you listening?!!
…it was about a year ago.
Both her parents came down ill and died.
She inherited the mansion, a massive fortune, and a
bunch of servants…!!
Chapter 23, page 18 – 19
Usopp: Even with all the money in
the world…
…you aren’t exempt from tragedy.
Nami: …
Forget it!
Zoro: ?!
SFX: Smack…
Nami: We’re not getting a ship here.
We’ll try another town.
Luffy: Yeah, there’s no rush!
And I got my meat!
Let’s stock up and go!
Usopp: Oh yeah.
You said you were looking for crewmates…!
Luffy: Do you know someone?
Usopp: I’ll join you…
…if I get to be captain!!!
SFX: Don!
Crew: Never mind!
Usopp: At least consider it!!
SFX: Bam
At the mansion, Kaya speaks with her butler, Klahadore, from her bed by the window.
Kaya: Uh, Klahadore?
Klahadore: Yes, Mistress Kaya?[10]
Kaya: I want…
I want to see Sir Usopp…
Prototype Designs, page 2
Illustration: sketches of early versions of Cabaji, Mohji, Richie and Zoro, alongside a messenger bird.
Sketches: Liontamer Mohji
Messanger Hachi
Blademaster Zoro[11]
Acrobat Cabaji
Chapter 24, page 1
Title: Chapter 24: Something I Can’t Lie About
Cover illustration: Nami sits coolly on the coiled body of a beaten-up snake, a bird’s nest with two young chicks sitting by her side.
Chapter 24, page 2 – 3
The three kids sneak through the town.
SFX: Tap tap tap
Shwip!!
Pepper: Hey Onion! You sure the pirates went in here?
Onion: Yeah, I saw ‘em.
And they brought the captain in with ‘em.
We gotta save him!
Carrot: But real pirates are savages! They might eat us…!!
Pepper: You idiot, pirates don’t eat people,
witches[12]
do!! Get it together, Carrot!
This is gonna be the greatest and most dangerous battle the Usopp Pirates
have ever fought!!
The kids burst into the restaurant.
SFX: Slam!!
Kids: The Usopp Pirates…
…have arrived!!
Nami: ?
Luffy: Huh?
SFX: Bam
Nami: Who’re they…?
Luffy: Eh.
Beats me…
Carrot: Hey…!! The captain’s not here…
Onion: Did they… f-f-finish him already…?!!
Carrot: H-hey pirates!!
Pepper: What’d you do to Captain Usopp?!!
Onion: Give our captain back!!!
Nami: …
Chapter 24, page 4 – 5
Luffy: Ahhh!
The meat was delicious!!
Kids: !!
Wha… M-m-meat?!
Then… the captain’s…!!
SFX: Clack
Gasp
Nami: …
SFX: Hee hee
Zoro: If you’re looking for your captain…
Kids: W-what?!! Where is he…?!!
Zoro: …we thought…
…he was delicious.
SFX: Don
Kids: Eeeeeeek! A witch!!!
Nami: Don’t look at me!!!
SFX: Eek eek
Kids: …!!
Nami: Don’t mess with random kids!!
Zoro: Hahahahaha!!
SFX: Smack
Twitch twitch twitch
Shortly after.
Kids: “It’s time?”
Zoro: Yeah… He said that, then he left.
Pepper: Oh, he probably went to the mansion then.
Nami: The one owned by the sick girl?
Carrot: Yeah.
Luffy: What’s he doing there?
Carrot: Telling lies!
Luffy: Isn’t that bad?
Pepper: It’s not bad! It’s great!
Right?!
Onion: Yeah!! It’s great!!
Luffy: What?
Chapter 24, page 6 – 7
At the mansion.
Narration: The village mansion.
Klahadore: You want to see Usopp…?!
Not again…!!
Narration: The mansion’s butler
Klahadore
SFX: Don!
Kaya: What’s wrong? We’re just going to talk.
Klahadore: I forbid it!! How many times must I
say this?
That boy’s a no-good liar who mustn’t be listened to.
He’s a bad influence.
Kaya: Petty!
Odabox: Mansion owner
Kaya
Klahadore: Yes, I suppose I am!! Say of me what
you will…
…it won’t change my mind.
You’re far too weak.
Usopp’s nonsense stories would overstimulate you in your present
state.
Kaya: I’m feeling fine.
Klahadore: Please hear me out. This was your dear,
departed parents’ last request to me.
They asked me to keep you safe, Mistress Kaya…!!
Klahadore repeatedly uses the base of his palms to adjust his glasses during the conversation.
SFX: Push
Chapter 24, page 8 – 9
Klahadore: The guards I hired…
…are only ensuring your wellbeing.
Kaya: …
Klahadore: This is for your own good, Mistress!!
SFX: Push push
Kaya: Yes…
I understand…
Klahadore: I’m glad you can see reason.
I’ll leave your medicine here. See that you take it.
Klahadore departs.
Kaya: Okay…
SFX: Slam!
Tap tap…
Kaya: !
Usopp is at the window.
Kaya: Sir Usopp![13]
Usopp: Hey. You look as pale and sad as ever, my lady!
Kaya: I’m sorry. I wish I could welcome
you properly as a guest…
But Klahadore simply won’t allow it…
He’s not truly a bad person.
Usopp: Nah, I’m fine out here anyway. Being
shut up in that big house would just suffocate me.
After all…
I’m a brave warrior of the sea!!
Chapter 24, page 10 – 11
Kaya: Which adventure…
…is today’s story about?
SFX: Huff huff
Usopp: Let’s see… Today will be…
…the time when I was five, and I fought a giant goldfish in the
southern seas…!!
Kaya: A goldfish?
Usopp: The most shocking thing was the
incredible size and length of its poop!
It was so big, I thought it was an island and actually landed on it…
At the restaurant.
Luffy: Wow!
He really is a good guy!
SFX: Don
Nami: So for the past year he’s been
going to her house…
…and making up stories to help her feel better?
Pepper: Yup.
Carrot: The best thing about the captain is his nosiness!
Pepper: I like his bossiness!
Onion: I like his boastfulness!
Zoro: And those are his good qualities?
Luffy: So the girl’s feeling better already then?
Carrot: Yeah, loads better, thanks to the captain!
Luffy: Alright!! That’s it!
Let’s go to the mansion ask for a ship!!!
SFX: Don
Nami: No!! We already gave up on that!!
Chapter 24, page 12 – 13
Luffy’s crew and the kids arrive at the mansion gates.
Luffy: Hellooooo!
We need a ship please!
SFX: Don
Luffy climbs the gate.
Luffy: Let’s just go in.
Pepper: You don’t wanna wait for an answer…?
SFX: Clatter
Hup…
Nami: Sigh… No stopping him now.
Zoro: All we can do is try to keep up.
SFX: Smack
Inside, another member of the staff, Merry, who has woolly hair and sheep’s horns[14], reports to Klahadore.
Klahadore: What?!
Trespassers? What happened to the guards?
Merry: Well… They’re taking a lunch break…!!
Under Kaya’s window.
Kaya: Ahahahaha… And what happened to the goldfish?
Usopp: I chopped it to bits and sent it
the land of the little people,[15]
where they’re still eating it to this day.
And in recognition of my mighty deed, they praised me as a…
Kids: Captain!!
Usopp: That’s right… They called me Captain…
Luffy’s crew and the kids have arrived.
Usopp: Gah!!
What’re you doing here?!!
Pepper: This guy said to come…
SFX: Point
Kaya: Who’s that?
Luffy: Hey! You’re the mistress!
Usopp: These guys heard tales of my
exploits and travelled long and far to meet me.
They’re the latest recruits of the Usopp Pirates!
Luffy: Yeah!!
Wait! I mean no!!
Chapter 24, page 14 – 15
Shortly.
Kaya: A request?
Of me?
Luffy: Yeah!
We need a big ship…
Klahadore arrives.
Klahadore: What are you doing here?!!
This is private property you’ve barged onto!!
Luffy: !
Usopp: Ugh! The butler.
Kaya: Klahadore…
Luffy: Who’s he?
SFX: Tmp tmp
Fwip
Kaya: Listen, Klahadore, these people are…
Klahadore: I don’t care! You can make excuses for
them later!!
All of you please leave, right now.
Unless you have something you wish to say?
Luffy: Yeah, I need a ship.
Klahadore: Certainly not.
!
SFX: Gloom
Klahadore: You there…
You’re that Usopp kid…
SFX: Flinch
Kaya: …!
Klahadore: I’ve heard the rumours about you.
You have quite the reputation in town.
Usopp: Oh… Why thank you.
You may refer to me as Captain Usopp…
…as a way to show your respect.
Klahadore: The guards tell me…
…they see you lurking around the estate every so often.
Is there any reason for that?
SFX: Push
Usopp: Uh…! Yes, you see…
I saw a legendary giant mole burrow under the mansion!! So I came
to check it out…
Chapter 24, page 16 – 17
Klahadore: Hmph… I see it’s true that you’re quite the liar.
Usopp: What?!
Klahadore: I’ve also heard all about your father.
You’re the son of a filthy pirate.
I wouldn’t put anything past you.
Do not come near the mistress again!!
Luffy: …!!
His dad’s a pirate?
Usopp: …did you say filthy…?!
Klahadore: You and the mistress belong to
different worlds.
Is it money you’re after? How much?
Usopp: !
Kaya: !
That’s enough, Klahadore!!!
Apologise to Sir Usopp!!!
Klahadore: For what reason should I apologise to
this uncivilised brute, Mistress?
I’m merely telling the truth!!
I pity you… You hate him, don’t you?
The treasure-crazed fool who abandoned his family and home.
Kaya: Klahadore!!!
Usopp: Don’t you dare say another word about my father!!
Klahadore: …did I touch a nerve? How sad.
I expected another lie…
Just say he’s really a merchant, or you’re not blood-related or…
Usopp: …!!!
Chapter 24, page 18 – 19
Usopp punches Klahadore.
Usopp: Shut up!!!
Klahadore: !!!
SFX: Wham!!
Kaya: !!
Kids: Captain!
Klahadore: Ur…gh!! S…!! See how his first instinct
is violence?
He’s acting just like his father would…!!
Usopp: Stop!!!
SFX: Push
Usopp: I’m proud that my dad’s a pirate!!!
I’m proud he gets to be a brave warrior of the sea!!!
SFX: Don
Usopp: Maybe I do make up stories
sometimes!!
But that’s something I can’t lie about!!
I won’t reject my pirate blood!!!
Klahadore: …!!
Usopp: I’m the son of a pirate!!!
Luffy: …oh yeah!! That guy…!!
Now I remember…!!
Design Process, page 2
Text: The Pirate Buggy the Clown
The Path to the Page part 2
SFX: Bam!
Text: About the picture on page 136.
This was my second draft of Buggy’s crew. Buggy’s design didn’t change much from that point to the final version, so he’s not included on the page.
Why is Zoro there?
Why indeed? In an early version of the story I planned to introduce him as a bodyguard on Buggy’s ship. After thinking things over, I decided not to do that.
Hachi the Messanger
Hachi is like a carrier pigeon. He relays information for the Buggy Pirates. He’s a type of bird called an Orpo. They live in the Grand Line.
Illustration: Sketches of early versions of Mohji, one wearing a lion mane, the other resembling a panda.
Mohji
I found some early designs in my old notebook. This version would have been cool too!
Chapter 25, page 1
Title: Chapter 25: Eight Hundred Lies[16]
Luffy and Nami ride and Zoro walks alongside a seemingly flying fish in a forest with a checkered floor.
Chapter 25, page 2 – 3
Pepper: Captain…!!
Klahadore: A pirate…? A brave warrior of the sea…?!!
That’s a mockery of the truth…
And yet… You can’t deny how his savage blood is revealed in your
actions…!!
SFX: Push
Usopp: …!!
Klahadore: Lying whenever it suits you…
…and making violence your first recourse…!!
I know that you only want to get close to the mistress for your own personal
gain…!!
Usopp: What are you implying…?!!
Klahadore: The fact that your father was a
pirate…
…does all the implying for me!!!
Usopp grabs Klahadore by the collar and raises his fist.
Usopp: !!
I dare you to say that again!!!
SFX: Grab!!
Kaya: Enough, Sir Usopp!!!
Please, no more violence…!!!
Usopp: !!
Chapter 25, page 4 – 5
Usopp: …!!
Kaya: Klahadore…
…isn’t a bad person…!
He only wants what’s best for me!
But I admit he went too far…!!
Usopp releases the butler, who slaps his hand away.
Klahadore: …
Leave immediately.
SFX: Smack
Klahadore: There is no place here for a savage
like you!!!
Never return again!!!
Kaya: …!!
Usopp: Yeah… I get it.
I’m going. You don’t have to show me out.
And I’m never coming back!!!
Carrot: …Captain…!!
SFX: Trudge trudge
Kaya: Sir Usopp…
Carrot: Hey butt-ler!! That’s not what the captain’s like!!
Pepper: Yeah!! Moron!!
Onion: Dumb jerk!!
Luffy: Dumbass!!
Zoro: Why’re you getting involved?
The kids try to run at Klahadore but Nami holds them back. Zoro does the same for Luffy.
SFX: Bonk
Klahadore: …!
Kids: Yaaaaaaargh!
Luffy: Fight me!
Zoro: Stop it!!
SFX: Push
Aaaaaa
Huff
Klahadore: All of you, leave at once!!!
Chapter 25, page 6 – 7
Later, in Kaya’s room.
Kaya: Cough cough…
Cough cough…
SFX: Knock knock…
Klahadore: Your lunch, Mistress…
Kaya: …I don’t want it.
Cough.
…I’m not hungry.
It’s not going to taste good.
Klahadore: …! You’ll upset the chef, saying
things like that.
He works very hard to make you healthy meals, Mistress.
Kaya: …
Why did you say those things?
Klahadore: !
Kaya: I know I went behind your back.
It was my fault for talking to Sir Usopp without telling you.
So you didn’t have to drive him off so harshly!
Klahadore: …
May I sit?
Kaya: Go ahead.
Klahadore: …
SFX: Fwump
Klahadore: …it’s been three years…
…since I was welcomed into this estate…
I’ll never forget the day…!
Chapter 25, page 8 – 9
Klahadore: I had been working on a ship before
then…
…but they marooned me over a small mistake I’d made.
I wandered until I stumbled onto this village.
I was broke and starving, lying by the side of the road…
…but your dear father took pity
on me.
And so, I owe my life to your late parents…!
You, my saviours’ daughter…
…inherited that debt.
Kaya: …
Klahadore: I realise it is not my place…
…to interfere with your choice of friends. but…
…that young man, Usopp…
I can’t ignore his dreadful reputation.
And if…!! For any reason…!! If anything were to happen to you, Mistress!!
I know your parents would never forgive me…!!!
Kaya: …
Klahadore: I know that I… overstepped earlier.
No doubt you hate me for it.
Kaya: …no. I don’t hate you…
I’m grateful for you, Klahadore.
But you’re wrong about Sir Usopp.
He’s a good person at heart.
Klahadore: Hmph!! That remains to be seen!!
Kaya: Klahadore!! …oh! You’re being too stubborn!!
Klahadore: I’m being precisely stubborn enough!!
SFX: Ignored…!!
Push
Chapter 25, page 10 – 11
On the edge of town, the crew and the kids sit against a fence.
Nami: Where’s luffy?
Zoro: Went after the “captain.”
Carrot: Well I know where the captain is!
Pepper: Yeah, at the beach!
Whenever something happens, that’s where he goes!!
Kids: Wanna go?
Zoro: Nah…
Nami: Hey, aren’t you missing someone?
Pepper: Yeah, onion!
He just goes off sometimes.
Carrot: Yup, then he comes back screaming about something.
Onion: Waaaaaaah!
The horror! Waaaah!!
Carrot: Ah! Onion.
SFX: Stomp stomp stomp
Onion: Danger!!! It’s a b-b-b-b…
…backwardsmaaaan!!!
SFX: Tomp tomp tomp tomp
Onion: There’s a weirdo walking this way backwards!
Kids: Lair.
Onion: It’s true!!!
Just look!!
Crew: ?
A strange man moonwalks up the road toward the group.
SFX: Shf shf
Shf shf
Chapter 25, page 12 – 13
Jango: Hey! Who’s callin’ me weird?
I ain’t no freak!!!
SFX: Dodon
Narration: Hypnotist
Jango[17]
SFX: Don!
Tap!
Nami: No, you’re definitely weird.
Jango: That’s crazy talk. I’m just a hypnotist passing through…
Onion: H-h-hypnotist?! Cool!!
Pepper: Do a trick!!
Carrot: Yeah, show us!
Jango: What?!
I don’t even know you cats.
Why should I show you a damn thing?
Alright, keep your peepers on the ring.
Zoro: So you are showing them?
Jango swings a metal ring on a string from his finger like a pendulum.
Jango: When I say “One,
Two, Jango” you’ll fall asleep.
Ready? Here we go… One…
SFX: Swing
Jango: Two…
Kids: …
The kids fall asleep instantly, but so does Jango.
Jango: Jango!
SFX: Slump
Whump!!
Snore snore
Zoro: What the hell was that!!!
Chapter 25, page 14 – 15
Usopp sits alone on a cliff overlooking the sea. Luffy suddenly appears.
SFX: Shaa
Shaa
Luffy: Hey!
Found you!
Usopp: Bwah!!!
SFX: Jolt!!
Usopp: Dude! Don’t sneak up on me like that!!
SFX: Don
Luffy: It was Yasopp, right?
Your dad?
Usopp: !
SFX: Whap
Usopp: …!
…huh…?!
Hey!! How’d you know that?
SFX: Wump
Luffy: I met him when I was a kid!
Usopp: What?! Really?! You met my dad?!
Luffy: Yup!
You look just like him.
I knew you were familiar somehow.
I just worked it out.
Usopp: …
Wh… where is he now?!
Luffy: I dunno!
But back then he was on “Red-Haired” Shanks’s
crew!!
They’re my favourite pirates. Yasopp’s
probably still with them.
Usopp: W…
Wow!!
Chapter 25, page 16 – 17
Usopp: Really… Shanks’s crew…
“Red-Haired” Shanks’s crew…
SFX: Shaa
Usopp: The “Red-Haired” Shanks?!!
Luffy: !
You know Shanks?!
SFX: Doink
Jolt!!
Usopp: I’ve heard all about him! He’s a great
pirate!!!
I can’t believe my dad’s on his ship!!!
Luffy: Oh yeah, Yasopp was great too…
A great shot. I never saw him miss.
Flashback begins. Yasopp snipes an apple with a pistol from a whole street away.
SFX: Bang!!
Luffy: Wow! So cool!
Yasopp: Hey that’s nothing! I could even nail an ant right between the eyes!
Later, Shanks’s crew is drinking at the tavern.
SFX: Gulp!!
Yasopp: Did I ever tell you, Luffy, that I got
a kid…
…just about your age?!!
Luffy: Yeah you told me already! Tons of times!
SFX: Klonk!!
Wap
Yasopp: Well you’re gonna hear it again!!
Luffy: Aaaah!!
SFX: Bonk
Twist twist
Yasopp: It broke my heart to leave him…
…but one thing made me go!!
The pirate flag wouldn’t stop calling!!!
SFX: Yeah!!
Flashback ends.
Luffy: Yasopp was a great pirate too!!
Usopp: …
…was he really?!
Chapter 25, page 18 – 19
Usopp: That’s right!! Even though he left
me to explore the far ends of the sea…
I’m still proud of my dad, risking his life out there!!
And that stupid butler really insulted him…!!
He spat on my pride!!
Luffy: Yeah!!
I don’t like that guy either!!
But are you really not gonna see the mistress anymore?
Usopp: …eh, maybe… If the damn butler says
sorry and begs me…
…I might think about it!
Luffy: That butler?
Klahadore and Jango have met at the shore below the cliff. Luffy and Usopp crawl to the edge to listen.
Usopp: Yeah, that butler.
Why’s he out here?!
SFX: Jolt
Klahadore: You were ordered to remain
inconspicuous, Jango.
Why did I find you asleep in the middle of town?
Usopp: …
Jango: That’s crazy talk. I ain’t conspicuous. I’m not even weird.
Luffy: He’s talking to some weirdo.
Usopp: Never seen him before… Who is he?
Klahadore: Fine… Are the arrangements for our plan complete?
Jango: It’s all set.
The Mistress Assassination Scheme can start anytime.
Luffy: !
Usopp: (What?!! Assassination?!!)
One Piece Storyboard Showcase!! part 8
Storyboard for chapter 32, page 4.
Chapter 26, page 1
Title: Chapter 26: Captain Kuro’s Plot
Cover illustration: A woodpecker drills through a mast while Luffy obliviously plays lookout in the crow’s nest.
Chapter 26, page 2 – 3
Klahadore: “Assassination” is a vulgar term, Jango.
Jango: Ah, right on. An accident
then…! That’s what I meant…
Captain Kuro.[18]
Klahadore is now Kuro.
Kuro: Captain Kuro? …It’s
been three years since I abandoned that name.
Never call me that.
You’re the captain now.
Luffy/Usopp: …
Luffy: Hey, what’re they talking about?
Usopp: …that’s what I wanna know.
Hold up now…!! I think I’ve heard of Captain Kuro…!!
He was a pirate famous for his carefully planned
pillaging raids…!!
But he was supposed to have been captured by the Marines and executed
three years ago…!!
Jango: You know…
…it shook me.
Kuro: Oh?
Jango: When you said you were givin’ up
the pirate’s life…
…and put me in charge of the crew.
But your plan worked, and soon the whole world thought Captain Kuro
was dead!!
Now you’ve had three years’ peace in this village like you wanted.
And I’ve brought the crew back like you ordered.
Chapter 26, page 4 – 5
Jango: You ain’t never steered us wrong
before…
…so I’m still on board.
But the spoils better be what you promised, get me?
Kuro: Yes.
If the plan succeeds, you’ll have your share.
Jango: Then for murder, I’m your man!
SFX: Don
Kuro: I told you, we can’t simply kill
the girl.
Her death must look like an accident. There’s no
point if it doesn’t.
It appears you’re not ready after all.
Jango: That’s crazy talk. Believe me, I
get it.
At your signal, me and the boys raid the village…
…and help the mistress have her accident, right?
Leaving you to collect her fortune.
Kuro: Fool…!! What are you thinking…?!!
There’s no reason for an outsider like me to inherit her wealth.
Jango: Then you better find one.
Kuro: No, I need you to make one!! That’s the most important step!!
SFX: Krak
Kuro: Before you kill her you must hypnotise
her…
…and make her write a new will!!
One that says, “I leave all my wealth and assets to my faithful butler, Klahadore!!”
Usopp: !
Chapter 26, page 6 – 7
Kuro: That way I collect her
considerable fortune…!!
But it looks natural.
I’ve served for three years to earn the trust of everyone around her…
…so that no one would question my name in her will!!
Jango: …that’s why you spent three years
as a butler?
Much easier to attack the place and rob her outright, if you ask me.
Kuro: …which is the savage thinking of a
pirate. What good is money when one must live like a fugitive?
I’ll take her money and walk away without drawing the Marines’ notice.
I’m a pacifist now, after all.
Jango: Hahaha! You make a pretty
sad pacifist!
Killing a whole family to make your fortune!
Kuro: Please. The deaths of Kaya’s
parents were completely natural.
That was outside the plan.
Jango: Sure… Whatever you say…
Just get moving on that signal already.
We’ve been waiting for you just offshore…
…for a week already.
The boys are growing pretty bloody restless.
SFX: Ooooooo
Luffy/Usopp: …
Chapter 26, page 8 – 9
Usopp: …
The horror…!!! I can’t believe what I’m hearing…!!!
SFX: Tremble tremble tremble
Luffy: What’s going on? They sound shady.
Usopp: Weren’t you listening at all?!!
This is serious!! These guys are really bad news!!
That bastard’s been planning it the whole time…!!!
He’s spent three years after Kaya’s estate!!!
And he’s no butler!! He’s Captain Kuro for real…!!!
I really picked the wrong guy to punch…!! He’ll kill me for sure!!!
But he’s gonna kill Kaya too!!! And raid the village!
This is bad…!! Really, really bad…!!!!
SFX: Tremble tremble
Luffy stands up.
Luffy: …
Usopp: …hey! Stay down, they’re gonna see you!
SFX: Zoop
Luffy: Hey you guys!!!
Don’t you dare try and kill the mistress!!!!
Usopp: ?!!
SFX: Don!!
Kuro: !!!
Jango: Who’s there..?!!!
Usopp: …!!!
Chapter 26, page 10 – 11
Usopp gets up to try to drag Luffy away.
Usopp: You idiot!! They’ve seen you!!
Get outta here before they kill you!!!
SFX: Tug tug!!
Kuro: …
Well, well… If it isn’t dear Usopp…
SFX: Grrrrrrrr
Usopp: Eeeeek!!
I’m spotted too!!!
SFX: Flinch
Kuro: Hear anything…
…interesting?
SFX: Rrrrrrrr
Usopp: N-no!! Huh?! Hear what?!! I just got here, so I don’t know what you’re…
Luffy: We heard everything!
Usopp: Dude!!
SFX: Don
Jolt
Kuro: …
Usopp: …!
Jango starts swinging his pendulum ring.
Jango: So they heard us…
Too bad… Hey you.
Watch the ring.
SFX: Swing
Luffy: What’s that?
Usopp: W-watch out!! it’s gotta be a weapon!!
SFX: Stare
Jango: When I say “One,
Two, Jango” you’ll fall asleep.
One…
Two…
Usopp dives away, covering his head. Luffy is unmoved.
Usopp: Take cover!! Here it comes!!
Luffy: …
SFX: Whud
Jango: Jango.
Chapter 26, page 12 – 13
Luffy’s head lolls as he falls asleep standing. Jango, also suddenly asleep, is caught by Kuro as he falls backward.
Usopp: ?!
SFX: Sway
Snore
Kuro: Have you still not fixed this issue?
SFX: Snore
Luffy sways and falls forward over the cliff’s edge, landing headfirst at the base.
SFX: Topple
Usopp: Huh?!
W-what’re you doing?
You’re going over!!!
SFX: Wsh
Thud!!
Kuro: !
Usopp: !!!
Hey!! Dude!!!
Are you alright?!!
SFX: Whoooo
Jango: Damn it… Didn’t really mean to
kill him…
Right on his head, from that height… He’s dead for sure.
SFX: Shf
Usopp: …those bastards!!!
They killed him!! Right in front of me!!!
Jango: What about the other one? Kill him too?
Kuro: That won’t be necessary.
No one believes a word he says.
Usopp: ?!
Chapter 26, page 14 – 15
Kuro: Jango, tomorrow at dawn…
…have the crew attack the village.
Sack some houses, hurt some people. Make it look like a legitimate raid.
But be sure to kill Mistress Kaya.
Jango: !
Usopp: …!!!
Tomorrow…
Kuro: Did you hear that, dear Usopp…?
You’re powerless to impede my plan.
Usopp flees toward the village.
Usopp: …!!
D-damn it!!!
Aaaaaaaaargh!!!
SFX: Dash!!!
Jango: Are you sure about that?
Kuro: Absolutely. My plan cannot fail.
SFX: Snore snore
Usopp sprints through the woods, recalling conversations with Kaya as he goes.
Usopp: The horror!! The horror!!
The horror of it!!!
SFX: Thump thump thump
Usopp: We’re gonna be killed…!! My
hometown slaughtered and looted!
Everyone killed!! Kaya killed!!
Everyone I love!!
SFX: Thump thump thump thump
Usopp: The home that I love!!!
SFX: Thump thump thump
Kaya: Ah?! Who are you…?
Usopp: I’m Usopp!
A brave warrior of the sea!
I heard you had it rough lately!
I’ll tell some stories to cheer you up!!
Kaya: It’s none of your
business. Please leave.
I’ll scream for help!
Usopp: …!
SFX: Thump thump thump
Usopp: Don’t be scared now!
I’m not bad, just a bit nosy!
Chapter 26, page 16 – 17
Zoro, Nami and the kids witness Usopp speeding past.
Zoro: Hm? Isn’t that…
SFX: Tmptmptmptmp
Kids: Oh! Captain!
Zoro: Hey… Wasn’t Luffy meant to be with him?
SFX: Whoosh!!
Nami: Is he still upset about what the butler said about his father?
Zoro: Who knows.
Carrot: No way! Didn’t you see his face?!!
Pepper: Yeah!! Something must’ve happened at the beach!!
Onion: He’s in a panic now!!
Zoro: …!
Which way is this beach?
Carrot: Do you think something big’s going down?!
Pepper: Yeah, that’s the way the hypnotist was going!!
Onion: For sure!! This is a case for the Usopp Pirates!!
Zoro: Fine, but which way was it?
Usopp arrives in town.
Usopp: The horror!!
SFX: Thump thump thump thump
Usopp: We’re all doomed!!!
Pirates are coming!!!
They’re attacking tomorrow at dawn!!!
Run for your lives!!!
Villagers: It’s that damn lying brat again!!
That’s twice today.
Just ignore him. There’s no pirates.
Again! During lunch too…
He’s really overdoing it lately…
Chapter 26, page 18 – 19
Villagers emerge from their houses, some brandishing brooms and mops.
Villagers: Hey Usopp!! Shut the hell up!!!
That’s enough outta you!!
Usopp: N-no!! Hold on a minute!! This one’s for real!!!
SFX: Grumble grumble
Villagers: That’s what you always say!!
Maybe you need to be taught a lesson!!
Usopp: I know I’ve told some bad jokes in
the past…
…but you gotta believe me this time!
Villagers: Maybe if you were an honest man like Klahadore we’d believe you.
Kuro: No one believes a word he says.
Usopp: …!
Damn it…!!
You gotta believe me!! If we don’t run now…
…we’re all gonna die tomorrow!!!
Kuro and Jango arrive at a pirate ship moored up the coast.
SFX: Flap flap
Kuro: Gentlemen… Thank you for coming. I
know three years is a long time.
If things go as planned tomorrow, you’ll all be rewarded handsomely.
SFX: Push
Kuro: Tomorrow at dawn, we’ll destroy this village!!!
Pirates: Yeah!!!
Long live Captain Kuro!!!
SFX: Woo hoo
At the mansion, Kaya catches Merry in the hall.
Kaya: Uh, have you seen Klahadore?
Merry: He said he had business in the next town over.
Kaya: I see.
Luffy remains crumpled up where he landed under the cliff, sleeping peacefully.
SFX: Snore snore
Shaa
End Line: Volume 3: Something I Can’t Lie About (End)
Endpages
Treasure Theatre, page 1 – 2
Illustration: parts for a papercraft project.
Text: Let’s Make a Treasure Theatre Corner!!
Part I
Part II
Part III
Cut out
Cut out
Cut out
Turn the page for instructions!!
Treasure Theatre, page 3 – 4 and SBS
Illustration: diagrams for assembling the previous pages’ pieces.
Text: How to Make the Treasure Theatre
You
will need:
scissors, razor, glue, pen, thin cardboard
You
will not need:
tea (don’t worry about it)
How to Make It
1:
Glue. (Unless it’s raining.)
Stick the pages containing parts II and III to the cardboard.
Stick!
(Photocopy the page if you don’t want to cut up your book)
2:
Cut.
Cut out parts I, II and III.
Part I
Part II
Part III
Shing
3:
Assemble.
Fold parts II and III into part I as shown.
Stack
4:
Glue again.
Go to the back of part I and add more glue
Back
Stick stick!
5:
Draw your treasure.
Ta dah!
Pull the tabs and… It’s blank! Draw whatever you want or write something and your Treasure Theatre is complete!! (It’s even cooler if you colour it.)
SBS: Apology Corner
I’m sorry. I couldn’t finish the question and answer section (SBS Corner) I Announced in the last volume. The production timeline for this book was too tight. Please forgive me, I’ll put it in the next volume. Really, don’t be mad. Don’t cry either. Definitely don’t hit me. I’ll do it. For real this time. Just wait for volume 4!
[1] “Rice Cracker” is the most direct translation of the Japanese for this attack, presumably because the disc formed by the spinning legs looks like one. Previous translations have taken liberties to make the name something more literal to the nature of the attack, such as “windmill” or “buzzsaw.”
[2] There are a few possible spellings for the name here – Boogy has also been used in the past – but unless Oda says in an interview which movie he saw that used the same name, it’s impossible to confirm. I decided Boogie felt most likely, given it’s an actual word Oda might have referenced in character creation.
[3] Though other translations play more directly on Gaimon’s appearance, calling him a shrub or a cauliflower, Luffy actually compares the texture of his afro to a scourer or sponge in the original Japanese.
[4] In Japanese, Luffy asks Gaimon if he’s a “boxed son,” playing on the concept of a hakoirimusume, or “boxed daughter.” The term refers to young women who were kept locked up and overprotectively hidden from the outside world by their parents. Gaimon responds by admitting his parents were protective of him while he was small before realising Luffy’s pun and calling him an idiot. While this is an interesting piece of history and culture, there’s no equivalent term in English, and the panel is meant to have a joke in it. I decided the jack in the box angle was the snappiest one.
[5] I’ve massaged the wording here and in the lines that follow to maintain a better continuity with our current understanding of the world’s layout. This initial explanation in Japanese says the world only has two oceans – east and west – without mentioning the north and south that will later be developed. In fact, the current setting will be referred to only as the “Eastern Sea” until chapter 51, where the layout is restated to make four seas and furigana characters are added to the name to give it the ‘East Blue’ pronunciation.
[6] All previous translations talk about the “town in the middle of the Red Line,” but town too strongly undercuts the importance of Mary Geoise for my taste. ‘Capital city’ I think is a reasonable extrapolation from ‘town/city in the middle of’ and makes sense as something Nami would know about and use accurate terminology for.
[7] The Japanese text here could be read as “ruled” or “controlled,” but later revelations about Roger’s travels would prove those interpretations inaccurate. “Conquered,” with possible definitions meaning to gain mastery or overcome, is the most consistent with Roger’s actual journey.
[8] Usopp’s name comes from the Japanese word for “lie,” uso, and the name of Aesop, the famous writer of fables such as The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
[9] In Japanese, the names of the Usopp Pirates are Piiman, Ninjin and Tamanegi. These names translate directly to Pepper, Carrot and Onion. I decided these names were best translated as each boy’s hair or headgear resembles the vegetable he’s named for, a joke that gets lost if the names remain foreign. Unfortunately, this creates a double-up with another character called Carrot (Kyarotto, as an English loanword, in Japanese) later on, but the two are far enough separated that they shouldn’t be confused for each other.
[10] Kaya is another name for the Japanese Nutmeg-yew tree, but there doesn’t seem to be any joke or deeper meaning to make the name worth translating like the Usopp Pirates kids.
[11] Blademaster, most directly “Mighty Blade,” here is technically the first appearance of an epithet that will be canonically attached to several powerful swordsmen in the future, setting Zoro’s trajectory from even the prototype stage. Previous translations have stumbled over the term, translating it differently in each context it’s used and muddying the connections between the characters who use it, but I’m aiming to keep it consistent. I considered keeping Mighty Blade intact, but it reads extremely awkwardly in several of its future use cases, so a mild adaptation was required.
[12] The thing Pepper says eats people in Japanese is an onibaba, a kind of ogress or cave hag. Adapted to “witch” here. Ogress might have been the most direct choice, but English-speaking people don’t usually say that instead of the male/neutral “ogre” and the joke with Nami later in the scene doesn’t work unless the boys are expecting a female monster.
[13] Kaya uses the honorific ‘san’ originally. Adapted as ‘sir’ here to give the suggestion she sees him as some kind of knight, as he might present himself in his stories.
[14] Merry’s strange appearance is a visual pun on a similarity between the Japanese words for ‘butler’ and ‘sheep’ (shitsuji and hitsuji, respectively). His name may be intended to invoke the nursery rhyme Mary had a Little Lamb.
[15] While “Dwarves” has become the most popular reading in a lot of fan circles and on the wiki, the name simply isn’t accurate to the race we eventually end up seeing, which bears little visual or cultural resemblance to mythological and pop culture dwarves, nor to medical dwarfism. “Little People” better reflects the tiny, fae-inspired people we’ll actually see.
[16] The chapter title is a phrase in Japanese that can also be read as “full of lies.”
[17] Jango’s name references the famous western character Django, with the official translation even spelling it the same way, but all romanisations used in official Japanese material spell it without the silent D at the front.
[18] Kuro literally means “Black” in Japanese. However, the Japanese name is simple enough not to have an impact on the flavour or atmosphere, and unimportant enough (save for a connection to his crew’s name) that I see no need to adapt it. And while this is a minor concern when the characters are so far apart, there is another Captain Black who shows up later on.
Captain M Entertainment 