Tag: Did You Know?

In One Piece Green: Secret Pieces an early concept of the crew was revealed. No changes in particular are seen in Luffy, Zoro, and Nami aside from a few small ones; such as Zoro carrying a bottle of sake on his waist and wearing a dark shirt rather than a white one, and Nami’s skirt being a little wavy rather than having straight cuts.

1. Sanji was supposed to have a somewhat thicker goatee from the beginning.
2. Usopp was supposed to be a vice captain/sniper that resembled his father more.
3. Chopper was supposed to be more of a “realistic-looking reindeer”.
4. Robin replaced a man that was supposed to be more of a plant lover than a history lover.
5. Franky replaced the original midget carpenter.
6. Brook also was supposed to have a Cavalier hat, instead of his trademark afro

• The symbol of Impel Down is an overlap of the prison name’s initials, “I” and “D”

• Various influences of “Hell” are present within its walls:
  • Impel Down seems to be heavily based on how Hell is described in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Both are level-based, “inescapable” prisons with unique forms of punishment per level, and the lower one traverses, the worse the punishments become.
  • Level 3: Starvation Hell is ironically the third floor, while in Dante Alighieri’s hell, its the place where who was damned by the sin of gluttony are punished by “starving to death” inside Cerberus’s gullets.
  • Level 4: Blazing Hell is a typical representation of Hell in cultural and fictional references, with intense flames and heat burning the “sinners” (or in this case, prisoners), while a demonic figure (in this case, the Jailer Beast Minozebra) pushing sinners into the flames. Magellan’s residence on this level could refer to this depiction of hell being where the devil resides. This resembles, in Dante’s tale, the level where violent people are punished: a lake of boiling blood, where the damned are drowning.
  • Level 5: Freezing Hell is another thing that is based on Divine Comedy. In fact, this level is the one where the damned are fraudulent. With the only difference that the Dante’s damned are totally frozen into a lake of ice.
  • A few of the levels of Impel Down also seem to resemble Buddhist concepts of hell such as the Crimson Hell which seems based on the “Hell of the Sword Tree and Knife Hill” which similarly tortures its victims by forcing them to run upon or impaling them upon trees and hills covered with knives and swords. Also the Four Jailer Beasts seem to resemble the Jailer Beasts Horse Face and Ox Head.
  • Each of the high ranking staff members seems to have a devil theme in their dress codes, a reflection to how each level of Impel Down is called Hell.
• Level 5.5 is a pun, as it is pronounced Go Ten Go. “Goten” means “Roaring Heaven”, and Level 5.5 was portrayed as heavenly.
• The level 6 purpose of erasing a person from history is similar to the damnatio memoriae, a form of punishment in the ancient Rome which had the intent of erasing the memories a person and everything that could carry it to the future generation, effectively erasing the existence of a person from history.
  

  

The Marineford Arc was the biggest gathering of Devil Fruit users so far in the series with Akainu, Aokiji, Bartholomew Kuma, Blamenco, Boa Hancock, Buggy, Crocodile, Dalmatian, Daz Bones, Donquixote Doflamingo, Edward Newgate, Emporio Ivankov, Epoida, Galdino, Gekko Moriah, Hina, Inazuma, Jozu, Kizaru, Laffitte, Marco, Marshall D. Teach, Monkey D. Luffy, Onigumo, Portgas D. Ace, Sengoku, Smoker, Trafalgar Law, and Tsuru, as well as several unidentified Devil Fruit users, taking part, a total of at least twenty-seven people. Except for Enel, every canon Logia user created by Oda was present during the battle.

556 is the number of the chapter where Luffy has arrived to Marineford in order to save his brother Ace .. and here he tries to save Ace’s Fruit.

Also there’s another reason as to why Oda chose this particular number. Luffy was born on May 05 and 5-6 means go-mu in Japanese.

ODA is really a genius!

Eiichiro Oda met his wife for the first time during Jump Festastage performances 2002 where she was cosplaying as Nami.

Her name is Chiaki Inaba and she is a former model. It is during this time that they met and started dating. They married in 2004 and had a daughter in 2006.

It was stated that Ace’s mother held him for 20 months (5 months before and 15 months after Roger’s execution). Since Ace’s birthday is January 1, Roger must have been executed sometime between late September and early October.

Luffy have fought 3 Straw Hats members in a serious fight.

And 2 members(+Vivi) started off as an enemy and those 3 were females.

Quick Fact: Eiichiro Oda stated that the next Straw Hats member will be an enemy.