User:Sephirona

Hello ;D

I'm Rona. I'm not really sure what I want to say here, but I'll be floating around and adding stuff mainly to the One Piece Wiki, since I love One Piece so much. I do small updates to info about some characters, and also have been improving the prose written in the OP Wiki for some time, but I only just signed up now. :(

http://sephirona.deviantart.com

I love drawing too~ I've been drawing since I was very young and, after discovering Corel Painter and Wacom Tablets, have been drawing CP9's Rob Lucci and Kaku, and Zoro using attacks. Visit my Deviantart! ;D

I will also eventually figure out how to make this user page more aesthetically appealing...eventually.

Current GOALS?
Buy the Monster (by Naoki Urasawa) boxset.

Get One Piece: Unlimited Adventure for the Wii. @_@

Get all the Rob Lucci figurines in existence. (...)

Statistics

 * Gender: Female.
 * Age: 17
 * Date of birth: 13th November 1990
 * Country: The U.S. of America. o__o
 * Occupation: I'm a student. :(
 * Fav. Anime: One Piece and Monster.

I'm a One Piece Fan
Has spoilers below for parts of series, so don't read if you're scared D:

I can't really remember when I first got into One Piece...wait, I lied. I remember! It was actually when I first read the American Shonen Jump series, back when One Piece was first being introduced in the magazine, that I saw One Piece. My friends used to mock its artwork, but I heralded it as a truly magnificent example of originality. I still think to this day that, besides the amazing plot and characters, One Piece's art style is one of its best parts. Especially Oda's creature-art.

I read One Piece back BEFORE Zoro was renamed "Zolo"! I mean, what's a Zolo? A kind of vegetable?

After I discovered this intriguing (but relatively unknown at the time) new manga, I did some research and realized that there was indeed an anime series for it. It just so happened that while I was walking through a stash of imported (and possibly boot-legged...) DVDs I found a few bundles of One Piece. At this point, since it was around the year 2001 the 4Kids dub wasn't even heard of yet, so I grabbed the (possibly boot-legged...) sets of One Piece and popped them in my DVD player. The language dub, although not English, wasn't very up-to-par either...but when I switched on the original Japanese voices, I was completely spell-bound. I'll admit that at first, Luffy's voice shocked and annoyed me - Mayumi Tanaka's voice does have its own rather unique pitches - but after just a few moments, I knew that I had just introduced myself to a mind-blowingly amazing new series. I absolutely love Luffy's voice now, for one thing; his quirky, slightly dim, but lovable personality is wonderfully enhanced by his incredible voice actor, especially notable when he sings his Island songs. One Piece itself has its share of famous seiyuu, after all. Skypiea's Enel was voiced by the same Japanese seiyuu who did Sephiroth from FFVII, Naraku from Inuyasha, and Dante from the DMC Animated series. Rob Lucci (one of my favorite characters...*_*) was voiced by Tomokazu Seki, who has this huge incredibly long winding list of credits to his name...

I wish more people would read and watch One Piece. I hate it when people overlook the series because it's "long". I got annoyed at Inuyasha for its length, but One Piece has so many interweaving plots and mysteries that I can't see how one would get bored so easily. I, for one, am still waiting to see Gol D. Roger's significance in the world for finding One Piece, what role he had in being able to decipher Poneglyphs, what that "Will of the D." really means, and what the Ancient Kingdom really wanted the world to know about how the World Government came to power. And why the Pluton and Poseidon ships are so powerful. And what the "One Piece" really is. x)

I also hate it when people use the 4Kids version of One Piece as the basis for the reason why they won't touch One Piece...ehh. I've met quite a few of these individuals. But I'm seeing more and more One Piece cosplayers, so I guess that's a good thing! Maybe?

About Rona
Interesting how my "About Me" section comes after a long section about my love of One Piece...on an About Me page...anyways...

I love drawing and tinkering with Photoshop. I aspire to get a tablet one day so I can draw even better in Photoshop. I am a collecting-otaku to some extent, since I love having figurines of my favorite characters on my shelf (Rob Lucci figures, please? Give them to me! D:) and I love collecting imported One Piece manga, Japanese, and all.

I loved the pre-Squeenix Final Fantasys, namely Final Fantasy VII. I also love Chrono Trigger (LOVE LOVE) and the pre-Squeenix Kingdom Hearts ( That's before Chain of Memories and yes, even before KHII...don't ask why).

I also like eating natto! If you don't know what natto is, maybe that's a good thing?

Favorite Characters
I love the entire Strawhat Crew. I think it's marvelous how Oda could create such rich personalities and stories for his characters. I used to think I could pick a favorite character, but that's kind of hard. I mean, Luffy's crew is meant to work as a team, right? They're a package deal! They're all quirky, and each of them is lovable in his (or her) own way.

Rob Lucci & Co.

Outside of the crew, my favorite character would be Rob Lucci. Kekeke...he's so evil, but I always wonder how he could keep Hattori around. They have a really weird relationship too. Hattori mimics Lucci a lot. But I still think pigeons shouldn't drink whiskey. o_o I'm especially happy that the CP9 cover-arc is finally revealing what's happened so far to the group. Being that they were secret government operatives, they must have been dependent on the government for quite a while. Lucci's been working for them at least since he was 13, and probably even before then. But what would drive a kid to go to such lengths at such an age? @_@ The cover-arcs always end up reforming even the cruelest of villains, so I'm eager to see what'll become of Lucci.

I'm surprised Hattori wasn't there when Lucci was "Discharged" in chapter 506, though. Did Oda forget to draw him? D: The rest of the CP9 were there...

I also find it somewhat amusing that, despite having portrayed Lucci's voice very darkly and richly, all of Seki Tomokazu's other roles are those of really young, high-pitched-in-comparison voices. Lucci's voice is absolutely wicked. But it's not his normal voice. o_o Seki Tomokazu also hits these really high notes in his songs. I guess we could tell by listening to Hattori anyway. Ventriloquism, after all - go go Lucci, go go! *clap clap*

Portgas D. Ace

Ace is quite popular on favorite character lists. Especially the lists of girls. I hate to be categorized as such...but Ace is awesome! I'm kind of sad, even, that he's apparently not blood-related to Luffy. Who are his parents, then?

I also want to see how he's going to get himself out of the execution. I'm pretty sure Oda won't kill off one of his most popular characters (They even introduced him EARLY into the anime...just cause he's Ace) and I'm sure that if he died, there would be death threats. Luffy thinks he can take care of himself. Mass breakout of the prison, maybe? Crocodile looked like he was waiting around for something. lol! `-`

Enel

I like calling him Enel! Please don't mind. It's strange that I remember always seeing him referred to as Enel, but nowadays I only see "Eneru". I know "enerugii" is a romanization of "energy" in Japanese, but I don't know...every time I see "Eneru" I think of how the English dub would draw the word out in a very westernized way, and I can't stand it. It sounds like Ehnyehhhhroo whenever they say it, so my head starts hurting. Lol :(

Enel's on my favorites list cause everyone loves a psycho with a God-complex. AM I RIGHT? Of course. That, and he loves Apples and apparently has a punch perm. Oh yeahhh. Although I do wish he had a bit more clothing to cover that heso of his~

I keep hearing that Oda may have partially based him off of Eminem. Oda himself listed Eminem as one of his favorite musical artists. People say that some of Enel's reclining poses look really similar. Could it be true...?