SBS Volume 65


 * D (Dokusha means Reader)
 * O (Oda)

Chapter 637, Page 26


'''R: Hey, Oda chi, you always let a reader say "SBS- begin!" right. I love that about Oda chi. So "SBS -begi..." From S Shimei kun.'''

''Oda: Eh? Can I really say it? That last letter...for my sake..you left it off for me to say? Ah... Thanks you. Okay let's say it! 1, 2, 3, "m" I got it wrong!!''

R: Panties panties panties panties panties panties panties panties panties panties panties panties panties panties panties panties.....Penname- Be sure to count the number of panties

''O: Stop, stop. I said stop. Stop, stop, stop. stop!!! Haaa...haaa.... this panties curse has come again! Three whole postcards worth. All over the surfaces, "panties" was written 3787 times (I counted)!! Don't send anymore! There wasn't even a question or anything! But all throughought I saw a few cases of "penties" or "panies"!!''

'''R: I'm a fourth grader who love Fisher Tiger. I always have fun watching One Piece. I have a question for Oda Sensei. What's inside Camie's Backpack? Penname- Aselola No. 1'''

''O: Right. Dreams, probably. And probably also soy sauce and butter (for cooking clams).''

R: So my question is this: in volume 10, Hachi declaes that, "With the exception of one man on Fishman Island, I'm the number one swordsman- "Six Sword Hachi", so is that one exception Hyouzou? If I'm wrong, please kill me. Penname- Yukuron

''O: No, you're right! A question you were willing to stake your life on!? They trained at the same dojp, but there's no way Hachi can measure up to Hyouzou.''



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Chapter 638, Page 46


'''R: OH, I GET IT!!! (Don!) Hmm... but I didn't hear you!!! Ha ha!! By Setobyun'''

''O:I haven't said anything yet, but... ah ha ha ha ha (that was mean).''

'''R: I've got a serious question! So the nine Strawhats each have a jolly roger, right? So you must have thought up new designs for after the 2 year skip!? From M Hiyu 22 years old'''

''O: About those... I just finished them. So the toy companies, right?- they came to me with some disigns and said "How are these?" but I said, "Wrong!" and fixed them, officially settling that matter for the time being. Wel, well, all sorts of companies have trouble spots. So, here you go.''



'''R: Recently in One Piece, all kinds of strong fruit users who Luffy can't even compete with have been appearing, one after the other. It seems that usually, in manga and anime, it's established that the hero has the strongest, unbeatable power, so why did toy decide to go with the pree weak-seeming rubber power for Luffy? Penname- Nihon Ganbare'''

''O:Ahaha, yeah, that's true. It must seem like a mystery when you consider all the other strong and cool ability users. The answer is simple. It's because that one is the most ridiculus. I don't think I could continue to lik'e' my own protagonist if he were strong and cool in the typical way. No matter how serious the story gets, Luffy is there to stretch and inflate. He always give me a chance to fool around. That's the kind of manga I wanted to write.''

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Chapter 639, Page 66


'''R: Nice to meet you! Straight to the question! My little sister said, " That cutre Ishilly from the Mermaid Over, With the freckles and the droopy eyes- is she the island's ishidai (striped beakfish) mermaid?" Please answer her. She also said, "If the others are based on certain fish, I want to know!" Penname- P&UU'''

O: Ohh. That's right. That's the ishidai Ishilly- one of the island's girls who was kidnapped by Caribou. The beauties from the Mermaid Cove are actually the dancers at the Mermaid Cafe. Hmm...the beauty of there dance could very well bring an end to Sanji's life. I'll introduce the top five of then Mermaid Cafe Dancers:



'''R: Hello! My family and I always have a lot of fun reader One Piece! So, here's a question! Whenever "sun" in kanji is written in the manga, it's expressed as taiyou phonetically, in katakana, usually reserved for foreign words. Is there a reason? I'm kind of curious about this. -Makki'''

''O:I see. This was almost subconcious on my part. I write it that way naturally. For example, when I'm writin'g Childrens lines or stupid Luffy's lines, I deliberately reduce the amount of kanji used and opt to write more w'ords in hiragana. That's because the character speaker wouldn't really understand, so it's unnatural to write their lines with kanji. In the same vein, for the fishpeople who live 10,000 meters below the surface, the sun is something that never penetrates and that they can't see. It's just not a part of their everyday lives. In short, instead of using kanji for something that they yearn for yet don't really understand, it suits me to use the katakana, taiyou, "The Sun Pirates" [Taiyou no kaizokudanm with taiyou in katakana'' and kaizokudan in kanji]. It's an awkward name that I like.

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