Nami/Misc.

Early Concepts
Nami's design and personality (and arguably her background story as well) is the result of a long process with several other similar characters. The first apparent character in the process of developing towards Nami was Silk in Romance Dawn, Version 1, who was then followed by another girl called Ann in Romance Dawn, Version 2. Each one of the girls had her own personality which seemed to have been placed into Nami's overall design.

When Nami got angry with Arlong, she stabbed herself in the arm where his crew's flag was with a knife several times. Even when the tattoo was removed, there remained the scar. The new tattoo Nami gained replaced her old one but covered the scar.

However, in the One Piece Loguetown Novel. a panel of Nami in a bath is seen with the scar left over from stabbing herself on her back, the new tattoo did not cover the scar at all. That scar also remains in Reverse Mountain Arc. However, it isn't shown in later arcs. There is the possibility that this was an early design idea, but the reason of the idea drops is unknown.

According to One Piece Green: Secret Pieces, Nami was initially going to be a battle-axe user as well as a cyborg.

Nami's Introduction


In the anime, Nami is introduced in the series as early as the first episode. She appears on the ship Alvida attacks and while Alvida's men are raiding the passenger ship she was on, Nami snuck on board to steal her treasure. After Luffy defeats Alvida, Nami is seen leaving the scene when Luffy and Koby lower their ship next to hers, almost causing Nami's ship to turn over. Luffy and Nami briefly look at each other for the first time before they immediately part ways when a huge cannon ball impacts and makes a huge splash between them.

She is later seen when they encounter Captain Morgan; while Luffy and Koby talk about the Marine a brief scene shows her sitting in the same bar listening to their conversation.

None of these scenes appear in the manga.

Tattoo
In several Color Spreads and Color Covers, Nami's tattoo after the Arlong Park Arc is depicted as black, while in the anime, it is the same shade of blue as her previous Arlong Pirates tattoo.

Children
While sympathetic to the children on Punk Hazard, she was not as concerned about Rongo when he was threatened by Ian.

Straw Hats' Separation
Nami's adventure in Weatheria is extended in the anime. In the anime, when a storm comes to Weatheria, Nami combines the wind knot with her Clima-Tact to neutralize the storm.

Merchandise


As a main character, she appears often in the fan merchandise. Nami has been featured in the series of models Portrait of Pirates three times. She has featured in trading figure sets such as One Piece Motion Figure box and the One Piece Styling Figures. She was released in the One Piece DX Figure ～Swimsuit Style～ set which included her and Luffy. When the Wii game One Piece: Unlimited Adventure was released Nami was one of the crew produced as a figure in the One Piece Locations Trading Figures series. Her Portrait of Pirates Sailing Again figure is set to be released winter 2012/11.

She was issued alongside Bell-mère in a One Piece DeQue set featuring the Straw Hats and their past mentors/loved ones. She has featured in One Piece Gashapon sets. She featured in the One Piece Monkey Island Mascot Keychain/Cellphone strap series alongside Luffy.

Songs

 * Music
 * Between the Wind
 * Hurricane Girls (with Robin)
 * Akuma no Mi (Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Usopp and Sanji)
 * Hi! Ho! Ready Go! (Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Usopp and Sanji)
 * Family (with other crew members)
 * We Are! (with other crew members)
 * Utae! Jingle Bell (with other crew members)
 * You Are the One (with other crew members)
 * Jungle Fever (with other crew members)
 * Girls ni Kubittake (with Vivi as backup to Sanji)
 * A Thousand Dreamers (with other crew members)

Support Appearances

 * Chopper's Big Adventure
 * One Piece

Non-Playable Appearances

 * Aim! The King of Belly
 * J-Stars Victory Vs

Other Media

 * Nami appears in every year of One Piece Premier Show. In Premier Show 2015, she is brainwashed by Bonbon to fall in love with Bürst, who schemes to marry her on Marriage Greenland.
 * Nami appeared in the 2018, Segment 2 and 2019 One Piece Water Battle shows. She also appeared in Sanji's Pirates Restaurant during the 2013, 2014, and 2015-2016 seasons.
 * One of the Tokyo One Piece Tower's exhibits, "Nami's Casino House", centers around the navigator, and a statue of Nami appears as part of Straw Hat Crew's Great Feast. Nami appears in most Tokyo One Piece Tower special animations and stage shows, including every Live Attraction, One Piece 4D, The Great Treasure of Tongari Island, Immersive Theater: When the Box of Time Opens, and Visitors from the Wrecked Ship. She plays a central role in Piece Trail: The Adventurers and the Amazing Spring, where Eric accidentally gives her rainbow-colored honey that causes her crewmates to lose their voices. She works together with Lance, a prince of Strumia, to restore their voices.
 * Nami and the crew help Toratsugu save Kikuhime from Lark in One Piece Art NUE.
 * Nami appears in the teamLabCamera attraction in the Digital Art Island Adventure event.
 * Nami appears in Straw Hat Pirates vs. Marines vs. Seven Warlords Holographic Battle Theater and One Piece Dramatic Stage THE METAL ~Marineford of Remembrance~.
 * Nami appears in Super Kabuki II: One Piece in the retelling of the Sabaody Archipelago Arc.
 * Nami appears in the first two One Piece Water Spectacle shows.
 * Nami is the main character of a Hungry Days commercial that adapts her relationship with the Arlong Pirates to a real-world scenario. She also appears in the Zoro and Vivi-centered commercials.
 * Nami was displayed on posters in J-WORLD Tokyo.
 * Nami was set to appear in ONE PIECE LIVE STAGE ～Tower of Steel～, but the show was postponed indefinitely.
 * Nami appears in the brass entertainment show One Piece Oto Utage when scenes from the Arlong Park Arc are adapted.
 * A bronze statue of Nami was dedicated in Kumamoto as part of the Kumamoto Revival Project.

Crossovers

 * Nami appears in Kyutai Panic Adventure! where Frieza attacks Odaiba. The Straw Hat Pirates came to Goku's aid, but they were intercepted by and fought the Arlong Pirates. Nami also appeared in Kyutai Panic Adventure Returns!, where Enel attacks Tokyo and Odaiba.
 * Nami and other characters also appeared in Cross Epoch.
 * Nami has appeared in the games Jump Super Stars and Jump Ultimate Stars for the DS. She also appeared in Battle Stadium D.O.N on the GameCube and PlayStation 2.
 * Nami has appeared with several other Shonen Jump heroines in A Magnificent Banquet, a special chapter by Shokugeki no Soma author, Yūto Tsukuda.

Translation and Dub Issues
"Nami" (波) is Japanese for "wave, breaker".

Mostly, Nami did not suffer any major alterations from Japanese to English dub by 4Kids. However, since the Arlong Park Arc, Nami was the subject of various edits.

The most common edit, as seen in the Arabasta Arc when she wore a dancer's outfit, was to remove any cleavage made visible by her outfits. In fact, all of the female characters had their cleavage and breast lines removed or heavily reduced. In line with this edit was the addition of a bathing suit on her body during the bath scene near the end of the arc. Another such scene where she used her "Happiness Punch" against the men who were peeking at her and Vivi from the wall separating the male and female baths. One major edit saw the alteration Nami has suffered was the absence of her stabbing the tattoo on her left arm when she is mad at Arlong.

In the Funimation TV Edit dub version, these edits towards Nami are not as restrictive, notably during the Skypiea Arc, where she wore a bikini top with no edits to her breasts.

When Nami pretends to stab Usopp during the Arlong Park Arc, several changes were made in the 4Kids dub. Instead of revealing Nami did not really stab Usopp later, the dub immediately reveals she did not intend on hurting him. Also, instead of stabbing herself, she asks Usopp for his rubber knife so it will appear she stabbed him. Usopp is also informed of her plan, compared to the original version where he wasn't aware of Nami's intentions.

Nami's decision to give up on the 1,000,000,000 she agreed with Igaram to be the reward for delivering Vivi to Arabasta was changed in the Funimation dub to have her say that she was disappointed that she wasn't able to get the reward money in the end.

Nami's epithet (泥棒猫, Dorobō Neko) can be translated as cat burglar, however it can also mean a woman who steals men from other women.

Trivia

 * Nami has her own jolly roger, which features a blue-and-white-striped bandana (which somewhat matches the pattern on the blouse she wore in her initial appearance), a winking eye, a tongue sticking out, one hand doing the "OK" sign (a Japanese hand motion signifying money), her hair and a diamond-star. The version depicted in the One Piece Magazine adds her Log Pose and bangle to her hand.
 * After the timeskip, one circle represents the whole skull instead of having the mouth and lower jaw separate, possibly to make its hair seem longer to match Nami's. The hair is now mussy instead of neat curls, also matching Nami's wilder hair. The pattern on the bandanna is changed to match the pattern of the bikini top Nami wore in her initial appearance after the timeskip. The skull no longer winks and now wears earrings, and the arm has her bangle and Log Pose. It also has Nami's mikan-pinwheel tattoo behind it.


 * In One Piece Color Walk 1, several of Nami's habits are revealed before her character development in an early drawing that featured her alongside Monkey D. Luffy and Roronoa Zoro:
 * She is seen reclining in a deck chair, before the crew had acquired a ship. She began using a deck chair on board the Going Merry and later the Thousand Sunny, often sunbathing or catching up on the news.
 * She is charting a map and has a logbook nearby with both a navigational compass and a drawing compass, hinting at her desire to draw a map of the world.
 * She is wearing reading glasses, which she occasionally uses later on, such as the Skypiea Arc.
 * She has taken off her boots to be barefoot. Nami tends to avoid wearing shoes, and in Chapter 96, it is shown that Nami does not have shoes with her while she is relaxing in her deck chair.
 * She has a pencil instead of a pen. It was later revealed that she drew charts for Arlong in pen so much that it was soaked with her blood.
 * She is shown with a wine glass as opposed to Luffy and Zoro's normal glasses. Nami's drinking habits tend to be tamer than her fellow crewmates, save for the time she was goaded into drinking in excess at Whisky Peak. In contrast, Zoro has two glasses of alcohol, putting special emphasis on how much he loves to drink compared to either Nami or Luffy (who has just one glass).


 * In Chapter 97, Nami can be seen trying on some clothes. One of the outfits is almost identical to Robin's clothes in Arabasta, and her second outfit resembles that of Boa Hancock's prototype designs.
 * Nami is the only Straw Hat to invite someone to join the crew before Luffy could ask them. She asked Chopper if he wanted to travel with them during the Drum Island Arc.
 * As revealed in the Jaya Arc, Nami hates bugs and is especially terrified of spiders, which Sanji is as well.
 * Nami's ranking in the popularity polls went as follow: 5th (first and second poll), 7th (third poll), 6th (fourth poll), 8th (fifth and sixth poll), 3rd (seventh poll). Her ranking in the 7th poll (the first online poll) was controversial among fans, especially after the release of the official video showing the votes in real time. However, despite widespread accusations of botting, no foul play was ever confirmed by the organizers of the poll.
 * Eiichiro Oda's wife, Chiaki Inaba (稲葉ちあき Inaba Chiaki) (Kanagawa prefecture, Kantō, Japan, January 4, 1979) is a fomer model, actress, "Campaign Girl", "Race Queen" and "Gravure Idol". 23-years old Inaba was costumed and acted as Nami at Jump Festa 2002 participating in "ONE PIECE Spectacle Stage" (ワンピーススペクタクルステージ, Wanpīsu supekutakurusutēji) like actress. A 27-years old Oda met her during one of these performances and after this first meeting, they had a courtship for two years. Oda and Inaba married in november 7, 2004 and they are parents of two daughters; the first of whom was born in mid-2006 and the second was born in 2009.
 * When a reader asked Oda with whom Nami is in love with, Oda answered that there will not likely be any romance among the Straw Hat Pirates. Oda explained that he does not portray romance in One Piece as the series is a shonen comic, and the young boys who read the comic are not interested in romance.

SBS-Based Trivia

 * Nami's birthday, July 3, comes from her name since 7-3 can be derived from Na-mi. Also, her birthday in Japan is known as 'Tanabata' (たなばた), also known as 'Star Festival' (星祭り).
 * Despite being one of the weakest members of the crew physically, Nami is able to hurt Luffy with normal strikes (although given the situations in which this happens, it may be purely for comical effect). When questioned by a fan on this, Oda answered that Nami beats up Luffy's spirit.
 * Nami's favorite foods are mainly mikans and other kinds of fruits. Also, her favorite food from Wano Country is Oshiruko. Her least favorite food is orangette because if she wants fruit, she will eat regular fruit.
 * She shares her like of mikan with her adoptive mother, Bell-mère and adoptive sister, Nojiko. She also shares her like of fruits with Jinbe.
 * Nami does not eat ice cubes, the same as Zoro, Sanji, and Franky.
 * Nami's favorite dish to cook is roasted duck with mikan sauce.
 * Nami likes fried egg, sunny side up, coddled with orange sauce.
 * Nami's favorite type of island and season is summer on a spring island.
 * Nami's specific numbers are 03 and 73 (7=Na - 3=Mi).
 * Nami's specific color is orange.
 * Nami smells like mikan and money.
 * If the Straw Hat Pirates were a family, then Nami would be the daughter.
 * Nami's animal resemblance is a cat.
 * If One Piece was set in the real world, then Nami would be from Sweden.
 * Nami's thoughts are "Money, Money, Money, Money, Beauty", and like the rest of the Straw Hat Pirates, "Friendship".
 * When a fan asked which flower Nami resembles the most, Nico Robin's Japanese voice actress answered she most resembles a sunflower.
 * Nami bathes every day, the same as Sanji and Robin.
 * Trafalgar D. Water Law calls Nami according to her name, Nami-ya.
 * Nami represents the prefecture of Ehime.
 * Nami typically sleeps at 11:00 P.M. and gets up at 7:00 A.M.
 * If the Straw Hat Pirates were not pirates, then Nami would be a childcare worker.
 * If the Straw Hat Pirates had a 50-meter race, then Nami would come in seventh place.
 * When Sanji in raid suit, then Nami call him "Cape".
 * If Nami were to be given a Devil Fruit, she would have the Goro Goro no Mi.
 * In SBS 92, Oda showed Nami's possible appearances at ages 40 and 60 in two separate timelines.