Opening flap:
I can't stand how certain things are just automatically decided for us. Being born into a 'Year of the Rabbit'!!? A 'Year of the Goat'!!? What the hell!!! Those weakling animals suck!! And so I'm going to change them.
'YEAR OF THE GIANT MAN-EATING RABBIT'
'YEAR OF THE 'CAN-SWALLOW-AN-ANACONDA-WHOLE' DEVIL GOAT'
Scary-shiz.
And so powerful.
Here we go with Volume 58!!
Someone asks when WB will use that boomerang beneath his nose. He says when he goes to the park with his dog, Stefan.
"Here we go boy! Go fetch! Stefan!" *whoosh*
"BARK!?"
"It ain't a frisbee so it comes back to me, Gurarara!!"
This includes a picture of Stefan who replaces pwngoat in every way I can imagine. Sorry.
Someone asks if WB's beard can hold bananas. He says if you take off the fastener in the back it can hold a total of six.
Is WB Logia or Paramecia? Oda explains carefully that he was Paramecia. He's not a living earthquake. But we knew this.
Someone growls. Oda replies.
He orignally intended to use the Face Fleur in Skypiea for Robin to move unconscious crew members but figured it was too scary-looking. He might use it though.
Someone asks why Ace has freckles but he avoids and instead goes on about how he forgets to draw them 92% of the time and asks staff to check him.
He says that while the inspiration for Iva and most of the okama in ID was from TRHPS Iva is actually based on the member of Mayumi Tanaka's acting troupe that he met. He's a real okama and his face looked like a boulder (iwa) so when he heard his family name was 'Imamura' he mistook it for another common family name 'Iwamura'. Anyway, the guy heard that the character was based on him and auditioned for the role for the anime and...he got it. So in a way, like Luffy, that's literally his real voice.
Citation:
Q: I thought to write to you since I have a question.
About Emporio Ivankov, he seems to have a striking resemblence to Dr Frankfurter from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
O: Yes, that is correct. Rocky Horror Picture Show is a silly, nonsensical favorite movie of mine that
is so famous that anyone who is into B-rated horror movie would know.
The entire Kama Land theme is modeled after it.
HOwever, Ivankov has yet another model for him.
After I used Bon-chan, I met a real-life okama that made me want to do another okama character!
I met that man at the stage play featuring Luffy's VA Mayumi Tanaka.
He was a very impressive man named Norio Imamura, and because his face looked like a boulder,
I kept mistakingly remembered his name as "Iwamura" (Iwa = rock), thus the name Iva-san was born.
What's even more surprising is, after hearing that Ivankov was based on him, Mr Imamura auditioned for
voice acting Iva-san, and won that role! So the person Ivankov was based off, the real-life okama named
Norio Imamura is voicing Iva-san right now on the TV anime. He's really a powerful actor!
Expanding on the freckles, Oda fools the young readers by adding useless info that there was an old proverb: "Don't mind freckles." and asked readers to ask their parents. But this is actually the opening line of the theme song to Candy Candy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlusW5IBhcwAges and heights you know I believe. You probably heard Boa's sizes. Just don't forget to adjust her J cup to your local standards.
Tsuru's fruit it the 'Wash Wash' Fruit. She can wash people which is useful for a Marine since she can clean pirates to their black hearts.
Tsuru's cleaning ability is only slightly effective but still dangerous to pirates.
Someone asks why people get into the Usopp Gallery more than once. Inferring that this isn't fair, they ask if Oda isn't the one who chooses them. Oda actually chooses with a team consisting of him, the comic chief (Yokoyama) and head of the staff in charge of the Usopp Gallery section and they choose not necessarily what Oda thinks is best, but what they think would excite readers. That's why sometimes people get in multiple times. However, no one will ever be allowed to win more than once.
You know the names.
Someone says they could use Haki. Oda reacts in a lengthy and strangely uneccessary way, making me think he brought it up because he intends to use it soon in the main story.
Although Oda doesn't mention Dr. FF for Iva, the reader's question does.
An unnecessary gag about giving Nami a full-body exam as a reader joined the Medical Club at school being inspired by Chopper.
Someone asks about the difference between Ace and Marco's fruit and Oda purposely doesn't expand much because he hints that we'll be seeing him again BUT in the meantime his flame isn't hot, it can't spread or burn and the blue flame is what indeed heals Marco AND can invalidate attacks HOWEVER, there is a limit it's reviving abilities.
Someone says SBS can be kinda perverted. Oda says it's ok cause he says worse things at home.
Oh and someone said if their significant other would marry them if they got in the SBS so Oda put it in and wished them well. I'm calling bullshit on it but the thought is nice on Oda's part.
Done.
Mais c'est quoi ces monstres ? Oda doit aimer les géants, c'est pas possible autrement. Y a que Mihawk et Hancok qui sont "normaux" (façon de parler, si on occulte leur puissance et leurs techniques/pouvoirs (rayer la mention inutile)).
