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luffy’s hat is in the background of this panel — he left it behind while he went to go break the mast off the ship to fight laboon. this little scene with sanji and crocus talking intentionally directs our attention away from luffy so that we’ll get surprised by his actions in a moment, but we’re left a little clue that he’s no longer sitting where he was.
one piece excels at setting the mood of a scene through environmental cues and factors, and sometimes it’s incredibly unsubtle about it. take a shot every time the moon is shown in the next few chapters of whisky peak... this panel quite literally points to it and begs the reader to notice it.
i’m not really invested in celestial body symbolism for characters, it’s just not my thing, but whisky peak is good material for zoro moon symbolism truthers. zoro inverts what igaram sees as the power dynamic between baroque works and the strawhats. you’d think that moonlight would belong to baroque works — the organization of secrets, code names, bounty hunters working by night. well, jokes on them, zoro knows how to play their game and he’s better at it, without even trying. and to really drive that point home, he gets silhouetted by the moon multiple times.
benn beckman is so hot. also is this the first bounty poster we see in one piece? i really like how its kind of just hanging out in the background. bounties and bounty hunting are an established part of the world and even random little establishments put them up, almost as part of the decor. shoutout to mikio, whoever he is
that’s… the literal duomo in the background. damn. i knew that loguetown was based off florence, but i never noticed the direct reference before.
for reference, this is what the duomo di firenze (florence cathedral) looks like irl.
That’s Sanji’s birthday on his cart!
fun little balancing act going on there in the back!
luffy’s little snow-covered straw hat is so cute… for the panel it lasts before the snow falls off the moment he gets annoyed at usopp.
ipponmatsu’s weapon shop is so fucking cool, i wish it was real and that i could go there.
it’s fun that there’s an elbaf-ish horned helmet in the top left corner. i don’t think that there was any intentional significance to this detail or anything, oda just likes vikings. he’s said that his interest in pirates was sparked by an animated show called vicky the little viking.
