What are your favorite chapter titles in One Piece?
okay this ask made me realize i’ve been paying ZERO attention to chapter titles this entire time and i was bored anyways so i went back and flipped through quite a lot of volumes, so, anyways here’s a long and very non-exhaustive list of chapter titles i think kinda slap, right up to the chapter i am currently on (933). yes there’s a lot here. one piece has a lot of chapters.
(some of these are just in english or partly in english so. obviously i will not provide translations for those.)
Chapter 1: ROMANCE DAWN - 冒険の夜明け/bouken no youake (‘Dawn of Adventure’)
Chapter 41: 海へ/umi e (‘To Sea’)
Chapter 57: 夢在るがゆえ/yume aru ga yue (‘Because of a Dream’)
Chapter 81: 涙/namida (’Tears’)*
Chapter 144: 雪物語/yuki monogatari (‘Snow Story’)
Chapter 215: Last Waltz
Chapter 254: 夜明曲/ōbaado (‘Aubade’, lit. ‘Dawn Song’)
Chapter 291: ここにいる/koko ni iru (‘We are Here’)
Chapter 333: 船長/kyaputen (‘Captain’)
Chapter 370: 一人じゃない/hitori ja nai (‘You’re Not Alone’)
Chapter 397: 未来へ届くように/mirai e todoku you ni (‘In Order to Reach the Future’)
Chapter 419: 英雄伝説/eiyuu densetsu (‘Legend of Heroes’)
Chapter 426: 風待ちの船/kazamachi no fune (‘A Ship Awaiting a Good Wind’)
Chapter 428: 帰ろう/kaerou (‘Let’s Go Home’)
Chapter 482: 朝がくる/asa ga kuru (‘Morning Comes’)
Chapter 487: 命の唄/inochi no uta (‘Song of Life’)**
Chapter 500: 歴史の残り火/rekishi no nokoribi (‘The Embers of History’)
Chapter 544: 地獄の釜の蓋もあく/jigoku no kama no futa mo aku (‘The Lid of Hell’s Cauldron has Opened’)
Chapter 558: 弟/otouto (‘Little Brother’)
Chapter 572: The Times They Are a Changing - 時代は変わる/jidai wa kawaru (‘The Era Changes’)
Chapter 579: 勇気ある数秒/yuuki aru suubyou (‘A Few Seconds of Bravery’)
Chapter 601: ROMANCE DAWN for the new world - 新しい世界への冒険の夜明け/atarashii sekai e no bouken no yoake (‘Dawn of Adventure for the New World’)
Chapter 648: タイヨウへと続く道/taiyou e to tsuzuku michi (‘The Road that Continues Towards the Sun’)
Chapter 742: いつでもキミのそばにいる/itsudemo kimi no soba ni iru (‘Always by Your Side’)
Chapter 767: コラさん/kora-san (‘Cora-san’)
Chapter 887: どこかで誰かが君の幸せを願ってる/dokoka de dareka ga kimi no shiawase wo negatteru (‘Someone Somewhere is Wishing for your Happiness’)
Chapter 907: 虚の玉座/kara no gyokuza (‘The Empty Throne’)
Chapter 933: 武士の情け/bushi no nasake (‘A Samurai’s Mercy’)
*This one necessitates a little explaining- it’s also the title of the volume. It’s a double meaning. 涙/namida does mean ‘tears,’ but it’s also pronounced the same as nami da (‘It’s/I’m Nami’). This is the chapter where Nami breaks down and finally asks Luffy for help.
**This is the Binks no Sake chapter and the finale of Brook’s flashback, which makes it ILLEGAL that it’s called that.
