1080–Akainu's daughter?
One thing I'm not seeing about Hibari that is happening in the Japanese fandom is her possible link to Akainu. I read a super early scan, (and wished I'd downloaded, cos' it's not there now), which said that she speaks with the same kind of dialect that Akainu does, and the translation indicated that. This is from Sandman on Twitter from September last year,
and a bit more recently:
Transcript:
September 26:
In the latest chapter, Hibari's Japanese speech style is inevitably lost in translation. It is called "Hiroshima dialect", the same as Akainu. Considering only these 2 characters speak that dialect in OP, Oda might be implying Hibari is Akainu's daughter or something.
January 8:
Hibari being Akainu's daughter theory is pretty popular in the Japanese fanbase. I'm wondering how Akainu would react when he knows Hibari is involved in the attack against Blackbeard
Go give Sandman some love. They're a great resource and seem to be a really nice person!
