#kakekotobullshit

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zoro and sanji's new bounties both include their birthdays! zoro’s birthday is 11/11, and sanji's birthday is 3/2 which is also a joke on his name: san is ‘three’ and ji can be ‘two.’

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as i mentioned awhile ago, hachinosu means ‘wasp’s nest’ (蜂の巣) in japanese (or more generally ‘something full of holes’, which is why it’s been translated some places as ‘fullalead’), which garp references here when complaining about the apparently endless swarm of pirates coming out of the woodwork. he says さすがはハチノス/sasuga wa hachinosu- “naturally/as expected, for a wasp’s nest/hachinosu!”

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okay so i don’t have non-awful raws for the new chapter yet but i absolutely needed to make a post about this pun because it makes me so fucking angry. i wanted to wait and see how they did it in the official english first, and that’s out now, so let’s go

marco’s attack is called 鳳梨の礫/nashi no tsubute. 

first of all, this is a joke because its also just a japanese saying- 梨の礫/nashi no tsubute, (lit. ‘pebbles of/from a pear tree’) means to not get a reply, which is probably why i got an ask about one translation rendering this attack name as “passive flame.” 

second of all, the word 鳳梨/houri, the main term here, reads literally as ‘phoenix pear tree.’ 

it’s an antiquated term for ‘pineapple.’

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Okay so. When they’re navigating to Whole Cake Island, Nami tells Luffy to turn the wheel to three o’clock, like, the direction.

The thing is. The word for three o’clock, in Japanese, is 三時/sanji. It’s where the surface joke in his name comes from (three o’clock is an old shorthand for snack/teatime in Japan).

So “the direction of three o’clock” is also “the direction where Sanji is,” and of course Luffy hears it as the latter, so he just starts spinning the fucking wheel wildly under the impression that that will get them to where Sanji is faster.

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okay so queen’s name for his weird ice plague bullets is a bad joke, and it DID make me laugh. it’s 氷鬼/koori-oni, which literally means ‘ice demon,’ which is obviously describing the effects it has on its victims.

koori-oni is also the name for the japanese version of the game english speakers know as freeze tag.

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‘Five’ is usually read as go, and ‘six’ can be read as mu. In other words, Luffy’s shirt here could be read as gomu.

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when the honorific prefix o- is attached onto toko’s name, it gives you おトコ/otoko, which is pronounced the same as 男/otoko, which means ‘boy/man.’ so when robin calls her おトコちゃん/otoko-chan, she immediately responds with 男じゃないよ/otoko ja nai yo (‘I’m not a boy.’)

she introduces herself as just ‘toko’ (other female wano characters, like kiku, introduce themselves with the o- prefix included) partly to avoid confusion and partly to set up this joke for when someone else calls her ‘otoko.’ 

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now that the first two sagas of one piece are on netflix as of today, i commandeered the tv to binge through from the start and got my dad to join me! we got halfway through syrup village and he thinks it’s very fun so far! so i was very happy to inform him it only gets better from there. we will be continuing tomorrow and hopefully get to the baratie, which i am big excited for.

some miscellaneous notes:

zoro’s laugh is DELIGHTFUL

didn’t realize before, but the fact that merry (kaya’s butler) is a sheep is definitely a play on the fact that 執事/shitsuji (butler) sounds like 羊/hitsuji (sheep)

my dad distrusted klahadore on sight because he reminded him of littlefinger from game of thrones, which cracked me up for a good minute

i just love the way luffy’s animated in these early episodes it’s so fun i love him so much

they didn’t let zoro stab himself vs cabaji :(