One Piece puns
Okay, so you know how Japanese doesn't have the letter L, right? And they replace L with R.
Now, in One Piece this seems to work both ways and we see this with, for example, Laugh Tale -> Raftel and Rogue Town -> Logue Town.
Now here are two little puns I found that make use of this.
- The name of Brook's first pirate crew is a pun on rum and bones. The Rumbar pirates (cool in English too cus, you know, pirates and rum) also works as the Lumbar pirates. The lumbar is the lower back region of your spinal column or backbone.
- Sanji's Mellorine is a pun on food and falling in love. Mellorine is an imitation ice cream, which Sanji can probably make cus he can make any type of food. He's also basically saying the girls are sweet like (immitation) ice cream. Anyway, replace the "ll" with "r" and you get Mero-rine. Mero-Mero (think of Boa Hancock's devil fruit) is a Japanese expression meaning "to fall hopelessly in love".
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