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Speaking as someone who made a blog about noticing things in One Piece, it's absolutely insane that some people notice these things in One Piece

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have you played any of the one piece games? If so, do you have a favorite?

I’m not a gamer, so no, but I’m fascinated with the unique narrative potential of video games. I don’t think my ideal vision of a op video game could possibly exist, not in the least because it wouldn’t feature the Straw Hats, but it is something I’ve thought about

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The fact that Buggy even considered this is hilarious. Keep on keeping on, you delusional king

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I'm with Luffy, what are the blugori? Being a blue gorilla isn't enough to explain how these guys can wield axes

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Continuing the Impel down and classic art comparisons, it reminds me a lot of Piranesi's Imaginary Prisons, and not just for the obvious reason (both of them being prisons)

I hadn't seen it until just now, but yeah, that looks to also fit the bill quite well.

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While Luffy's decision to free the prisoners of Impel Down is often referred to as the key example of his selfishness, what I find more interesting is that to start with he was completely uninterested in helping anyone else escape. If not for Ace, Luffy would be equally okay with leaving these guys to rot.

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In content, Impel Down is based predominately on Dante's Inferno, but visually I feel like there's bits of Hieronymus Bosch's vision of hell

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Which Strawhat do you think got the best showing in the arc after they joined the crew. As a refresher, that would be Zoro in the Buggy arc, Nami in the Kuro arc, Usopp in the Baratie arc, Sanji in the Arlong Park arc, Chopper in the Alabasta arc, Robin in the Jaya arc, Franky in the thriller Bark arc, Brook in the Sabaody archipelago arc, and Jimbei in the Wano arc

Zoro during Orange Town, on the strength of the scene of him lifting up Luffy’s cage alone. If you extend Robin to the Skypiea arc as a whole, it’d be her.

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Assuming when a prisoner dies, their number doesnt get used again, the number would be much smaller i think

But since this is supossed to be an question, if you could choose a zoan, which one woukd you choose?

Marcos, easily. If you forced me to pick an animal that actually exists I’d probably go with some kind of cat? I guess? They can survive about anywhere, and I’m jealous of their napping potential

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I don't think we're given an exact explanation of how the prison number system works in Impel Down but, uh, that's a lot of prisoners.

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It's not an accident that many of the guards are either inhuman or have their eyes covered with sunglasses. The eyes are the window of the soul, and Oda adds that extra bit of distance between the reader and the staff of Impel Down by taking away that feature. In contrast, den den mushi cameras are everywhere, an omnipresent, all-seeing eye ready to hunt down and punish even the smallest infraction.

I would also be remiss not to point out that the base uniform of the Impel Down jailers pulls heavily from the uniforms of the SS, nor do I think it’s a coincidence that one of Magellan’s gimmicks is breathing poison gas. Oda isn’t exactly being subtle with what he’s trying to convey, but it’s saved from true grimdark territory with a pretty heavy focus on humor to balance things out.

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It's neat that Oda shows how Impel Down gets its food, but it raises the question for me about how working at the prison actually works. There aren't many ships that come and go, and even traveling on the Government currents it takes a long time to get back to a proper island. Do the guards sleep in the prison? Is it one of those week on/week off types of places? I have so many questions.

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Hannyabal gets a moment towards the end of the arc that makes him a more complicated, sympathetic figure, but this is absolutely unhinged

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Foreshadowing!

And I must reiterate, the aesthetic for Impel Down is perfect. Oda took every stereotype for a medieval torture dungeon and smashed them all together perfectly. It's got a little bit of that Thriller Bark-style of darker shading, but where that arc had a lot of stark blacks here Oda uses a lot of hatching and crosshatching on the stonework to add texture and a sense of griminess to the prison. We don't see the light source of this panel, but it looks like there's an unseen fire casting everything in the distance into ominous shadow.

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My first time going through this chapter I didn't notice Luffy hanging from the ceiling

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Okay, this is cute

For some reason, this is my favorite of all Luffy's nicknames for people. Per an SBS Luffy genuinely does not care to remember people's names unless they're a part of his crew, making the few non-crew members who he remembers all the more special

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In Luffy's defense, he tried.

And I like that the background in Hancock's panel is pure black in contrast to Luffy's stark white, showing their differing mental states at this point in time