#lawlu and zolu are definitely more popular luffy ships

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Literally just main character(male) and main supporting character of the opposite sex

This isn’t a SaNami post but can someone explain to me why LuNa is so popular? I don’t want to start any shipping wars but it might be the most popular Luffy ship and I don’t really know why.

I try to understand LuNa shippers by reading stuff about them but the only valid reason is just in a few cover arts Nami is wearing a crown as if she’s the “Pirate Queen”; I understand this but it only happens like two or three times.

Another reason people use is Nami looks like Rouge which for mostly every woman and One Piece looking like Nami and Rouge definitely not looking like her this isn’t a very valid reason.

They have some great moments but to be honest they are all just them being good friends, they are all really emotional moments that Luffy has had with every other member of the crew. Is it just because they are the main male and female characters or am I missing something? Anyways live laugh love SaNami.

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Hello! I came across your tumblr and loved your strong world analysis. I wanted to ask you what are your feelings on the current lack of luffy and nami material? Because it seems to me that the fandom is dead. There is no posts for it and i only run into sanji and nami or zoro and nami posts. It really sucks that luffy/nami shippers seem to have given up on their pairing. They seem fickle because they're not always moments for them. I actually just started liking this pairing.

Hey there! Thanks for stopping by!  To answer your question, I don’t believe the fandom is dead at all, it’s just that there’s always been a small number of people here on Tumblr who actively support the pairing (i.e enough to post about it, there’s lots more who will like LuNa posts). SaNa is a bit more prevalent on Tumblr (I think?), and of course Luffy’s two biggest ships are Luffy x Law (is that LawLu? I don’t know) and ZoLu in the English side of the fandom. SaNa gets dwarfed by ZoSan, I believe. Yaoi ships tend to be more popular on Tumblr, from what I’ve noticed. 

So while it seems like there aren’t tons of posts popping up, a lot of those who ship LuNa have loved the pairing for many years. I also believe there is a much larger LuNa crowd over on Oro Jackson. 

Because of the nature of LuNa and why people ship them, it seems unlikely to me me that anyone would decide Nami and Luffy are better suited with other people, so while I’m sure there are some fickle shippers (particularly the kinds of people that have multiple ships with multiple people for every fandom they’re apart of) most of us are here to stay. :-). 

This ship is kind of unique in that everyone really is in for the long haul, and One Piece is the longest of long hauls. This means we’ll always have people who will be more active at certain times, which is true even across the larger scope of the OP fandom. I think @Zippi44 is a good example. She still very much ships them, but has other art to keep her busy atm :-) @luffywhatelse has been an OP fan since 2001, and has times when they’re active and times when they’re not. But definitely a LuNa shipper, and will post about it. 

I also don’t think anyone is expecting LuNa to become canon before the very end. Any major changes in Strawhat dynamics would throw off OP’s formula, which Oda sticks to religiously. This means that we’ve got many years ahead. We don’t think Luffy and Nami secretly love each other (that would contradictory to their personalities). I think a lot of us then, are content to enjoy their relationship for what it is now, as @Warlordgab says, a potent pairing.

However, we’re still analyzing stuff and posting about it. I also think it’s natural for moments when there’s lots to talk about (like when Luffy and Nami were on their own in WCI) there to be more activity. 

If you’re looking for people actively posting about LuNa here on Tumblr, I’d recommend @warlordgab and his many wonderful in-depth posts. All of them are excellent! @warm-starlight just posted an interaction breakdown for Luffy and Nami in chapter 910. She’s also gone through all of the the OP manga looking at their interactions. @yagamitaichi7 @leobazookaoj  often post about LuNa. There’s also awesome artists such as @jawf and @sadomaruxsadaharu. There’s also @angiechanxd and @oncexpeace who are active and reblog posts from people posting about LuNa. @lunami-trash does as well, and has a discord server for LuNa fans. And of course there’s others in the fandom who post about LuNa but I can’t list them all here. These are the people I’ve seen a lot in my circles. 

We might be a smaller chunk of the OP fandom on Tumblr, but we’re still here, and we still love these two :-)