#most of this was from the wiki and skimming their backstories in the manga

[sapphicfandompirate]

Did any of the Strawhat's even go to school?

Chapter 1134 has sparked discussions on the state of the Strawhat's education, so I figured I would do a little analysis on my thoughts on it based on canon.

Luffy- Feral jungle child. Makino probably taught him to read and write, and attempted to teach him manners. Jury is out on whether or not Garp actually taught him anything. Doesn't seem to know much history. Does know beetles, and probably a lot of survival skills, including hunting.

Zoro- Ok this is the real reason why I made this post.

A dōjō (道場, Japanese pronunciation: [doꜜː(d)ʑoː]) is a hall or place for immersive learning, experiential learning, or meditation. This is traditionally in the field of martial arts. The term literally means "place of the Way" in Japanese. -Wikipedia

Isshin Dojo (一心道場, Isshin Dōjō?) is a kenjutsu school, a school of Japanese swordsmanship. Its owner is Koushirou, who is a skilled swordsman and father of the deceased Kuina. It is the place where Zoro trained his Three Sword Style and in the anime is the only dojo Zoro did not take down the sign of. -One Piece Wiki, Emphasis added by me

As a member of the Isshin Dojo Zoro has attended school! Koshiro taught him primarily swordsmanship and meditation, but someone taught him reading, writing, and math and I'm just going to guess it's Koshiro as well. Seems to know a bit of sword-related history, but not much world or local history.

Nami-Stole education books. Not formally educated. Everything was probably taught by Bellemere and the rest was learned on the fly. Probably knows the basics of mainstream world history. Is capable of formulating advanced equations, and has vast sailing, navigation, cartography and weather knowledge. Studied at Weatheria during the timeskip, but it doesn't seem like a formal institution.

Usopp - Orphaned street rat. Unknown who taught him to read, write, and do math. Possibly Banchina before she passed away. Somehow he knows chemistry and engineering? Might have borrowed books from Kaya? Mostly self-taught it seems.

Sanji- Definitely has a formal education, up until he ran away. Noble child who had a variety of tutors. Learned whatever noble children learn plus a variety of fighting techniques and fields of science. Then was taught cooking by Zeff. Boy definitely knows how to do math. Anyone who cooks for a large group of people can at least multiply on the fly, or has a calculator taped to the wall. One Piece appears to use the metric system, so at least he doesn't have to figure out how to quadruple a recipe that originally called for 1 2/3 cups of flour.

Chopper - Professionally taught by Dr. Kureha (and Dr. Hililuk). They are both referred to as Doctors, but it is unknown what sort of medical knowledge is actually needed for that title, or if there is like a degree or anything. Assumably one of them taught him reading, writing, math, and chemistry in addition to medical stuff. Also read all of the books in the Torino Kingdom during the timeskip. According to the wiki, Kureha established an academy during the timeskip.

After establishing a medical academy, she taught and trained at least eighty students who became skilled enough to join the Isshi-20, expanding their members to a hundred under her leadership.

Robin- Got a degree in archaeology at the age of 8. Has all of the reading, writing, and history skills, including dead languages. While she taught herself how to read the poneglyphs, I think it's safe to say that Professor Clover taught her regular history, math, science, reading, and writing. Robin went to school!

Franky - Apprenticeship under the shipwright Tom. His state of education was unknown before meeting Tom at age 10. Should know all of the basic skills (reading, writing, math) in addition to carpentry, and shipbuilding. Tom's Workers is referred to as a shipbuilding company, so I don't think it counts as a school? Knows at least enough medical knowledge to turn himself into a cyborg with scraps from a ghost ship after being runover by a train. And Survive. Somehow.

Brook- APPARENTLY??? Stated that school makes him nostalgic, which implies he attended. Also knows a variety of things usually nobility would, namely various musical instruments and fencing. He also knows sailing, and various other things to be a battle convoy leader and pirate captain. I have questions for this man.

Jinbe - Dojo again, this time the Fish-Man Karate Dojo. Later joined the Neptune Army. So, since a dojo counts as a type of specialized school, he's attended a school as well as had military training! Knows basic historical stuff, especially that pertaining to fishmen and human-fishman relations. Seems to know other basic life skills (reading, writing, math, ect)

So, in conclusion:

Went to school: Zoro, Robin, Brook, Jinbe

Private Tutors: Sanji

Vocational Training under a Professional: Sanji, Chopper. Franky, Nami,

Self Taught with some instruction by a parent or other adult (non-professional): Luffy, Nami, Usopp

Out of the ten members, 4 of them attended a school of some sort and several others had some sort of professional training or supervision of study.

Feel free to add on if I missed anything!

[ouranbutworse]

Anime-Manga Comparisons, episode 20.

We were on volume seven last episode, and now we’ve skipped ahead to nine for this one, and then we’ll be returning to volume eight for the next few episodes. The twins really do cause trouble, don’t they?

For starters, the twins’ story with their nanny actually already happened in the manga, it’s an extra episode at the end of volume seven, and it’s told as a story the twins are telling the rest of the club and guests. I’ll talk about it later, when it comes up in the anime storyline, but it’s important to note that it’s shown earlier in the manga, and that this is another example of the anime adding bits together that are technically originally unrelated. I can see why they put them together, though. The beginning of the manga episode even references the earlier episode.

Starting with the anime, we see the flashback to the mini twins and a little girl playing their guessing game, and I fail at the first hurdle by being unsure if this scene ever happens in the manga. I assume it doesn’t because I’ve skimmed through a few later volumes and can’t find it, so it’s probably an anime only scene. If it is in the manga, then I apologise wholeheartedly and also shift all of the blame to the wiki, which lies half finished like my cooking usually does. Anyway. The girl they make fun of with the love note looks the same in both, and she gets her poor little heart broken the same way, too. I personally think her hairstyle is adorable.

Right after this we get the study hall scene, and the anime adds to the twins closed-off-ness by having the scene literally tear away after every classmate comments on them until it’s just the two of them left. It’s a really great detail, I love when things like this are added! And then the manga shows a flashback to the previous volume, and the anime plays that flashback.

Going back to volume seven, we see the mini twins! In the anime it starts at the garden party, and the manga starts with them showing off a photo of them dressed in their little girl outfits while the guests fawn over how cute they were. It sets up their backstory of having more than one caretaker over their childhoods, because they were little shits, and Haruhi finding one photo of them both crying, and the twins tell her the story.

The interaction with their aunt actually goes on a little longer, and they screw with her before showing the frog. They tell her that the blue twin is Kaoru and the pink twin is Hikaru, and then immediately switch who’s who mid sentence, and then they pull out the frog. In the anime their nanny rushes to help the aunt after she faints, but in the manga she’s fine, just angry about the twins’ behaviour and how they never cry or smile, even when she came to visit because their parents were away on a business trip, and the nanny tells another guest that she loves children. The twins get bored and run away, having a laugh at the grown ups expenses, because it’s easy to tell who’s who.

In the next scene, the maid is at the safe with a stethoscope trying to break in when the twins simply appear near her like they’re gunning for roles in The Shining; in the manga they overhear her on the phone with someone and appear from a ceiling panel. I’m not sure which is scarier. She threatens them with a knife in both, but in the manga they tell her immediately that the safe isn’t full of money, but just their toys. Expensive toys, but still. She gets angry, but agrees to play with them for the week, until their parents come back, to receive the safe code. In the manga they simply want her to play with them in general, but the anime again demands she play the guessing game.

The coin bank they hide the safe code in looks exactly the same in both. Kudos to the animators! Unfortunately, most of this flashback/extra episode is scrapped. In the manga, we actually see the twins spend time with the nanny as she tells them a story about previous jobs she’s done as a thief, and they’re adorably impressed and promise her that they would never rat her out like a previous accomplice did. She also gives them terrible advice about only trusting yourself. Lady, they are five and also not thieves! They’re just jerks. On the same night they also talk about how they want her to stay with them, and she overhears that, and where they hid the code.

In the anime there’s a siren alerting them of the robbery and they wake up in the middle of the night to find her sneaking out of the house. She just admits she couldn’t be bothered to figure out who was who and dipped early, and leaves them with a last warning that nobody may ever tell them apart. The zoom out is really nice here.

In the manga they’re just watching as their aunt talks to the police about the robbery, and when she asks if they told her, they burst into tears and she apologises for doubting them, but of course, they reveal that they were faking the tears all along! The others are so stunned and disappointed that Tamaki scolds them and Kyoya sent the guests away halfway through the story because he had so little faith in them already. And that’s how that extra episode ends! The twins are forever a little bit twisted, and maybe a little traumatised.

Enter Tamaki Suoh, professional annoyance and serial courter of the weirdest guys he could find! He goes on a long rant about himself and then offers the twins to join his fruity little club. In the manga the other three (useless trio) are only name dropped, but in the anime we get to see them for a second as they’re called. Kyoya is in his classroom, and Mori and Honey are hanging out in the highschool by a window. There’s also a lot more symmetry in how the twins move and pose in the anime.

Manga Tamaki makes a guess immediately as to which is which, and might or might not have gotten it wrong, and then makes the promise that if he gets it right they have to join the club, but anime Tamaki lets them go for the time being.

The classroom scene plays out the same, except we see what Hikaru (?) is doodling in his notebook (fun patterns), and they both get a lot more offended by Tamaki accepting their invitation to a class event. Tamaki has a real habit of testing cool people’s patience. Speaking of cool people, Kyoya scene!

Actually, this scene plays out the same, except Kyoya gets an extra line about the twins being “some more of ‘our friends’.” His little quip back to Tamaki when asked if he’s listening also changes in all three versions, in the dub he says he hears Tamaki talking, in the sub he says he hears about half of it, and in the manga (well, my version at least), he says he’s not really listening.

There’s also a shot of Tamaki’s and Kyoya’s bags added in the anime, where Kyoya has his family name/logo printed in Japanese, but Tamaki’s surname is in English. Cute detail!

At the twins’ mansion, the anime adds a later manga line where Tamaki says Kaoru is a little pigeon-toed, and both twins get equally offended. Then he starts talking about incest. It’s way too early in the morning to be discussing incest, Tamaki. In the anime he’s offended by them driving off in the car, but in the manga he waves them off like a proud, if very weird, mother, and tells them not to skip classes. A talk that happens a page later in the manga happens first here where they laugh at Tamaki and his lordly ways, and I think the pacing is good in the anime, and it’s presented as an all in one day thing. We see them get bored of him, and then we get the reveal of Tamaki’s status. This is something we already know in the manga from volume six, but is brand new information here.

The anime gives us another flashback to the girl who is decidedly not Haruhi, and shots of a locked gate, and then the twins see another love letter girl from the window they sit at. In the manga they find a letter at one of their desks, and from the way their classmates look at them, it seems they know what they plan to do.

Interestingly, I thought they were playing each other in the second love letter scene, since at first Kaoru is holding the love letter and calls out to Hikaru, who approaches on Kaoru’s right, and then Tamaki announces that Hikaru is ripping up the letter, but then I watched the scene again and between scenes the right twin now has the letter, so I thought Tamaki was being smart, but was actually just… overhearing, I guess? It’s less obvious who is who in the manga, but I think it’s still Hikaru tearing up the letter. Either way, they both get that stunned look on their face because he’s correct in his guess, even though he’s not really allowed to guess.

The twins also show a lot more resentment at being stuck as a pair in the anime, or at least the left one does when he snaps. I think it’s Kaoru. Anyway, flashback girl guesses right and makes them both cry, and we get a flashforward to the carriage, which causes its own load of mental unwellness in us all, and I wonder why I’m crying. It’s probably the looming sadness of knowing it’s almost over.

Kaoru straight up blushes as Tamaki leaves, which is probably the only crumbs of TamaKao there is, and I cheer loudly for Haruhi while simultaneously booing the loser behind her in the scene.

The manga has Tamaki grab Hikaru and tickle him right in the middle of the courtyard, which Kaoru joins in, while Kyoya smiles at them from a window, and Haruhi wonders if she’ll fit in (anime) or get along all right (manga). Yeah, I think you will.

Episode 20… when the clock strikes three!