#sky island saga

[dailyzolu]

[the-zoro-project]

East Blue, Alabasta, and Sky Island Change Log 2/24/24

East Blue and Alabasta has been updated with some minor font fixes for certain pages with the edited italic font (Vol. 6-24) and the incorrect font for certain pages with edited italic bold font (Vol. 1-5)

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Fixed two instances where Navy was mentioned instead of Marine(s)

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The Gum-Gum, Zoro Attacks, and Eneru add-ons have all been updated as well, with Eneru matching the by volume system, rather then by saga/arc/chapter

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The Sky Island revision has been completed

See explanation post here for Add-ons, or go to download page here

"What is The Zoro Project?"

[sammygems]

Straw Hat Outfits - Sky Island Saga

Welcome back y'all, i bring you the Sky Island Saga, otherwise known as the Skypiea Saga today!

This post includes the Goat Island, Ruluka Island/Rainbow Mist, Jaya, Skypiea, & G-8 Arcs!

Also Vivi appears in the background during the last episode of the Rainbow Mist arc, and this is the last time we'll be seeing her until Post-Enies Lobby.

Goat Island & Ruluka Island (aka Rainbow Mist) Arcs

Jaya Arc

Skypiea Arc

Also, I'd like to note that in the manga, Robin's outfit upon leaving Skypiea is actually the outfit worn in the Long Ring Long Land Arc, as the G-8 Arc is anime only and in the manga, Skypiea goes straight to Long Ring Long Land. This outfit will appear in the next post!

G-8 Arc

Previous Posts:

East Blue Saga, Alabasta Saga

Next Posts:

Water 7 Saga

[laurasoretta]

📘 Re-reading One Piece, random comments:

I do not particularly love the Sky Island saga, but how beautiful is the final scene when they ring the bell to say goodbye and thanks to Luffy&co 🥹

[mrshobbit]

He's a reindeer in a box full of reindeer horns...thats fucked up

my poor boi

[fyjeshkaaa]

anime: one piece

iii. sky island saga

G-8 arc - ep 196-206

[tae-rambles]

When I was rewatching this awesome video on Skypiea by MelonTeee, I remembered this post and something clicked.

As op said, dreams need to have an end otherwise people can’t be free - free from oppression. But what about freedom from a dream? There’s a reason why we were shown Blackbeard proclaim “People’s dreams don’t ever end!” right before we go to Skypiea where we meet the Shandians who have been locked in a war that’s been going on for 400 years to reclaim the land of their ancestors, their home, and to ring the gold bell to fulfill Calgara’s promise - a seemingly never ending dream. And it shows. As we learn through Wyper, the endless fighting has taken its toll on the Shandians. They’re all tired and don’t even feel connected to their heritage anymore. But they cannot stop or they will forever be doomed to live on a foreign land in isolation. Their dreams have become their shackles preventing them from seeking true freedom. And that’s what’s been happening to the Shandians for the past four centuries.

Fortunately, Luffy comes along and, just like the true warrior of liberation he embodies, he frees both the Skypieans and the Shandians from their respective metaphorical shackles by punching out Enel and ringing the gold bell in one fell swoop. Hurray! :D 

But those are not the only two never ending dreams the Shandians are freed from during this arc:

(translation provided by @/the-zoro-project)

Thanks to Robin, the Shandians learn that Roger already fulfilled the dream of their ancestors that originated in the Void Century 800 years ago - another dream with seemingly no end.

And just like that, all of the Shandians’ dreams come to an end. And that’s a good thing! Finally! They can all breath a sigh of relief. They can celebrate! They no longer have to fight.

The Sky Island saga is packed to the brim with heavy themes and world building. One of them is dreams and their impact. We are shown the fun and beautiful side of dreaming as we discover the Sky Islands after being mocked for believing in them, but we are also shown the dark side of dreams through the Shandians who, for centuries, were forced to fight for the dreams of those who came before them and how miserable it made them.

To dream is wonderful but a dream with no end can soon become an exhausting, twisted nightmare. Or in other words, as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end.

Just like One Piece.

So we all remember this moment from Jaya

It's an iconic moment for a reason, people love it so much so you see people make fanart of it or even get it tattooed on themselves, and it's understandable 'cause what Teech says here is kind... hopeful, inspirational even

Which is why the scene always felt so wrong to me, in a way I could not like put into words or explain why?? Like I wanted to be like "hey this guy isn't that bad, I agree with him!" and yet what Blackbeard says here didn't quite sit right with me?

But now, in-hindsight, I understand why

It's because Blackbeard is wrong

Like, from the begining, from when we're introduced to Blackbeard, he and Luffy are explicitly shown to be the polar opposites of each other in many ways (their taste in food being just one easy way to summarize it), including in ideals and beliefs

And while it would be so easy to think this scene was about showing that despite their differences Luffy and Blackbeard actually have one thing they agree on, one common ground

They don't

Luffy's dream has an end

And it's not just that, that's not the only reason he's the opposite of Blackbeard in this sense. If Luffy just keeps on dreaming of doing things, he will never achieve them, because achieving your dreams means the end of them

And think about how that reflects on the rest of the story

If people keep on dreaming of freedom, they will never be free

Nami's village would remain in Arlong's hands, rain would never fall in Alabasta again, the fire of Shandra would never be lit again, Water 7 will sink into the ocean, the kids on Punk Hazard would never see their parents again, the families of Dressrosa would never be reunited, Wano would remain under Kaidou's oppression, everyone on Fishman Island will remain at the bottom of the ocean and never see the true sun

The dream must end or the people can not go free

The darkness of night will break away The dream will end and the sun will rise

[sweet-v3n0m]

Zoro over the years 💚⚔️

[dailyzolu]

[xgatheringdust]

i support women's rights but more importantly, i support women's wrongs

[the-zoro-project]

Sky Island Saga Change Log

Before I show off all the additional changes, I just want to say that I used Enel as the main translation here! It's far more popular as a name, but if you are one of those die-hard Eneru fans, I have an option for you as well! You just need to do a couple extra steps that will only take a couple of minutes (read more on this post)

Along with fixing all Zolos, here are the other changes in the sky island saga

(See Master/Pinned post for this saga's download links)

Changed 'Real Poneglyph' to 'Rio Poneglyph'

Altered scenes to change 'El Dorado' to 'The City of Gold'

Changed Burgess and Teach's laughs

Changed 'Boing-Boing' to 'Spring-Spring'

Edited more instances of the whitebeard logo to match the current, as well as Marco's tattoo

Changed 'Teech' to 'Teach' and 'Ogre' to 'Augur'

Changed "Marijoa' to 'Mary Geoise' (Mariejois is used for the alternate version)

Changed 'Octopus Fritters' to "Takoyaki' (this mainly affects the hachi cover story)

Changed 'Ganfor' to 'Gan Fall'

Changed 'Kami' to 'God' and "Vassals" to 'Priests'

Changed 'Karasumaru' to 'Little Crow'

Changed 'Varse' to 'Vearth'

Fixed a scene where usopp and nami mistakenly say 70 million, after being told 7 million

Changed scenes where chopper is referred as a racoon/racoon dog to tanuki

Changed 'Holly' to 'Holy'

Changed Zoro's speech in this scene

Changed 'tower' to 'belfry' when in reference to the golden bell

altered robin's nicknames for the strawhats (adding miss or mr.)

Changed 'Bilka' to 'Birka'

[the-bejeesus]

I've made a new video. This one's less along the lines of a video essay and more like a discussion.

[moonpaw]

finished skypiea!! 🎉🎉🎉

[alevens]

if y'all could indulge me for a second, i'm extremely curious about this. i want to know what's y'all

[laurasoretta]

So, after I finished re-reading One Piece up to before the time skip, I tried to rank the Sagas and the Arcs, according to my personal opinion and emotions.

I'm quite confident about the Sagas ranking, but maybe I have few doubts about the Arcs. Anyway, this is what I feel right now.

Sea of Survival: Super Rookies Saga

☠️ Sagas:

1) Arabasta

2) Summit War

3) Water 7

4) East Blue

5) Thriller Bark

6) Sky Island

☠️ Arcs:

Arabasta

Enies Lobby

Impel Down

Marineford

Arlong Park

Water 7

Thriller Bark

Reverse Mountain

Skypiea

Drum Island

Post War

Romance Dawn

Post-Enies Lobby

Sabaody Archipelago

Orange Town

Little Garden

Baratie

Whisky Peak

Logue Town

Amazon Lily

Syrup Village

Jaya

Longring Longland

Let me know yours!!! ☠️