Yay sketches.
Boo two pages.
Oh well…
I've posted the images at The Pirate Summit but I'm posting the info here. Why? Because I don't have a photobucket account (nor do I intend to get one) and I'm tired of my pix links killing my bandwidth when no one's actually visiting the site itself.
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Short and sweet, first pic was the one fans voted for in the 'Which BW splash page do you want Oda to color?' contest.
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First page of sketches.
Right middle: Face Fleur on Chopper. There it is folks. It will happen. Oda hasn't scratched the surface with that woman.
Top left: SEVEN TRANSFORMATIONS FOXY!!!!! WTF?! That right there under the Noro-Noro Man robot is 'Combat Foxy' with Noro Noro Beam Sword.
Left middle: KAKU! YOUR NOSE!!!!!!!!! Paulie looks even MORE like the goddamn ad. Rob without stache? Good call on that one Oda. Looks like Lulu's first or last name might have originally be Belsy(sp).
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Young Franky was practically bisshie it seems. And woah, all the way up to BF91!?
So Franky originally had a scruffy single butt chin and the star was on his chest. Again, interesting choice moving it to both his arms. I see the Speedos were always part of the deal though. And…pineapple fetish?
Look at that. Look at how he planned out Water 7. That top-down view is a thing of beauty. I wish with all my heart and soul he'd release a book of JUST those sketches. Also note he planned out different times of day and times. morning 6am, noon & night 6pm.
The EL design and guards are less than underwhelming albeit the Marine guards look to be wearing T-Bone's armor.
WOAH!!!!! NAMES!!!! NAMES FOR THE SCHOLARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clockwise from fat chick at top left:
Not sure of English equivalents. Use wikipedia if you wanna know who some of these people were. Again, these are not final translations, just what I came up with thinking off the top of my head. Some of them might even be puns I'm not seeing.
Rint/Rindt (rinto)
Zadie (zeidei-)
Roche (roshu)
Hocha (hocha) (unsure of origin or gag)
Boottsuri (buttsuri) (a play on 'butsuri' or 'physics' in Japanese)
Gram/Graham/variation (guramu) Not sure if the actual name or a play on the unit but since it's a girl I'd go towards the unit.
Hack (hakku) Not sure if there's anything special about this one.
PHEW! fun fun fun! Haven't read the interview yet.