With having volume 62 finally released we can now focus on the upcoming volume.
How do you think will the cover turn out?
Release date should be around 2-5th August 2011.
COVER IS OUT
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(thx to redon and Kaze)
SBS translation:
! This volume is 12 chaps but price hasn't changed as per Oda's desire to show to the end of the flashback but without a change in price. For that reason there are no additional pages ANYWHERE. No ads whatsoever and details are covered on SBS pages.
! Oda says the baby is indeed Makino's and the father is probably 'that person'.
! Chopper's hat is under the helmet like we all assumed.
! He draws the picture that Robin drew of the Kraken. Nice to see another character's drawing ability.
! That was indeed Octopako and she's ticked because she was raised in Beverly Gills and it's been her dream to marry one of the princes so she's pissed these noob pirates got to go to the palace even though she's never been.
! Yep, male mermen's fins don't split. Most mermaids live on land in their 40s and 50s. If you have to ask why it's because Oda draws manga and it's a romance. (Traditional sense)
! Some 12 year old asks if mermaids poop. 'Hilarity' ensues…
! Someone asks if the shadows running were the snake sisters.
! Someone asks if he and Oda are the only people that wear women's underwear on their heads...
! And that's it, you've seen the rest.
! Regarding Kuma's book.
The title is 'Ninokin'.
A caption on the cover reads Atega Ninokin.
The spine reads simply Ninokin.
The cover appears to have a man with a Kuma hairstyle resemblance.
The figure he actually resembles there is Ninomiya Sontoku aka Kinjiro. Hence Nino Kin.
A statue of him can be seen in yhe vicinity of places of study for young children in almost exactly the same pose as Kuma there making it somewhat meta.
! Oda's opening blurb is pretty good as usual.
Talks about how when he was a kid he messed with a horned beetle's horn and it grew how he shaped it. He thus wonders if he strapped a bazooka on it the horn would grow like a bazooka or if he covered it with armor and a sword it would have a full set of armor.
(thx to Greg)