Embarasing OP related facts

No Maam

Stuff related to OP that made you realy embarassed once you got older/more mature/learned how to use google.

For example , I had the oportunity to start reading OP about a year or two before I started, but because I was an idiot I thought that 18 page chapters on MSN were too short and thusly they must be leaving things out.

Needless to say they did but not on that one particular incident.

Also when the German voice actor for Luffy was talking in an interview about how they have about "half of all the episodes done", I honest to god thought that the series was already finished.

That was of course around 2003, when I didn't know you could find stuff like that on the internet.

Anyone else have something ?

triforcebih

Nothing embarassing here but back in 2003 I didn't even know what fucking ANIME is ( altho i watched OP, Detec. Conan and other stuff ). And well after some time I realized there is a manga too XD

SuperSonic-Strawhat

This doesn't really make me embarrassed persay but when I was younger and stupider I had decided to watch One Piece for the first time on 4kids and heard one of background fodder say "That guy knocked out Sanji!"

Immediately I assumed that he must be one of the strong and badass types I've heard about in anime like this and thought in my head: "Sanji's a cool name. So, he must be a strong person."

That's how anime works right?

Either way, was a bit confused when I saw the lollipop too… it looked incredibly fake and foamed in... like some kind of cheap edit... and I was right.

Bulletproof

I tried OP for my first time two years before I actually started for real, at first I found Luffy stupid and everything horrible, the drawings, action, jokes, etc. I should mention that was the anime.
Two years later I tried OP again and loved it, became a huge fan of Luffy at "first" sight, laughed my ass off during the entiring show and that's it, pretty much. XD
Nowadays Oda's drawings are my favorite, the manga is my favorite, the characters too, etc.

GiantGuy

When I saw the cover of volume 12 (Straw Hats with gigantic treasure) and the title "And the legend began", I seriously thought this would be the last volume as the cover obviously showed that they've found One Piece.

But the most embarrassing one is actually related to using Google. I did a search on "Vivi" as I was a huge 12 years old fanboy of her at that time. I found of few pictures of Nefertari Vivi from One Piece and lots of pictures of Vivi from Final Fantasy. I almost stopped reading One Piece because I thought my beloved Vivi would turn into that freaky thing later on.

No Maam

@triforcebih:

Nothing embarassing here but back in 2003 I didn't even know what fucking ANIME is ( altho i watched OP, Detec. Conan and other stuff ). And well after some time I realized there is a manga too XD

Didn't they kind of explain that on RTL II ?

I take it you are german. Because…...some random reason realy. But both series did run together on the same channel at that time.

@GiantGuy:

But the most embarrassing one is actually related to using Google. I did a search on "Vivi" as I was a huge 12 years old fanboy of her at that time. I found of few pictures of Nefertari Vivi from One Piece and lots of pictures of Vivi from Final Fantasy. I almost stopped reading One Piece because I thought my beloved Vivi would turn into that freaky thing later on.

What ?

To the googlemobile !

edit:

wut ?

Seriously man ?

Lol I mean…..not to be mean but.....damn.

triforcebih

@No:

Didn't they kind of explain that on RTL II ?

I take it you are german. Because…...some random reason realy. But both series did run together on the same channel at that time.

Well I'm not german. I only speak it. Had satalite TV back then and I only watched the animes. I couldn't be arsed to watch the other stuff ( like the VAs talking and all, interviews, so no wonder I didn't know what anime was xD )

Bulletproof

@GiantGuy:

But the most embarrassing one is actually related to using Google. I did a search on "Vivi" as I was a huge 12 years old fanboy of her at that time. I found of few pictures of Nefertari Vivi from One Piece and lots of pictures of Vivi from Final Fantasy. I almost stopped reading One Piece because I thought my beloved Vivi would turn into that freaky thing later on.

That's hilarious, LOL, thanks for sharing. XD

No Maam

@ triforcebih: Same with me.

You are…..where exactly ?

Oh I watched the interviews......I dunno, in Be TV I think.

Speaking of which.....god damn I miss that muppet. Even if his "translate pop song lyrics into their direct german translation without the slightest bit of rhyme" corner grated with me like hell.

Nia

Embarrassing, huh?
The only thing that comes to mind is that one certain ring I have (that I'm still wearing all the time because I'm so used to the feeling). It's a plain silver ring with "Monkey D. Luffy" engraved on the inside. … yeah.

/Off-Topic: Oh God, I remember Be. Never liked that thing though XD

city_lights31

I remember thinking the 4kids Sanji VA was pretty cool when I was like 14. haha.

Conekiller

The first pic I ever saw of Luffy, I thought he was a farmer.

OrangeNinjasSucks

Misread One Piece as "Nep Ece" when I first read it.

Sniper King

@OrangeNinjasSucks:

Misread One Piece as "Nep Ece" when I first read it.

So did some people in Japan…(Saw it on SBS.)

SieteFleur

Before I got into one piece, I saw one of the colorspreads (the one where Robin is exposing the guys' legs lol) and I thought Franky looked stupid and that he would be boring and I wouldn't like him. Now he's one of my favorite characters xD

GumGumBattleAxe

Based on One Piece: Grand Adventure and the leaving out of Little Garden by 4Kids, I once believed that Little Garden and Skypiea were one and the same and thought that there was a MASSIVE arc that they cut out. I realized it before I had finished the game, though.

JERK DISEASE

When most of the online One Piece manga was hard to find I only could find translation texts, and I saw one that went only up to vol. 20 or so (since the manga must have just reached Jaya then). And I thought alabasta was the final arc from a cursory glance.

RageaSarus

@OrangeNinjasSucks:

Misread One Piece as "Nep Ece" when I first read it.

Oh yeah, my Bosnian friend said the same shit to me, but he thought it was "Ne Pec" and I occasionally called One Piece that for shit and giggles ever since then.

JERK DISEASE

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Chrissie

The first OP episode I watched was in Greek and I was about… 12? 13? And I had gotten so excited and thought it was awesome and stuff. 6 years later, I rediscover OP. And see that it was way more awesome than I remembered. So I go and search for the Greek episodes I watched to see again how 'good' it was.

YcoFaokJfPU

….My 12 year old brain was so fucked up it's not funny.

SuperSonic-Strawhat

@Chrissie:

The first OP episode I watched was in Greek and I was about… 12? 13? And I had gotten so excited and thought it was awesome and stuff. 6 years later, I rediscover OP. And see that it was way more awesome than I remembered. So I go and search for the Greek episodes I watched to see again how 'good' it was.

YcoFaokJfPU

….My 12 year old brain was so fucked up it's not funny.

Is it a bad thing that I found this funny?

Chrissie

It's embarrassing for me so I guess it's ok for you to laugh at me?

CCC

Saw American SJ in a supermarket when I was… 12? 14 maybe?- and had the most vitriolic gut reaction to the image of Luffy on the cover (first time I'd seen anything about OP). It was the pose where he has his lips pursed in an "ooh" shape, and I just thought it was the ugliest, most off-puttingly cartoony art style for a manga that I'd ever seen. Curious, I looked inside and saw panels with Usopp in them, which just cemented my irrational hate for Oda's art and character design.

It's embarrassing to think about considering how much I love the series now...

Gekko135

I guess my embarrassing fact about One Piece is hating Usopp at first glance. Just cause he had a long nose and jheri curl.

And thinking Luffy's name was pronounced "Luff-EE".

Crossword

@CCC:

Saw American SJ in a supermarket when I was… 12? 14 maybe?- and had the most vitriolic gut reaction to the image of Luffy on the cover (first time I'd seen anything about OP). It was the pose where he has his lips pursed in an "ooh" shape, and I just thought it was the ugliest, most off-puttingly cartoony art style for a manga that I'd ever seen. Curious, I looked inside and saw panels with Usopp in them, which just cemented my irrational hate for Oda's art and character design.

It's embarrassing to think about considering how much I love the series now...

That image of Luffy was actually my first look at the series too. It didn't inspire irrational hate but it did weird me out a bit.

For a brief time I thought that Aokiji and some random Marine from Loguetown that resembled him were one in the same (side effect of watching Kokoro no Chizu while still only on early East Blue). And also, that Water 7 was some kind of massive, steampunk fortress and that Kalifa was Iceberg (due to poor captioning on an image from Wikipedia).

Bounty1Berry

I saw a bit of a Morgan-arc episode and concluded "I don't like the rubber bloke."

I stayed away til nearly the end of Baratie.

Sefal

there are 2 ocassions where i met potential one piece fans in an online game.
Was playing metal gear online yesterday a character namen Monkey D Dragon came in the room. So i greet him and say one piece fan? i get no response. he completly ignored me.

and a few days ago i met Monkey D Luffy. so i greet and say watched latest episode of one piece? he says no I only like enies lobby. so i say what about the other arcs? he responds enies lobby is the best. and then it hit me i was talking to a spanish 12 year old.

Cyber-Robin

I remember failing a few times reading the old viz ones before I knew about the series.

Me: looks on the cover of vol 5 Oh. That long-nose guy must be the main guy's father.

Can't remember which volume: Oh. That's the girl who joins them later (Was looking at Slim Alvida in Buggy cover story)

kmohyudin

… I maybe the only person alive on the face of the earth who still likes One Piece Rap, for reasons that are pure nostalgic of course.

city_lights31

Favorite line: He's made of rubber? How did that happen? Yohoho he took a bite of gum gum.

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xP

Nolus

First when I saw One Piece (an AMV I guess, I can't remember) I thought it was pretty good, and looked into it. When I found out it was really popular, I thought I wouldn't like it anyway, so I stopped searching.

See the logic in there? Me neither…

Later I dreamt about Aokiji. Don't ask me how, but I did (maybe the amv or I don't know), and that's when I started to like One Piece. It was a really pleasant dream by the way: my brother invited his friends to our flat (I hate when we have unwanted guests) and one of them was Kuzan (I can imagine my brother chilling with him:ninja:). I couldn't find one calm spot so I decided to go to my room. And there was Aokiji. He sat on the floor near the wardrobe. "Don't tell me they're gonna come in here!" he said. "No, it's just me" I answered. "You hate it too? Too many people..." "Yes, my stupid brother..." "Then why don't you join me? Want to hear something great?" "Yeah, why not." So I sat down next to him and we listened to some great music. Then, when the party was over (or I don't know), I was so sad that he had to go. He said he would come back for me.

Now that I think about, this dream is kind of strange. Well, it made me love One Piece...

No Maam

@Nia:

/Off-Topic: Oh God, I remember Be. Never liked that thing though XD

Far less annoying then Pokito TV.

Like for example they didn't get a ditzy teen and a clueless 20 year old to read off of cue cards about things they have no idea about.

And the other show had a mischevious narrator and a talking brain.

Which one would be more popular with kids ?

@Chrissie:

The first OP episode I watched was in Greek and I was about… 12? 13? And I had gotten so excited and thought it was awesome and stuff. 6 years later, I rediscover OP. And see that it was way more awesome than I remembered. So I go and search for the Greek episodes I watched to see again how 'good' it was.

YcoFaokJfPU

….My 12 year old brain was so fucked up it's not funny.

So that is the one where they renamed Luffy to Drake.

Chrissie

Actually it's not. The Greek translated it from the Spanish XD So..

No Maam

Wait…...Spanish ? I thought that had only terrible voices.

JERK DISEASE

I remember thinking the Grand Line was a huge seaport like Mos Eisely from Star Wars when they were first talking about it.

Chrissie

@No:

Wait…...Spanish ? I thought that had only terrible voices.

Actually I am not sure about that. 0.o I tried to search to find where they translated it from but couldn't find it. I am sure it was from a different dub tho because they had a lot of foreign names in it like Sunny for Sanji and… BlackJack for Zoro <<; Gus for Usopp XD Good Lord the Greek dub was terrible no matter where they translated it from!

Kaiolino

When I saw a picture of Luffy for the first time I thought he was some kind of puppet who would speak in the third person all the time.

I also thought the entire series would consist of one shot comedy chapters, because no way such a funky artstyle would have an actual storyline!

No Maam

@Chrissie:

Actually I am not sure about that. 0.o I tried to search to find where they translated it from but couldn't find it. I am sure it was from a different dub tho because they had a lot of foreign names in it like Sunny for Sanji and… BlackJack for Zoro <<; Gus for Usopp XD Good Lord the Greek dub was terrible no matter where they translated it from!

As far as I remember reading up on it, it was in the greek version.

And those names are english, and as they definitely didn't come from the english dub, chances are the greek dubbing company simply changed them like the Italian dubing company had Luffy refered to as "Rubber" in english in the anime.

Anime-Demon

I got the first one piece book in a magazine i bought and desided to read it. But i had never read manga nor did i knew what manga was so i read it the way we read a book here wich means the wrong way to read a manga. i couldnt understand the story at all! who the hell is this? when did that guy show up? where did the other guy go? after trying to read it twice i found a huuuge note on the last page of the book that said: you`re reading the wrong way! this is a manga book! you start from the other end!
The story made much more sense after that XD

Oh when Franky showed up in the serie I really hated him and my sister was like: what if he joins the crew? and anoyed has i was with that thought answerd: they dont need some weirdo walking around in a spedo joining the crew!!! ><
but somehow Franky turned into one of my favorit characters ^^
but my sister keeps reminding me of what i said that time XD

No Maam

@Anime-Demon:

I got the first one piece book in a magazine i bought and desided to read it. But i had never read manga nor did i knew what manga was so i read it the way we read a book here wich means the wrong way to read a manga. i couldnt understand the story at all! who the hell is this? when did that guy show up? where did the other guy go? after trying to read it twice i found a huuuge note on the last page of the book that said: you`re reading the wrong way! this is a manga book! you start from the other end!
The story made much more sense after that XD

Oh when Franky showed up in the serie I really hated him and my sister was like: what if he joins the crew? and anoyed has i was with that thought answerd: they dont need some weirdo walking around in a spedo joining the crew!!! ><
but somehow Franky turned into one of my favorit characters ^^
but my sister keeps reminding me of what i said that time XD

Wouldn't that be kinda…..obvious

Cabanaman

I used to do that with my old Dragonball Z manga back when I was like 9.

MarcelloF

I thought the Grand Line was a body of land shaped like a line xD I thought there were zombies on the whole this, because when someone was talking about it in the early episodes of the anime it showed pirates who were slouched and looked kind of dead xD That'S also partly why i thought the Grand Line was land. I also thought the Grand Line would only be shown and the end of the show in the last arc.

But the most embarrasing was me think it was stupid when I looked at volume 1 in late 2002. I thought Nami looked weird, but it was mostly because I couldn't speak any German and I was just looking at the pictures without understanding anything. Then I thought "Pfft.. DBZ is better". I never read mangas before that. Luckily I loved it right away when it started airing on RTL 2.

dasia

Back home I’ve always liked ‘we are’ and would watch the opening to imitate Luffy’s sea king punch. Then immediately switch the channel because I thought Oda was a dickhead for not making the effort of drawing good looking guys like Sasuke…
Just seeing Luffy’s eyes I condemned the series for half a decade.Fastfoward:

On being mildly spoiled on youtube I excitedly thought:
the franky family was the main villain of the water 7 arc with paulie as the boss.
From Kokoro no chizu I concluded that Aokiji was Usopp’s relative and there was a tribe of them which led to an Usopp/Luffy fight on leaving the crew.

From the picture of the strawhats on EL’s tower I assumed Robin had left the crew forever and this was some place in the new world.I thought Hancock was bonney. Then, that guard Ivan-chan transformed into a woman. I thought that Hancock and Luffy really had something going..

You can throw petanque balls at me.

No Maam

@dasia:

Back home I’ve always liked ‘we are’ and would watch the opening to imitate Luffy’s sea king punch. Then immediately switch the channel because I thought Oda was a dickhead for not making the effort of drawing good looking guys like Sasuke…
Just seeing Luffy’s eyes I condemned the series for half a decade.Fastfoward:

Must …..resist......hate.......must .....resist......urge.....to.......violate.....with.....spork.......
:ninja:

Castelmore

@dasia:

Back home I’ve always liked ‘we are’ and would watch the opening to imitate Luffy’s sea king punch. Then immediately switch the channel because I thought Oda was a dickhead for not making the effort of drawing good looking guys like Sasuke…
Just seeing Luffy’s eyes I condemned the series for half a decade.Fastfoward:

On being mildly spoiled on youtube I excitedly thought:
the franky family was the main villain of the water 7 arc with paulie as the boss.
From Kokoro no chizu I concluded that Aokiji was Usopp’s relative and there was a tribe of them which led to an Usopp/Luffy fight on leaving the crew.

From the picture of the strawhats on EL’s tower I assumed Robin had left the crew forever and this was some place in the new world.I thought Hancock was bonney. Then, that guard Ivan-chan transformed into a woman. I thought that Hancock and Luffy really had something going..

You can throw petanque balls at me.

Wow, that's one heck of a huge contribution to this thread !

dasia

Lol a complete fool.Its only in the past 2,3 years that I 've bothered widening my anime horizons beyond INUYASHA
RANMA DBZEDO NARUTEUH.

Then I read mangas for the first time with One piece after watching the anime. (This counts as an embarrassement
I used to think "but there is no color :cwy:" )

Shame I tell ya.

February

When I first started to watch One Piece, I had never seen subbed anime, only the dubbed kind, so I was kind of in love with Sanji's 4Kids voice actor.

And if that's not embarrassing, I don't know what is.

Maikeru Shinigami

Probably, not embarrassing but it's the best I got.

When I was about 13, I played a One Piece game on a demo console at Wal-Mart. The game was fun and everything, and I thought the characters were neat. However, despite that, I didn't look it up or anything until about 7 years later.

No Maam

@Maikeru:

Probably, not embarrassing but it's the best I got.

When I was about 13, I played a One Piece game on a demo console at Wal-Mart. The game was fun and everything, and I thought the characters were neat. However, despite that, I didn't look it up or anything until about 7 years later.

You should be crucified on a cross of fire !

SomebodyUDon'tKnow

When it came out in my country, I thought the 4KIDS dub was the greatest thing and didn't even bother to watch the Funimation dub.
Then I grew a brain and read the manga. Oh how stupid I was watching the 4KIDS dub…

I started reading One Piece when I was already about halfway through Naruto, and told myself 'This One Piece fad will be short lived. Naruto is way better.'