Here you will find a diary with the main moments of the action that lead to the adoption by Oda of the idea proposed by AP community for the Omake that appeared in the Log 20: Straw hats as RPG time.
(Note: the original first post of this thread was the section entitled: "A second thread for voting is opened: Proposed ideas and rules for voting" from 27 / 09 /2012 Oda requests ideas for bonus manga sketches in 682 chapter's cover - 19 / 09 / 12
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The thread for proposals is opened - 25 / 09 / 12
! @Ukimix:
! > The following notice just appeared in chapter 682's cover:"Now taking ideas for bonus manga sketches!!
"What if Luffy and friends were ______ ? (zombies, policemen, etc.)"
Send in your ideas!" (Translation by CCC)The purpose of this thread is to collect ideas in order to select the community's favorite one. There is no death-line in the notice. So, to do it, the thread will collect ideas for some days, (possibly until good ideas stop coming), and then it will open a poll in which users will be able to vote for each one's favorite one. The most voted will be translated into japanese and sent it to Mr Oda by CCC.
If you have an idea to post, I suggest to write a not so long and accurate text. Make sure people will understand what you mean.
Thanks to CCC for participating :-)
The winning idea is proposed - 26 / 09 / 12
! @Kami_Sama:
! > The Strawhats as mystery solving teens
The Strawhats as fantasy RPG characters
The Strawhats as their animal themes
The Strawhats as mangaka
The Strawhats as magical girls
The Strawhats as a Japanese variety show A second thread for voting is opened: Proposed ideas and rules for voting - 27/09/2012
! Here the text of the initial post of this thread, written in 27/09/12:
! > The following notice just appeared in chapter 682's cover:"Now taking ideas for bonus manga sketches!!
"What if Luffy and friends were ______ ? (zombies, policemen, etc.)"
Send in your ideas!" (Translation by CCC)The purpose of this thread is to select the 3 ideas most voted by the community. We already have been posting ideas in the thread Mr Oda is taking ideas for bonus manga sketches! (We ask mods not to merge this topic with the other one just yet; at least not until everything's said and done.) Selected ideas will be translated into japanese and sent it to Mr Oda by CCC.
Some important notes:
First, no more ideas will be recruited.
Second, Vote one, two or three ideas you like the most. No more than that.
Third, given that we want to be sure wich idea you vote, and given the amount of ideas proposed, we want to avoid any kind of mistakes in interpretating your vote. So, themes have been enumerated and we do ask you to vote using the numbers of the ideas you want to vote for. (Otherwise your vote wont be counted). (For instance: "I will vote numbers 3, 7, and 67")
Fourth, IMO some ideas are vague or not enough clear. I didn't ask for further clarification, and I let the ball run so that community will judge on the virtue of ideas and words.
Fifth, of course it will be much more interesting and it will serve a different purpose if you include any kind of argument, supporting your choice or supporting the idea that some particular choice is not good at all.
Sixth, I will post partial results on next friday. Poll will be closed next sunday 23:59 GMT.
! 1. Hattori
2. Cowboys
3. Cyborgs
4. Gladiators
5. Marines,
6. Supernovas
7. shojo manga
8. White collar – office culture
9. other shounen manga héroes
10. Circus performers
11. Cowboys/Pioneers and Indians (part of the crew in each role)
12. Bikers
13. Cavemen
14. Rockstars
15. Scientists (preferably in the chemist category)
16. Beach bums
17. Tourists
18. Ghost hunters
19. Toys in a store
20. Rodeo participants
21. Star wars characters
22. One Piece Metal. (Luffy breaking a guitar, Zoro with triple guitar, Usopp with face paint and tongue, Nami & Robin in black leather. Money. Throwing at the screen.
23. Election Time. Each of The Strawhats run for President of the Grand Line and outline their policies. Nami will raise taxes, Usopp will lie about his opponents, Sanji and Brook will be involved in scandals…
24. Rocky Horror Picture Show style?
25. okamas / genderswap
26. hippies from 60s.
27. Takeshi`s castle contestants
28. in a mental institution
29. riding each a different animal for a race
30. ninja turtles
31. Shichibukai. Each Straw Hat would have their own theme and specialized outfit & an animal theme (such as Doflamingo being flamingo, Gecko Moria being gecko, etc.)
32. Astronauts
33. Straw Hats vs. Fairy Tail (zoro vs erza, people! think about it)
34. wizards
35. space opera (star wars, macross,ect)
36. video games
37. Fishmen/mermen
38. Gundam pilots
39. Food Warriors
40. Robot Salesmen
41. Space Cockroaches
42. Kogal Newspaper agency
43. Tuna boat fishermen
44. hosts in a bar with all the other one piece characters coming to the bar,
45. owning a restaurant
46. food critics, luffy "it's not meat!" sanji "move let me cook it" brook "i dont have a stomach... skull joke yohohoho" ect
47. Farmer Chopper and his amazing educated Strawhat animals.
48. Strawhats teaching kids. / Luffy: Crazy principal with fake italien beard (no seriously I just don't have any idea what kind of teacher Luffy would be, ethics?) / Zoro: PE Teacher / Nami: Economics Teacher / Usopp: Art Teacher / Sanji: Home Economics Teacher / Chopper: Biology-Chemistry Teacher / (Vivi): Politics Teacher / Robin: History Teacher (make it even lost history teacher with everyone shitting their pants because they know top secret knowledge) / Franky: Physics Teacher / Brook: Music Teacher
49. Strawhats in an old school fantasy RPG
50. all the Straw Hats dressing and pretending to be a different member of the crew
51. Strawhats as Gaijin
52. all of the strawhats being celestial dragons(tenryubito)
53. just plain old royalty,
54. ganguros
55. Mad scientists
56. What if Luffy and friends were in a Super Sentai Series (ex. Power Rangers) ?
57. What if Luffy and friends were superheroes ?
58. them as gods like zeus and hades
59. Mechas. Oda always said he wanted to draw those, and this would be a good place to do so. Luffy can be depressed that Franky won't let him pilot the giant robot, and so Franky makes robots for everyone. He could not only do the "what does it look like on the outside" but also show what the crew has in their cockpits.
60. time travelers trying to pass as normal people from times they visit
61. Pokemon,
62. regular people,
63. rendeers like chopper,
64. gundams,
65. naruto ninjas
66. muppets
67. in one of those horrible soap operas
68. straw hats in the Hood
69. in boot camp
70. on ice(jk)
71. native americans
72. what if strawhats were parents and had little kids?
73. strawhats with their parent figures: Bellemere, Hiluluk, Shanks etc.
74. straw hats with their actual parents
75. olympics
76. What if the Straw Hats had no face faults and Robin did?
77. CP9 agents or secret agents in general
78. hardcore gamers
79. traditional chinese martial artists with each representing a different animal based style like in classic kung fu movies taking place in different ancient dynasties.
80. Ghosts in a graveyard with Brook as the groundskeeper
81. Manga artists and editors; reading Bakuman has made me kinda curious if the Straw Hats could handle working on stories of their own. Plus you could either have Hachi or Hattori as an editor and it would work.
82. as themselves 50 years in the future.
83. monarchs
84. eccentric Hotel Employees
85. Spies
86. Hospital Employees
87. Elderly Pirates in a Nursing Home
88. movie actors
89. beverages
90. Skatehats (skaters-bikers and what not)
91. Chess (strawhats) each one a piece on the board
92. Counterstrawhats the same but evil
93. Devil or abyss strawhats
94. Bone time!! all strawhats just with there bones and brook drawn with flesh
95. Takeshi Kaga's Iron Chef Contestants,
96. F1 Racers,
97. Santa Clauses
98. dancing styles (Tango, Ballet, Can Can, Waltz etc.)
99. Marvel/DC Heroes
100. seinen manga characters
101. Strawhats with their seiyuus
102. Dragon Ball characters
103. Straw hats acting like sterotypes of their stereotypes of their nationalities
104. A what if scenario if Luffy never wanted to be a pirate?
105. A what if scenario of they joined different crews?
106. shaolin monks
107. black gangsta dudes.
108. mystery solving teens
! 109. Straw Hats cosplaying as someone they looked up to? (ex. Luffy dressed up as Ace, Sanji dressed up as Zeff, Brook dressed up as Laboon, Robin as her mother, Chopper as Dr. Hiruluk, Nami as Bellemere, Franky as Tom-san…dunno about Usopp and Zoro...) 110. Straw Hats as stand-up comedians? Though I have no idea if stand-up even occurs in Japan. However, western stand-up, where you don't pretend that your audience are so stupid that they need a straight man to point out the joke, would be a nice change to the usual boke and tsukkomi (or whatever it's called) in One Piece.
111. Mugiwaras in Steampunk
112. Kids
113. Doctors
114. Straw hats helping to run an Okama musical show for Bon Clay/Ivankov in a Newkama Kingdom.
115. school students
116. Dinosaurs
117. Matryoshkas ( those Russian dolls )
118. Bounty Hunters
119. Straw Hats as traditional monsters (Vampire, Mummy, Frankenstien, wolfman, etc)
120. Straw Hatss Wind Up In The Real World and reactions to seeing that their series is a popular manga
121. The Grand Line if it was a video game
122. Straw Hats as fly boys (essentially flying jets and planes)
123. Urban Straw Hats
124. Straw Hats TV (they run a TV network and each member has a different show)
125. Straw Hats Racing
126. Straw Commenting and critizing the way they're drawn…as they're being drawn by Oda. 127. prisoners.
128. egyptian gods.
129. fantasy RPG characters
130. magical girls
131. Japanese variety show Themes with characters different than Luffy and friends
! 132. Marines as pirates
133. Something with BB would be also nice, like a theater act or something like that, Devon as Rapunzel and BB as brave but a little to fat knight who desperatly tries to reach Devon but fails because he is to heavy for climbing on her ha 134. It's now up to Buggy to save Drum from Wapol
135. the Blackbeard Pirate Crew gets stuck in a Davy Back Fight. Correction required
! 136. as real pirates
The 10 supporters of the winning idea vote - 27 to 30 / 09 / 12
! @Drake_Cloud:
! > 59. Granted it was mine, but I still think Mecha-Brook would be too funny to pass up.129 and 133 also. Larpers and Bad guys ftw!
EDIT: I can count to 3, I swear.
! @CCC:
! > …I'm just going to ask mods not to merge this topic with the other one just yet; at least not until everything's said and done.And just to re-emphasize: please vote for up to three choices, using the numbers from the list.
Edit: Oh. 7, 8, 129.
! @Aaronrules380:
! > I think some of these should be taken out given that the people making them don't seem to understand what this is about. Like why the hell is one piece vs fairy tail there? I mean, they do realize this isn't about crossovers, and that Oda does not have the rights to Fairy Tail (aside from it just being a horrible idea). Also, Why would people vote for Arlong Park in-jokes? Vote for something that'd make sense to someone who isn't on this forum. And some have already been done like the monster one or school studentsthat said my picks are 23, 81, and 129
! @Sorikai33:
! > 4, 59, and 129.
! @Unrequited:
! > 7, 8, 129 because CCC picked my idea :o
! @Retro:
! > 124, 129 and 88A luck based voting to get entered in a luck based pick out of a million ideas from Tokyo. Kinda hard not to see disappointment coming be eh, what the hey.
! @Kami_Sama:
! > 23: Election Time
130: Magical Girls
49/129: RPG
! @Kizuchan:
! > 5 - Just for Luffy impersonating Garp or some other marine, or in general how the crew would look like as marines.
30 - Would be interesting to see with the animal themes.
129 - Could be pretty cool.
! @Cyber-Robin:
! > 49 and 129 are the same thing aren't they? I'd like to see that so. And 63 for the everyone as Chopper. Third choice will be for the Hardcore Gamers one (78)Damn. I was gonna suggest everyone in regular jobs that is pretty much your scope as a child (Butcher, Baker, Policeman, Mechanic etc)
! @AlucarDraculA:
! > 1
129
91 Poll results - 30/12/2012
! @Ukimix:
! > Results:
69 ideas didn't get a vote.
So, top 3 ideas:
| 5. Marines, |
| 23. Election Time. Each of The Strawhats run for President of the Grand Line and outline their policies. Nami will raise taxes, Usopp will lie about his opponents, Sanji and Brook will be involved in scandals… |
| 129. fantasy RPG charactersCCC will translate those ones. I will ask him about the possibility to translate ideas with 6 or more votes. |
Letter sent to Oda Sensei - 10/10/2012
! @CCC:
! > Okay, here's a translation of the letter:Oda sensei,
As a representative of a certain group of international One Piece fans on the internet, I am sending you some of the ideas for the omake manga that were chosen by all of us. The members of our group are from a number of countries all around the world, and with English as a common language, we discuss One Piece to death. I'm sorry for the long introduction, but here are our ideas:
1. RPG Time (If the crew were fantasy characters like in DQ)
2. Election Time (Let's choose the president of the New World! If the crew were all politicians)
3. Kaigun Time (If the crew were marines)
4. Mecha Time (If the crew were giant robots)
5. Hato Time (If the crew were…. pigeons!?)
6. Magical Girl Time (...hmm. Right.)
7. Chess Time (If the crew were chess pieces)
8. Kubukai Time (If the crew were like the Shichibukai with animal themes)If you were to end up using one of our ideas, I'm sure we would all go insane with happiness.
Please treat us favorably!
P.N. 久々太郎
! The strategic move:
@CCC:
! > About that… well... errr... I might have pentioned in the P.S. of the letter, "Thanks for publishing my art all those times."
You know, just as another potential thing to catch the eye of someone going through a giant pile of letters.
We got it!!!!! - 10 to 13/ 12 /2012
! The premonition
@redon:
! > Information about LOG 20 that will have new omake called "RPG Time".Congratulations, I think it was your first idea in CCC letter ^^
! The confirmation
! @redon:
! > Haha, RPG Time it´s yours guys, thanks Greg for the information ^^Greg: Proof that RPG Time came from CCC's submission! 「Yes, yes, good afternoon. My editor threw three blank pages at me. Without so much as acknowledging a response he irrationally demanded of me. We've got a request! Hisabisa Tarou from Miyazaki. Pretty sure he's the Amercan whose artwork has been in the comics before. He sent me the results of a One Piece fangroup on the net. How very world-wide! I choose this! This sounds okay right? "What if the crew were characters like in Dragon Quest"RPGTime! Let's check it out.」
RPG Raw pictures. 13/12/2012
! The first one, thanks to Greg from The One Piece Podcast for the pic:
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RPG time HR English scans 5 & 6 / 01 / 2013
! First one thanks to Redon, Aohige and Al¡naJames for the scans, the translation and the edition:
! A second version of the omake. Thanks to Dreamer for cleaning and edition work and to CCC for the translation // all from AP.
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Colouring The RPG Time Omake - The artists work time: from January to March/13
! Ponx started the project to colour the RPG Time Omake. Here a mini-sample of the collective releases of the users:
! ![](http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu278/ponx730/AP Forums/RPGTimeChecklist_zps37b473df.jpg)
! Panel number –---- Coloread by
1.1 –----------------- ponx
1.2 ------------------- Renegadesoul
2.1 ------------------- Renegadesoul
2.2 ------------------- Silver R. Bolt
2.3 ------------------- inori
2.4 ------------------- Book Shonen
3.1 ------------------- Rody Naruto
3.2 ------------------- Rody Naruto
3.3 ------------------- warp predator
3.4 ------------------- Tare_chan
3.5 ------------------- Gold
! Here the thread of the RPG time coloring comunity project, with all the releases in better higher size.
Colouring The RPG Time Omake - Printed version April 1/13
! Ponx made the printed version, and send it to CCC who will send it to Mr Oda.
! ![](http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu278/ponx730/AP Forums/PrintnReady_zps157b1ad8.jpg)
Letter sent to Mr Oda, with the printed version as a gift from the AP comunity - 16 / 04 / 13
! @CCC:
! > Okay. About to mail it.Here's the letter
Oda-sensei,
Thank you from the bottom of hearts for using our international fan brigade's (we are a site called "Arlong Park") idea for the omake manga, "RPG Time." Words alone wouldn't be enough to express our thanks, so we would like to present you with this gift. I translated RPG Time into English, and then our nakama added color to all the panels. Each scene was colored by a different person.
Participants included individuals from Indonesia, the Phillipines, Sweden, Switzerland, Colombia, Russia, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Canada, and America. We understand if you don't run this in Usopp's Gallery, but really we just want you to see it.
Please continue to treat us favorably!-Hisabisa Taro
Pennames of the participants:
-ponx
-ukimix
-Warp Predator
-Silver R. Bolt
-Rody Naruto
-inori
-Tare_chan
-Gold
-Renegadesoul
-Book Shonen