That last row has been nonstop good covers.
Yeah, I gotta say, I've been really digging the covers from Zou forward.
That last row has been nonstop good covers.
Yeah, I gotta say, I've been really digging the covers from Zou forward.
Anyone has a list of cover appearances by character?
This took a while lol. There are some tricky ones.
I'll try to keep it updated as new volumes come out.
! 93
Monkey D. Luffy
! 31
Roronoa Zoro
! 28
Usopp (3 as Sogeking)
! 27
Nami (1 inside Franky’s body), Sanji (1 inside Nami’s body), Tony Tony Chopper (1 inside Sanji’s body)
! 17
Nico Robin
! 15
Franky (1 inside Chopper’s body) +1 inside General Franky
! 13
Brook
! 9
Trafalgar Law
! 7
Nefertari Vivi
! 6
Jinbe
! 5
Buggy, Portgas D. Ace, Smoker (1 inside Tashigi’s body), Shanks, Marshall D. Teach, Rob Lucci, Rebecca, Kyros (3 as Toy Soldier, 1 as a statue), Leo
! 4
Carue, Edward Newgate, Eustass Kid, Sabo, Caesar Clown, Momonosuke, Donquixote Doflamingo, Cavendish, Bartolomeo, Carrot, Big Mom
! 3
Nefertari Cobra, Crocodile, Kaku, Kalifa, Monkey D. Garp, Capone Bege, Silvers Rayleigh, Shirahoshi, Tashigi (1 inside Smoker’s body), Pekoms, Sai, Kabu, Pica, Fujitora, Mansherry, Pedro, Chiffon, Napoleon, Kaido
! 2
Going Merry, Mr. 3, Wapol, Matsuge, Kohza, Mr. 1, Mr. 2, Bellamy, Nola, Montblanc Noland (1 as a statue), Iceburg, Blueno, Hattori, Gecko Moria, Lola, Bartholomew Kuma, X Drake, Jewelry Bonney, Basil Hawkins, Scratchman Apoo, Marco, Jozu, Akainu, Sengoku, General Franky, Baron Tamago, Kinemon, Baby 5, Buffalo, Chinjao, Elizabello II, Wicca, Bomba, Sugar, Trebol, Señor Pink, Koala, Ideo, Orlumbus, Hajrudin, Brûlée, Perospero, Mont-d’Or, Reiju, Pudding, Katakuri, Tama, Toko, Hiyori, Hyogoro
! 1
Mohji, Cabaji, Kuro, Jango, Sham, Buchi, Kaya, Piiman, Ninjin, Tamanegi, Don Krieg, Gin, Pearl, Arlong, Kuroobi, Hatchan, Chew, Momoo, Igaram, Mr. 5, Miss Valentine, Miss Monday, Mr. 9, Mr. 13, Miss Friday, Miss Valentine, Dorry, Brogy, Hiluluk, Kuromarimo, Chess, Pell, Chaka, Miss Doublefinger, Mr. 4, Miss Merry Christmas, Lassoo, Masira, Shoujou, Sengoku’s Goat, the mine foreman Buggy met, Ohm, Gedatsu, Shura, Satori, Wiper, Raky, Braham, Kamakiri, Genbo, Conis, Aisa, Gan Fall, Pierre, Su, Enel, Kalgara, Southbird, Foxy, Porche, Hamburg, Pickles, Big Pan, Capote, Monda, Itomimizu, Chuchun, Paulie, Yagara Bull, Tyrannosaurus, Mozu, Kiwi, Kokoro, Chimney, Gonbe, Sodom, Gomorrah, T-Bone, Wanze, Nero, Oimo, Kashii, Baskerville, Nico Olvia, Jaguar D. Saul, Spandam, Jabra, Kumadori, Fukurou, Funkfreed, Koby, Helmeppo, Hogback, Cindry, Perona, Absalom, Kumashi, Oars, Killer, Urouge, Boa Hancock, Boa Sandersonia, Boa Marigold, Salome, Bacura, Marigold’s Hawk, Snake Weapons, Magellan, Hannyabal, Sadi, Saldeath, Minotaurus, Blugori, Minokoala, Minorhinoceros, Minozebra, Emporio Ivankov, Inazuma, Vista, Blamenco, Rakuyo, Namur, Curiel, Kingdew, Haruta, Atmos, Speed Jiru, Fossa, Izo, Kizaru, Aokiji, Monkey D. Dragon, Makino, Curly Dadan, Thousand Sunny, Camie, Pappag, Surume, Neptune, Ichika, Nika, Sanka, Yonka, Yonka Two, Mero, Ishilly, Hiramera, Megalo, Otohime, Fisher Tiger, Fukaboshi, Hody Jones, Dosun, Zeo, Daruma, Ikaros, Hyouzou, Vander Decken IX, Wadatsumi, Mocha, Doran, Sind, Uzu, Boo, Jesus Burgess, Suleiman, Dagama, Flapper, Riku Doldo III, 2 of Señor Pink’s groupies, Violet, Farul, Kanjuro, Diamante, Giolla, Dellinger, Lao G, Gladius, Machvise, Bian, Inhel, Chao, Rampo, Gatz, Tsuru, Weevil, Miss Bakkin, Nekomamushi, Inuarashi, Wanda, Shishilian, Giovanni, Yomo, Blackback, Roddy, Praline, Cracker, Opera, various Homies, Judge, Ichiji, Yonji, Niji, Vito, Gotti, Capone Pez, Daifuku, Oven, Compote, Smoothie, Galette, Streusen, Zeus, Prometheus, Queen, Shimotsuki Yasuie, Raizo, Kawamatsu, O-Kiku, Kozuki Oden, Gol D. Roger, Sasaki, Black Maria, Who’s Who, Page One, Ulti
This took a while lol. There are some tricky ones.
I'll try to keep it updated as new volumes come out.
Thanks.
To note:
Thanks.
- Kyros and Rebecca have the same amount of cover featuring, which seems deliberate. Same for Cavendish and Bartolomeo, who are always featured together.
Just like Teach and Shanks who only appear on covers together.
That moment when Pastor Yomo is on a volume cover but Vergo isn't
@Kaido:
That moment when Pastor Yomo is on a volume cover but Vergo isn't
To be fair, even Gol D. Roger (missed him btw, Tabasco) has been on two covers less than an anthropomorphized hat.
The biggest crime in terms of volumes btw is still that Doflamingo somehow never got on a spine.
Wait, the Sunny never appeared in any cover?
Well, guess not but it feels weird.
Wait, the Sunny never appeared in any cover?
Well, guess not but it feels weird.
Just on the 61 as background.
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To be fair, even Gol D. Roger (missed him btw, Tabasco) has been on two covers less than an anthropomorphized hat.
The biggest crime in terms of volumes btw is still that Doflamingo somehow never got on a spine.
Isn't Roger only on Oden's flashback cover?
To be fair, even Gol D. Roger (missed him btw, Tabasco) has been on two covers less than an anthropomorphized hat.
Napoleon doesn't count since he's part of Big Mom's outfit by default.
Isn't Roger only on Oden's flashback cover?
Yeah, Tabasco edited him in now and Napoleon is on three. Mentioned the hat btw since Kabu also getting as many spots was already mentioned to be weird.
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Gotta comment on this one, incredible cover and basically a fanboy dream come true for me.
This is the first time Luffy's ever worn his OFFICIAL coat, (captain's coat, Yonkou coat, whatever you wanna call it) and I'm here for it man, this is the touch his red cardigan was always missing. The plain black is such a nice touch against the red. Makes me incredibly happy to see as a long-time fan.
The Flying 6 look fun, the only coloring scheme I'm not a fan of is Who's Who, everyone else looks great, especially Ulti (cotton candy fits her youthful personality so well).
I also very much like how the "Sabaody Trio" get great exposure on this cover. Very much up there with my top covers of the series, mainly for Luffy and the coat. I do not count the red coat he's worn in I think 1 past cover because he wasn't wearing it in the story.
I feel like leaving one of Ulti's hair strips entirely white was a mistake from coloring but Oda left it like that, and everyone was like 'mkay'
At this stage I would just wait for the digital version to come out before I commit to knowing what the "final" exact look is. The first peek is always uncropped on at least the left hand side (to account for the flaps of the dust jacket) and over the next couple weeks after it's shown different websites post different versions with different levels of contrast and different colour balances. Hard to say what's part of the design process, what's the result of an image being printed and then rescanned/photographed for product images, or whatever else. When the digital cover drops we can at least feel fairly confident that what we're looking at was colour-balanced to display as intended on screens and locked in as a permanent part of that release mode after having about a month from the physical release to ensure it's been set up just right.
Since when does law have blue hair…
@uniaka:
Since when does law have blue hair…
Since volume 51 lol
His hair color is actually shuffled back and forth between dark blue and black.
@uniaka:
Since when does law have blue hair…
This actually came up often enough on Reddit I ended up putting together a thing for it.
The answer is kinda since always, but Oda has a tendency to stylise/simplify Law's flavour of dark blue to just black whenever he feels like it, so it can seem pretty inconsistent (he's also used dark blue and black interchangably for Franky's Wano outfit, see the covers for volumes 91 and 92). The amount of blue and black-haired Law appearances in Oda's own art is fairly even with only a slight advantage to blue, so there's room to say blue isn't entirely confirmed canon, but given that blue was first, that black appears more often (although not exclusively) when Law is more in the background or has only his sideburns and goatee showing and that the digital colour manga has made it blue 100% of the time, I'm strongly inclined to argue blue is and always has been his intended colour.
See all of Oda's colour art of Law below.
Somebody tried to make me feel crazy for saying his hair is blue last year. A lot of people genuinely don't know about this
I missed the volume cover talk. I have a doc keeping track of all the trends in these volume covers. There are actually two characters who have appeared on a volume cover without names and these are the girls with Senor Pink. Every other character, no matter how small, has a name.
This was your fun fact of the day.
Yeah it's wild how many people missed it. Feel like more people have an opinion on the anime changing Robin's eye colour than the far more obvious change to Law's hair. Not to mention how well known the Kuma retcon is, even though the only clear image of orange Kuma is on a bit of promo art not included in any volume (and a small bit of an orange collar showing on the volume 49 cover). You'd think a casual reader would only remember the chapter 532 colour spread version, where he was already his final navy blue, given that most online readers skip over promo art and sometimes even volume covers. And even then, there's a perception that Oda changed him to match the anime, even though the anime's Kuma is black and Oda's is dark blue (though I guess we've established that Oda thinks the two can be somewhat interchangable). It's interesting how the misconceptions build up over the years, and which bits of trivia become common knowledge while others fade into obscurity.
It goes to show how much of an influence the anime on people's perceptions of the series in a lot of cases. Even going back over the old art to tally up different Law appearances, I was slightly surprised to see Law's Dresrosa outfit was stark black in both Oda's art and the colour manga, when I'd somehow ended up remembering the anime's brown colour scheme. And I don't even watch the anime!
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I missed the volume cover talk. I have a doc keeping track of all the trends in these volume covers. There are actually two characters who have appeared on a volume cover without names and these are the girls with Senor Pink. Every other character, no matter how small, has a name.
This was your fun fact of the day.
Give or take a few a Thriler Bark zombies, a deer mink and a bear mink, Big Mom's backup singers and dancing homies, and - if you want to be really facetious about it, the rainbow snakes on the Amazon Lily cover. Obviously Pwngoat doesn't count because his name is Pwngoat :ninja:
Also the miner on volume 25 was nameless for a long freaking time before the Vivre Card databook unceremoniously dubbed him "Master"
More random trivia. Which Yonko is on the most covers
Shanks - 5
Linlin, WB and Teach - 4
Kaido - 3
now we need someone to list all the characters featured on the spine of the volumes, and whether they got the whole spine by themselves or 1/2 of it.
now we need someone to list all the characters featured on the spine of the volumes, and whether they got the whole spine by themselves or 1/2 of it.
I can at least provide a visual to work off, but I certainly don't feel like doing that much counting tonight. My bet is a three part one with Luffy, Law and Kid for latest volume, but we'll see.
What about the number and identities of the characters whose faces end up covered by the giant numbers Viz Media stamps in the lower right corner of each volume?
That's the real thing.
More random trivia. Which Yonko is on the most covers
Shanks - 5
Linlin, WB and Teach - 4
Kaido - 3
Shanks and Teach have been on the same anount of volumes and have are always on the same volumes.
Shanks and Teach have been on the same anount of volumes and have are always on the same volumes.
Forgot to count 96 for Teach. Good looking
Spine ranking then
! 23
Monkey D. Luffy
! 8
Usopp (1 as Sogeking)
! 7
Nami, Sanji
! 5
Roronoa Zoro, Nico Robin
! 4
Nefertari Vivi, Tony Tony Chopper
! 3
Portgas D. Ace, Rob Lucci, Franky (1 inside General Franky), Jinbe
! 2
Buggy, Smoker (1 inside Tashigi's body), Crocodile, Brook, Eustass Kid, Edward Newgate, Sabo, Kyros (1 as Toy Soldier), Charlotte Linlin,
! 1
Kuro, Jango, Don Krieg, Gin, Arlong, Momoo, Hiluluk, Wapol, Kohza, Masira, Shoujou, Shanks, Wiper, Kamakiri, Conis, Suu, Enel, Nola, Foxy, Iceburg, Paulie, Kokoro, Blueno, Kaku, Jabra, Coby, Helmeppo, Perona, Gecko Moria, Oars, Jewelry Bonney, Silvers Rayleigh, Boa Hancock, Magellan, Mr. 2, Mr. 3, Emporio Ivankov, Kizaru, Akainu, Aokiji, Camie, Mero, Shirahoshi, Fukaboshi, Baron Tamago, Trafalgar Law, General Franky, Bellamy, Rebecca, Sugar, Trebol, Señor Pink, Mansherry, Leo, Fujitora, Sengoku, Tsuru, Napoleon, Reiju, Capone Bege, Caesar Clown, Katakuri, Carrot, Tama, Toko, Hiyori, Kaido, Gol D. Roger, Kozuki Oden
I love this number-counting of covers. It could also be interesting to see which characters never got any covers. Like, only major or important ones, obviously. On the top of my head I can think of Rocinante and Dr. Kureha. Maybe we can also count Yeti Cool Brothers..
I love this number-counting of covers. It could also be interesting to see which characters never got any covers. Like, only major or important ones, obviously. On the top of my head I can think of Rocinante and Dr. Kureha. Maybe we can also count Yeti Cool Brothers..
Crocus as well, but i'd have to double check
Lots of early supporting characters. Kuina, Belle-Mere, Nojiko, Genzo…. heck, I don't think Zeff has had a cover.
Mihawk might be one of the most notable absences.
Mihawk might be one of the most notable absences.
Roger was a big one, literally having his first appearance in a cover in the previous volume.
Also, Orochi has yet to appear.
Roger was a big one, literally having his first appearance in a cover in the previous volume.
Also, Orochi has yet to appear.
Oh no! Poor Orochi
On the topic of volume covers as a whole, I'd love to see Oda redo a few of the early ones that don't match the current style and design philosophies. Volume 11 is just a Jump cover and volume 6 is literally just a chapter cover from inside the volume. These books have some of the best moments of the East Blue era and Oda could have done so much more with them. Volumes 3 and 7 could also use a shaping up to be more relevant to the story, but at least they have original art that uses in-focus characters.
Volume 12's cover is also not spectacular in this sense, but it matches the opening colour spread and manages to capture the mood of the crew's sprint out of Loguetown. Still, it feels like the chapter 103 cover would have been more appropriate on the front. I wonder if Oda was originally planning to use that one but changed his mind about reusing another chapter cover.
I love that Page One and Ulti are taking Corona Virus seriously
I can at least provide a visual to work off, but I certainly don't feel like doing that much counting tonight. My bet is a three part one with Luffy, Law and Kid for latest volume, but we'll see.[hide]
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Wow, in the entirety of Dressrosa, Doffy couldn't make it even once onto a spine.
I'm not sure why Senor Pink was chosen over Doffy. And I like Senor.
So when is the volume coming out?
On the topic of volume covers as a whole, I'd love to see Oda redo a few of the early ones that don't match the current style and design philosophies. Volume 11 is just a Jump cover and volume 6 is literally just a chapter cover from inside the volume. .
Oda going back and redoing covers from 23 years ago just because he was in a time crunch at the time seems unlikely. When the series is done though I wouldn't be surprised if they have him do new covers or a connected spine thing for a new printing the way Toriyama did for the later Dragonball releases.
Of course in Oda's case it'd be a lot more of a task given the series will be 2 or 3 times longer.
16th Sept (wednesday).
Sweet, it's independence day in my country, a day off.
I'm really curious about this SBS.
Oda going back and redoing covers from 23 years ago just because he was in a time crunch at the time seems unlikely. When the series is done though I wouldn't be surprised if they have him do new covers or a connected spine thing for a new printing the way Toriyama did for the later Dragonball releases.
Of course in Oda's case it'd be a lot more of a task given the series will be 2 or 3 times longer.
Oh yeah, I don't actually expect it to ever happen for the individual volumes, it's just nice to dream. The kanzenban will be interesting to look forward to when all's said and done. I thought the Dragonball ones were a marked improvement in how well the covers showed the progression of the story compared to the fun but irreverent art used for most of the tanks. The flip side of that for One Piece will be that once you get out of the East Blue the style and busyness of the covers is so iconic I think I'll have a hard time seeing any attempt to make a change (particularly if its a pivot toward simpler designs) as anything other than a downgrade. Original, connected spine art would be great though.
doflamingo isn't even on one?
Apparently Senor Pink was extremely, ridiculously popular in Japan during Dressrosa, so my guess is he stole Doflamingo's spot on volume 77 because of it. Maybe he'll have another shot when he breaks out of Impel Down for the final battle…
Apparently Senor Pink was extremely, ridiculously popular in Japan during Dressrosa, so my guess is he stole Doflamingo's spot on volume 77 because of it. Maybe he'll have another shot when he breaks out of Impel Down for the final battle…
That's not what the popularity poll during Dressrosa says, though. Señor Pink is not even the most popular DF executive here.
Granted, I think this was before his backstory was revealed.
Regardless, popularity would be a very weird reason for Doffy to miss a spine when he's one of the most popular villains and in the top 20 (in the next poll he even beat Crocodile).
That's not what the popularity poll during Dressrosa says, though. Señor Pink is not even the most popular DF executive here.
Granted, I think this was before his backstory was revealed.
Regardless, popularity would be a very weird reason for Doffy to miss a spine when he's one of the most popular villains and in the top 20 (in the next poll he even beat Crocodile).
I thought the same thing, but I swear I've seen it said somewhere by someone in touch with the Japanese community. Perhaps he just had more of a meme value than actual tangible popularity, and they thought to get in on that.
Or he's just an Oda/editorial favourite more than he is a fan favourite.
I thought the same thing, but I swear I've seen it said somewhere by someone in touch with the Japanese community. Perhaps he just had more of a meme value than actual tangible popularity, and they thought to get in on that.
Or he's just an Oda/editorial favourite more than he is a fan favourite.
He's definitely popular, sicne he was still top 50 years after Dressrosa (that's definitely an achievement when there's so many characters). Look at the kind of company he's in with:
But I don't know if he's that popular. It may just be that the polls happened to miss the peak of his popularity, which would have probably been late Dressrosa.
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