@Robby:

That was Law. There was never any mystery to that at all except from people who confused the issue by insisting it must be Monet. (who was obviously secretly sweet and kind and knowingly letting chopper go so she could be the next crewmate.)

Since the very next chapter, a total of like 4 pages later, it was clarified that Law's chains weren't seastone and he had his powers, and the note appeared out of nowhere.

It's NOT a mystery.

Yes, I know that's the most reasonable explanation, but it still annoys me that there never was any absolutely clear confirmation of that.

I mean the way the sequence is staged is just really confusing. Sure, the weird look Monet gives when Chopper runs away doesn't help, but that's not even my main problem with the scene – we see Chopper receiving the note, and actually wondering out loud, well in a thought balloon, who threw it and were it came from.

Then in the next chapter we do realize that Law wasn't really wearing seastone chains, and is free to use his powers, but he does so only to explain how he could remove his shackles then. He doesn't mention that he has already used them previously while Vergo and Ceaser were still around to transport the note. Wouldn't they have noticed him using his room to do that, anyway? Or did he already have his chains removed and just threw the note himself. Well in that case the panel in which he appears, exactly before we see the note hit Chopper doesn't really indicate that. Actually it doesn't really indicate him doing anything…

I really don't care about Monet at all, but still thought that scene to be super irritating. Maybe it's totally clear through context and I am an idiot for not getting it, but usually Oda presents things in a way so even idiots get what the hell is going on. Like having one of these flashbacks with grey panel borders where the hero's plan is revealed in retrospective, like he had when he showed how Smoker got his heart back. That wasn't the case here. Chopper wonders who threw the note, so I wonder who threw it. Then we never get a real answer to that aside from context, which doesn't really make that much sense I think.
So I think it's a bit unfair to blame it entirely on fanboys that the scene caused irritation.

Anyways if Law's speech quirk was used on the note, that makes it a closed case. I just frankly didn't know that and am sorry for even bringing the issue up. Blame it on translation…

This scene has been bugging me forever too, so I am happy this is brought!

I always figured that whatever Luffy said then, must have been the same thing Shanks referenced to Rayleigh, when he told him that he had seen Luffy say the exact same things as Roger did. It was never specified then either what exactly Luffy said that impressed Shanks so much…

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If we ever find out the answer to this, and whoever threw the note at Chopper during Punk Hazard I'll be very relieved…

@Katzztar:

haha I'm a bit late finding this… but just in time for awards ;)
Its my fave art to be seen yet. Do you post at DevaintArt?

Thanks, I'm really glad you like it :) I have a DeviantArt page, but haven't really been updating it for a while… You can find most of my new work on my instagram page, though. The links are in my signature :)

Yesss, the Scultures Luffy is actually the first figure I'll be getting in – years I think. I kind of missed my chance on getting Crocodile and Nightmare Luffy from the line, which I also really liked.

That said I probably never was the biggest collector in the first place, but I can definitely relate to the general decline of interest in collecting around here. Part of it is definitely Megahouse's fault, who just haven't been treating their P.O.P. line too well recently, but I feel like there's also just been an overall decrease of interest in One Piece merchandise throughout the last couple of years.
For me it reached a climax around 2010, when the Strong World Movie had come out and the manga had reached a very climactic point with the Whitebeard War – which both gave really amazing room to create merchandise off. The great thing especially about the Whitebeard War was that it brought together a lot of key characters that had appeared in the story before, which I think, gave the toy companys a lot of confidence to create figures based off these side characters, whereas they aren't nearly as bold to create figures of new characters these day. Especially Megahouse seems to have missed the window on most of them, which resulted in us essentially getting next to no P.O.P.s for Fishman Island or Punk Hazard, but tons of rehashes and rereleases.

That all said I don't think such a decline in merchandise is anything specific to One Piece. I feel that for example Attack on Titan, which has been an even more recent juggernaut, has also reached it's merchandise zenith quite a while ago. And let's not forget that One Piece has proven a longevity in producing quality merchandise that most other franchises could only dream of.
I'll be just waiting what the future of One Piece merchandise (and the series in general for that matter) will bring. Maybe the magic will be recaptured – probably not though. But maybe that might not even be such a bad thing…

Yeah the Gaiden in itself is actually kind of cute, especially the ending…

Still, it totally bums me out that THIS is how we get to see Naruto become the Hokage… Imagine Luffy finding the One Piece in the Gaiden after the Gaiden, and then it's really Mr 2 dressed up as him, ugh…

Thanks :) Yeah, I kind of struggled between giving him rather Doflamingo- or Spider-Man-esque proportions. So I kind of ended up with a mishmash of the two, because I also had to keep his leg inside the frame haha.

More Fashion Illustrations :)

! Balmain (à la Mad-Max)

! Burberry Prorsum

! Craig Green

! Gucci

! Hood by Air

They're adding S Ranks while I'm stull stick at B? sigh… oh well

I really hope this update will increase traffic on the game again though. Lately whenever I have been playing at noon I had serious trouble even finding a match-up…

@Deviant_Mugen:

Man, I love the lines and colors on all your stuff. Keep up the great work.

Also, the fashion illustrations still feel like they belong in a comic book. Hell, the Haider Ackermann one looks a bit like he's doing a Killing Joke homage.

Heh great catch on the Killing Joke similarity. I totally had that picture up as reference the entire time I was drawing :)
I'm really flattered you pointed out the comic booky look of the characters, because what I originally started out with was actually drawing comics!
I haven't really had the time to work on any personal comic projects since I started college – I know that's the lamest excuse ever, but it's mostly true haha – so I started doing these fashion illustrations also because I wanted to continue developing a more personal drawing style for future works.

@Skadi:

Your art is really good! I love your color palettes but, most of all, how you play with dramatic lights and shadows. That´s something most fan artists I know don´t dare to try as of yet.

To be honest I actually feel a bit more comfortable defining hard and clear cut shadows than doing soft shading haha. I haven't really done much coloring before and only started doing digital artwork earlier this year so I am still kind of using the inking tactics I have been practicing on paper and trying to apply them to color and digital art. :)

Anyways thank you guys so much for the feedback! I really appreciate it :)

Hi guys, I've been lurking around this site for years now, but have finally decided to try and be a bit more active.
To start it off I thought I shared some of the artwork stuff I am doing. Currently I am working a lot on fashion themed illustrations on Instagram, but I've done a few Fanarts here and there and am always trying to shake things up a bit and try out new stuf.

So without further ado, here's the one and only One Piece Fanart I have done so far (even though it's pretty much my favourite thing haha) – your friendly neighbourhood Dofla-Man:

I think it's around here that I first saw someone bring up the similarities between the two characters and it's really quite uncanny…
Anyways this was the first full digital painting I did, with background and all, so this took me waay too long to finish. But I just had that idea stuck in my head and had to get it out haha.

Here are some of the fashion illustrations I mentioned earlier. I started doing them this season and have been focusing so far on the SS16 menswear collections.

! Topman Design (London)

! Andrea Pompilio (Milano)

! Haider Ackermann (Paris)

I hope you'll enjoy work. I'll be posting more soon :)

Okay thank you very much guys!
I'm really glad it's not a print error after all.