This is the first time I'm even hearing about Wanda being in that panel originally lol. I never noticed the brim of her hat in the original release until now

It should be noted that Oda finishes his little volume message with "Just kidding! Volume 97, begin!" but who knows if "just kidding" refers to his eyesight getting worse or just to him putting on his glasses while he sleeps to see his dreams better lol

@Captain:

Hookay, visual guide time. I'm continuing to assume that Arthur is intended to be 0652, but we'll see how right that is or isn't about a month from now.

I think for numbers 497 - 499, 622 - 626 and 679, we will get them covered in the last EX card, but they'll be groups of characters. As in, the three members of the Macro Pirates and five members of the Giant Squad, all with individual names and numbers but sharing the one description. The odd amount of space this method will take up will probably be the reason they weren't included in earlier cards. 679 will be the animals that Luffy and Rayleigh trained with, collectively taking up a single number, if I had to guess.

Also, unless I've forgotten someone, we're at an even 600 characters now. Roughly half of the upper limit suggested by Stussy's number (though we should be getting a new higher number next month through Flampe).

Here's my work to date

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Thanks for keeping up with this, it's a really neat visual guide. I do wanna point out one error I noticed though; Nekomamushi's name is misspelled

Weirdly, the Vivre Card for Pedro doesn't indicate him as dead the same way it does for Absalom. Not Sheepshead either and that guy is almost definitely dead

Man the mysterious #11 and #12 spots just being Merry and Sunny is so laaaaaaame

Ouch, that's going to be really lame if Merry and Sunny are 11 and 12

@Strawhat:

Hmm we've known this bit for quite some years now.

Btw, where were Marco and Jozu born?

Ah I guess I just never saw anything about it anywhere lol.

Marco was born on the Grand Line, Jozu in West Blue.

Oh this is interesting. Originally Marguerite was planned to have a Devil Fruit. Neko Neko/Cat Cat Fruit, Model Black Cat.

Jinbe at #10 is great to see but Vivi at #13 is very surprising. That two character gap is going to cause a lot of speculation and debate lol. I hope it's not just the two ships; that would kind of suck to deconfirm anymore crewmembers after Jinbe. Luffy said at the beginning he wanted 10 crewmates but there's a space for an extra person now.

I was genuinely worried for this year since it only had 3 volumes instead of the usual 4 lol