Bit late with this but Megumi Ishitani and Keisuke Mori headed the last Uta music video.

Motoo Abiko aka Fujiko A. Fujio, creator of Ninja Hattori-kun and The Laughing Salesman, passed away at 88

https://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Obituaries/Japanese-manga-artist-Fujiko-A.-Fujio-dies-at-88

I compared her to Haruna from Tenchi Forever half-jokingly but her desire for Luffy to quit pirating has me considering it more seriously. She either has a strong anti-pirate stance, or, much more likely, she wants Luffy specifically to stop. From there it's not too big of a leap to think she has an affection for him, and as for why that is, projecting feelings she previously had for Shanks would explain things neatly and finally start tying her story to his.

Stretching things a bit further (and getting far less likely) maybe she actually hypnotizes Luffy (in her case via singing) into thinking he already has a blissful domestic life with her. Biggest problem with this is it would mostly put Luffy out of the action, and then when is he going to wear all the outfits we've already seen?

@andre:

They just debuted the colored version of the titular character.

Unless her name was revealed to be Red she's not a titular character.

Although to be fair, that's certainly a possibility.

I know everyone's been committed to the idea of Ishitani doing the rooftop episodes since forever but I was secretly hoping she'd get to do the zoan reveals from 998 since she has an interest in paleontology.

The legendary fruit that hasn't awakened in centuries

So a different kind of villain, an attractive young woman who's defeated some way other than being punched… maybe one whose conflict with the MC comes about because of how she associates him with his mentor figure? Hmmm......

@AntonioMargheriti:

Strong World is my favorite One Piece movie because it's the first time Oda was heavily involved to the point he actually made a canon manga chapter 0.

I know I'm 12 years late but does somebody have a new RAW scan for Volume 0? The link above is dead and this volume is super rare.

Please help, I would really appreciate it, thank you.

I had to search through two old laptops to find this, but I've been meaning to take a look through them anyway. This gave me a reason to actually get around to it.

https://files.catbox.moe/yg35bf.zip

The earliest Strong World trailers showed Brook with the crew within like a week of his 'official' joining in the manga. It's not that big of a leap to think that this movie might be being made with whoever joins at the end of Wano in mind.

I doubt Shanks is going to have a kid that isn't Makino's.

@electricmastro:

Film: Red is reportedly going to have a woman as the main villain

Reported where?