Sunnitta

it is funny in my head ok

“After all the Gomu Gomu no mi is really a mythical zoan…it’s the Hito Hito no mi model Nika!“

part four

‘Pumpie' 

1. Crows understand the concept of gifts.

There’s a little girl who started feeding the murder by her house and they started bringing her trinkets (cool pebbles, coins, shiny things, bleached animal bones, etc) as a thank you. 

2. Crows remember who has been kind to them and tell other crows about the nice humans.

There are various examples of people who have helped crows and the crows not only come back to say hi, but also bring friends who need help over for the nice human to help.

3. Crows are the only other animal known to make tools in order to make another tool.

4. Crows have been proven to have a sense of self

If you mark them with a coloured dot that they can see and then show them their reflection in a mirror they soon realize that the reflection is them and not another crow.

5. Crows have regional dialects and accents.

They are also able to copy each other’s dialects and accents to fit in if they move to an area where the accent is different.

6. Crows regularly visit their parents after leaving the nest.

This is something that’s been brought up by quite a few people including in the SBS of the corresponding volume, but that I wanted to deconstruct a bit more: Ace’s flashback T-shirts.

As said by Oda in the SBS, he wanted to show that Ace and Luffy wore different shirts every day and while Luffy got animal pun shirts, this is the theme he came up with for Ace. In case you were wondering, no it’s not any more normal in Japanese to wear a shirt that just says a random edgy words like “pillage” than it is in English ahah. But since this is One Piece, the words aren’t exactly random, and are sort of their own background gag.

Basically the words on Ace’s t-shirts more or less describe what’s happening on panel, such as: