while i’m on the topic of lines that took a hit in the official translation, this is another one that was pointed out to me by a friend because they translate it correctly in the anime, but not in the manga. this is after wapol is talking about how he’s better than everybody else because he’s a king, basically.

what luffy says in response to that here is approximately (in the first text bubble) “it doesn’t matter! if you’re a king, or if you’re a god…” (in the second text bubble) “it doesn’t matter who’s great and who’s not great!”

Algo muy bleach. / Something very bleach.

well, thing is, modern plumbing is like. really hard to make. we take it for granted but it's,,, a lot of work lol

lloyd did want to implement it but it would've taken him years and a lot of money to do it, things he simply could not afford

It'd have been nice if I could build a modern sewage system in each household where they can directly throw their waste. But he didn't have the technology to do so and lacked money, time and labor. A bitter smile appeared on Lloyd's face as he looked at the ongoing construction. To be honest, he wanted to create a modern sewage system, just like the one in South Korea, if he could. It would allow the water used at homes to pass through the sewers and the people to flush their toilets. Clean and sleek. Lloyd wanted to devise a method wherein people could deal with the waste without extra effort or care. But that's impossible here. To construct a modern sewage system, Lloyd had to connect the residential facility with underground pipes. But the current situation made it impossible for him to do so. Soon, the freezing winter would turn the Prona River into a giant block of ice. The accumulated bodily waste there signaled a large-scale epidemic. So, the sewers had to be constructed before the plague, leaving Lloyd no time to build and connect houses with pipes. He would need at least several years to perfect such a thorough system.

again! modern plumbing is a bit of a marvel of engineering! implementing it in a fantasy world without any of the technological advantages of the modern world would've been pretty hard! and lloyd is not even a civil engineer, he was just studying to become one! the fact he managed to build a sewage system that worked as well as it did in such a relatively short amount of time is already goddamn amazing.