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marvelB · 2010-06-04, 14:48

As many of us who read the manga know, Oda has a little Q&A corner in the tankoubans known as the SBS. Most of the time he just answers a bunch of silly questions, but occasionally, he'll actually provide us with some pretty juicy info, some of which will eventually be relevent in the series' future. I thought I'd make a thread where we can talk about about anything SBS (mainly so we don't derail the chapter threads too much!

). Of course, this includes info from past SBS corners, as well as speculating what seemingly useless info Oda will elaborate on in a future SBS! I thought I'd start off by talking about the recently released volume 58's SBS, which is a treasure trove of juicy info:

-We actually learn the ages and sizes for all of the Shichibukai! Credit goes to kaze1028 from Apforums for this info:

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Hancock　　29y 1m91cm 111B/61W/91H J-cup
Moria　　　 48y 6m92cm
Kuma　　　 45y 6m89cm
BlackBeard 38y 3m44cm
Doflamingo 39y 3m5cm
Jimbei　　　44y 3m1cm
Crocodile　 44y 2m53cm
Mihawk　　 41y 1m98cm

-MORE AWESOME STUFF! We learn the names and divisions of ALL the Whitebeard commanders:

Spoiler:

-It's confirmed that Whitebeard's Gura Gura fruit is a Paramecia, not Logia. Also, his mustache is apparently a boomerang, which he uses to play fetch with his dog, Stefan.

-WE GET THE NAME OF TSURU'S DF!!!

It's called the "Wash-Wash" fruit and is actually pretty effective against pirates!

-Apparently, Oda had originally intended for Robin to use a Face Fleur in the Skypiea arc, but felt it might look too scary. However, there's still a chance that we may see Robin use that technique in the future.....

-Now here's a really interesting one: A fan asks what's the difference between Ace and Marco's fruits. Oda says that Marco's flames aren't hot, neither does it spread out and burn stuff up. However, as we already guessed, the blue flames heal Marco and cancels out attacks. Still, there's a limit to his regeneration abilities. Apparently, Oda's still keeping the full nature of Marco's fruit under wraps since he obviously intends to bring the character back sometime in the future.....

-Oda talks about his inspiration for Iva and the Newkamas! I shall now quote Greg from Apforums about this info (BTW, credit goes to him for most of this SBS info, anyway):

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He says that while the inspiration for Iva and most of the okama in ID was from TRHPS Iva is actually based on the member of Mayumi Tanaka's acting troupe that he met. He's a real okama and his face looked like a boulder (iwa) so when he heard his family name was 'Imamura' he mistook it for another common family name 'Iwamura'. Anyway, the guy heard that the character was based on him and auditioned for the role for the anime and...he got it. So in a way, like Luffy, that's literally his real voice.

So yep, looks like Iva's partially inspired from Rocky Horror Picture Show, after all!

Well, that's most of the juicy stuff volume 58 has to offer! Somehow, I'm not surprised that Moria's the oldest of the Shichibukai (however, I AM surprised about Blackbeard..... so this means he was 18 years old when he appeared in chapter 0, huh....?). It's also kinda funny to see how over half of them are practically giant (even Doflamingo is over 9 feet tall!

) I especially love that we got to learn the names of the Whitebeard commanders and Tsuru's fruit (so chain chomp guy is Rakuyou, eh? Pretty cool name, right there!). It's also nice to learn the difference between Ace and Marco's fruits (funny how Oda doesn't talk about Akainu's, though.....). Man, this is truly one of the best SBS corners, EVER! Hopefully, Volume 59's will be just as awesome (we don't have to wait too much longer for it either, since it comes out in August!).

Anyway, discuss anything SBS here, guys!