They Will Never Make Me Disown You Sparkly French Boi 😔✊

I find it interesting that over time, Luffy began to clearly divide the people around him into his own and others'.

The East Blue saga is different from all the others, so we don't take it into account, but the rest of the major arcs are fundamentally similar to each other and the main similarity is that there is always some character of the location who will interact with the crew.

so, the first such character is Vivi, and, in fact, everything goes as usual: acquaintance, a request for help, the way to the villain of the arc, a fight, and everyone is happy, BUT Vivi is literally the only character of the location who was accepted by the Mugiwaras into the team as an equal member (even in the pauses in the middle of the episodes, she stood among them) and who later did not become a member of the team, but retained this connection.

neither Luffy nor the rest of the team showed such willingness to accept a location character into the team, no matter how close they got (neither Connis, nor Rebecca, nor Yamato, although the situations were quite similar)

my take: Mugiwaras and Luffy in particular began to grow up long before water 7 and timeskip, this process began after the first big adventure on the grand line

Shanks, still conversing with Mihawk on a snail call: So, Hawkeyes, this baby of yours? Tell me about it! Is it cute!?

Mihawk: My child's name is Dracule Talon. He looks just like me. He will be quite handsome when he grows up, but to answer your question, right now he is very cute.

Talon: *gags*

Shanks: Does he have your eyes?

Mihawk: Yes, quite so.

Shanks: Sweet!

Mihawk: He also has my hair.

Shanks: Aww!

Mihawk: And his feathers are quite soft.

Shanks: ....his uh, what?

Mihawk: His dagger-like fingers are impressive as well.

Shanks: Umm, okay...

Mihawk: He loves to eat tuna meat, fresh caught from the sea. I blend it with grapes and nuts, so we both enjoy it.

Shanks: *slight gagging noise*

Mihawk: He's also already very good with a blade. When I first carried him, I never thought I could be a father. Yet, here we are... *notices Buggy accidentally splashed him with a drink while setting a glass down* Oh Buggy, you did this to me.

Shanks: *choking on the other end* B-Buggy!?!? Your son came from Buggy???

Mihawk: Technically, Buggy alerted me to Talon's existence. However, the child did come from an Egg-oh, Talon, save some of that for Crocodile later, would you?

Shanks: E-Eg-EGG!? .....*line goes quiet*

Mihawk: My apologies, Shanks, where was I? ....Shanks?

Buggy: *yelling at the receiver* Benn, are you there? Did he faint?

Benn: Yep. Out cold. *looooong sigh* Talk to you later, I guess. *hangs up the call*

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Continuation of this post. XD

concept building on Impel Down where the marines have to just make the executive decision to stop putting Luffy in prison altogether because no matter where they put him he just breaks out and frees all the other prisoners while he's at it so it's just a net loss every single time

new recruit being like "we've captured the pirate king!! surely a criminal of this caliber should be put in [whatever the WG's latest high security hell prison is]" and his older captain is like "AHAHAH no we will nOT put Prison Breaks Georg in the place we need to be mOST CERTAIN IS NEVER COMPROMISED"

his bounty no longer says dead or alive anymore like nah just KILL that sucker

Still thinking about feral child Sabo being raised by Dragon, who Gets It™️ because he was also a feral child (thank you and your interesting child rearing methods, Garp).

That kid growls and bites like a wild animal when he plays, which puts a lot of people off of him. And that’s all unwell and not good. Until Dragon matches him beat for beat.

And then you get fun little inferences from the rest of the Revs like

“Why is the noble kid growling and baring his teeth at the commander? Wh-… hold on, why is the commander growling and baring his teeth right back? Wait why are they squabbling like coyotes what the fuck is happening???”

Sabo is playing, Dragon is fathering, it’s fine, don’t worry about it.

me, after leaning that been absolutely drained after most of the social interaction to the point where i can't properly function and been in my own head 24/7 is not in fact been introverted and nerdy: oh, who would've guessed

Au fucking revoir Mister Prince

i CAN and WILL headcanon half of the mha characters as aroaces and neither you nor god can stop me.

me, giving paper medal with word 'aroace' on it to my favorite character: i give you the greatest honor that i have.

okay real question here: does aizawa clean his clothes from cat's fur or does he just leave it there because he doesn't care?

Garp is the funniest character of One Piece because he's a marine and yet he had a revolutionary son and then three grandsons who are basically: A communist, an arsonist, and an anarchist. The four of them definitely say "fuck the Marines" on a daily basis but would probably show up to a family dinner as if nothing happened

One Piece Academy Quick Translation index

Chapter 40-44 (Donquixote Brothers subplot)

Chapter 40: Cora san

Part 1 | Part 2

Chapter 41: The Dark Bingo Tournament

Part 1 | Part 2

Chapter 42: My Only Little Brother

Part 1 | Part 2

Chapter 43: Aren't you the Big Brother?

Part 1 | Part 2

Chapter 44: Brothers

Part 1 | Part 2

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Chapter 47: Lost Dog

Part 1 | Part 2

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Radiant Summit subplot

Chapter 51: The legend of the Radiant Summit

Part 1 | Part 2

Chapter 52: Disaster on the Mystery Mountain

Part 1 | Part 2

Chapter 53: The Rainbow Silver Treasure

Part 1 | Part 2

Extra/Omake Translations

(2021) Victory Carnival booklet comics (4 short comics)

Principal Sengoku's Picnic with Law and Rosi

Bartolomeo's New World Middle School Investigation notes

Law spoiling Onigiri | Bepo and Onigiri

Volume 8 extra (Faculties)

Notes

One Piece Academy is an ongoing official One Piece spinoff that releases in Monthly Saikyo Jump. In the magazine, the chapters are roughly 40 pages, but they're divided into two parts and released bimonthly on the official site.

You can find chapters 1-32 translated unofficially in several manga piracy sites [ x or y ]. Raws for 33 onwards can be found here.

Like most spinoffs, the original author isn't involved in its writing. However, it has been confirmed that Oda himself decided the nicknames exchanged between characters (Cora and the SHs) in the donquixote brothers arc.

For latest chapters, check the official site. It removes access to free chapters as new ones add up, so if you like a specific chapter, better keep all pages saved!

Here's the author's Twitter.

At the moment, I'm only translating specific chapters or arcs that feature Law. This post is updated after each new translation.