One Piece makes so much sense of you interpret it as a long running tabletop RPG.
#like no seriously#one piece#all of the straw hats are the PCs#the various speech quirks are the DM doing voices#just#everything works so well if you see it as a bunch of players messing with the DM’s plans in the most glorious way possible#in that they stay in character and the DM couldn’t really tell them no in character creation#‘you want to play a person who transforms into a reindeer?’#‘no I want to play a reindeer who transforms into a person’#‘what do you mean you want to be a cyborg’#‘I wanna be the best swordsman’ ‘oh thank goodness that’s normal#what style do you use?’#‘three sword style’#’…’#‘I hold one in my mouth’
“did you know the rulebook has rules for fire-starting?”
“what?”
“there’s a bit about friction, and i think my character has high enough agility to sort of spin in place and-”
“no.”
“it totally checks out! i ran the numbers, there’s nothing in the rules that says-”
“why would you want to set your leg on fire”
“bonus damage.”
this is hilarious because I said the exact same thing years ago.
literally every single “creative” powerup could be dumbed down to Oda is just a really good DM running a fantastic campaign.
“You find Crocodile in the temple, along with Vivi’s father and Ms. All Sunday, both injured. The temple is collapsing and you have no water, it’s probably best to wait for the othe-”
“I use my blood!”
“Wait, wha-”
“…I’ll allow it…”