Luffy

D: Nice to meet you. I’m always reading One Piece. Here’s my question: when I reread from volume 1, I noticed that Luffy doesn’t have a lot of thought bubbles. Why is that? Thanks for your answer. -Mizuiro Ribon

O: I see~ You’ve noticed something interesting in the 54 volumes we have. Just like how I write “ore” in hiragana, I’ve just been doing it for so long that it’s become something like my policy. I decided this in the beginning. For Luffy, it would be something like,

This is the kind of stuff that goes on in Luffy’s mind. For the readers, I wanted to make him a straight shooting kind of man, so I wrote him thinking like, “If he’s thinking it, he’ll say it” and “Action speaks louder than words”. In the Sky Island arc, he dealt with the Montblanc Cricket situation by saying thing in his heart, but he’s saying it with the same voice, so I decided that it was OK. From, here on, Luffy will act before he thinks!!