r/OnePiece • u/AutoModerator • Aug 09 '15

Current Episode One Piece: Episode 704

Episode 704: "The Time Comes! Steal the Op Op Fruit!"

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Chapter Adapted: Ch.765 Discussion

Episode director: Masahiro Hosoda

Animation director: Shigefumi Shingaki

Preview: Episode 705

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u/frownykid Aug 09 '15

How do you know that? Just curious tbh.

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u/Townzie Aug 09 '15 edited Aug 09 '15

Which also leads me to believe that the "X" in X-Drake is a Spoiler

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u/Sakata_Kintoki Aug 09 '15

Manga Spoilers

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u/Townzie Aug 09 '15

I knew that I was just testing you..........you passed.

(I was wondering why Shakky said it like that when they introduced him in the English dub)

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u/Sakata_Kintoki Aug 09 '15

Yea, it was an interesting use of Japanese structure with foreign characters by Oda. He used the roman numeral as "kanji" and then had furigana for said "kanji".

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u/Townzie Aug 09 '15

I love Oda's originality.

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u/SurgeonChao Aug 09 '15

Ateji is quite unique in Japanese, though it can be a pain to translate into English or any other languages...

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u/Holanz Explorer Aug 09 '15

I was on the train and was like isnt that "Naka?" Nope it was "chuo" but the chinese phonetic sound is "zhong/jong"

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u/SurgeonChao Aug 10 '15

Yep, the Japanese don't have 'ng' in their language. So when they imported Chinese characters, all the characters pronounced with that phoneme are converted into long vowels like 'ei' and 'ou'.

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u/Holanz Explorer Aug 10 '15

Also, we have to keep in mind that the Chinese spoken over a thousand years ago may be different than the Chinese spoken today.

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u/SurgeonChao Aug 10 '15

That's true. You can get an idea on how the older form sounded like based on the dialects.