Straw Hat pirates and their ships
The main characters of One Piece, one of the most popular mangas and animes. Their nickname was derived from the symbol of their Jolly Roger - a skull wearing a strawhat. I sometimes have to wonder what will happen once Luffy returns his hat to Shanks - what will they be after that? They are named after this hat after all - maybe...something like Hatless pirates? That doesn't kinda sound right to me -.-" well, we will worry about it once the time comes, right?
The current ship which takes them on the seas is Thousand Sunny - a ship that was designed and mainly built by Franky, Iceburg and with help from other Galley-La foremen and Yokozuna.
Their previous ship was called Going Merry and it received a Viking funeral. So, before we present our heroes, let's take a look at their ship friends! ^^
The current ship which takes them on the seas is Thousand Sunny - a ship that was designed and mainly built by Franky, Iceburg and with help from other Galley-La foremen and Yokozuna.
Their previous ship was called Going Merry and it received a Viking funeral. So, before we present our heroes, let's take a look at their ship friends! ^^
Ship: Going Merry
Going Merry was a caravel type fish-I mean ship that was the main means of transport of SH pirates during their journey on East Blue all the way to Water 7 where it was destroyed and succeeded by the second and current ship Thousand Sunny. It was rather small compared to other ships that were on Grand Line. Going Merry was a gift from Kaya - Usopp's friend back from the Syrup Village that received help from them when she was in a big pinch. Although it received the Viking funeral (burnt) and was no longer alive, Franky made a mini model of it called Mini Merry II. on the second Dock channel of Thousand Sunny. If you have noticed the previous sentence, I indeed used the world "alive". Why is it because Going Merry showed traits no normal ships have. Usopp and the rest of the crew took care and treasured it a lot to a point the ship itself felt grateful that it could sail with its comrades. It appeared to Usopp as a mysterious figure repairing the crew's ship during the Sky Island arc. It was later revealed by Franky that what Usopp saw was a spirit of the ship called Klabautermann. Going Merry wanted to sail with the crew so much that although it was totally broken and the Galley-La shipwrights didn't think it can sail anymore, it appeared out of nowhere during the escape from Enies Lobby and took them out of the pinch. It was only a bit later when the crew was safe that it broke completely and not long after, received the funeral.
Ship: Thousand Sunny
Thousand Sunny is the second and current ship made of Adam wood that was designed and built by Franky and Iceburg with the help from Galley-La workers and Yokozuna (frog). Franky announced that it will carry on Going Merry's spirit and he even made a smaller version of it as a smaller transport device.
There is a small running joke regarding Thousand Sunny - and that's that its figurehead can either be a Lion's head, Sunflower or Sun. Franky was probably making the Lion's head with a name including the word Lion, but Iceburg's suggestion of the name Thousand Sunny - a ship bright as sun that would travel through thousand seas seemed perfect for it, the crew approved its name.
Though there are often times Brook calls it mistakenly Lion-chan.
Actually, choosing a name for it wasn't that easy, as the crewmembers' suggestions were rather unusable:
There is a small running joke regarding Thousand Sunny - and that's that its figurehead can either be a Lion's head, Sunflower or Sun. Franky was probably making the Lion's head with a name including the word Lion, but Iceburg's suggestion of the name Thousand Sunny - a ship bright as sun that would travel through thousand seas seemed perfect for it, the crew approved its name.
Though there are often times Brook calls it mistakenly Lion-chan.
Actually, choosing a name for it wasn't that easy, as the crewmembers' suggestions were rather unusable:
- Bear!! Polar Bear!! Lion (クマ!!白クマ!!ライオン号 Kuma!! Shirokuma!! Raion Gō?): Luffy's first suggestion for the ship's name.
- Tiger!! Wolf!! Lion (トラ!!狼!!ライオン号 Tora!! Ōkami!! Raion Gō?): Luffy's second suggestion for the ship's name.
- Squid!! Octopus!! Chimpanzee (イカ!!タコ!!チンパンジー Ika Tako Chinpanjī?): Luffy's third suggestion for the ship's name. It doesn't even have the word Lion in it anymore.
- Dumpling, Gorilla, Lion (ダンゴ・ゴリラ・ライオン号 Dango Gorira Raion Gō?): Luffy's fourth suggestion for the ship's name. This time, Luffy used Word chain (a game).
- Boss Lionel (ライオネル親方 Raioneru Oyakata?): Zoro's suggestion for the ship's name.
- Little Darkness (暗黒丸 Ankoku-maru?): Robin's suggestion for the ship's name.
- Monsieur Sunflower (ムッシュひまわり Musshu Himawari?): Sanji's own suggestion for the ship's name.
- New Battle Franky, Lion Gang Champion (ニューバトルフランキー「ライオンギャングチャンピオン号」 Nyu Batoru Furanki "Raion Gyangu Chanpion Gō"?): A name which Franky intended to call the ship.
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