The main character in One Piece did not speak to any of his loyal companions in the Straw Hat Pirates for more than 6 years in the manga.
As Screenrant reported, a statistic about the manga One Piece showed that the main character and captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, Luffy, had not spoken to any of his crew members for a very long time… and I mean a really long time: It was silent for more than 6 years.
Note: The following contains small spoilers for the manga One Piece, Volume 73 and 97.
24 volumes of silence between Luffy and Franky
For a full 6 years, 200 chapters, and 24 volumes, Luffy did not exchange a single word with Franky, the cyborg and shipwright of the Straw Hat crew, even though they were traveling together.
This long silence between the two characters began in Volume 73, in Chapter 730. Here, the entire Straw Hat crew had a discussion. While part of the crew traveled to Zou Island, the rest stayed in Dressrosa to fight against Doflamingo.
Franky and Luffy only spoke again in Volume 97, in Chapter 977, just before the Onigashima raid took place. This volume came a full 6.5 years after Volume 73.
That’s quite a long break in dialogue, considering that the two traveled on the same ship and shared adventures together.
However, there was also a time skip of two years within the story during which the characters faced the dangers of the New World.
During this time, there was increasingly less time for Luffy to interact with all his crew members as the crew continued to grow, and the events increasingly took up space in the narrative. Advancing the plot became more important than the exchange between the characters.
How does the community react to this? On reddit, user u/Japsanity posted the fact that the two characters did not speak to each other for more than 6 years.
Below, there are some amused comments about how their last conversation did not go very well. However, several also criticized that the time skip in the story led to a lack of interaction between the crew members.
Here we have gathered some user opinions:
- u/NJJo: “Can you blame him? In one of their last conversations, it was about a shipbuilder who coated Franky’s brother.”
- u/koopalings_jr: “The lack of interaction within the crew is the biggest loss of the time skip. Hopefully, we can make up for this in the next chapter.”
- u/funkyvenom6: “The next story arc can hopefully focus more on the crew like it did before the time skip.”
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