In the live-action adaptation of One Piece, some Easter eggs have been included that viewers of the anime will understand and love. However, there are also details that didn’t make it into the anime and are new even for fans of the original.
What is this truth? In season 2, the Straw Hat crew encounters the members of the Baroque Works. Each employee is paired with a partner who is named after a holiday or weekday. One of these supporting fighters is Miss Goldenweek, whose real name is Marianne.
She has been given a backstory that didn’t exist in the anime. She recounts that she brutally killed her parents because they simply annoyed her:
“Friends abandon you. Not like toys. When toys are no longer fun, you can just put them back in the box. I tried to explain this to my parents, but they didn’t understand. So I painted them and put them in a box. They made so much noise in there … at least for the first few days.”
The fact that the noise eventually stopped suggests that at some point, her parents ran out of air and strength. In the original, we learned very little about the character’s backstory. Now we know that she is rightly part of an organization full of antagonists.
Miss Goldenweek shows her brutal side
What kind of character is she? Miss Goldenweek is Mister 3’s partner and appears to be a little girl, even though she is actually a teenager. Moreover, she is depicted as a relaxed person who even holds a picnic in the middle of a battle. At first glance, she seems like a harmless girl and not a wicked agent.
That’s why it’s good that we finally learn her background. In the anime, she seemed a bit lost among all the strong and nasty agents. But now we know what her true nature is.
She has it in her: With her special powers, she can create colors, paint things, and thus change the personality of the painted objects. This allows her to control people and impose her will on them. But this is not due to a Devil Fruit.
Why wasn’t this information present in the original? The exact reason why this information was not in the anime is not known. However, it is highly likely that the mangaka of One Piece, Eiichiro Oda, simply did not manage to include this information.
- A notable event that will never be shown in the anime, is the Rocky Port incident. During this, Trafalgar Law hijacked a ship to get to one of the Poneglyphs.
- The villain Gecko Moria actually has a heroic backstory. Oda has now revealed a detail about it in a cover image of the manga.
And probably there will be many more such details that simply had no space in the manga and anime. Therefore, it is nice to see that the Netflix series appreciates these little things and incorporates them into the episodes.
Through the manga, we at least know what happened to Miss Goldenweek after her career at Baroque Works. If you are curious about how the young lady earns her money after the events, you can take a look at the following article: One Piece reveals what happened to a major enemy of the Straw Hat Pirates
