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Top 10 One Piece Moments Way More Brutal in the Manga
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8/31/2023
Oda is hardcore! Join Ashley as we look over the times where One Piece was far more graphic in the manga compared to the anime
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Hey guys, it's Ash here with WatchMojo and these are the top 10 One Piece moments that
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were way more brutal in the manga.
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For this list, we'll be looking at scenes from the series One Piece which were way more
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intense or graphic in the original manga than the anime.
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Buggy kills a crew member
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Buggy the Clown is one of the series' most recurring and amusing antagonists.
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However, this gag villain originally had a far more serious introduction in the manga.
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We first meet Buggy in Orange Town, where one of his crew members apologises for losing
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a map to the Grand Line.
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During his apology, the man says something which Buggy misinterprets as a shot against
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his big, red and very real nose.
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He chokes the man with his then-mysterious devil fruit abilities.
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But while he forgives the man and lets him go in the anime, in the manga, Buggy holds
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him in front of a cannon to be executed.
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Buggy loves to do things flashily, but this was a little too flashy for the anime.
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Sanji is backstabbed.
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Sanji's fight against the invisible lion-faced man, Absalom, to rescue Nami is a bit more
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disturbing in the manga.
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While the similarities between the two opponents' ardent appreciation of women is unsettling
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enough, the manga features a lot more blood than the anime does.
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Toning down the blood in fights is par for the course for the one-piece anime, but this
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moment has a story behind it.
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During the fight, Sanji is backstabbed from behind by his unseen foe with a knife.
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Unfortunately, this episode aired soon after the 2008 Akihabara massacre in Japan, where
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a dozen people were stabbed with a dagger.
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Instead, Sanji is merely kicked.
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The DVD and international versions do restore some of the scene's bloodiness, though.
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Luffy collects several notable battle scars on his adventure, but the way he got his most
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famous one was originally cut out in the anime.
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Early in the series, chapter one in the manga, Luffy is a little kid and looks up to Shanks
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and his crew of pirates.
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Although the anime shows Luffy and Shanks in a bar, and Luffy asking to join Shanks'
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crew, the manga had a scene before this.
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In it, Luffy declares that he'll prove he's tough enough to join their crew, by giving
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himself the scar below his eye with a knife.
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In the original anime episode, Luffy lacks the bandage from his injury.
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The scene was animated properly in a TV special, though.
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Bellamy catches a cheater.
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Bellamy the hyena may think he's much stronger than he is at first, but his sadistic and
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cruel attitude is still plenty threatening.
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He's introduced playing cards with a pirate named Roshio.
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When Roshio wins, Bellamy grabs his hand and squeezes, accusing him of cheating in the
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anime.
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He still makes the accusation in the manga, but he does it after stabbing Roshio's hand
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to the table.
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Additionally, before throwing Roshio out the window, as he does in the anime, the manga
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features Bellamy and his crewmate, Sarcas, break a bottle of alcohol on him and light
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him on fire.
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Not only is this more brutal, but it also adds more tension to Bellamy's first confrontation
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with Luffy.
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Bartolomeo is the Straw Hat Pirate's number one – in
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universe – fan.
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However, he's also a gangster-tinned pirate, so he's not exactly a peaceful guy.
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When we first learn of his fanboyism, Bartolomeo overhears a man bad-mouthing Luffy for failing
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to save his brother.
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And Bartolomeo takes that personally, like any of us would.
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Flattening the man against a wall with his powers, Bartolomeo explains how he came to
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worship Luffy while holding on to the man's tongue.
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In the anime, he threatens the guy's taste organ with a knife, but in the manga, he pierces
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it fully.
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And then Bartolomeo does some other violent things to him that were way too extreme for
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even the manga.
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When the Straw Hats go to Little Garden, they
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and some dueling giants on the island are captured by Mr. Three.
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The crafty bounty hunter encases them all in some slowly creeping wax that will eventually
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turn them all into a pirate-themed wax museum.
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To escape their predicament, Zoro declares that he's willing to cut off his own legs
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to escape the trap and take the fight to Mr. Three and the rest of Baroqueworks.
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Thankfully, Luffy arrives with backup and Zoro doesn't have to go through with it.
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Well, mostly.
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He's already got halfway through.
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The anime shows blood dripping down, but the manga shows the grisly mess he's made of
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his legs in more detail.
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It's amazing Zoro is so nonchalant.
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Or Katakuri destroys Luffy's torso.
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Luffy's fight with Katakuri is one of the most intense and awesome bouts in the entire
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series – not only because of the intense action, but also because of the mutual respect
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that develops between them.
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Unfortunately, Katakuri's awful, terrible, no-good little sister, Flampe, shoots Luffy
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in the leg with a numbing dart, leading to Luffy slipping and getting hit by a devastating
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attack from Katakuri.
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While the anime does show a lot of blood, it's practically to cover up the damage
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Luffy takes in the manga.
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Originally, you can see Katakuri's weapon going clean through Luffy, and a huge chunk
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missing from Luffy's midsection.
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Chopper is an incredible doctor, being able to patch that up.
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One Piece backstories tend to get pretty tragic and pretty dark, so several are subject to
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censorship.
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The first is Nami's backstory.
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When the Fishman Arlong and his crew take over Nami's village, they force the villagers
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to pay them protection money.
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When Nami's adopted mother, Belmyr, doesn't have enough for herself, Nami, and Nami's
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sister, Nojiko, she offers herself to protect them.
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Her death is traumatic and tragic regardless of the version.
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But in the manga, Arlong points his gun at Belmyr's face instead of her chest.
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It's brutal either way, yet we can see how a mother getting shot there, in front of her
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kids, would have been a bit too dark.
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Another, straw hat backstory, this one details how Sanji and his mentor, Zeff, were both
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stranded on a small island with little food to survive.
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In both versions, Zeff loses one of his legs to save Sanji.
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However, the "how" differs between mediums.
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In the anime, Zeff's leg gets caught in a chain while saving Sanji at sea, forcing
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him to remove it.
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He then gives Sanji all his food so he can survive.
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But, in the manga, Zeff has both legs when they reach the island, and he still gives
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Sanji all the food.
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Zeff cuts off his own leg and eats it to survive.
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Self-cannibalism isn't exactly a family-friendly topic, so we can understand the censorship
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in this case.
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Whitebeard Loses Face
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The death of Ace made a lot of people angry.
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Most of all, Ace's adoptive dad, Whitebeard.
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The legendary pirate is quick to pursue Ace's killer, Akinu, to give him an epic beatdown.
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However, despite taking a quake punch to the face, the dogged admiral retaliates with a
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magma punch.
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In the anime, this merely burns off a portion of Whitebeard's signature crescent moustache.
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But the manga went way more brutal.
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Whitebeard doesn't just lose half of his stache, he loses half of his face.
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After such a gut-wrenching death, we can see why the animators toned down this gory injury.
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Still, it's too bad that Whitebeard looks like slightly less of a beast for fighting
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on such a grisly wound.
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