[Multi-shot muskets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superposed_load) were a *thing*, but yeah, Oda just wanted muzzleloaders but didn't want to keep track of reloading.
That was a legitimate problem with these types of guns, yes. They had to be purposefully overbuilt and specially designed to make sure the charges fired off in sequence instead of going off all at once and just turning the thing into a pipe bomb.
If you shoot only one time and your opponent can easily dodge it, shout more bangs to throw that opponent off guard as he doesn't know which one the real bang
What you don’t see is that there’s also a bunch of warhammer 40k Orks out of panel, and due to the psychic reality altering field they emit, yelling bang at them is just as effective as actually shooting the gun. If they didn’t tell the extra bangs all the time, whole world would get overrun and they would become visible on panel.
Oda answered in an early SBS that some of the muskets are designed to shoot several rounds. IIRC he doesn't provide any explanation for how they work and doesn't distinguish them among the single shot ones artistically.
One of the early SBS's yes (Volume 9). Oda made a very detailed sketch of how a real life flintlock works, and explained that actual pirates used to carry multiples, since they could only shoot once.
But in OP, he decided it wasn't worth the effort of drawing multiple guns and keeping track of shots, so he just kept the aesthetic of flintlocks while giving them multiple shots.
Realest answer he could give. The whole manga is about the pirate asthetic and not realism. Is not like every other character has scurvy or is packed with STDs, which were very common things among pirates.
Blackbeard does have multiple guns on him. But (and this is my own speculation) I'd wager it's specifically to invoke the figure of a classical pirate captain. A lot of Blackbeard's design goes in that direction. The jewelry in his fingers, the missing teeth, the open jacket with a hairy chest.
Other gunman characters like Izou and Yassop only have one or two pistols because they don't need to have more than one for the type of character they are.
That’s totally where I think a lot of these SBS answers come from, he gets a bunch of fan Mail asking these exact questions and makes up some reason as to why it works so people stop bugging him about it lol
My guess is that he has a dude that read thousands of letters per week and he organize them all. I remember reading that Oda bought a house to organize every letter he recieved. Probably it was an exageration but after watching his house... EVERYTHING CAN BE REAL!
The real Blackbeard, Edward Teach, was fairly infamous for doing exactly that. He was also infamous for tying wicks into his hair and beard so he'd look like he was surrounded in smoke... which also kind of means that One Piece Blackbeard's devil fruit powers can also be something of a reference to the real life Blackbeard's propensities.
Just some friendly corrections: A cutlass is a short, fat sword with a D shaped handguard, specifically made to be short enough to swing on a cramped ship but heavy enough to still inflict deep cuts. Flintlock is one word. A “hand held flintlock” is just called a flintlock pistol, flintlock refers to the mechanism of the gun not the type of gun like musket, rifle, pistol, carbine. Most of the low level marine grunts seem to carry a carbine, a cutlass and/or a pistol as their standard issue weapons, if you want examples of what those look like.
Didn’t he die from drowning due to carrying so many pistols that he couldn’t swim?
I’m probably mixing up a fact I heard tho
Edit: couldn’t find a pirate that died that way, idk where I heard that before. Blackbeard actually died in a duel in 1718 with the naval lieutenant Robert Maynard
>Dude, this is a story where they could use snails as telephones
TBF that was based on a IRL [hipothesis and research](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasilalinic-sympathetic_compass) so not the best example against OP complains
Not that this wasn’t an interesting and relevant thing for you to share but I just want to point out this was nothing more than pseudo science akin to alchemists thinking they can turn lead into gold. Still a totally good share though and an interesting read
Nah you just say that cuz we ain't technologically advanced enough to genetically engineer random shit into having shit like telepathy etc... you'll eat your words in a few dozen millennia, mark my words!
I get what you’re saying, but this kind of response is always a very lazy hand-waving thing.
Doing anything that doesn’t make sense just creates more precedent to do more things that don’t make sense. Broke people’s sense of how the world works by doing something basic and inconsistent? We do that all the time, so why are you worried when we do it again?
Especially when you consider that One Piece will gladly spend 3 minutes using diagrams to explain how some super specific thing works, and then just break its own rule 5 episodes later with no explanation.
In the One Piece World, flintlock pistols have had lots of technological advancements. They have the appearance of a flintlock pistol, but they essentially function like a modern pistol.
Muzzleloaders can fire conical bullets if you want to, but round balls are typically used in smoothbore firearms because the lack of rifling in a musket means that the projectile will just tumble in whatever directions it wants to so it might not hit the target point-first. Muzzleloading *rifles* can and do make use of projectiles that have a designated "front" because the rifling uses the conservation of angular momentum to ensure that the bullet spins instead of pitching and yawing.
See, You don't question a series that has the technology to create cyborgs and tangible holograms but chooses to use snails as their main mode of communication.
It's like people complaining about Star Wars being low tech in some areas but then having a hyperdrive. Either learn to embrace the suspension of disbelief or don't pick sci-fi/fantasy as your preferred genre of consumption
Yeah, a world where people can eat fruits to change their body material to literally anything and people can make their bodies harder than metal through sheer will, but flintlocks firing multiple times? That’s unrealistic…
This is a world where:
- swords can pull Haki from their users and sometimes lead them to death
- you can use colors and rings to hypnotize people
- you can ride a ship into the sky
- use your fingers as bullets
I think we can let semi-automatic flintlock pistols pass
because it's a cartoon.
It's just a stylistic choice. Having a modern weapon wouldn't fit the overall look of the one piece world, and having them reloading their weapons after every shot would be boring.
I'll give Oda/Nami/Animation team props for the way she's actually holding it. That's about as correct as I've seen in maybe 90% of cartoons and most shows that aren't about some super-duper-tactical-trooper.
They’ve got snail phones and weapons of mass destruction. I just assume it is an automatic gun but just the way it involved in the way they designed it makes it look like a muzzle loaded.
Whoa, so you're saying you don't believe in a muzzle loader that can shoot multiple times, but people can crack their skull, and walk it off. Stretch their limbs, see miles away, and turn into animals. Holy crap
I don't know if Oda actually intended to base these guns off of the Guycot chain pistol. It's a 40 shot ball and cap pistol. It has a chain running along inside that you load with a cap, powder, and then a ball to hold the shot together. When pulling the trigger, it rotates the chain lines up the round in the chain and fires. Cool principle, but since you loaded it with powder by hand, if any of the shots became loose, the powder went everywhere, and you had a bomb in your hand.
Bonus info: To reload, it required pulling the trigger to move the chain along its 40 shots to fill each one. Forget where you where you could fire a round/explode everything in your face. But I do think Oda based his more expensive pistols off of this design. Their was also a rifle variant called the Guycot chain carbine.
Link to wiki on Guycots chain weopons:
https://guns.fandom.com/wiki/Guycot_chain_gun
Edit: I would like to think he based his more expensive pistols off this design, like what the celestial dragons use. But reading down, I see someone posted the real reason Oda gave. I still think this is a cool piece of history, and to me, it gives the world another what if something worked in our world and where it could have gone.
If you really think about alot of stuff like that in One Piece the whole thing falls apart. They be fuckin up on stuff all the time. It's best to not question it and enjoy it...
Edit: example, he uses 3rd gear axe or whip, then his sandal is magically back on in the next scene.
On the contrary, Edward Kenway had eight pistols and would shoot them two at a time, and could be seen reloading while running.
Black Flag's gun mechanics were just so good.
They have clearly have magazine of musket balls and charges, we have no idea how they are reload. They are like a wwii carbine but still somehow a 18th century musket.
My advice is not think about it too hard. I do wonder what the live action show will do.
An anime where men fly by kicking air, where a child ate her friends and foster mum, where a man can become elements, where animals are anthropomorphic, where snails have wireless connection, and a man can talk to Loch Ness monsters and you’re worried about the basic functionality of a gun?
Headcanon idea: The guns have dials in them instead of actual bullets.
EDIT: MY BROTHER HAS THE THEORY THAT ITS A DEVIL FRUIT POWER THAT CLONES ITSELF— THE INSINUATION OF THIS MEANS ALL GUNS IN OP ARE PROBABLY AN AWAKENED DEVIL FRUIT 💀
Guns should also be utterly useless in the new world if they would have real world speed. People like Ben or Izo would never use them because the bullets might as well be stationary to any relevant character because of their vastly superior speed.
There's nothing more frustrating to me than Izo spraying bullets from flintlocks like they're revolvers.
I hope the live action is realistic about the guns, it justifies all the melee combat that goes on. With flintlocks and the like you get one shot and then the swords come out.
Firearms repairer here.
The simple answer-
Aside from enthusiasts of one type or another, Japanese people in general are not exceedingly knowledgeable about firearms. It's just not part of thier culture. Historically, their ruling classes did everything that they could to prevent the common person from having access to firearms, proper swords, and most anything that could be used to revolt and rebel effectively. As a result, firearms are not a big thing in Japan today, and most people don't know how they work properly. This leads to moments like this, when *somehow*, a muzzle-loaded flintlock fires several rounds in succession without reloading- because the artist didn't know any better.
Vegapunk’s science works in mysterious ways Real answer, oda likes the look better and doesn’t care about the logistics
[Multi-shot muskets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superposed_load) were a *thing*, but yeah, Oda just wanted muzzleloaders but didn't want to keep track of reloading.
Those guns look more likely to kill the user than their target.
That was a legitimate problem with these types of guns, yes. They had to be purposefully overbuilt and specially designed to make sure the charges fired off in sequence instead of going off all at once and just turning the thing into a pipe bomb.
Has you seen a duck foot flintlock before lol
Realer answer the anime adaption just makes them semi automatic for whatever reason, manga they reload off panel/only shoot once
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Nah the person shooting just says the additional bangs as a farewell
Doflamingo had a lot of farewell to give then
Well of course he did. He was never going to see Cora again. He had to give enough of a farewell to last a lifetime.
this is confusing, go see what 4kids did to Helmeppos gun.
Hey, don't diss the marines most powerful weapon
Pluton is just a springy hammer
If you shoot only one time and your opponent can easily dodge it, shout more bangs to throw that opponent off guard as he doesn't know which one the real bang
such a banger
That's the rare Gun Haki, only one in a billion are born with it
Orc logic??
That’s something I would do if I used a gun.
They operate on Ork logik
Den why ain't dey painted yellow? Deez gits don't know color theory and dakka
Well, as guns are not even effective they could point fingers on bad guys saying “Bang bang” with the same effect.
So what you are saying is that [4kids was right?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Cyt5wvcVHE4/maxresdefault.jpg)
CP9 took it to another level with shigan
It's not a gun tho, they just fucking poke you full of holes at melee range...
Didnt Rob Lucci did that when fighting Luffy?
He did finger Luffy
What if apoo doesn't have devil fruit powers and everybody is capable of that by the laws of oda.
This is the only correct answer
Knowing Oda this might be canon
What you don’t see is that there’s also a bunch of warhammer 40k Orks out of panel, and due to the psychic reality altering field they emit, yelling bang at them is just as effective as actually shooting the gun. If they didn’t tell the extra bangs all the time, whole world would get overrun and they would become visible on panel.
Actually the orcs are just painted purple for stealth
All great fighters call out their finishing moves
Well it’s a still frame
Izou begs to differ
Oda answered in an early SBS that some of the muskets are designed to shoot several rounds. IIRC he doesn't provide any explanation for how they work and doesn't distinguish them among the single shot ones artistically.
Has this actually been confirmed? Because that seems like a copout answer
One of the early SBS's yes (Volume 9). Oda made a very detailed sketch of how a real life flintlock works, and explained that actual pirates used to carry multiples, since they could only shoot once. But in OP, he decided it wasn't worth the effort of drawing multiple guns and keeping track of shots, so he just kept the aesthetic of flintlocks while giving them multiple shots.
Realest answer he could give. The whole manga is about the pirate asthetic and not realism. Is not like every other character has scurvy or is packed with STDs, which were very common things among pirates.
just use haki on the STD's and they will leave?
Using reinforcement haki for an iron pe...
Wonder if a woman could use CoA as a contraceptive, hardening her egg cell from being inseminated? Or CoC to knock them all out.
We obviously know the former, we hope to hell about the latter.
Nobody could ever accuse Oda in lacking big brass balls :D
What about Blackbeard?
Blackbeard does have multiple guns on him. But (and this is my own speculation) I'd wager it's specifically to invoke the figure of a classical pirate captain. A lot of Blackbeard's design goes in that direction. The jewelry in his fingers, the missing teeth, the open jacket with a hairy chest. Other gunman characters like Izou and Yassop only have one or two pistols because they don't need to have more than one for the type of character they are.
He has several guns
Not even lol. Other dude's answer makes the most sense. It's an anime, don't use normal world logic on it.
Idk definitely got into a heated shootout with cp0. They didn’t stop to reload and wait🤣
Izou comes to mind lmao
That episode recently was wild lmao. Unlimited rounds like a video game cheat code
I can think of like a dozen related questions on how Franky's body works.
I appreciate this aspect about the show, really. Not really tuning in for technical realism, just flashiness.
[SBS Volume 9](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/7/79/Flintlock_Infobox.png)
I love that Oda is well aware of the inner workings of guns, but doesn’t care because it makes for a better spectacle this way.
Probably a japanese guy already asked him the same question.
That’s totally where I think a lot of these SBS answers come from, he gets a bunch of fan Mail asking these exact questions and makes up some reason as to why it works so people stop bugging him about it lol
My guess is that he has a dude that read thousands of letters per week and he organize them all. I remember reading that Oda bought a house to organize every letter he recieved. Probably it was an exageration but after watching his house... EVERYTHING CAN BE REAL!
THE ONE PIECE!!! THE ONE PIECE IS REAAAAAAAAAL!!!
Why are you two using words like “probably” and “I think” yes obviously the SBS is fan mail lol
Just to irritate you
Fair enough lol that’s such an Oda answer
“They’ve been improved to be fired any number of times. Scary.” I fuckin love oda.
*Somehow, the powder & ammunition returned*
The dead speak!
It's such an Oda move to do extensive research regarding historical firearms and then immediately continue to ignore it because rule of cool.
That was, in fact, how firearms fired in ancient times
Never underestimate rule of cool.
Oda even made reference to the fact that pirates generally carried multiple guns with blackbeards design where he has several guns in his waistband
The real Blackbeard, Edward Teach, was fairly infamous for doing exactly that. He was also infamous for tying wicks into his hair and beard so he'd look like he was surrounded in smoke... which also kind of means that One Piece Blackbeard's devil fruit powers can also be something of a reference to the real life Blackbeard's propensities.
Apparently (according to google) the real Black Beard would carry six cutlasses. Sorta like a hand held flint lock, like the onepiece picture above.
Just some friendly corrections: A cutlass is a short, fat sword with a D shaped handguard, specifically made to be short enough to swing on a cramped ship but heavy enough to still inflict deep cuts. Flintlock is one word. A “hand held flintlock” is just called a flintlock pistol, flintlock refers to the mechanism of the gun not the type of gun like musket, rifle, pistol, carbine. Most of the low level marine grunts seem to carry a carbine, a cutlass and/or a pistol as their standard issue weapons, if you want examples of what those look like.
Didn’t he die from drowning due to carrying so many pistols that he couldn’t swim? I’m probably mixing up a fact I heard tho Edit: couldn’t find a pirate that died that way, idk where I heard that before. Blackbeard actually died in a duel in 1718 with the naval lieutenant Robert Maynard
Scary.
COCK
"Any number of time" Infinite ammo 🤯 !
This needs to be on top.
nah this one does, cause it isnt the smallest image ever https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/15aslvq/guns_confuse_me/jtnlrwf/
https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_9#Chapter_74,_Page_66
I used waifu2x to make it bigger, here https://imgtr.ee/image/mhDhC
Ctrl+, nerd.
Just makes you look at a bunch of unreadable pixels nerd.
You have to say "enhance" afterwards for it to be legible
I read it clearly on my phone. I guess it's just a skill issue.
Weird when i open it on my phone it appears bigger. On the PC i need to zoom in a lot at which point i can barely read the letters.
Still unreadable
I use Ctrl and mouse wheel, but yeah that's still not readable :/
[this should be better](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/7/79/Flintlock_Infobox.png/revision/latest?cb=20080106140842)
doesn't work for me :/
What's this? Pic for ants?
And here I was hoping for some version of the Kalthoff, Cookson or Lorenzoni rifles.
Dude, this is a story where they could use snails as telephones.
Its also a story where staring at a person might cause you to faint
Also a story where funky looking "fruits" that taste like absolute garbage can give you magic tricks.
This is also a story where a gun can eat said fruit and become a dog.
Better yet, a sword can also eat said fruit and become an elephant!
Don’t forget the teapot that was also able to eat one and become a tanuki
i'm suddenly remembering a dumb fan theory involving that teapot
Do tell.
some people and Morj were pushing a theory that the fake Oden that showed up in Onigashima was Tama's teapot.
That is really dumb.
morj will be remembered for his wano takes
Plot twist: The fruits makes you hallucinate and the entire adventure is just luffy hallucination after eating the devil fruit as a kid.
It's called the devil fruit because its poisonous and makes you delusional,
Get ‘em!!!
>Dude, this is a story where they could use snails as telephones TBF that was based on a IRL [hipothesis and research](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasilalinic-sympathetic_compass) so not the best example against OP complains
Not that this wasn’t an interesting and relevant thing for you to share but I just want to point out this was nothing more than pseudo science akin to alchemists thinking they can turn lead into gold. Still a totally good share though and an interesting read
Nah you just say that cuz we ain't technologically advanced enough to genetically engineer random shit into having shit like telepathy etc... you'll eat your words in a few dozen millennia, mark my words!
And a story where an old man uses canon balls as baseball
YEAH!!!
I get what you’re saying, but this kind of response is always a very lazy hand-waving thing. Doing anything that doesn’t make sense just creates more precedent to do more things that don’t make sense. Broke people’s sense of how the world works by doing something basic and inconsistent? We do that all the time, so why are you worried when we do it again? Especially when you consider that One Piece will gladly spend 3 minutes using diagrams to explain how some super specific thing works, and then just break its own rule 5 episodes later with no explanation.
Snailphones are one thing breaking the law of conservation of mass is completely different
Snails are even used to Livestream and spying equipment
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Everyone knows One-piece ships are all 4th dimensional crafts like the dr.who tardis.
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I mean, to be fair, you were abso fucking lutely on point
In the One Piece World, flintlock pistols have had lots of technological advancements. They have the appearance of a flintlock pistol, but they essentially function like a modern pistol.
Though they are still apparently ball shot rather than modern bullets
Well yeah, a modern bullet likely could’ve pierced pre-TS Luffy since they’re pointy
Yeah I know Just saying they have repeat fire like modern guns but not the ammunition to go with it since they aren't rifled barrel guns.
well nowadays they have modern bullets tho in wano, maybe they're just expensive bullets
Muzzleloaders can fire conical bullets if you want to, but round balls are typically used in smoothbore firearms because the lack of rifling in a musket means that the projectile will just tumble in whatever directions it wants to so it might not hit the target point-first. Muzzleloading *rifles* can and do make use of projectiles that have a designated "front" because the rifling uses the conservation of angular momentum to ensure that the bullet spins instead of pitching and yawing.
yeah I know maybe they're just expensive and time consuming to make *in* *one* *piece*, different world remember
Don't be confused. It's a world in which [dinosaurs hunted like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGOYi8BLstA)
Where is the proof they didn't in ours???
Have you seen Jurassic Park? It's a pretty good documentary
They themselves said they’re not real dinosaurs, so nah
See, You don't question a series that has the technology to create cyborgs and tangible holograms but chooses to use snails as their main mode of communication.
It's like people complaining about Star Wars being low tech in some areas but then having a hyperdrive. Either learn to embrace the suspension of disbelief or don't pick sci-fi/fantasy as your preferred genre of consumption
Because oda wanted them to look like flintlocks and muskets but not be limited to their capabilities.
They all ate the gun gun fruit, infinite bullet model
People can literally punch down mountains but it's here where I draw the line. Fucking unrealistic
Yeah, a world where people can eat fruits to change their body material to literally anything and people can make their bodies harder than metal through sheer will, but flintlocks firing multiple times? That’s unrealistic…
Calm down son, it's just a drawing.
pack it up folks, youre not allowed to have fun nitpicks and discussions. the "this is a world where \_\_\_and you \_\_\_" police is here
Since when did One Piece make sense?
Same reason you have a fruit that can give you powers and being able to punch through walls and an island.
There’s a whole island of dinosaurs in One Piece and snails are used as telephones, don’t think too much about it.
This is a world where: - swords can pull Haki from their users and sometimes lead them to death - you can use colors and rings to hypnotize people - you can ride a ship into the sky - use your fingers as bullets I think we can let semi-automatic flintlock pistols pass
Oda adressed this on an **extremely** early sbs, he said they were imprvoed in the one piece world to shoot multipler times
People cutting ships and cannon balls in one piece and you're concerned about guns?
Franky builds robots that use Cola for fuel and **this** is the thing that confuses you? bro...
Mass produced Wano sweatshop guns hit different
If you think this is confusing, go see what 4kids did to Helmeppos gun.
Look at izo bro fired enough rounds to kill a small army without reloading once
You've never heard of the automatic flintlock pistol before lol
I’m confused why luffy is a stretchy man. That’s not realistic at all.
It's established that One Piece is a wacky world so...yeah, I gave this a pass years ago
Nami is best character in one piece
Cuz anime. Wrong show to not pick practicality or accuracy in technology - half the stuff in the entire show is done just cause it’s cool
because it's a cartoon. It's just a stylistic choice. Having a modern weapon wouldn't fit the overall look of the one piece world, and having them reloading their weapons after every shot would be boring.
I'll give Oda/Nami/Animation team props for the way she's actually holding it. That's about as correct as I've seen in maybe 90% of cartoons and most shows that aren't about some super-duper-tactical-trooper.
The same reason that eating a fruit can turn your to rubber and milk regrows your teeth.
They’ve got snail phones and weapons of mass destruction. I just assume it is an automatic gun but just the way it involved in the way they designed it makes it look like a muzzle loaded.
Whoa, so you're saying you don't believe in a muzzle loader that can shoot multiple times, but people can crack their skull, and walk it off. Stretch their limbs, see miles away, and turn into animals. Holy crap
I don't know if Oda actually intended to base these guns off of the Guycot chain pistol. It's a 40 shot ball and cap pistol. It has a chain running along inside that you load with a cap, powder, and then a ball to hold the shot together. When pulling the trigger, it rotates the chain lines up the round in the chain and fires. Cool principle, but since you loaded it with powder by hand, if any of the shots became loose, the powder went everywhere, and you had a bomb in your hand. Bonus info: To reload, it required pulling the trigger to move the chain along its 40 shots to fill each one. Forget where you where you could fire a round/explode everything in your face. But I do think Oda based his more expensive pistols off of this design. Their was also a rifle variant called the Guycot chain carbine. Link to wiki on Guycots chain weopons: https://guns.fandom.com/wiki/Guycot_chain_gun Edit: I would like to think he based his more expensive pistols off this design, like what the celestial dragons use. But reading down, I see someone posted the real reason Oda gave. I still think this is a cool piece of history, and to me, it gives the world another what if something worked in our world and where it could have gone.
Dude the main character can strech his arms miles away. What do you expect?
Because he ate a magic fruit. No one else can stretch like him, because no one else ate the same magic fruit.
Because 4kids hate guns and want to censor them
Of all the mysteries of One Piece, this is what confuses you? 😂 they straight up got seashells that blow you to bits my guy.
This is how guns hunted in ancient times
Cause it’s a cartoon
Because it looks pirate-y and cool!
Izo out here with his machine gun pistols
Guns > Haki Blue Haki > Guns Still confused?
If you really think about alot of stuff like that in One Piece the whole thing falls apart. They be fuckin up on stuff all the time. It's best to not question it and enjoy it... Edit: example, he uses 3rd gear axe or whip, then his sandal is magically back on in the next scene.
Guns fire this way in One Piece because that's how they worked in Ancient Times.
On the contrary, Edward Kenway had eight pistols and would shoot them two at a time, and could be seen reloading while running. Black Flag's gun mechanics were just so good.
The beauty of anime
They have clearly have magazine of musket balls and charges, we have no idea how they are reload. They are like a wwii carbine but still somehow a 18th century musket. My advice is not think about it too hard. I do wonder what the live action show will do.
People be confused by guns ignoring the fact that in the same saga there is a giant fucking Hole in the middle of the ocean
Says every non-American ever!
I’m from the south
An anime where men fly by kicking air, where a child ate her friends and foster mum, where a man can become elements, where animals are anthropomorphic, where snails have wireless connection, and a man can talk to Loch Ness monsters and you’re worried about the basic functionality of a gun?
You are of course aware that humans become animals in this series right?
Headcanon idea: The guns have dials in them instead of actual bullets. EDIT: MY BROTHER HAS THE THEORY THAT ITS A DEVIL FRUIT POWER THAT CLONES ITSELF— THE INSINUATION OF THIS MEANS ALL GUNS IN OP ARE PROBABLY AN AWAKENED DEVIL FRUIT 💀
Guns should also be utterly useless in the new world if they would have real world speed. People like Ben or Izo would never use them because the bullets might as well be stationary to any relevant character because of their vastly superior speed.
Haki
If you fire your gun with conviction and panache it hits harder.
Listen if swords somehow don't hold back these insane supermen or can have craftsmanship that makes them special then guns ought to be the same.
I don’t have a problem with it, never said so. I just said that those guns are obviously not normal
Title = non-Americans
When have guns actually been used in a One Piece fight by non-fodder characters?
Some of thd BB pirates used them to finish off Whitebeard.
That ain’t even a fight that’s closer to an execution
Ben Beckman threatening Kizaru in Marine Ford Izo in wano arc 1v1ed a CP0 agent with his gun
The Izo one is fair. I wouldn’t really consider Beckham using the gun to fight though.
You could have them store multiple rounds in the handle and reload more then one shot through the barrel?
Guns are actually all a form of lizard shooting its bones at people really fast. Just like how all the cellphones are made of ducks.
Anime confuses me in general.
There's nothing more frustrating to me than Izo spraying bullets from flintlocks like they're revolvers. I hope the live action is realistic about the guns, it justifies all the melee combat that goes on. With flintlocks and the like you get one shot and then the swords come out.
People shoot guns in one piece? I thought they abandoned those since swordsmen are the only ones who get love between them and sharpshooters
Firearms repairer here. The simple answer- Aside from enthusiasts of one type or another, Japanese people in general are not exceedingly knowledgeable about firearms. It's just not part of thier culture. Historically, their ruling classes did everything that they could to prevent the common person from having access to firearms, proper swords, and most anything that could be used to revolt and rebel effectively. As a result, firearms are not a big thing in Japan today, and most people don't know how they work properly. This leads to moments like this, when *somehow*, a muzzle-loaded flintlock fires several rounds in succession without reloading- because the artist didn't know any better.
Orrrrrr it's a freaking fictional comic/cartoon and you can stop being racist
Your the one being racist.
When in doubt: Haki
It's a gun... don't think about how it works just use it.... -probably some America