SBS Volume 7
Page 19 of Ch. 64 hosts the chapter’s SBS Question Corner. Notable for being the Question Corner opener (the first 3-Q SBS-format chapter-page in this read-order).
Q&A
Reader greeting: *‘Greetings. I am the earthalien living in the house where Usopp’s father Yasopp’s friend’s brother’s girlfriend used to live. Earthalien is someone who is half-earthling and half-alien.’ Oda: ‘Really? Question Corner is starting!! (Doom)’
Q1 — On both sides of the skull on Don Krieg’s pirate flag, there are hourglasses symbolizing the threat to his enemies, but were hourglasses ever really used like that? A1 — ‘There really were Jolly Roger flags with hourglasses on them. They symbolized the prey’s appointment with death, basically: Your time is running out!’ — paratextually confirms the Ch. 46 in-chapter gloss as historically-grounded iconography. See Jolly Roger Encodes Personality.
Q2 — Oda Sensei, since Luffy is a rubber man, do all of his body parts stretch? A2 — ‘Yes, everything stretches.’ — full-body-rubber canon. Forward-licenses Gear-3 giant-balloon body, Gear-4 elastic compression, Gear-5 cartoon-rubber. Foundational technique-canon installed via SBS, not chapter.
Q3 — How many g/cm³ is Sanji’s kick strength? Please calculate to two decimal points and let me know. A3 — ‘To be frank, measurement is not possible. You know that game at the arcades where you can measure your kick strength? If, for example, Sanji did that, the whole machine would go flying out of the building. But if I had to put it into units, I’d say 21 bats — the energy required to break 21 wooden bats with one kick.’ — first quantified Straw-Hat strength-stat. Oda’s deliberate non-physics unit (refuses g/cm³).
Cross-links
- Jolly Roger Encodes Personality — paratextual reinforcement.
- Gomu Gomu no Mi — full-body-stretch canon installed.
- Sanji — first quantified kick-strength.