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BrothersElric
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Ha ha! I think I've just found my One Piece T-shirt I've always wanted to buy!
 Awesome to hear some much needed love for One Piece here. Now someone just has to wear those uniforms with Naruto on it and it'll be all set!
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AirCooledMan_2006
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For a minute there I was thinking of real American football, not what we call soccer. Why can't Europeans call it SOCCER instead? What do they think will happen? But that aside, seeing as how Luffy's a rubber man, and volleyball players have to jump pretty high, the shirts make sense. I think it's pretty damn boss for volleyball players to wear them. |
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Repute
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I personally believe this is cool, and all, but I can't help but feel this isn't plainly a couple fans saying adolescently "Hey I'm a One Piece fan!", and am sure there is some underlying message.
This is the typical result of what happens when one---two obsessed fans feel that their most favoritest thing in the world, doesn't get the attention they feel it deserves. They do something so outright and absurd, in attempts to somehow promote it, or metaphorically speaking "wave a flag saying: "C'mon, watch One Piece. Buy One Piece. Screw Dragon Ball & Naruto. Stop watching & buying Dragon Ball."" I've rarely seen this sort of thing done with anything else, and if I have, I'm sure the probable cause to it is that the entire athletic team is in some way, shape or form, passionate about the icon they like to "flash / show off", and in no real fashion are they attempting to promote it, possibly because it needs no assistance in promotion[Fact being, it's actually popular, and making money]. This, is like, an act of jealousy, or one of the bias tendencies of fans inside the anime fandom. As I said, it's pretty typical. Contrar to this, it's obvious there are other similarities, one being that a member pointed out Volleyball can relate to Luffy's special abilities. It still seems like a stretch though. This sort of relationship of elements & similarities can be present in many things. This, is just bizarre. If I were the coach of a highschool football team, I'd run a vote on who watches Dragon Ball. I'd probably find that 80% of them do, and then I'd tell them we're going to have Goku placed on the back of the jersey of the QB, Vegeta placed on the back of the jersey of the running back, and Piccolo placed on the back of the jersey of the defensive. Goku, being the backbone of the cartoon who always launches the hardest hits, Vegeta being the offensive anti-hero looking to earn the points for himself, and Piccolo being the saint who protects his allies  . Oh, also that in football, people launch small objects from their hands and run at fast speeds! +2!
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kynoki
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were dose dragonball fit in to any of this
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britannicamoore
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I would love one of these. I hope they are available to buy, it'd get one.
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CruzMissile
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wow I want one lol.....
isn't it distracting for the other team though to have luffy staring at you the entire game? hahah |
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Akagami Kite
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This post is not trying to be rude to anyone so please.
To be honest, half of the One Piece Fan Base Watched Naruto before One Piece, and dismissed it as nothing more than a stupid show. But when they actually got to watch it in its Original glory, they loved it. The fact that most Naruto Fans only watch just Naruto and whats on TV and think that Naruto is the single best show since Dragon Ball. The fact that practically the latter quarter of the Naruto fans are testosterone charged tweens that haven't even watched One Piece and the other quarter is full of people who call One Piece Dumb leaving a good 50% of the fans who have watched One Piece and other Series besides Naruto.
Now-Now, don't be jealous that One Piece has the spotlight because it is popular outside the states. As in America. The fact that One Piece wasn't portrayed the way it is supposed to be in the U.S. practically gave that right to the series (But it never did get that). The fact that it was butchered by two companies. Viz and 4kids.
Yeah, and it's not like Toei is the one who animated Dragon Ball. Oh wait, they did.. But seriously, you're saying that Toei cannot do this but Marvel can? Toei isn't saying "Screw Dragon ball! Watch One Piece!" because they wouldn't do that to their first top selling series. Naruto I understand because that series is becoming too over-hyped.
Hah, this is not an act of Jealousy on Toei's side. IF it were, Toei would be sponsoring the whole match. This is not a bias tendencies of the fans inside the anime fandom. If it were Naruto and everyone on the team wore Naruto icons, then it is a bias tendency. Overall, it is not typical, it's normal. Get over it. Don't blame One Piece for getting the love in Italy and not other series getting it. This is its moment, not others. Besides, this is a good turn for ONE PIECE because the fact that America "Gave it the finger and Kicked it in its groin", it is show that One Piece is still known some where else. I'm just surprised that the Haruhi Fandom haven't reached that yet in Italy.
And Also the fact that Luffy wants to be the person with the most freedom. And with that, "Libero" usually means free or freedom. IN Latins Case, Freedman. Luffy is known to do freely what he wants. And the fact that he freely switches with his crew when in battle so he can fight. It's just plain coincidence and the fact found that Luffy is much closer to the "Libero" out of most of their Character Roster. Times mentioned Naruto in Post: 11 Times mentioned One Piece in Post: 11 Times mention Toei in post: 5 |
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Hon'ya-chan
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Rioting and Hooliganism. ---------------- Also, TOKYOPOP can fund some Drift cars in Formula D with Initial D......ah wait, nevermind. http://speedhunters.com/archive/2008/06/10/gallery-gt-gt-d1-tokyo-drift-demo-runs-performances.aspx 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI99dVRhFjg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHBtlbpG7qo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP7xgwJ2YJs They will never do something like this without [expletive] it up royally. |
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Moonsault
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Nah, find another name for your American Football then. I know that American media always says that 1 billion people around the world watches the Super Bowl ... what the f... ? No one outside the USA wants to watch American Football, so find another name. What about "SFFP = Sports for fat people"? 
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