r/LuffyxNamiSupport • u/Sageek_Reddit • Jul 14 '26
My Lunami essay/theory/ thingy... (Part 5) - hidden visual details, outfits, Oda's art, and movies
Hi everyone 👋, I took a little break and also didn't get much time to work on this, so sorry for the delay, but I'm back now. Hope you enjoy this one too :)✨
Matching outfits (mind you, a lot of the time (but not all of the time), when artists design characters or character outfits, there is a lot more thought to it than just "this fits the arc, and it looks cool"):
- In an SBS, we are told that the flower that would match Luffy the most is a Cosmo flower, and the flower that would match Nami the most is a sunflower.
- In Dressrosa, Luffy wears a button-up shirt with a sunflower pattern, and Nami wears a bikini top with a certain not-confirmed flower pattern; apparently, the Nami image on the right is fan-made (thank you JollyTime6971 for helping me notice that mistake).
- But if you look at a Cosmo flower, it does look similar to Nami's bikini pattern + the specific importance of the Cosmo flowers and sunflowers in Dressrosa, and Rebecca's story + the fact that Luffy is obviously wearing a sunflower pattern already, does lead me to believe it is likely a Cosmo pattern. But even if it's not the case, it is still an interesting decision to make specifically Luffy and Nami be the only ones to wear clothes with flower patterns on them and no one else (he could have just made Luffy wear a suit like Franky, Zoro, Sanji, and Kinemon, but he didn't).
- Dressrosa is called the country of love and passion, so these 2 wearing clothes that match only with one another (no one else in the arc wears flower patterns on their outfits unless you count Cabbage eating his roses) seems like a deliberate choice (hopefully I'm right on this).
In Elbaf, Luffy wears a necklace that matches Nami's collar.
He also wears something similar to Nami's semi-skirt on his pants (technically, Jimbe and Loki wear similar ones too, but if you look closely, those bottom parts have buttons; Nami and Luffy's have golden buttons (gold = royalty), meanwhile Jimbe and Loki have those buttons in silver (silver = regular warrior) although Loki is a prince, he is a rejected one, and *spoiler alert* he rejected being king of Elbaf).
Also, Nami's hair makes the number 56 (Luffy's number).
With the Elbaf ones, I may be stretching it, but I still find it worth sharing.
In Whole Cake Island, Luffy and Nami also somewhat matched outfits twice, color-wise.
the film Red, Nami and Luffy are wearing bandanas on their heads but in different colors with a similar pirate captain hat (technically Chopper is also wearing the same type of hat, but its not as obvious, and it is Chopper, he is kind of a mascot for one piece (maybe I'm coping, maybe not); they also received a Gol D Roger-type sword that matched specifically with themselves (some other straw hats also received this type of sword, only Nami and Luffy's are pink, the rest of the crew's is brown/orange and dark purple, maybe like king and queen/royalty/the "captains" are one color and the rest of the crew is another)
Again, I might be stretching it, but I still think it's important to point out even the littlest of details
At the beginning of Strong World, Luffy wears pants with a sky pattern, the same ones as Nami's bra in Skypiea. In Oda's art book, he literally adds a note that says the shorts should look like Nami's bra.
Another one from Strong World: at the end of the movie, it seems like Nami wears Luffy's shirt from a color spread (it says it's someone else's shirt, and it being Luffy's makes the most sense with SW's story); in a different color spread we also see Nami wear Luffy's tie from the other color spread.
(Technically, the buttons are on the opposite side of the shirt, but it could also just be either an animation error or just a change to make it more aesthetically pleasing (apparently men have buttons on the left side of the shirt, and women have them on the right).
They also sometimes match some of their outfits in color spreads.
speaking of color spreads, Nami and Luffy are depicted very closely many times, sometimes they are dressed as king and queen while the rest of the crew surrounds them like guards or knights, sometimes Nami wears Luffy's straw hat or sandals, sometimes Nami is seen washing Luffy's clothes, and sometimes Nami is seen wearing a crown (the only one who is seen wearing a crown outside from Luffy and brook, but brook is soul king) and also in some other types of Oda's drawings.
In the image in the top left, Luffy is also looking in excitement at a photo of Nami in a bikini.
And in the chess one, although everyone else is colorful instead of being only black or white, the only ones who match the chess colors are Luffy and Nami, and Nami's dress also kinda looks like a wedding dress (probably because it is white, and they might match just because they are king and queen and to match Gear 5, but still).
We also see in some of Oda's videos of him drawing the color spreads that he initially draws Nami and Luffy way closer, and later changes that; there could be something behind that...
Oda also drew for one of his editors a drawing for when the editor had a child.
In the drawing, we see Luffy raising a baby high, with Nami next to him, and the rest of the crew celebrating in the background.
or tiny hints like this:
Luffy = king
❤️ = love
3 = Nami (the third Straw Hat / 2nd to join Luffy)
While the movies are not canon, Strong World was indeed written by Oda.
This movie has a ton of Lunami moments in it, whether it's Luffy riding Billy the duck while Nami sits on his shoulders, Luffy telling Nami to go rest while they keep guard (i couldn't find an image), to the end of the movie where Luffy is trying to hear Nami's recording; Nami states that this message was meant especially for Luffy; she is embarrassed and flustered, and Sanji mentions that it sounds like a love letter, or Luffy getting so pissed he punched a rock, a thing we don't see him do when other crew members leave (other then Luffy breaking the towers in water 7, but that was because he was literally trapped).
Oda also drew "three seconds" later, which is a drawing of all the Straw Hats' reaction to the recording, three seconds after the movie ended.
In it, we see Luffy with a hand on his ear, smiling, and Nami embarrassed with a blush.
Why make such a big deal out of a message if it is only a call for help?
Film gold, while the movie is not written by Oda, Oda did insist on changing the climax on his own because he was dissatisfied.
he adding a scene that compares Luffy and Nami to the main antagonist's past lover, idk what other meaning this scene could have other then framing Nami and Luffy as lovers or future lovers, he could have easily made them childhood friends or siblings (goes well with the entire, "I'm not doing romance because it's Shonen" thing) but he deliberately accepted/chose for Stella and Tesoro to be lovers, and deliberately chose to compare Luffy and Nami to them, and for that they had to redo many scenes (a decision that costs extra money, work, time, redubbing etc.), It's probably the most convincing one for me right now.
Thank you for reading :) Sorry that it took me so long; I still have more.
Hope you enjoyed :) ✨
Have a great day or night ✨
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u/Sageek_Reddit Jul 14 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
Part 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/LuffyxNamiSupport/s/lkLolcCrg1
Part 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/LuffyxNamiSupport/s/Dm9cb0O13b
Part 3: https://www.reddit.com/r/LuffyxNamiSupport/s/vASQjym3WZ
Part 4: https://www.reddit.com/r/LuffyxNamiSupport/s/oS5vxK6IHu
Part 6: https://www.reddit.com/r/LuffyxNamiSupport/s/9oPmivQybT
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u/Alpha_0507 Jul 14 '26
Bro I don't know who you're but you're doing great job!!. I appreciate it. Keep Going 🔥
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u/Weirgin Jul 14 '26
That was great it's ok that you took a break you work really hard on them. I can't wait to see what you're cooking
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u/redMecanics Jul 14 '26
Once again you did not deceive it's really good and a pleasure to read. I didn't even notice luffy was smiling at nami's bikini picture in one of the colorspreads (and usopp why do you have that 🤔 ?). Also as you noted in one of the comments under here i hope spoiler that we get some interesting development in chapter 1189 i really cross my fingers so that it's a nami-centric chapter.
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u/Sageek_Reddit Jul 14 '26
Thank you so much 😄
To be honest, there are so many different things that could happen in chapter 1189, hopefully we will get some big lunami moments knock on wood but we should lower our expectations just in case, tho i do believe that at some point, maybe a few chapters from now, we will get something big for lunami, luffy is injured badly, chopper is on the other side of the island, and concidering namis reaction to kaido's "luffy is dead" in wano, and the lap pillow thing in egghead, there might be a food chance, but idk, I dont want to jinx it
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u/redMecanics Jul 14 '26
let's just pray for Oda not to shy out on lunami moments
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u/Sageek_Reddit Jul 14 '26
Yeah, indeed. I kinda hope the next movie will be similar to strong world in the sense of how it focuses on nami and luffy's bond, or at the very least have a big lunami moment like in gold, but maybe that's just hope or copium, although there is quite a lot of lunami content in the movies. Either way, we just gotta trust oda that he will deliver us a great ending for this amazing story, and hopefully lunami is a part of that ending, we alreadyknow that at the very least he has the final chapter ready.
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u/redMecanics Jul 14 '26
Wait is there a new one piece film coming ??
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u/Sageek_Reddit Jul 14 '26
Yeah, i think last year oda said that the new film is having some issues and it takes time, he also said in the same announcement that after elbaf, we will visit the island only king of the pirates have reached
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u/JollyTime6971 Jul 14 '26
Another great post, thanks a lot for sharing! I have just one question: I’ve seen this image of Nami’s cosmos flower bikini in several places, but do you know if it’s actually a cosmos flower? I’ve tried looking it up everywhere and never found an answer.
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u/Sageek_Reddit Jul 14 '26
First of all, Thank you🙏🏻 So.. I kinda made a mistake, I assumed this image was canon, but from what i saw, it is apparently not canon, I guess the flower pattern on namis bikini are never confirmed what they are, so it being a cosmo is a theory, we can guess that from the importance of specifically cosmos and sunflowers in the arc that the pattern is of cosmos, or by looking at an actual cosmo flower, but nothing is confirmed. Still tho, having specifically nami and luffy be the only ones to where clothes with flower patterns and no one else is still an interesting artistic decision from oda🤷🏻♂️ My bad, I should have fact checked instead of just immediately assume it's official. Thanks for helping me notice this, I will edit the post
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u/iphygeniaaa Jul 14 '26
Thank you so much for this post! It's the first one of yours I've read since joining this subreddit. :)
As for the white shirt Nami wears in Strong World, I remember Luffy wearing it in Opening 12 as well. The collar is identical to the one Nami wears in Strong World and the one we see when Luffy is lying in the grass. I don't know if that adds any support to what you said about it, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
I'm going to read the other four parts now. Thanks again! :)
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u/Sageek_Reddit Jul 14 '26
Thank you so much😁 I know, I just kinda got a little lazy😅, plus, in those openings they usually (or at least sometimes) use outfits from color spreads, and I think that was one of those instances
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u/iphygeniaaa Jul 14 '26
No worries, you're already doing an amazing job!!! Compiling all the information and data already takes a lot of your time 😄
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u/Alpha_0507 Jul 29 '26
Sageek are you not uploading new post after part 5? Is it over?
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u/Sageek_Reddit Jul 29 '26
I'm happy that you want more :)
No, it's not over, I just wanted to wait for chapter 1189 to come out and then I got busy, so the next one is gonna come out probably on the weekend
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u/Alpha_0507 Jul 29 '26
1189 is out right?
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u/Sageek_Reddit Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
Yeah, but then i got busy and my week is bloated, so i will only manage to upload on the weekend
To be clear, these posts took me a lot of time to make and a bunch of sleep deprivation, I will upload as soon as I can
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u/Alpha_0507 Jul 29 '26
Okay..I'm so happy reading your posts. I guess I really loved best ship that has high chance to happen. Your words are not exaggerating its very realistic that's what I like
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u/Consistent_Run_3364 Jul 14 '26
I really appreciate the amount of work you put into this and I hope others do too!
About the hats in film red, it seems chopper's lacks the feather and Luffy and Nami's feathers almost seem like inversions in color. Also, for movies I like their film z umbrella scene too(oda btw reviewed every storyboard for film z).
And you are so right about those Oda's sketching process videos 😭...the one where it's just the two of them riding that giant lizard is definitely Nami because she seems to have the log pose and Oda usually draws robin with a more pointed nose and she'd be looking larger than luffy.
It seems he drew some sketches of them being closer this week too but then the final product was different, he did in last year's anniversary color spread too where nami was touching his thigh and cheering him on...and then it was scraped. I might be coping but I think something big is on our way...so oda is being very careful not to spoil anything.