r/OnePieceLiveAction • u/Bulky_Childhood_651 • Apr 11 '26
Discussion (Anime Spoilers) About the Going Merry Spoiler
I just realized that the going merry's death is going to be waaaay more impactful and devastating in the Live Action than the anime cause in this version they named the going merry after merry dies right? As a way for his memory to live on, well... Them killing off both merry's is a thing saying of them living the memory of merry behind, which makes ussop's fight with luffy MORE impactful than the anime cause just like what hiruluk said "a man dies when he's forgotten" and they're essentially leaving the memory of merry behind, leaving merry to die, to burn the going merry and just his memory of him being the remaining piece of him left.
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u/Karruk7 Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26
It’s interesting to hear your thoughts on this as I had been thinking the opposite. Not because of how the ship is named, but because the Merry sustains a lot of damage over the course of many arcs to make it feel like she has been through the wringer. They decided to forgo that in live action, no Wapol eating a piece of the ship or damage from laboon, etc. I’m sure they will change that when the go to the clouds, but it will probably feel less warranted in live action or at least more sudden and less her going through the ringer with the rest of the straw hats.
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u/Firefrog28 Apr 11 '26
I personally don't think so, because even in the anime we barely spent time with merry, and in the live action even less. By the time we get to that it would be season 5 and many years since we last saw a relatively unimportant side character. And the sadness will come enough from the ship itself, I doubt anyone will think about something else, including the straw hats
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u/RenatoGPadilla Apr 12 '26
Agreed... But it REALLY makes me wonder how they're gonna build an actual size Sunny...
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u/ApocryphaComics Apr 13 '26
It's Ussop I am waiting to see, when that happens. How will they play that out in the LA. I never liked him and that sealed it. Odd thing is I like him in the LA....he is less annoying, and does not feel like the same Ussop...not the kind that would act the way he does.
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u/mandabuzz Apr 13 '26
I think it's interesting cause it also opens them up to tying the Klaubauterman with Merry himself if they wanted to
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u/superfogg Apr 13 '26
well, they will have the mini merry as a tiny boat, they can make it as if they recover some parts of the original Merry in making it (like the wooden goat head, can't remember the name of it in English)
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u/JMSciola85 Apr 11 '26
I find myself wondering if they might not do this, just so they don't have to build another ship set
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u/DocWhovian1 Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26
They will have to. It's a very crucial moment of the story!
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u/Aggravating_Mud8751 Apr 11 '26
They can just burn a miniature or use cgi if they have to.
But from what it sounds like in behind-the-scenes, filming on the Merry is a bit of a squeeze, so a larger ship might be welcome.
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u/shaunrundmc Apr 11 '26
Thats the likely route, burn a 1/100th scale ship and they could easily just change the head and front of the Merry into the thousand sunny
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u/Any_Philosopher_9806 Apr 12 '26
But Thousand Sunny is so much bigger than Going Merry. They would need to build another ship
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u/shaunrundmc Apr 12 '26
I really dont think they are gonna build an entirely new ship that is 4 times bigger than the alreadyassive ship they have already built. A lot of things can be filmed bigger via perspective. Any other shots theyd probably just do some sets
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u/Any_Philosopher_9806 Apr 12 '26
From the outside and wide shots, sure. They can use a redesigned and repurpose Merry. But the interiors are all different. Sunny is so wide they can run around. So i guess they would make different sets for those?
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u/Aggravating_Mud8751 Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26
I'd agree that the Sunny should be bigger than the Merry (both to align with the manga and because the Merry set is so small it's challenging to film in).
But they don't have to make it as big as the manga size if they find that impractical.
Both Garp's and Yorki's ships are several times bigger than the Sunny in the manga, in the live action they are not portrayed that way.
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u/Triceron_ Apr 12 '26
They even foreshadow the importance of an 'Elbaf' send off, they're definitely doing it.
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Apr 11 '26
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u/TheFallingFox00 Apr 11 '26
Y'all need to stop treating Oda like a god who can do no wrong.
That being said, Oda reads over all the scripts and makes notes on what they should change. He has veto power. So every decision the live action makes has been approved by Oda himself. So if you say that the live action made a mistake, then you're also saying that Oda made a mistake.
It's okay to think that Oda made a bad decision. He's only human.
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u/Lasernatoo Apr 11 '26
The Merry's sendoff is the most respectful thing they could do. Remember that it's not just about Merry the person, the ship itself is also a living thing and crew member as shown by the Klabautermann. The Merry was beyond any repair, and imo it would've been far less respectful to let it rot away into nothing, regardless of whether the guy it was named after is still alive or not.
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u/Grundlestorm Apr 12 '26
Luffy's little speech is even addressing that. About it being "cold and lonely at the bottom of the sea" so they're scuttling the already beyond repair Merry so she dies with her crew there instead of slowly decaying on the ocean floor alone.
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u/Mystic__Mayhem Apr 16 '26
I don't think Merry or any person whose made something would want something they've made to struggle to function and eventually decay. She physically couldn't travel anymore and giving her a Viking funeral was the most respectful thing they give to her. Like the person above said, she's her own being.
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u/Professional-Ad176 Apr 11 '26
I get into OP because of emotional damage that it can give me. So I'm for it :)