Why Oda Will Never Reveal Nami's True Backstory (And that one time he almost did) 

GLR: “All the Strawhats have important family members” Chopper: Bruh

Can’t forget the distinguished family chopper comes from… reindeer!

*thumbnail* If Golden Lion Shiki was Nami's father, then it makes it creepy he basically kidnapped her as his woman in the events of Strong World.

We didn't miss out on nami's backstory, we missed out on her biological parents' backstory.

Namis backstory would be more of a Superman thing. Show some great tragedy regarding her parents thar ultimately doesn't really affect her that much

The One Piece crew is an example of a DnD Table where all the player characters come up with some wack super dramatic backstory with suspiciously powerful or important background, and the DM nods, rolls up his sleeves, and puts every one of them in the world XD

In a What If timeline where Arlong and his crew never showed up at Conomi Island, would Nami join the Marines just like her surrogate mom Belle-mere or join Luffy to be his navigator regardless when she is busy trying to map around the East Blue and ran into him?

I completely forgot about the "Crystal Ship" storyline but when I heard it here again, my head jumped to the Sapphire Scale illness and then screamed in horror... Probably not even close but that is where my head went.

I'd like the idea of Oda eventually flipping Nami and Jinbei's relationship by making Nami's parents Celestial Dragons, which would now mean that Nami is a Fishmen-accepting Celestial Dragon Pirate that's in the future Pirate King's crew.

Never been this earlier before. Lemme say something funny... 4 sword style.

Strong World is my favorite film from OP, mostly because of the setting and the fact that we get so much lore from Shiki, and everyone who knew him (and episode/chapter 0). Having Nami at the center is fun too, since I love her, but now I'm wondering how much Oda had planned for a film about her.

Yay. New Grand Line

I have always been convinced that Nami will related to Imu. Between Umi meaning sea and Nami meaning waves it seems too perfect. Especially with a crystal ship being exactly what a Celestial Dragon would use.

Huh, Nami's parents being the people who burnt down the kingdom and killed Nojiko's parents and everyone else would've been the exact type of gut punch revelation that I think Oda tries to avoid. I could sort of see that kind of 'in hindsight' twist burying the characters like he said it would because it wouldn't really be addressable in Oda style. They're all on the Grandline, Nojiko's all the way back in East Blue... Unless they took a trip back over there then it would just be something that Nami would have festering inside her likely without any firm conclusion by the end of the movie. And since Shiki didn't initially have the Float-Float Fruit in the first place I don't think 'return to east blue' was in the script there either.

I just want to comment that Nami has letter closers that are tangerines and that just confirms that she must have found them while shopping on an island and getting excited to purchase them, and that makes me happy

Watched this again and it’s still great!

I think Nami is a secret Will of D carrier

I can understand how Nami getting Emotionally Traumatizing Backstory The Second wouldn't be worth it. Especially if it ended up undermining her talents by pinning them on lineage. I think that's at least part of what Oda was reffering to with characters being crushed by the story. Strong World did do a good job cementing that what Nami does is insanely impressive and goes beyond just having studied a lot.

I think Nami is perfectly fine without a backstory. We already have one with Arlong Park.

Nami could also be like Bonnie back story so that's why they still keep it at secret, she is one of the main characters of the strawhat pirates, even Zorro was Already told that he is Ryuma descendants

After the whole Queen and Franky connection i won't be surprise he will reveal Nami's true heritage. He was giving hints especially her knowledge on weather

1:02 the big mom, Ms. Endive mix 😂😭

Brook lineage ?? The pants kingdom Franky ? Queen dad 😂

13:00 Maybe it would be more a Nojiko backstory then?

Knowing Oda, he will reveal Nami to be royalty all along similarly like Sanji who's from Germa 66. She always acts like a queen and the one who keeps Luffy in line.

Tragic in what way man on the internet.

Luffy: “Hey Brook, do ever miss your parents?” Brook: “No, not at all.” Luffy: “Wow Brook you are heartless.” Brook: “Of course I am Luffy, skeletons don’t have hearts yohohoho.” Seriously though I would love to know more about Brook’s past before he became a pirate.

theory- enels fruit is a mythical zoan, specifically a raijin. he even has a "zoan" transformation with lightning forms of the awakened smoke rings when he goes massive to fight luffy

Let me tell you guys a funny Theory I had long ago when I first saw Nami on yes the 4kids dub, back then before Uta I always thought that Nami was secretly Shanks' daughter because of her hair color 😂🤣😂🤣

The name crystal ships log kind of make me think of a crystal ball so perhaps the log is some sort of magic item that can answer questions or something.

I get why you think that Oda doesn't want to tell the story, but I think the reason he didn't make the Crystal Ship was cause Nami's back story is going to be pivotal to the final war with the world gov. My current on-going theory is that the Oykot Kingdom, the final destination of tequila wolf, is one of the original 20 kingdoms and that Nami's last name cooooould be "Nerona"

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i think this is oda"s fault for talking about it and being transparent since no one listened to what he realy said

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Can you wait 30 more minutes so I can watch this on the toilet

Imus is confirmed Namis mommy and Imu and Lili were best friends

Nami is Big Mom's daughter. It explains her weather abilities, it explains how she can manipulate Big Mom's minions, it connects her bond with Lola, it explains her love of hoarding money, it connects her to Shiki via the Rocks pirates, it explains why she would be laughing during a war as a baby. That's my head-canon at least

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Nami being shiki`s daughter might not be as farteched as it may seem especially when we know that shiki is known as "golden lion", Oda said nami would be swedish in real life, and golden lion is a national symbol of Sweden especially of the royal family

She’s Luffy’s Sister. Sanji will feel conflicted and leave The Straw Hats. The Crew lose their Mojo. They disband and the world falls in to turmoil (Imu and Blackbeard Succeed) One Piece ends with a tragic anticlimax.

If I had to speculate, I'd say that maybe Oda planned to make Shiki Nami's father, and her mother left Shiki while she was pregnant with Nami because of some scheme she discovered that Shiki had cooked up using her and/or Nami due to some connection they (or their bloodline) had to this crystal ship. She tried to hide from Shiki in the East Blue, but Shiki pursued her, killed her when he found her in the Oykot Kingdom, but caused a lot of collateral damage in the process. Maybe since this was arlund the time of Roger's execution, you can maybe have Shanks there at the time, and have the two clash in addition having a lot marines being massacred in the crossfire. Which cpuld explain Bellamare's losing her will to live as a marine and pursue justice, as she would have just seen two of the strongest pirates in the world wipe our a town just from fighting one another. Like, imagine how an average marine would feel if they'd personally witnessed the fight betwen Luffy and Kaido. Maybe Nojiko would be dragged back into the story and this knowledge that Nami's birth family were the reason Nojiko's birth family died would have created a rift between them in the story (as Nojiko is actually old enough that she might remember her original parents and actually still love them and mourn their loss), and this would lead to Nami being put in an even more hopeless and depressing position than she was in Strong World, as she would now believe her sister hates her, or if Nojiko isn't there, Nami would at least believe that Nojiko has reason to hate her. She would know that the blood of one of the world's worst pirates runs through her, which would also mess with her head because of her initial hatred of pirates. And she would believe that the only way she can protect her friends is to abandon them and go along with whatever Shiki wants.

Thank you internet man for telling me about my favorite fictional pirates!

Wow I never knew any of this, I always had the fan idea that Nami was originally from Amazon Lily.

I kinda miss pre-timeskip Nami, I feel as she was a bit more serious and cunning than she is now.

I'm calling it that Nami is Caesar clown's daughter and the straw hat pirates are actually a psyop tricking luffy to bring together Neo Neo MADS

I always thought to myself. They never said why or where the kerfuffle she was found at happened.

I said that recently in the video about the Queen-Franky theory and I'll repeat it here: Oda wants to write and draw the strawhat's backstories more than any of us want to see them. But there's no space left. Again we go to the 5 years to end of series question. One Piece's plot development went out of control, Oda wanted to put a lot more of history in the manga, but won't do it. He wants to finish it already, he don't want to spend his entire life working in the same manga, so he is right now going foward to the end, anything that's not strictly necessary for completing the plot won't fit the manga anymore. But One Piece is not going to end with the end of the manga. Several spinoffs will keep coming after the last chapter. Movies, TV speciais, new animated series and even, why not, more manga, using the characters, but not made by Oda. In this One Piece extended universe we'll finally see the stories Oda wanted to tell in the manga but couldn't, what includes strawhat's untold backstories.

He knows we wouldn’t be able to handle it…

I wonder what important family members Jimbei and Chopper have (or had).

What if koala is Nami’s older sister cause what if after koala was taken by the celestial dragons in the grand line after a couple years her parents had another baby. So since she was such a good slave, and remember she was obedient till fisher tiger save her. The celestial dragons decided to capture her sibling, but for research purposes like how Saturn was doing research on Bonnie‘s mom. But someone with Van Augur devil power before him saved baby Nami then teleported to island to island all the way from The Grand Line to the east blue. Since nami was a baby she must experienced different types of weather, phenomenon from each island, adapting to each different climate, which is why she is so in tuned with the weather.

What is the secret of Nami’s birth? I thought everyone knew this. When a mommy Nami and a daddy Nami love each other they do a special hug, then some time later a Nami is born.

I do kind of feel robbed of not knowing Nami's full story but oh well. I'm a little shocked to hear Strong World isn't well loved as it was my favorite One Piece film by far until Red came out and blew everything else away. Z, Gold and Stampede are all fine but Strong World just felt like a proper One Piece story because Oda wrote it. I struggle to see anything topping Red at this point though; holy shit was Uta's story so good.

Before you slip into unconsciousness I'd like to have another kiss...

Why the original thumbnail looks implying that Nami's dad is Shiki

Unless it’s in the manga and has relevance to the story at that moment, I honestly don’t want to know her past or who her real parents are. There should be some mystery to the characters. We don’t want a Star Wars situation where everyone is somehow connected to each other or to some crazy legendary pirate crew. It would make the world of One Piece seem smaller. He might someday give her backstory in an SBS like he did for Zoro and that would be good enough for me.

All I want from Nami is her surname. Whether it be from Bellemere's or whatever her biological parents had

yo i woke up and this video released maybe i have a d in my name it is fate

Chopper is a freakin raindeer and his family is animals. No special blood related member. Another one is Brook. No special blood relation to other people. Your Argument is nonchalant. And also it doesn't really matter. Nami got abandoned when she was a baby. Baby don't remember anything. Her whole life the only people she know is Belle and Nojiko. If Nami learned about her past and real biological parents it wouldn't even matter. She don't know them or remember them at all. So why would it matter? Sanji story is different because Sanji grew up and lived with his siblings and parents meanwhile Nami is a literal infant who doesn't know and doesn't care whatever it is going on around her. It's a good thing it didn't happen to be honest.

I am expecting one of the strawhats to start developing the voice of all things In my opinion Brooke is the best candidate as most of it would be played off as a crazy old skeleton gag

12:36 Uta is still alive. Shanks hid the fact she was alive at the end. So nobody knew she was alive (not even luffy). Because she was to dangerous and would be targeted now if known

I am really shocked that none of the one piece films does something different a story away from the straw hats.. the world is so rich that you just need 1 or 2 Good spin offs in the distant past, and you can have a franchise big like Star Wars Think how cool it be. Have a 3 part movie during the Bounty Hunter golden age, a time period I just made up that took place 300 years ago It's farther enough back in time. That doesn't affect the story up to the current day, and you can reuse some of the devil fruit powers

Nami was found in a war zone on land... sooooo...

6:37 why did the artists make this to represent the complete history of nami SMH

Lodestar island will take way too long but nami will get her backdtory

I find the need to make every important character’s parents to be someone super important rather annoying. Just let Nami’s biological parents remain unknown.

Great timing on this video. I was watching your previous video and got the notification for this one with 30 seconds left ❤

Of course Oda will tell namis backstory and only after that We will be able to know about the zoros full backstory..

4:55 bartolomeo being the repressentation of the fanbase more then people want to admit

What does shiki means in japonese as a number. What could be is bounty ?

Bonney's backstory IS Nami's backstory. All will be revealed in time. However, I will give you a clue. Shanks and Bonney are discarded celestials. Sanji is a discarded world noble. Why was Sanji discarded? What specifically, did he lack? Why was he unable to become a soldier alongside his royal siblings, serving under their father, the King?

Why did bro go from clickbait thumbnail to a straight up lie? 😔

There's oddly a lot of "humping" animation on this video 💀

Shiki is Nami dad then who is her mom?

You are my favorite internet man!

I've noticed your shirt is beginning to wear off. This calls for a vengeance saga against all laundry machines. How dare they ruin such eye-candy.

Tragic

Remember didn't oda still say that op will end at the stars of 2025?

And since nami would be swedish in real life and Elbaf is inspired by Scandinavia maybe we might get nami`s true origin in this arc. While Oda is most likely leaving luffy`s true origin for the final arcs.

theory: shiki is nami's father and stussy is nami's mother the kingdom they raided was the predecessor to the flower capital and there raid was witnessed by Higurashi which is why she was able to copy both there faces

"True backstory" 😂 is her backstory fake? How much backstory can an infant have? Hilarious title

I feel like oda makes these absolutely horrific backstories for his female characters but leaves it up to air, which I get due to oda not wanting to bring up anyone’s trauma/ not wanting to use real illnesses or anything. Like Boa has debatably one of the worst childhoods we know of in the series but a lot of it is left to interpretation. But he doesn’t seem to hold back with his male characters and I feel like that’s why law is is successful as a character, heart wrenching fully fleshed out no need to infer anything backstory. Bonney also has such a sad past but i personally felt like Bonny’s story was concocted to build off of kuma’s story

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2:45 is that a Killerwhales reference?

I hope we see Nami's story leaked at least after Oda passes, i'd imagine enough copies were made one exists to leak at that point, after the series ends at least.

Nami got it easy!! Wtf you mean tragic?? 🗑️🗑️

This should be interesting 😬

There was a time when I thought that Oda needed to answer every open question and reveal every secret of One Piece by the end of the story. But when it comes to the blank spots in the backstories of some straw hats, I don't believe this is necessary anymore, or even desirable. We are too far into the plot now and too close to the end. Every additional exposition to the straw hats, and their backstories, could lead to derailing. If not absolutely essential to the completion of their individual character arcs or the overall story, it is probably better left out. Oda heavily implied e.g., that there is more to Brook's backstory. We know there was a time before the Rumba pirates, he somehow knows about the Vinsmokes etc. But is this important for his arc or the overall story? Hard to tell, likely not. Still, the vast lore of One Piece is enough for some world-expanding content that could be released after the fact. If Oda still has the stamina and desire to publish, maybe we could have some sort of prequel stories, after the end of One Piece, exploring these open questions. No for pressure for weakly Jump chapters, no whole new manga series. Just additional stories, like Ace's adventures, Brook's backstory, Nami's parents, Robin's father or something with her mother Olvia. There are endless possibilities for additional stories and I believe it fits One Piece better than a sequel.

Why we are need to tragic back stories -_- And highly nepotic relationships of one piece. Why a completely normal person experience/see those atrocities and decide to fight for the sake of humanity. This nature of One Piece bothers me a lot. It consistently dictates blood factor - haki and family ties. Koby inspires me a lot and even in his case he is lucky because saved and inspired by luffy and trained by luffy's grandfather. Without their support/will he can't be an important - strong person. I am ideologically opposed to this recurring main idea that "you have to be related to important bloodlines or persons in order to climb. Or you should inherit will of those people in order to be an important person." Also i really hate momonosuke. Every one tried and pushed so hard for that baby and then this child have some absurd power. That framing of fate also always works for that people. Even rebel leader koza was vivi's childhood friend and leader of their friend group. It feels sooo "hierarchical". And that "fate" part a little disturbing. I doubt that the world Luffy represents at the end of One Piece is a "freedom"-oriented but dystopian world at the end but represented as utopia or how things should work. Hayao Miyazaki's "The Boy and the Heron" also represented similar kind of freedom in the ending. I attribute this to the spirit of the times. Similar or supporting themes are evident in much recent media. Mostly it depends on story-world building habits because it's easier to create tensions and emotions from. But it should not be forgotten that these stories are modern mythologies and shape people's worldviews. Like marvel. Sometimes we witness discussions on Twitter about current political issues on One Piece (Robin, WG, pirates, Pell etc.) It can be quickly pulled to different locations. We can also think that the writers are under this pressure when stakes are high ( huge franchise). It also opposite of "no one to someone " shounen style that readers relate themselves. Rather it says " you need to inherit something and then work hard to activate that." -_- Still i support Koby. I hope Koby beat luffy and all royal supreme someones.

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My headcanon of Nami's origin is she is from an island with people known to be able to predict the weather so well they where called witches. Said people where targeted directly by the World Goverment because of this ability, or even got attacked by the Celestial Dragons during the human hunting they do every few years to get new slaves. Now then, I think the real reason why Oda didn't explored Nami's past yet is because he wasn't confident enough, and he wants to write a backstory good enough to really impact the fans. I mean you get more hype when you wait 20 years to get the answer rather than be handed just at the start of the story, right?

Mid Piece. Naruto better

do we need nami backstory? it's not like her past is crucial for the plot especially we are on a final saga now

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Chances are Nami doesn't even have any backstory and is just one of the many war orphans caused by the World Government and pirates. I appreciate that we have Nami as the only 100% NORMAL character without any crazy backstory or connections to some big name

Sanji’s father is Judge, a former member of MADS, because of the recent vivre cards it’s strongly believed Franky’s father is Queen, another former member of MADS, so to continue this trend of straw hat’s being the secret offspring of former MADs members, what if Nami is secretly the daughter of Caesar, if at the very least it would be a hilarious piece of irony considering Nami’s thoughts on him.

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Not every character has to have a distinguished family line or backstory, some characters are just normal people who do great things and that's okay

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