217 likesOne Piece SBS: Oda's Flight-Fruit Answer Backfires on Fans
One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda answered a reader's question in the manga's SBS Q&A column about which flight-granting Devil Fruits the character Pell knows about — and instead of naming them, he replied that Pell doesn't know about every flight-type fruit in existence, dodging the actual question. On a Japanese reaction video collecting comments on the exchange, readers are calling the answer defensive and evasive rather than funny. Across 245 comments, the most-liked one (217 likes) jokes that a reply this touchy over a simple question must mean something's up. Others go further: one highly liked comment (123 likes) says Oda seems to have mistaken ordinary criticism for an attack, while another with 84 likes breaks down exactly why the answer doesn't logically respond to what was asked in the first place. Not every comment is pure mockery, though — some end up somewhere more wistful, comparing this answer to how playfully Oda used to handle SBS questions in the manga's earlier years.