And now the rest of the SBS info is here! Credit goes to Greg from APforums for translating the questions:
-Apparently, a fan sent Oda 3 postcards that had the word "underwear" written on all of them for a total of 3,787 times (which he seems to refer to as the "curse of the underwear")....
-Looks like the contents of Camie's backpack are dreams, soy sauce and butter.
-It's confirmed that Hyouzou was the no. 1 fish-swordsman that Hachi could never beat during their training days in the dojo.
-Oda confirms the designs of the individual jolly rogers of the post-skip crew were approved by him, since he didn't like the ones the marketing teams came up with. Here's a pic of the flags:
-Here, Oda answers something that he already answered a long time ago: The reason why he gave Luffy rubber powers. He basically says that he feels he couldn't stick with the story if the main character were a straight-up badass from the get-go. Therefore, he can still have Luffy do his goofy stretching/inflating acts even when the story gets serious.
-We get the name of Camie's mermaid friends from the cafe!
Spoiler:
I'mma just gonna copy Greg's post here:
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From left to right (spellings NOT official):
Ishilly- Striped Beakfish-type
Kairen- Flounder-type
Hilameyla- Halibut-type
Seyla- Marine Angelfish-type
Mello- Smelt-type
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-Now here's another interesting one. However, I'll just quote Greg again since he can explain it a lot better than I can:
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WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS INTERESTING AND FINALLY REVEALS PRECISELY WHY ODA DOESN'T HAVE LUFFY SAY 俺 or 'ore' in kanji, only hiragana!!!!!!
A fan asks why Oda always wrote 'taiyou' or 'sun' in katakana when the Fish People (Mermaids, Mermen and Fish Men & Women) were talking about it. He says he didn't do it intentionally but it just came naturally. He explains that to write a lot of kanji in the lines of a fairly dim character (ie Luffy!) would be out of place and conflict with their persona. Whereas in this case, they don't really understand what the 'sun' is so they express it in a written expression that (in Japanese) is largely reserved for 'foreign' objects, people, places etc. I actually got that impression myself when reading but this finally makes his stance clear on Luffy and is indeed intended to augment his child-like nature.
YOWZA!
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-Apparently Oda has a thing for giving background characters T-shirts that reflect current situations (as seen with various mer-people throughout the previous arc). He also seems to indicate that older fish-people had many fins (though Greg is unsure about this info and will post more about that later).
-Someone asks which character Oda would consider to be a rival. The fan suggests Franky, but Oda picks Nami due to them having similar bust and waist measurements.
-Shirahoshi's birthday is April 4th.
-Last question is an interesting one: Someone asks how many people Shanks could knock out with CoC haki since Luffy could KO 50 thousand. Oda responds that Shanks
probably could have knocked out all 100 thousand of the pirates at that conflict, but also notes that numbers aren't really important.....
-BTW, some art from the SJ chapters were fixed in the volume, as well. Here's a comparison of Zoro's close-up during his fight with Hyouzou (SJ pic on left, volume pic on the right, look at his left eye):
And Madam Shirley from Hody's flashback (SJ top, volume bottom, now she looks the same age as Hody):
Hmm, pretty interesting (and funny) info, even if some of it was stuff we knew about already. Well, the upcoming Blue Deep should contain some juicy trivia when that's released next month, as well....