The official One Piece website updated its site with the second post done by One Piece‘s creator Eiichirô Oda. The image can be seen by registering an account on the website and accessing the “My Page” once logged in to the website.

This time the post includes a few drawings done by Oda himself, entitled “Chibi Maruko-chan“. Oda explains the name in the post:

Sakura Momoko is a friend of mine so she’ll forgive me (for using this title).

Eiichiro Oda used this title because “Lil’ Maruko” can also be transcribed as “Lil’ Marco” (Maruko is the way you write both the Japanese name Maruko, and the Whitebeard Pirate’s Marco’s name). Because they are homophones (and we all know how much Oda loves puns like this), Oda drew a small Marco in Chibi Maruko-chan’s clothes and with her hairstyle, so be sure to check it out on the website…if you dare!

Just so you have an idea of what’s written on there, we made a translation of the post without the drawings. To see those drawings, you’ll have to go see them on the official One Piece website yourselves by creating an account (do it for Oda who’s putting the little amount of time he has to make these posts, it’s free!)

Registering to the website doesn’t require any Japanese knowledge thanks to the power of website translations such as Google Translate — even Zach was able to do it! But just in case, we made a post showing how to create an account using edited screenshots of the website. Have fun (P.s. the email addresses used in the example are fakes, obviously)!

Update: Some people were wondering: Yes, since the drawing is supposed to represent Marco from the Whitebeard Pirates, what he’s saying are sentences from the Marineford Arc. Since I don’t own any English One Piece volumes, I wasn’t able to use the official English translations and went with my own translations. Let’s hope Stephen can forgive my awful attempt at translating his baby.