Fanfic / Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse

Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse is a Crossover fanfic between Ranma ½ and One Piece written by author Rewind Gone Nuts. It can be read on FanFiction.Net here, on Archive of Our Own here, and also in a dedicated thread on SpaceBattles.com here, where the author discusses plans and ideas in advance and thus can create unhidden spoilers.

Unearthing a magical trinket from her family's vault, Kodachi Kuno naturally attempts to try and use it to win the affections of her beloved Ranma Saotome, only to run into both Ukyo Kuonji and Shampoo, starting a Mêlée à Trois. Things reach their pinnacle when a brawling Ranma and Ryoga Hibiki cross paths with them, just as Nabiki Tendo also stumbles upon the two merged fights. In the confusion, the trinket is broken and the sextet are engulfed in magical energies.

When they regain consciousness, they do so in a strange world. After a few misadventures, they reunite and confront a strange magical creature called "Umok", which was imprisoned inside of the trinket generations ago. When they broke it, they violently discharged all of Umok's magic, which simultaneously transported them all to this world and left Umok completely drained of all magic. To try and return to the world of their birth, they must put aside their differences and take to the seas, seeking adventure, riches, and strife enough to fuel Umok's restoration and return home.

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Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse includes examples of:

• Abhorrent Admirer: Shampoo considers Mousse to be this not because of his appearance but because of his behavior. Everything he tries to win Shampoo over infuriates her for any number of reasons, from his dishonorable tricks to his insulting refusal to duel her again, to his blatant breaking of Amazon laws.
• A-Cup Angst: A running gag is Ukyo or Nabiki expressing insecurities about their comparatively small bosoms compared to Shampoo, who seems to enjoy taunting them about the difference. Kodachi, weirdly, never expresses such doubts, although not to the extent of overtly invoking Petite Pride.
• Adaptation Expansion: In canon, Buggy managed to escape from the Marines after his capture in Loguetown and sailed the Grand Line but the details aren't revealed. Ranma and his crew actually witness how he managed his escape: Bartomelow and his Luffy Fan Club decided to attack the Marines escorting Buggy to the prison ship, presumably to avenge their hero. Buggy and his crew used the confusion caused by this (and the Kamikaze Pirates accidentally getting involved) combined with the Marines forgetting to use seaprism stone shackles on Buggy and Alvida to break free and escape.
• Adaptational Badass: In his canonical appearance in One Piece: The Movie, Eldrago is basically Buggy the Clown 2.0; a Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond who terrorizes the East Blue because of his Devil Fruit power, which he can only use in its most basic form by screaming energy blasts, and is no threat for our heroes. In this fic, he's notably stronger and smarter, making his presence in the Grand Line actually believable. He's honed his Devil Fruit skills to the point he's unlocked a second trick; flying on his own screams in the manner of Sean "Banshee" Cassidy from Marvel's X-Men. His intelligence shines through in that he outfits his hired mercenaries with transponder snails so he can stay in contact with them, successfully ambushes Ranma's crew before they can make landfall on Warship Island, and is even able to recognize and identify the sea mirage that makes the Lost Island effectively invisible, a feat that only Nami achieved in the anime canon. In his final battle with Ranma, Ranma observes that Eldrago is easily around Ryoga's level of toughness, and Ranma is ultimately forced to use the Hiryu Shoten Ha to defeat him.
• Adaptational Villainy: Commodore Nelson Royale is a rare example of a canon villain who gets worse in fanfic. In canon, he's a powerful Navy official who is using his forces to pursue his own agenda: tracking down the bones of Millennium Dragons, from which he hopes to distill a life-extending potion. Towards this end, he is willing to harass and kidnap a young girl who he believes can lead him to the Millennium Dragon graveyard. In this fic, he is instead one of the personal slavers of the World Government, using Navy forces as muscle to round up innocent civilians to ship them off to a short, horrible life as slaves in Mariejois.
• Alternate Continuity:
  • As with all of this author's works, the fic uses the anime continuity of Ranma ½ rather than the original manga. This means that Ranma and Ryoga are actually weaker than they might initially be presumed as being, and they don't know certain techniques, as things like the Umisenken vs. Yamasenken duel or the battles with the Musk Dynasty never happened in the "base canon" for this fic.
  • Word of God is that this fic will adapt characters, plotlines, or other elements from One Piece filler arcs, movies, and games as things that happen to Ranma's crew, whilst the Straw Hats go on their canonical journey undisturbed, although said material may also undergo further modifications. A prominent example is how the Warship Island arc was adapted; its Big Bad Commodore Nelson Royale appeared earlier on his own as one of the first encounters between Ranma's crew and the higher-ranked Navy forces, whilst Apis's story was moved from the East Blue to the beginning of Paradise, with her arc's Big Bad being Eldrago from the first movie — who in this story seeks to enslave an army of Millennium Dragons rather than simply find a random pirate's treasure hoard.
• An Arm and a Leg: Harumi cuts off the hand of the Fishman pirate captain Willy with a Razor Wind attack in Chapter 20.
• Animorphism: Zoan Devil Fruits as well as Ryoga and Shampoo's Jusenkyo curses, all count, of course. In Chapter 6, Shampoo eats the Rabbit-Rabbit Zoan Devil Fruit, giving her the power to transform into a rabbit... well, a cabbit, at least.
• Asleep for Days: When Ranma uses the giant transformation technique against Ahab, he burns through all of his ki in one go and passes out. He ends up sleeping for a week to recover and is still weak after waking.
• The Assimilator: Nosferatu is a hemorraghic fever which became sapient after infecting and consuming the user of the Human-Human Fruit: Model Child. It could then control the body of any person it infected, who were then used to capture new hosts to infect.
• Atrocious Alias: Captain Licorice named his crew the "Lolly Pirates"^note Australian & British term analogous to the American "Candy" and is apparently sick and tired of everyone mistaking them for the "Loli Pirates"^note see Lolicon and Shotacon for the implications.
• Bad Boss: Shiki murders one of his men because they failed to predict and avoid a storm.
• Balloon Belly: At several points in the story, various girls eat themselves until their stomachs are visibly swollen.
  • Nabiki is the first to do it when she devours an enormous serving of desserts out of wounded pride, thus proving herself to be no different to the martial artists she travels with.
  • Original crewmate Miriam is stated to be constantly doing this to herself due to her giant-scaled appetite.
  • Nabiki ends up with a monstrously pregnant-looking pot-belly when she devours the Nosferatu, which is noted to have a comparable volume to a 6-year-old human child.
  • Kubera is killed when her former victim Lilith, made to kiss her by the former threatening Harumi, uses the chance to force all of her poison down the demented princess's throat, causing Kubera's uniform to stretch around the midsection from the sheer volume.
• Barrier-Busting Blow: Ryoga is locked in a room with two guards outside the door. He punches both fists through the door, grabs the two guards, and knocks them unconscious before they can react.
• Berserk Button: Shiki flies into a frothing rage when he learns Penelope is from the East Blue and tries to kill her on the spot.
• Big Damn Heroes: Chapter 28 has two; Miriam saving Harumi from an alcoholic pyromaniac clown, and Dyna saving Lilith from a swarm of bounty hunters after her overreliance on her hybrid form is revealed.
• Bizarre Belching:
  • In Chapter 16, after eating a toxic mushroom called an Erlin's Jest, Miriam belches a cloud of foul-smelling black mist that withers any plants it touches. Then she undergoes a Mushroom Samba. Likewise, in Chapter 24, she belches up a cloud of rainbow colored mist after she eats Porche's hypnotic gas-loaded baton.
  • In Chapter 31, after eating Nosferatu, Nabiki belches a voluminous cloud of green ashes.
• Black-Tie Infiltration: In Chapter 18, the Kamikazes infiltrate a party celebrating Baron Sukumvit's birthday and also his promotion to a Commodore in the Navy by simply pretending to be nobles from the "Black Rose Kingdom" and their entourage. Since there are easily thousands of islands in the Grand Line alone, many unaffiliated with the World Government, they manage to get into the party without incident.
• Blob Monster: Nosferatu's true form is a bacterial mat formed in the Demeter's bilge. As a result, she can form pseudopods out of her human body or convert portions of it into extra mouths.
• Boob-Based Gag: Being that the Kamikaze Pirates include many voluptuous girls (or boys who turn into girls) who engage in a lot of highly physical antics, a certain amount of comedy is milked from the ensuing contrast.
  • In Chapter 14, Ranma wakes up to discover that Shampoo has taken advantage of their respective transformations and has literally buried her face into Ranma's cleavage to use them as cushions. When Ranma first tries to wake her up, Shampoo instead tries to bury herself in Ranma's cleavage, forcing the Gender Bender to fish her out.
  • Funbag Airbag: In Chapter 21, whilst trying to shield Nabiki from a collapsing cave roof, after it's all over, Ranma is very embarrassed to find that due to being a girl at the time, he has accidentally buried Nabiki's face deep in his bustline. Once freed, Nabiki notes that she doesn't get why guys seem to think that's so hot.
  • Marshmallow Hell: When a guilty Nabiki tries to hug Ranma in relief after he wakes up in the infirmary in Chapter 27, she forgets about her newly expanded bustline and accidentally smothers him in her bosom.
  • Skinship Grope: After Nabiki eats her Devil Fruit, the girls strip down for a communal bath. Shampoo notices that Nabiki's breasts have seemingly increased in size and starts feeling them to confirm this.
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: In Chapter 4, upon hearing that Ranma has never heard of the One Piece before, the pawn shopkeeper that Ranma is talking to incredulously asks if Ranma has been under a rock, on a deserted island, or under a rock on a deserted island.
• Breather Episode: Chapter 22 is mainly a training montage for the Kamikaze Pirates, with Ranma getting a few dates in with his love interests as well.
• Boring, but Practical: When the Nerimans raid other ships, they rarely get much in the way of treasure. Their main haul is actually from the enemy supplies - ropes, sails, tar, food, water, etc. While they still leave enough for their victims to limp back to port, the Nerimans rarely have difficulties with supplies.
• Both Sides Have a Point: After Nabiki's scheme in Chapter 6 goes horribly awry, Ranma viciously lambasts her for her short-sightedness in the following Chapter. While Nabiki's plan was stupid, she rightly fires back that she didn't force anyone else to go along with it, and that no one raised a serious complaint over the considerable time they spent hashing it out.
• Brawler Lock: Ryoga and Miriam engage in one during their training as a direct test of strength. The two end up deadlocked for long enough that the rest of the crew stops to spectate, with Miriam narrowly winning.
• Butt Biter: During their fight against Willy's Fishman pirates in the Dead End Race, a lamprey-featured fishman sneaks up on Miriam and bites her square on the ass, latching on so hard she has to physically rip him off like a giant leech. She is not impressed, but what really gets her goat is when he starts blasting her as a Category Traitor.
• Bystander Syndrome: The Marine Captain Malibu the Kamikaze Pirates encounter while trying to get a new ship at Shay-Lot justifies not helping with the murders in the town of giants by the fact that they're not directly affiliated with the World Government, so Shay-Lot is outside of their jurisdiction. Kodachi promptly calls him out for this, and in the end, the Kamizakes get their ship first because they actually helped catch the killer less than a day after arriving, risking their lives in the process.
• Cannibalism Superpower: This story goes with the common fanon amongst fans of One Piece that a person or creature can inherit a Devil Fruit's power by consuming its current host entirely. The Big Bad of Chapter 31, Nosferatu, was a bacteria that gained the powers of the Human-Human, Model Type: Child Zoan by infecting and consuming its former host. Nabiki almost inherits the fruit in turn when she devours Nosferatu, but because she lacks the "special body" that allows her to withstand the strain of two Devil Fruits, the backlash nearly kills her. She only survives by vomiting up her entire blood reserve, purging it from her system and allowing the fruit to reincarnate.
• Casanova Wannabe: "The Reefster", a Fishman member of the White Foam Pirates, clearly thinks he's a great lady's man, but his efforts at flirting are crude and very clearly unwelcome. He's in particularly bad form at the big signup for the Dead End Race; not only does he hit on the straight Harumi, he then hits on Harumi's new girlfriend, Miriam, right in front of Harumi. His disgustedly calling Miriam a Category Traitor for being willing to date a human, but not a fellow fishman, causes her to whack him off a balcony with her tail.
• Caught Monologuing: Ranma begins to declare his crew's intention to raid Sukumvit's mansion, but doesn't make it two sentences into his speech before getting punched across the room.
• Clipboard of Authority: In Chapter 18, Ukyo notes that being dressed as waitstaff and carrying a bottle of expensive wine is the perfect disguise to wander anywhere she wants in a high-class mansion. She even manages to sneak into Sukumvit's office without arousing suspicion.
• Closest Thing We Got: Shampoo is named ship doctor due to knowing the most about healing among the crew, but what she knows barely qualifies her as a medic. She seeks help from Doctor Indigo in Chapter 25 to try and better fulfill her role.
• Comedic Spanking: Zoan!Nabiki receives a painful trip over Shampoo's knee after getting utterly stomped during their first spar as punishment for being cocky.
• Confusion Fu: Harumi briefly fights against a crazy clown in Chapter 28 whose fighting style seems to involve throwing balloons full of high-alcohol liquor at his foes and then setting them on fire once they're soaked in flammable liquid.
• Covered in Gunge: In Chapter 20, Nabiki gets into a fight with a hagfish-featured fishman that attacks her by vomiting a thick sheet of mucus all over her, to the disgust even of his own crew.
• Crime of Self-Defense: Ranma and Kodachi are assaulted by a group of Marines because they forgot to take the Jolly Roger down from the pirates they captured, with the Marines attacking without even trying to listen to their explanation. Later, when this is explained to him, Marine Commander Yamato outright invokes this trope and tells the Nerimans that they should turn themselves in so they only get a few years of hard labor and gets rightfully knocked out for it.
• Cross-Cultural Kerfluffle: Being from a world that is not in the throes of a Great Pirate Era, the Nerimans don't really understand many of the more subtle elements of the Grand Blue's pirate culture, such as the importance of having your own Jolly Roger and crew name.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: As in canon, Captain Foxy of the Foxy Pirates may be a melodramatic showoff with a fragile ego and a silly appearance, but he is also a legitimately skilled fighter, genuinely cunning, and has mastered the application of his Devil Fruit power. To put things in perspective, in his first fight with Ranma, he takes Ranma down effortlessly by blasting an unexpecting Ranma with a Slow-Slow Beam before shooting him with a bazooka, causing him to be thrown out of bounds when time catches him back up.
• Damned by Faint Praise:
  • In Chapter 9, upon arriving at Loguetown, Ranma tries to psyche his companions up about how well they work as a team by pointing out that they haven't killed each other yet even though they've been sailing together for almost two months at this point. The others promptly inform Ranma that this isn't the high praise he thinks it is.
  • In Chapter 16, while facing off against the Crying Willow students, Shampoo notes they actually compare favorably to some of her Amazon sisters. Specifically, Ling-ling and Lung-lung, who are still children.
• Death by Adaptation: Zigzagged in Chapter 20. In canon, Gasparde got a Disney Death, being launched off of his ship by Luffy's Gum-Gum Bazooka before being snatched up by the winds of an approaching cyclone and carried away; whilst realistically he probably died, given that as a Devil Fruit user, even if he survived being in the cyclone he would have drowned if he was dropped in the sea, his fate was never explicit and thus there's a chance he survived. In this story, Ranma flash-freezes him with an ice-aspected ki blast, whereupon gravity causes him to break into chunks that then fall into the sea and sink, explicitly drowning. To emphasize the point, his Candy-Candy Fruit even reincarnates aboard Ranma's own ship.
• Decomposite Character: While the Straw Hats will be going on their canon adventures, the Nerima crew will be going through modified versions of the events the Straw Hats went through from the anime filler arcs and movies.
• Deconstruction Crossover: The story has a few elements of this.
  • With no one to protect her and lacking the benefit of being the only reasonably intelligent person around, Nabiki is swiftly proven to be Not So Invincible After All.
  • Being placed in genuine life-or-death situations with corrupt authority figures and bloodthirsty pirates rattles the crew something fierce.
• Dented Iron: Shiki the Golden Lion was once a terror on par with Gold Roger, but had to spend the last twenty years recovering from the injuries he took in Marineford and Impel Down.
• Depraved Bisexual: Implied with "The Reefster"; he hits on (female) Ranma, then hits on Harumi, and when Harumi reveals he's actually a boy, shrugs it off because Harumi's cute enough that he doesn't care. Then he hits on Harumi's girlfriend, Miriam, the second he sees her.
• Despite the Plan: The heist in Chapter 18 was supposed to commence when the bombs planted in the harbor went off and distracted the Marines, but turns into a fight for survival when they're discovered early. The bombs give cover for the pirates to escape, but with a pittance of loot compared to what they imagined. That said, they did steal several highly valuable items and Ranma got a taste of infamy.
• Didn't Think This Through: Ranma realizes the moment he grabs Dyna's shock crown that he forgot to account for the possibility Ratchet would have designed it to shock anyone who touched it.
• Dirty Old Man: Warship Island isn't where the dragons reincarnate, it's where they breed. The Nerimans all conclude Grandpa Ryu just wanted to get some action before he died.
• Do Wrong, Right: The Nerimans take down a pirate crew, only for their captain to take Ranma to task for calling himself a pirate while lacking a crew name or Jolly Roger. While he may have lost the battle, the pirate captain manages to claim a moral victory.
• The Dog Bites Back: Mercenary Eric the Whirlwind decapitates Commodore Nelson when the latter declares his intentions to sell Eric into slavery for losing to Ranma.
• Doing in the Scientist: In One Piece canon, Devil Fruits are considered more a kind of unexplored, unknown science^*At least to anyone who isn't Dr. Vegapunk than something mystical, except by the particularly uneducated. Umok, a planeswalking sorcerer who can see magic, flat out states the Rabbit-Rabbit Fruit is magical, and even notes it's a similar combination of magics to the Jusenkyo curse.
• Dungeon Bypass: During the Davy Back Fight, Ryoga is selected for a round where he needs to navigate a maze while the audience shouts directions to him, some right and some wrong. After running in a circle for five minutes in spite of the directions, he gets annoyed and starts running through the walls. This somehow leads to him winning.
• Eating the Enemy: Nabiki dispatches the child-bacteria Nosferatu in Chapter 31 by swallowing it whole and digesting it alive.
• Enemy Mine: In Chapter 32, the Kamikazes infiltrate a group of nuns looking for artifacts from Dyna's homeland, only to find out that they're a criminal cult. After rescuing the Chaser sisters from them after their own infiltration attempt failed, the Navy sisters reluctantly agree to a truce.
• Empowered Badass Normal:
  • Shampoo, a powerful Action Girl in her own right, eats a Zoan Devil Fruit in Chapter 6, giving her Animorphism and related superpowers based on her Fruit's specific creature — the rabbit.
  • In Chapter 29 Nabiki eats a Mythic Zoan Devil Fruit, giving her vampire abilities.
• Escalating Brawl: In Chapter 28, a fight between a fishmonger and a neighboring stall-keeper explodes into a brawl of three dozen people beating each other with rotten fish.
• Even the Rats Won't Touch It: In Chapter 22, during the Masochist's Meal, nobody wants to eat the local expy of hongeo-hoe — a Korean sashimi-esque dish consisting of skate (a relative of sharks and stingrays) fermented in its own urine and bile. Miriam recoils first from the smell and then from learning how it's made, even going so far as to say she's not hungry, the jaded Kodachi (who has no problems tucking into poached brains, for comparison) finds it too foul-smelling to eat, and Ukyo, when she finally tries it, nearly spits it out and quickly pushes it aside.
• Everybody Knew Already: The rest of the crew all knew the instant Miriam and Harumi decided to start dating, despite the two thinking it was a secret. The Nerimans decided to wait until the two felt comfortable to tell them before acknowledging the relationship.
• Everyone Has Standards: The captain of an all-female crew, all of whom have been de-aged to their tweens by Bonney, declares she won't let Urogue "defile [her] maids". Urogue, with a strained smile, responds that while he may be a fallen monk who enjoys the pleasures of flesh, he still has standards.
• Eye Scream: In Chapter 28, Nabiki gets shot in the eye by an unnoticed bounty hunter. Luckily, her Healing Factor lets her No-Sell the attack, but it still hurts.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: Chaser throws off her weighted jacket and tells the Kamikaze Pirates it's time to get serious. Unfortunately, they're all too busy shouting at "Kasumi" for her Vapor Wear top to take the moment seriously at all.
• Fat Bastard: Commodore Nelson Royale is grossly obese, in addition to being a corrupt, selfish asshole. A former subordinate explicitly calls him a Fat Bastard whilst denouncing him as the Kamikaze Pirates.
• Feed It a Bomb: After being swallowed by a Stomach Baron, the Kamikaze Pirates detonate a makeshift bomb planted by a previous crew in the plant's "heart" to kill it and escape.
• Foil: Harumi and Miriam are foils to each other in many ways upon introduction. Harumi is a delicate slip of a thing; Miriam is massive in several ways. Harumi is fast and skilled but physically weak, while Miriam is strong but slow and unskilled. Harumi's mother is abusive and tries to deny him the ability to leave home; Miriam's mother is loving and protective but lets her daughter leave. Harumi happily mastered what would typically be feminine pursuits but was punished for a typically masculine interest; Miriam was forced into more masculine pursuits due to her rough childhood but is interested in feminine pursuits.
• Foreign Queasine: Ukyo's revenge meal in Chapter 22 includes several dishes that are actually fairly common foodstuffs in parts of the world other than Japan, and many crew members find they enjoy them. The hongeo-hoe equivalent Ukyo cooks for the crew has a smell that even puts off Miriam, and Ukyo finds it tastes just as bad.
• Full-Frontal Assault:
  • Shampoo, having lost her clothes after transforming when the Milka sank, takes on Eldrago's crew in the nude. Only after they are forced to surrender does she ask if she can get some clothes.
  • Downplayed on Femille where duels are traditionally conducted with both parties barechested. This wouldn't stand out if not for the fact that it's an island of women warriors.
• Funetik Aksent: The future Kamikaze Pirates visit a rather rundown and hard-weathered village in the East Blue during Chapter 4, whose inhabitants speak with very thick "thug" accents.
• Gonk: In grand One Piece tradition, when a person shows up who is ugly enough to be remarked upon, they look really ugly. The denizens of the island visited in Chapter 4 and Nelson Royale are particularly prominent examples.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars:
  • The giant Ahab is missing an eye, with some nasty scars indicating how, and he is willing to kill the giants who were willing to listen to his deranged goals in an insane plan to drum up morale to rescue Dorry and Broggy.
  • Several sisters of Our Lady of Two Faces have notable battle scars, hinting at their true nature as criminals.
• Heist Episode: Chapter 18 deals with the Kamikaze Pirates infiltrating a Marine Commodore's party with the intent of robbing him blind before fleeing. Things go more or less according to plan until they're outed and end up running for their lives.
• His Own Worst Enemy: Nabiki explains to Ranma's three fiancées that it's their own enthusiasm and aggressiveness which makes Ranma push them away. Constantly trying to force him to choose them makes him uncomfortable while their frequent fights, which often catch Ranma in the crossfire, irritate him.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: A nun uses a reject dial to absorb multiple blows from Ryoga and then unleashes the stored up force on him. However, she failed to account for the backlash; while Ryoga cracked a few ribs, the nun's arms were shattered.
• Hope Spot: In Chapter 30 Ranma and Kodachi have successfully made it back to the ship with scrolls that could hold vital clues about Dyna's homeland... only for the pirate they ticked off by inadvertently costing him a gun deal with the criminal nuns that they took down in the previous chapter to shoot the box to smithereens.
• Humanity Ensues: The Big Bad of Chapter 31 is a bacteria that absorbed a Human-Human Zoan by infecting and assimilating its former owner. Sadly, this gave the resultant creature, called "Nosferatu", human-level intelligence, but no greater drives than those of its original bacteria self: to feed and grow by infecting others.
• Humanoid Abomination: Nosferatu takes the form of a human child, but this is solely due to their Devil Fruit. Their true nature is a bacterial hive mind that became sapient after consuming a Human-Human Fruit user. It quickly sheds any pretense of being human, moving and transforming its body in unnatural ways and expressing an alien, hostile mentality.
• Idiot Ball: The Nerimans are forced to become pirates because Ranma and Kodachi completely forgot to take down the Jolly Roger on the pirate ship they seized, getting them attacked by Marines and leading to them becoming wanted criminals when they fight back.
• Illegal Religion: The Sisterhood of the Golden Serpent is banned by the World Government because they're a cult which worships crime, effectively making them a "criminal cult" in two senses of the phrase.
• Inadvertent Entrance Cue: After marooning Eldrago and his crew on Lost Island, Ranma declares the only way Eldrago could catch up to them now is if he can fly. Cue Eldrago plummeting out of the sky, having used his Scream-Scream fruit to fly after them.
• Indy Ploy: In Chapter 9, Buggy assures his crew that he has a plan in the works to let them escape the Marines. His plan is to essentially wait for an opportunity and exploit it, as that's generally what works best for him. Sure enough, his escorts get attacked and Buggy is able to break free in the chaos.
• Just Following Orders: Commodore Nelson's Marines hated him and being used as slavers, but also couldn't refuse his commands due to the power he had. As soon as he's killed, the Marines agree to let Ranma's crew go and return all the abducted civilians to their homes.
• Lady Land: The island of Femille is a matriarchal Amazon island where only women are allowed to train as warriors. Men are expected to perform domestic chores, mind businesses, and dress themselves like women. While a School does exist to train male warriors, its students must abandon their families to join.
• Leaking Can of Evil: The Bat-Bat Fruit Model: Vampire's presence in a Stomach Baron in some manner corrupted the plant and all of the creatures living on and within it, turning them into mutants even more bloodthirsty and violent than elsewhere in Merville.
• Let's You and Him Fight: Subverted in Chapter 5. When Ranma and Luffy meet by chance in a random restaurant, the two have a perfectly civil encounter. In fact, Ranma actually shouts Luffy a meal.
• Living Macguffin: Umok is basically this; he could get the teens from Nerima all back to their own world, but he's completely out of magical energy. So they need to recharge him, which is their entire motivation for becoming pirates.
• Love Dodecahedron: In classic Ranma ½ tradition, although the actual network is tweaked here. Ranma is pursued by Kodachi, Ukyo, and Shampoo, without overtly reciprocating to any of them, although he has confessed to finding them physically appealing. At the same time, those three girls suspect Nabiki may also have designs on Ranma, although Nabiki herself is adamant that she does not, especially because she doesn't want to provoke their jealous ire — ironically, Ranma does admit that he thinks Nabiki is attractive at one point, which greatly shocks her because she always presumed he either had no attraction to girls at all or that she just wouldn't stand out compared to his usual harem. Which of course leads to Nabiki starting to develop her own low-key attraction to Ranma. Eventually, all four girls agree to a truce where they're all free to pursue Ranma without interference. It's lampshaded that the absence of Mousse or Akane actually helps the group's dynamic a lot, as their jealousy-fueled antics would amplify the tension, essentially causing everybody present to act worse.
• Magic A Is Magic A: Brought up by Umok in Chapter 6; magic has many different forms, and two different types could have unpredictable effects if mixed together in some way. This comes into play when the Jusenkyo-cursed Shampoo eats a Devil Fruit and that two magics have to... "compromise". Established weirdness includes causing her to have a hybrid cat/rabbit bestial aspect, an altered set of forms, and being forcibly reverted to her beast form if exposed to sea prism stone.
• Magic Misfire: The plot literally kickstarts when breaking the trinket in which Umok is sealed simultaneously frees him and also expends all of his magic in a massive Magic Misfire.
• Malicious Misnaming: The Nerimans initially don't understand why having a crew name or Jolly Roger are important so they go without. The Marines, assuming they're not willing to fly the Roger so they can launch sneak attacks, take to calling them the Dirty Cowards.
• Maligned Mixed Marriage: Whilst they're not married, Harumi (male human) and Miriam (female wotan) face prejudice from both humans and fishmen for being a romantically involved couple. Fishmen have twice called Miriam a Category Traitor for dating a human, and in one Chapter, Harumi is heckled by a gaggle of racist human women who call him a deviant for being with a fishwoman.
• Martial Arts and Crafts: Invoked in Chapter 8, when Kodachi notes that due to Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics sitting quite firmly on the "sports" side of things, she'll have to find/develop a new fighting style better suited to more serious combat as a would-be pirate queen. Ukyo, on the other hand, acknowledges her style is "kind of gimmicky", but insists that it can be just as badass as the more traditional styles used by Ranma, Ryoga, and Shampoo, vowing to stay loyal to her roots.
• Masochist's Meal: Mentioned almost literally by name in one of the Chapter 22 vignettes; an angry Ukyo, annoyed at being teased for an overly narrow menu, tries to get revenge by serving up a meal full of local exotic foods, including giant spiders, snakes, monkey, grubs, brains, and offal. She succeeds in grossing out Nabiki, and Miriam and Harumi seem initially hesitant, but to Ukyo's great shock Ranma, Kodachi, and Shampoo all tuck in eagerly — Ranma explains that he's used to eating stuff like this due to his hardscrabble childhood (Ryoga is similarly experienced, but still doesn't like it), Kodachi is used to bizarre and exotic foods being served in high society parties for bragging rights, and Shampoo is from a very remote and rural region of China, which she declares (with an ambiguous level of seriousness) means she'll eat practically anything.
• Meaningful Name: Chapter 16 has two names that are quite meaningful if you're familiar with the Shout-Out that each is making.
  • The island that Ranma's crew travel to is called "Femille Island". And just like its namesake, it turns out to be full of girly-looking crossdressing guys.
  • A poisonous mushroom is called "Erlin's Jest", after a particularly malicious death and trickster deity from the Dungeons & Dragons setting of Ravenloft.
• Missing Mom: In one of the early chapters, the crew bonds, somewhat, over the mutual realization that many of them have no or absent mothers. Ryoga's pretty much the only one with a stable and complete family, it's just they're all too lost to actually function as one.
• Missing Steps Plan: Ahab's plan to storm Impel Down involved building a crew of giants by luring anyone who listened to an isolated cove, killing them, and using their deaths to stir up outrage against the small folk. The Nerimans are more than a little confused at how he thought this would work.
• Mix-and-Match Critters:
  • In Chapter 3, Ranma inadvertently fishes up a creature described as a cross between a sea-going cow and a giant Threatening Shark.
  • Shampoo's Zoan-type devil fruit is a mixture of cat and rabbit which is usually referred to as a cabbit.
  • In Chapter 24, the Kamikazes prepare a bare-handed fishing contest using tanks of "ligerfish", something like a cross of a lionfish and tigerfish. The result is effectively a super-sized piranha with a vicious temperament covered in poisoned spines.
  • The mutant creatures of Merveille lean toward this. Especially notable are the vermin inhabiting the Stomach Baron, which are nightmarish fusions of various vermin.
• Monster Clown: In Chapter 28, there is an appearance by a crazy clown bounty hunter who is both a raging alcoholic and a pyromaniac. His fighting style revolves around throwing balloons full of booze at people so he can then set them on fire, which he describes as "beautiful".
• Moon Rabbit: In Chapter 6, Commodore Nelson Royale claims that the Moon Rabbit serves as the Mythic Zoan counterpart to the normal Rabbit-Rabbit Fruit, also mentioning that it has some kind of Alchemy Is Magic type secondary powers. He is distinctly less than pleased to discover that the person who claimed to sell him that Mythic Zoan actually only sold him the base model fruit instead.
• More Dakka: Ranma and Ryoga throw their cannonballs at enemy ships rather than firing cannons. Cutting out the need to reload cannons after each shot lets them maintain a rate of fire more appropriate for a warship than their cramped merchant ship.
• Mouth To Mouth Force Feeding: Lilith kills her former slave-owner Princess-Commodore Kubera by vomiting venom down her throat when she demands Lilith kiss her in submission.
• Mythology Gag:
  • In Chapter 8, Shampoo effortlessly deflects a barrage of throwing knives without looking in a scene clearly lifted from the manga version of the Martial Arts Takeout arc.
  • Kodachi is established to actually be surprisingly good with firearms, a reference to her briefly wielding a Boys II anti-tank rifle in the anime episode "Les Miserables of the Kuno Estate".
  • Nabiki is established as having a Sweet Tooth and being something of a glutton, both attributes based on brief gags from the first season of the anime.
  • When Ranma's belief that Real Men Hate Sugar is revealed, Ryoga joins the girls in mocking Ranma for this belief. Unlike Ranma, Ryoga has been seen eating ice cream as a guy without hesitation, at least in the anime.
  • Ukyo's passionate vow to prove the strength of her family style of Martial Arts Cooking calls to mind both her behavior in the "Ukyo's Secret Sauce" arc and the anime episode "Revenge! Raging Okonimiyaki", where she briefly trains at a temple that houses a century-old okonomiyaki that hasn't aged a day thanks to the Battle Aura infused into it, which was created by Ukyo's ancestor.
  • Smoker's replacement overseeing Loguetown is a Captain Chaser, the alternate name for Smoker from the infamous 4Kids Entertainment dub.
  • Ranma's dissing of Gasparde's lack of morality has some similarities to his fight with Luffy in the original film. Even Ranma's original plan was to get him sucked up into a cyclone, which is how Luffy beat him in said film.
  • When Miriam sees the fishman pirate captain Willy during the Dead End Race arc, she describes him as a "cetomorph", an incredibly rare fishman and merfolk subspecies with the features of dolphins and whales; this is a nod to the fact that Willy is the only example of such a fishman to appear in any One Piece canon.
• Noodle Incident: Miriam and Harumi's date in Thunderhead Bay somehow resulted in a massive fire. They don't explain exactly what happened, only mentioning a few bits of the encounter like an inexplicable flock of angry geese, fighting nuns, and tossing a pyromaniac clown into a booze cellar.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Ranma, Ryoga, Shampoo, Ukyo, and Kodachi are definitely not the strongest fighters in the One Piece world, but do sit fairly comfortably around the Paradise tier of combatants. As they began their adventures in the East Blue, this means they quite easily Curb Stomp the initial opponents they face... which starts to make them too confident. Miriam lampshades this when Ranma is baffled as to why his female form has a higher bounty than his male form despite the Marines having been aware of the latter for longer, pointing out the East Blue's reputation as the weakest of the Blues.
• Nun Too Holy: In Chapter 32 the Kamikazes infiltrates an order of nuns looking for artifacts from Dyna's homeland... only to find out that they secretly literally worship crime, and have a vault full of plunder after they stop them from executing the Chaser sisters who also tried to infiltrate the group but were discovered.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Besides the attack by Willy's pirate crew and Ranma's fight against Gasparde, none of the other fights between the crews in the Dead-End Race are shown besides brief glimpses that imply that several of them were indeed epic.
• Oh, Crap!: When Nosferatu reveals her name, Ranma has just enough time to realize he's in danger before she attacks.
• A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: Lilith mentions that she's enjoyed some "killer parties" on Thunderhead Bay. As the one she reminisces of involves a lesbian threesome with identical twins, it's pretty clear what kind of parties she attended.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Zigzagged. Ranma is adamant that he and his companions will not hurt the innocent, and even the more amoral members of the crew like Kodachi and Shampoo agree with this sentiment. Beating the snot out of marines, rival pirates, or anyone else dumb enough to pick a fight with them and then looting them after the fight is perfectly fine, though. However, even the looting zigzags the trop as while they'll take all the treasure, books, and games onboard, the Nerimans will only take half the food, water, and sailing supplies so the defeated crew can still make it back to port.
• Power-Strain Blackout: Ranma uses the technique which manifests his ki as a giant against Ahab, landing a devastating blow. However, he immediately passes out afterward, having expended all of his ki and needing a week of sleep to recover.
• Power-Up Food: Devil Fruits, of course. In Chapter 6, Ranma invokes the trope literally by giving their newly acquired Devil Fruit to Umok and suggesting that he could eat it to replenish his depleted magical energies. Umok immediately shuts him down, pointing out that he has no idea what eating an unfamiliar magical food will do to him, given his own magical biology.
• Punch Parry: In Chapter 16, Ranma deliberately uses this move against Masami. The move is depicted as realistically painful and damaging, but Genma's training to toughen up Ranma and increase her pain tolerance allows her to outlast Masami.
• Rat Men: The Skryre are a Mink tribe which separated from the rest of their race long ago to live on the White-White Sea. They're a shy people, so rather than trading with the sky-islanders they prefer to sneak onto their islands and search through their refuse for anything they need.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • Ranma and Nabiki get into a heated argument in Chapter 7, with each one using this trope against the other. Ranma very bluntly spells out that Nabiki isn't the genius she thinks she is, while Nabiki fires back that Ranma has consistently fallen for her schemes while also not being immune to making dumb plans himself.
  • In Chapter 17, Nabiki details to Ranma's three fiancées the reasons they'll never woo Ranma at their current rate. They simultaneously make Ranma uncomfortable with their over-enthusiasm and also irritate him about how they'll pick fights with one another over the slightest provocation.
• Recoil Boost: When the Becop Island Marines start firing on their ship, Ranma uses the Moko Takabisha to accelerate it until none of the gunners can track them.
• Refuge in Audacity:
  • Ranma finds himself cornered in a game of truth or dare when he is presented with the question of "which of us girls do you think is the hottest?" After trying and failing to weasel out of it, Ranma decides to go for broke and proceeds to tell all the girls exactly what he finds sexy about each and every one of them. Including Nabiki, as payback for getting him in this mess in the first place.
  • Umok's plan to distract a small army of mercenaries? Float right into the middle of their meeting, sit on a rooftop, and start belting out a sea shanty.
• Religion of Evil: The Sisterhood of Our Lady of the Two Faces is actually the cover identity of the Sisterhood of the Golden Serpent, a cult which worships crime. Aside from indulging in vices, they're also smugglers and arms dealers.
• Rescue Reversal: After Nabiki jumped into the White-Sea despite eating a Devil Fruit, Ranma swam down to rescue her only to accidentally fall out the cloud-sea's bottom. Nabiki instead had to rescue Ranma thanks to her ability to fly once out of the cloud.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons:
  • Ranma and the other teens from Nerima decide to become pirates in part because they were hassled by particularly shady Marines from the island where they first met up, giving them the impression that the World Government as a whole is corrupt and draconian. In fact, that's actually 100% accurate.
  • Ranma decides to leave their Jolly Roger flying while sailing into Loguetown. Nabiki reasons it probably won't matter since the town must get so much pirate traffic that nobody will care so long as they don't cause a fuss. They're right but only because the more vigilant Smoker has already left and the remaining Marines are all tied up dealing with the Buggy Pirates.
• Sea Monster: This is a One Piece fanfic, so naturally terrible creatures of the sea show up on occasion.
  • In the first Chapter, Ranma and Kodachi are nearly dragged to their deaths by a giant octopus whilst wading on the beach.
  • In the third Chapter, Ranma fishes up a gigantic shark/cow hybrid whilst trying to catch something for dinner.
• Serious Business: Having a crew name and Jolly Roger is what separates a true pirate from pathetic amateurs. One pirate captain who loses soundly to the Nerimans manages to claim a moral victory because his crew was obviously the superiors in pirating if not fighting.
• Shock Collar: Ratchet fits Dyna with a crown to ensure she serves him, shocking her when she refuses to obey his orders. Ranma tears it apart, shocking both of them in the process.
• Shout-Out:
  • There are several homages to This Bites!, including the presence of Samson's Transponder Snail Shack on Loguetown, and an encounter with both the Great Octopus Shogunate and the White Foam Pirates (a briefly-mentioned crew of surfing pirates considered for membership in the Great Straw Hat Fleet).
  • Fans of Dungeons & Dragons will recognize the sea shanty that Umok sings in Chapter 14 as being taken from issue #349 of Dragon, specifically the article titled "Demonomicon of Iggwilv: Dagon".
  • Chapter 16:
    • There's an island called "Femille Island", which is named after the Kingdom of Femille from the second season of the anime adaptation of Slayers.
    • A mushroom called an "Erlin's Jest" is also featured. Erlin is a death god from the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition iteration of Ravenloft with the personality of a cruel and malicious trickster. Fans of Mystara will also recognize the mushroom's design as being taken from a "Badshroom", a poisonous mushroom that appeared in the Mystaran sourcebook "The Orcs of Thar".
  • Chapter 17 has a bounty hunter whose "Deadly Sword Techniques" are based on the named attacks in Marvel Anime: Blade.
  • Chapter 20:
    • The Gravity Falls Cut Song is referenced when the Kamikazes discuss some previously-experienced Grand Line Weird Weather, namely a Mandlebrot rainbow and a screaming tornado.
    • Willy is an orca fishman.
    • One of the fishmen pirates serving under Willy is a pufferfish who is normally small and skinny looking but can inflate himself into a much bigger and stronger form with a disproportionately oversized upper torso. Fans of the 2002 Teen Titans cartoon will identify this guy as a villainous expy of minor character Tram, Aqualad's sidekick.
  • In Chapter 24, the Kamikazes are joined by Penelope laFloo, a Skunk mink with a heavy French-analogue accent.
  • In Chapter 28, there is a fishmonger in Thunderhead Bay who insists on sourcing all his fish from an island two weeks away rather than from local fishers, resulting in his fish being inedibly rotten, and he's in total denial of it, to the point he will fight anyone who calls them out as rotten. He's more or less paid to keep his stall open because the fights over his rotten fish are great entertainment. In case the homage isn't obvious enough, he's even called Unhygenix^note this was the name of the Gaulish fishmonger in British English; American English translated his name as Epidemix.
  • In Chapter 28, Lilith cheerfully says of Thunderhead Bay that "you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." The fact she then adds it also throws great parties may be an homage to Samurai Jack, where the Scotsman similarly altered the line by noting that the place he was describing also did great crab cakes.
  • Chapter 30:
    • The chapter takes place on Yskalmerie Island, which is apparently ruled over by a "Lord Pomplemuse", both homages to The Neverending Story: The Animated Adventures of Bastian Balthazar Bux.
    • Dyna's homeland is revealed to be called "Hestavar", which is one of the realms of the gods in the Nentir Vale setting of Dungeons & Dragons.
    • Ranma insults Vito by declaring that he looks like an extra from the kind of porno where even the cameraman gets tested afterwards.
  • Chapter 31:
    • Some of the dialogue spoken by the infected is taken from the Hybrids in System Shock 2.
    • The Kamikazes encounter a whip-wielding doctor named "Simon van Richten", confirmed by Word of God to be a blending of Simon Belmont from Castlevania and Dr. Rudolph van Richten from Ravenloft.
    • Dr. van Richten uses bottles clearly modeled after the Holy Water from Castlevania, though the blue flames they emit have a paralytic effect on the infected, similar to the ones in Resident Evil 4 (Remake).
    • Mrs. Mayberry is a past teacher of Kodachi.
  • The Rat Men in the ancient ruined ship are called the Skryre.
    • The ancient ship is called the Demeter, an homage to the doomed ship that brought Dracula to England in Bram Stoker's novel.
  • The mouths on Nosferatu's palms are inspired by those possessed by Morbius in Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
    • During the epilogue, the mayor of Wisborg describes the Kamikaze Pirates as "the morning sun that has vanquished the horrible night", a slightly tweaked homage to Castlevania II: Simon's Quest.
  • Chapter 32:
    • The three gynoid soldiers are named Cherry, Lime, and Bloodberry, after the titular Cute Robot Girls from Saber Marionette J.
    • At one point, an enemy swears "by Derketo", a goddess of fertility and death from Conan the Barbarian.
• A Simple Plan:
  • The heist in Chapter 18 is simple in principle: Sneak into the party disguised as nobles, identify any loot, then steal whatever they can and run once the planted bombs explode and distract the local guards. Unfortunately, they didn't know Chaser Hibiki, one of the few Marines who could identify Ranma, was assigned to the Commodore they planned to rob. Combined with said Commodore nearly killing Ranma, the Kamikazes barely escape.
  • Another simple heist goes wrong in Chapter 30, when they run into Capone Bege and his Firetank Pirates in the museum they're robbing. Although initially Ranma and Kodachi manage to talk things out, once Bege realizes they're the crew who took down the Sisterhood of the Golden Serpent, thus costing him a fortune in recently-purchased guns, they have to escape the angry pirate crew.
• Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: The protagonists subscribe to this trope, so when they discover that Commodore Nelson Royale is engaged in the slave trade, they immediately put their escape plans on hold and free all of the prisoners currently held in transit at Royale's base.
• Spared by the Adaptation: After killing Nelson, Eric reaches an agreement with the Nerimans and Marines to go their separate ways. With no reason to pursue either the Straw Hats or the Nerimans, Eric lives to fight another day.
• The Stations of the Canon: Subverted. Ranma and his friends become a pirate crew entirely separate from the Straw Hats and are following a different route through Paradise, and thus have no interference with any of the canon events of One Piece.
• Suicidal Overconfidence:
  • In Chapter 6, Nabiki doesn't hesitate to pull a risky scam to turn Ranma in for his new bounty and then break him out afterwards because she believes that the Nerimans can effortlessly handle any fighters in the world. She gets a very pointed reminder that they are not invincible instead.
  • In Chapter 18, the Kamikaze Pirates have little concern when they decide to raid Commodore Sukumvit's mansion, with Ranma even launching into a bombastic speech on being revealed. Sukumvit proceeds to nearly kill Ranma, who only escapes due to a well-time distraction.
• Surfer Dude: The White Foam Pirates are a whole crew of them and the first pirates Ranma and company encounter upon entering the Grand Line. Save for sleazy pickup "artist" the Reefster, they are all very laid back and friendly with the Kamikazes, happily competing with them during the Grand Octopree and the Dead End Race and sharing in their antagonism against the World Government.
• Tactical Withdrawal: Baroque agents witness Ranma sink a Marine frigate with a ki attack and conclude their current force is too small to take on the Kamikaze Pirates. They instead withdraw and return to base to muster a larger force.
• The Team Wannabe: Ahab wants to free Brogy and Dorry so he can join the rebuilt Giant Warrior Pirates. He tried to join the original crew but was too young, a sore spot for him even a century later.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: The biggest challenge for the Nerimans early on is working together rather than devolving to their standard in-fighting. While they gradually improve, they're still more than happy to take a dig at one another given the opportunity.
• Tempting Fate:
  • Ryoga makes the mistake of talking about how the weather's pretty decent in "the Gauntlet". Shortly after they hit a heat wave so intense it sets Umok's hat on fire and spend a long time just trying to survive the rapidly shifting weather patterns.
  • In Chapter 18, Kodachi dismissively claims the Marines haven't proved a threat in the past so there should be no issue with the raid on Sukumvit's party. While the rank-and-file Marines are indeed no threat, the Chaser sisters prove challenging foes and Commodore Sukumvit completely outmatches Ranma.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After the Kamikaze Pirates won the Davy Back Fight, Foxy and his crew are resigned to receive another major humiliation when Ramna choose their pirate flag (that was badly drawn by Luffy previously) to be remade .... Only to be overjoyed at how beautiful it looks upon seeing the results.
• Time Bomb: In Chapter 18, Kodachi and Ukyo use a mixture of liquid ammonium nitrate to create time-delayed bombs which Miriam attaches to the bottom of Navy ships the night before the heist.
• Too Desperate to Be Picky: Ranma and Ryoga grew up on the road where they were often forced to hunt and scavenge for anything edible. As such they're both accustomed to eating offal, creepy crawlers, and other things most people wouldn't consider food.
• Too Dumb to Live: Kubera demands that Lilith kiss her after she submits to her former slave owner... forgetting that Lilith can turn into a snake... more specifically, a spitting cobra. Cue Mouth To Mouth Force Feeding with venom.
• Too Many Mouths: When Nosferatu attacks Nabiki, not only do does its mouth gain More Teeth than the Osmond Family, its eyes turns into smaller, equally toothy mouths, and its palms and fingers develop multiple small, lamprey-like sucking maws.
• Took a Level in Badass: Invoked in Chapter 8, where the girls note that if they're going to face genuine dangers as pirates, then they'll need to get better.
• Training from Hell: As shown in Chapter 8, Ranma has not fallen too far from the family tree when it comes to training. Whilst he admittedly feels pressure to produce results quickly, that still doesn't change the fact he decides one of his first exercises with Nabiki involves him chasing her around the ship's deck at sword-point.
• Twice Shy: Miriam and Hirumi both find the other attractive, but are too insecure to just admit it to each other or think that it would be reciprocated. It's pretty telling that Ranma, despite his own poor history with romance, is the one telling them to just go for it.
• Twin Threesome Fantasy: Lilith happily mentions having slept with identical twin sisters once, with considerable pride at her achievement.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Ranma notes that Gasparde, while powerful enough to give him a hard time, didn't seem to really know how to use his Logia powers very effectively, mainly just turning into syrup instead of something like an ultra-dense jawbreaker.
• Wake-Up Call:
  • Their defeat by Commodore Nelson and Eric serves as a major wake-up call for the Ranma crew after their previous victories made them over-confident. They begin training more seriously after this point, stop to get as much information on the Grand Line as they can before Loguetown, and begin training Nabiki so she'll at least be able to escape fights in the future.
  • Masami matches Ranma's speed during their duel, which only Happosai and Cologne had managed on Earth, forcing him to rely on dirty tricks and eventually flee. Ranma correctly predicts there will likely be enemies even stronger and faster in the Grand Line and so orders everyone to start training the next day.
  • Ranma's fight with Commodore Sukumvit is almost completely one-sided, as the Marine officer outmatches Ranma in strength, speed, and skill. If Sukumvit hadn't let his guard down due to a distraction, Ranma and the crew would have been crushed. This serves as a warning that the Marines they'll encounter in the Grand Line aren't nearly as weak as those they fought in the East Blue, and in the next Chapter Ranma decides that when they have a chance they need to find a suitable island and spend a month or so doing nothing but training, and even after all that training Nabiki just barely manages to avoid being killed by one of his blows when they meet again, and he and Ranma are still roughly evenly matched.
• We Need a Distraction:
  • The Nerimans need to distract Eldrago's crew and mercenaries, so Umok flies over to them and starts singing at the top of his lungs. Everyone's so busy staring at the three-eyed imp, they completely miss Ryoga's attack.
  • The Kamikazes plant time bombs on the Navy ships at Sukumvit Island. The initial plan is to wait until the bombs distract the Marines, at which point the pirates will rob the Sukumvit mansion. When they're exposed early, the bombs still distract the Commodore during his fight with Ranma, allowing the Neriman to stun his opponent and escape.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: In Chapter 7, several marines express dismissive attitudes towards Shampoo's Rabbit-Rabbit Devil Fruit, describing it as a weak and pathetic excuse for a Zoan.
• Womb Level: The Kamikazes have to delve deep into a Stomach Baron's body to kill it, but it feels more like a festering corpse than a living creature due to the influence of a Mythic Devil Fruit.
• Would Hit a Girl:
  • The Marines don't discriminate when it comes to violence.
  • Ranma whacks Nabiki on the head in Chapter 7 after her lame-brain plan nearly got them all killed in the previous Chapter.
• Worst Aid: After cutting off his legs, Shiki stabbed the handles of his swords into the wounds to staunch the bleeding and has kept them as improvised peg legs. Indigo laments that this caused multiple infections and other complications that needed extensive treatment.
• You Do NOT Want To Know: When Ranma asks why Foxy's ship had rhinestone-encrusted boxing gloves, Foxy tells him he does not want to know.
• You Kill It, You Bought It: When a pirate kills another pirate with a larger bounty, the World Government typically increases the victor's bounty to a similar level as the defeated. Ranma killing Gasparde led to his bounty increasing from fifteen to ninety-five million.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Ranma is posing as a noble and nearly tears off a man's nose for being rude to Miriam. When Kodachi praises his casual cruelty for perfectly matching his role, Ranma mutters it doesn't feel like much of a compliment.
• Your Magic's No Good Here: Invoked in Chapter 6; after seizing their first Devil Fruit, Umok brings up briefly that magics from different worlds by their inherent natures may not play together nicely if mixed. When Shampoo eats one, the magic of her curse and the fruit clash, incapacitating Shampoo until seastone catalyzes the two magics to merge.
• Zerg Rush: Most fights between Ranma's crew and the Marines boil down to large quantities of grunts trying to overwhelm the handful of martial artists through sheer weight of numbers. They even succeed in Chapter 6.
  • Similarly, when bounty hunters attack the Kamikazes on their ship in the night while they're waiting for their Log Pose to reset at Thunderhead Bay they're no individual threat to them, but their sheer numbers still make the Kamikazes work for their victory, and they even briefly capture Lilith before Dyna rescues her.

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