One Piece/Episode 128

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Title
Official English Title	The Pirates` Banquet and Operation Escape from Alabasta!
Kanji Title	海賊たちの宴とアラバスタ脱出作戦!
Rōmaji Title	Kaizoku-tachi no Utage to Arabasta Dasshutsu Sakusen!
Information
Release date	October 6th, 2002
Media	Anime
Studio or Magazine	Toei Animation
Content
Scene Type	Furo & Bath
Sex of Bathers	Male & Female
Length
Timestamp or Pages
Segment	Episode

One Piece episode 128 is the first bathing scene in the One Piece anime series.

Summary

After recovering from the battle that the Strawhat Pirates had to save the Alabasta Kingdom from the Baroque Works, The crew was welcomed to bathe in the Royal Public Bath in the Palace after their banquet. On the males side is Nefertari Cobra along with Igaram introduces Monkey D. Luffy, Usopp, Sanji, Tony Tony Chopper, Roronoa Zoro and Eyelashes to the baths. Luffy and Usopp race each other to the Bathing Pool but then both end up Slipping. While Luffy and Ussop are seen standing in the bathwater Splash Fighting, Cobra is seen wearing a Towel and sitting on the opposite side of the rim while Zoro is outside of the bath with Chopper washing his back with a Sponge. Luffy and Usopp mock Zoro by standing under the Waterfall Shower and pretend to train just like him. Sanji goes to Igaram and asks him where the womens side is which angrily doesn't tell him but Cobra triumphantly points in the direction telling him.

Over on the girls side, Nami is getting her back scrubbed by Nefertari Vivi who tells her that she wonders that if there is a ship out there that has a big bath. When Nami looks over and sees all of the males Peeping over the wall, she gets up and covers herself with a towel and faces them and drops her towel on purpose in front of them saying "Happiness Punch" stunning all of the males giving them nose bleeds and causing them all to fall back down saying that she will be charging each and every one of them for the show she gave them. Nami and Vivi then get into the bathing pool together and while Nami is resting her arm on the side tells Vivi that they will be leaving tomorrow.

Back on the males side, all of the guys are sitting down outside of the bathing pool except for Zoro who is inside of it. Cobra then bows down to the Strawhats thanking them for saving his kingdom and claiming that even though he is a king those ranks don't exist in the bath.

Bathers

• Nefertari Cobra
• Monkey D. Luffy
• Usopp
• Sanji Vinsmoke
• Tony Tony Chopper
• Roronoa Zoro
• Igaram
• Nami
• Nefertari Vivi
• Eyelashes

Appearing Tropes

• Arm Resting
• Back Washing
• Bath
• Bath Bonding
• Bath Bucket
• Bath Cleavage
• Bath Stool
• Bathing Pool
• Bathing with Animals
• Blue Towel
• Furo
• Green Towel
• Guest Bathing
• High Towel Wearing
• Low Towel Wearing
• Night Bathing
• Orange Towel
• Pink Towel
• Peeping
• Public Bath
• Purple Towel
• Rim Sitting
• Shampoo
• Slipping
• Soap Suds
• Splash Fight
• Sponge
• Tied Hair
• Towel Dropping
• Wash Cloth
• Wash Cloth on Head
• Waterfall Shower
• White Towel
• Yellow Towel

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Release

This episode first aired in Japan on October 6th, 2002.

Manga Differences

Manga version of this scene.

Main article: One Piece/Chapter 213

In the manga, some of the male characters are seen sitting crossed legged on the ground completely naked with only a black shade covering their privates while in the anime they were wearing towels in that moment. Nami and Vivi have slightly more bathing screen time in the anime adaptation where the scene ends on both of them in the bathwater listening to the conversation going on in the males side. In the anime, Nami lowers her towel more when she does her "Happiness Punch".

Trivia

• While this is the first bathing scene in the One Piece TV anime series, the anime film One Piece: Clockwork Island Adventure came before this and chronologically takes place way before this episode. Chapter 13, chapter 174 and the novel One Piece: Loguetown were all bath scenes that should have came before but were skipped entirely in the anime adaptation leaving this episode to be the first bathing scene that wasn't skipped.

External Links

• AniDB