The emotional scene the place Shanks provides Luffy his omnipresent straw hat within the first chapter of legendary shonen manga One Piece is little doubt seared into readers’ minds. However what if it was utilized in a goofy, slapstick comedy recreation à la these masochistic diversions that have been all the craze round 2010? Wouldn’t that be one thing?

Fortuitously for all us sickos, artist Tani Yurei did simply that. In a video posted to Twitter earlier in the present day, Tani demonstrates their creation set to dramatic music. Watch as happy-go-lucky captain “Crimson Hair” Shanks, recent off dropping his arm to an enormous sea monster, tries to present a distraught Monkey D. Luffy his straw hat as comfort for not permitting the younger, wannabe pirate to journey with him.

It virtually appears like a kind of adverts meant to bait you into downloading a crappy cellular recreation with video of somebody failing time and again. And boy did it work on me.

Absentmindedly ignoring the specter of potential viruses, I clicked Tani’s hyperlink to the project file earlier than additionally grabbing Algodoo, the 2D physics simulation program for which it was constructed. I used to be going to place that hat on Luffy’s head, dammit.

Upon first loading the One Piece recreation, I laughed as Shanks and Luffy have been instantly crushed by its Japanese directions. A fast Google translation of the textual content revealed the keyboard inputs for rotating Shanks’ ankle, knee, and waist in addition to how you can place his shoulder and elbow for optimum hat placement.

All that was left was to spend approach an excessive amount of time fussing over the controls, which required some inventive finger positioning to lock Shanks’ numerous joints in place. And whereas I wasn’t taken with spending time completely recreating the manga panel, I made positive Luffy received the hat that’s been his trademark for the previous 25 years.

Regardless of its immense world reputation, followers are nonetheless ready for that one good One Piece online game adaptation. This undoubtedly isn’t that recreation, but it surely’s a enjoyable technique to kill a while.