One Piece Fans Wouldn't Even Recognize The Two Original Versions of Nami

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Nami is one of the most popular and beloved characters in One Piece, but her two original versions were very different. The author of the manga, Eiichiro Oda, has been planning it since his childhood, drawing up characters and plots that he wanted to include from a young age. Nami is clearly one of these characters, but that doesn't mean that Oda had worked out her entire personality beforehand.

It's quite common for manga to have prototype chapters that are quite different from what fans know. In Naruto's prototype, his father is Kurama, for instance. Before publishing One Piece, Oda wrote two different one-shots that serve as sort of a first draft for the series' first chapters. Both of these one-shots are called Romance Dawn, sharing the name of the first arc of the manga, but they are quite different. The first sees Luffy go to a village that is afraid of being attacked by pirates, where he recruits a local girl Silk to his crew. In the second, he is captured by the magic-using pirate Spiel, on whose ship he befriends a girl Anne and helps her get her pet bird back from their wicked captor. Both of these one-shots feature a Luffy who is fairly similar to the Luffy in the final version of the manga. But Silk and Anne are quite different from the version of Nami who ultimately appeared in One Piece.

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Silk is a girl who is not afraid to fight any potential threats to her village. She wields a sword and appears to know how to use it when she attacks Luffy upon first meeting him. Her parents were pirates who abandoned her, leaving her an orphan who is very knowledgeable about the pirate world. Anne couldn't be more different. The one thing that