One Piece: The History of Bink's Sake

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The sailor shanty «Bink's Sake» from One Piece can get the whole crew going when played in the right context. It is especially liked Brook, the straw hat crew's musician sings and plays it. Nothing in One Piece is as simple as it appears thanks to the intricate world building of Eiichiro Oda. «Bink's Sake» as a song carries deeper commentaries on the life of a pirate both within and outside the world of One Piece.

«Bink's Sake» is a pirate anthem whose origins trace back to pirates of old such as the Lumbar pirates and Shank's pirate crew. The song is primarily used in times of celebration in order to lift people's spirits, but its most famous appearance in the series comes moments before Brook's death, as the Lumbar pirates collapse one by one until Brook is all by himself.

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The composition of «Bink's Sake» was completed much before Brook's first appearance. While coming up with concept and design for Brook, Oda asked respected anime composer and colleague Kohei Tanaka (most famous for his compositions for Gunbuster and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) to get to work writing the melody for «Bink's Sake».

Oda then told Tanaka to have the song finished in «a year or so», however progress in One Piece can be a tricky thing to predict, and as it happened the song would not premiere until five years after Tanaka completed the song. In an interview about the composition process, Tanaka stated that his goal was to make «Bink's Sake» both lighthearted and sad at the same time. The emotional mood is often conferred by the instruments being used to perform the song, with the song being more ballad-like when played on a violin and more upbeat when played on the piano.

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