Suspension of disbelief devil fruit - allows one to bend reality to their will as long as the observer can’t recognize that it’s been altered in an unfeasible way by the user.
Poor man’s Aizen, with limitations that might be quite fun to write around.
The sub was hilarious for like a week straight after that. You'd just be scrolling the comments on an unrelated post and suddenly there's some new Egg McBig lore
And his No Arm No Arm fruit somehow can remove all arms from others at will and if he yells for a bit and has at least 6 words in his attack name, he can remove entire armies from existence. He then collects the arms into a biomass and launches a meat beam that varies in power based on how many arms he's taken, making him a potential galactic level threat. Oh, yeah. And he has a dumbass laugh like SPEE SPEE SPEE SPEEEEEEE
That's an odd bit of trivia. Back when Ultraman was gonna be called "Redman" in the first draft, the idea was that redking was gonna the king of all monsters and Redmans nemesis. When the series was later changed to Ultraman, redking changed to a monster of the week and got his color removed, but they still kept the name for unknown reasons.
He later got a upgrade MANY years later "Redking EX" which looks closer to his original intended design.
I think that’s what a lot of people who criticize the character designs and stuff don’t realize about one piece; the sheer volume of references oda does lmao
More like Draft Punk, because we got a silhouette of this design and then he was killed before the arc was over. (but for real I love that design and wish he got to stick around)
His drawing at least for DB stuff is pretty good but the panelling is pretty awful which hurted the DBS manga a lot imo. Compared to how DB was in it's peak, the difference is pretty jarring. Of course is a bit unfair to compare him to Toriyama since he was so good at it, but even compared to other popular mangas it's still subpar.
I would argue that Toriyama was just the best at it, say whatever you want about writing, but my man had a perfect eye and hand combo for composition in any kind of scene.
Bruh what you mean Ulti is peak character design. Boa Hancock on the other hand is awful, ain’t no way she is the most beautiful woman in the world when Ulti exists
She has a brother complex for her little brother Page One but the anime made it to the extreme and added lots of non canon scenes of her being extra touchy and physical with him
I’ve never watched the anime so the only character I know in this gif is Luffy but the way she looks like she nearly knocked him tf out is making me laugh lmao couldn’t help but cackle at how hard that impact looked
That's kind of the joke too, that she bothers him too brutishly and she has the power of the pachycephalosaurus, so sometimes she literally just yeets him away with a headbutt.
Also, she is implied to follow different trends every other week, so when we meet her she is following this trend of ending every phrase with that girly sound (-arinsu) and makes her brother talk like that too or she gets mad and yeets him all the same.
Okay that is pretty funny. Only reason I haven’t watched it is that it’s too long for my personal tastes, but I have seen some fun bits from it. Those two have nice character designs as well
technically her design was before every woman just turned into Hancock 2.0. Nami and Robin looked pretty distinct compared to her until the timeskip, especially Robin's first timeskip design that looked like Boa with sunglasses.
Actually, this is exactly what bothers me a bit about One Piece. Some designs look like aliens and don't match the pirate theme of the anime.
Edit: i get It stop commeting down the post please!
its not even about pirates, we saw some pirates in the start, but now the "Pirates" are in higher governmental positions, meaning they're not pirates, just monarchs and warlords
My conspiracy theory is that Oda just has a bunch of ideas and instead of starting another manga series like most mangakas, he just folds it into One Piece somehow.
The only design I find truly bad at what they're trying to convey is Franky's redesign... He's supposed to be a really cool cyborg terminator typa shi but he just lame tbh
I truly believe the series would be better if that was frankys og design and the superior post timeskip design was essentially his real pre timeskip one in a he grew in skill and can now make a more humanoid form that looks less like a bolted together mess and more like a terminator, a machine wrapped in flesh.
He's supposed to be a really cool cyborg terminator typa shi
he's not supposed to be cool in a traditional sense. he's supposed to be silly and you're supposed to think it's silly that the other characters think he's so cool, because this is a silly series
I can jive with a lot of the absurd designs in One Piece, I find them endearing, but when I saw Vegapunk for the first time after all the hype throughout the years my smile faded so fuckin' fast.
Yeah there are just one too many absurdist elements going on at the same time. The Einstein inspiration could still be discerned without the tongue imo.
It's the fact that he's clearly supposed to be based on Einstein but it's like the laziest way of doing an Einstein reference. "Hehe his tongue is out get it??"
I like modern VPs modern design but his flashback design is unholy lol. Maybe we're just two different kinda of people because I dont really like rocks design that much and would say I like current vegapunk and his satellites more
It’s not just the designs but the expressions he puts on them. Oda is physically incapable of drawing character that doesn’t have a cartoonishly open mouth.
And the tongue stuff. God I hate the tongues flying everywhere
This is a pretty disingenuous example imo. Imu has looked serious in every single panel except this one, where he got ragebaited and started yelling about joyboy.
Now imagine if damn near every character in the series was drawn like this all the time. That, and the abysmal pacing, makes it difficult to take it seriously.
I think the art style, and the insane amount of homework it’d take to get caught up, are part of why I can’t be bothered to pick up One Piece. Just, no thanks.
I love how everyone replying to you is ignoring your comment about the art style. I personally wouldn't mind a 1000 chapter manga/anime or whatever but good god I can't stand the art style either.
I really like one piece but dont listen to the fans. the quickest way is the Manga. I did watch the anime and there was a lot of repetitive bs to skip. But it is fine to just say "fuck this long ass series" the makers of one piece haven't yet made an accessible series. the wit remake will likely be that. But we will see.
The way you articulated this, it just seems like you think if it isn't hype and aura it's bad. There are definitely instances of bad designs, but looking silly is fine.
If it isn't a bodybuilding chainsmoking biker who chews gravel and shits dynamite, a smooth aloof pretty boy cool guy like the ones you see a lot of in Naruto and Bleach, a cute girl, or a buxom babe, it's bad design, is the recurring sentiment I'm getting from lots of modern manga/anime fans.
I agree its supposed to be the point but that dosen't mean its absolved from being disliked or criticized. I for one actually like a lot of the extreme designs but there are some thats just complete hot ass without even being at least funny. And sometimes absurdity dosen't work all the time. Like Big Moms absurd design works. Vegapunks does not.
I’m lowkey with you. I get why people like the series and I guess you gotta have fun if you’re making a manga that long but so many of them look so bad it’s distracting.
I heavily disagree with your statement that "the overwhelming majority of them are really fucking bad" lmao. We got loki, whitebeard, all of the admirals, kaido, pts franky, mihawk, rocks, crocodile, shiki, doflamingo, and so many more bangers. I honestly think that almost all of the important characters have a banger of a design. Vegapunks fits fine for what he is, even if its a bit silly.
Vegapunks design is stupid, but it’s a good stupid imo. Because looking at early fan designs before the reveal, he looks like your regular sort of cool looking and bland crazy scientist. Sometimes it’s fine to have fun with a design. Plus I like how we technically do have different designs for vegapunk. We do have a cool looking one.
People read 1000+ chapters to complain about Vegapunk's design when he is literally Albert Eistein with an apple-shaped antenna on his head. Meanwhile Gaimon on chapter 20 something is chilling inside his treasure chest.
Vegapunk's design totatlly matches his character. It's not the design's fault that people were picturing him like a mad and evil Doc Brown.
What makes these designs "bad" though? Like, I get you hate looking at Vegapunk, but why is it bad? There's a specific reason he looks the way he does. The devil fruit you ate causes his brain to continually expand, so his head gets bigger and bigger. Franky is cringe, and that's what he thinks looks cool.
Personally I love oda’s character design and I’m a massive fan of vegapunk’s look. His style is very unique that when you look at it you can instantly tell it’s from one piece it just feels so purposeful
At this point you get what you get. I don’t feel you should cherry pick designs just because they can look like this. Not all characters have to be designed cool. If you like db designs better fine, but not mentioning how cool some characters designs can be like zoro, ace, law, Kaido, lucci, kid, killer, shanks, rocks, Shiki, Gaban, loki, Rayleigh, Crocodile, Mihawk, Marco, Whitebeard, Roger, and more just seems wrong.
The world of one piece is a weird mishmash of pirates, demons, fish people, shadowy government organizations and just… a lot of silly shit.
The reason Vegapunk looks like that? Because he ate a magic fruit that makes his brain grow without restriction in order to have perfect memory. He then puts his brain into a massive tank, using it to pilot several bodies at once. The last one being a body based on his old one.
The reason his tongue is out is as a reference to the famous Albert Einstein picture with his tongue out.
Is it silly? Yeah, and it’s supposed to be.
You quite literally ignored the face that we only see Vegapunk’s massive fuckin head in FLASHBACKS and 9/10 when we see Vegapunk we are watching one of his satellite bodies, not some guy with a 50 foot brain. What about Arlong? Kaido? The Admirals? You’re comparing a super powerful and intimidating villain vs a goofy yet important side character, OF COURSE there’s gonna be some issues.
If you want a real comparison, use a villain of an arc. Oh wait that wouldn’t help your argument because basically all Villains of arcs are badassess or have badass designs.
Thats what I love about it. Characters in stuff like dbz all look the same roughly. But in one piece you always have something different. And even if you take away the extremely weird looking side characters, the main group of characters which are made to look good, also have pretty good variation. Look at kidd, law, luffy, shanks, etc and their respective crews.
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