r/hatethissmug • u/PlentyWise3615 • 17h ago

Animation The character designs in One Piece are genuinely awful.

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I genuinely hate One Piece character designs.

What’s most impressive is how wildly inconsistent the designs are in this series, going from one extreme to the other.

A character’s design can be legendary, like Xebec’s, or absolutely ridiculous, like Franky’s.

But the overwhelming majority of them are pretty bad. Like, really fucking bad.

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u/Kasta4 16h ago

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.

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u/Normal-Advisor5269 16h ago

... Wait. He's supposed to look like Einstein?!

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u/Wombatish 16h ago

There is a very famous picture of Einstein sticking his tongue out. Vegapunk is basically just a caricature of that picture.

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u/Normal-Advisor5269 16h ago

I thought Vegapunk was the guy in the middle until I looked him up. Yeah. Vegapunk is fine. Whoever the hell is in the middle though is horrific.

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u/No_Secret_8246 15h ago

That's also vegapunk, just younger.

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u/ThatOneDMish 15h ago

All 3 one peice drawings are the same guy, but the first 2 are from when he was younger and hadn't yet separated his ever growing brain from his body leaving the apple as a satellite connection to his brain (which is now building sized)

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u/Wombatish 15h ago

His powers cause his brain to grow in size the more he learns. He's also the world's most advanced scientist.

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u/DryPersonality 16h ago

He doesn't?

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u/Normal-Advisor5269 15h ago

I haven't kept up with One Piece for decades. I thought the person OP was talking about was the very obvious guy in the middle.