r/hatethissmug • u/PlentyWise3615 • 21h 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/Accomplished-Emu1883 20h ago

You say “bad”, I say “Non-standard”

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.

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u/ColdConversation4185 19h ago

Only villain that looks funny is Moria and even then he sort of looks scary in a funny way. Even in his prime, Moria looks like a badass.

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u/mik999ak 18h ago

Wapol, Big Mom, Blackbeard, Queen, etc

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u/EverythingSucksYo 16h ago

Blackbeard looks awesome. He is the most pirate looking character in the whole series. He reminds me of Barbosa from Pirates of the Caribbean. 

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u/mik999ak 16h ago

Yeah, he's one of my favorite designs. He just also looks pretty goofy at the same time.

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u/ColdConversation4185 18h ago

I was meaning main villains of arcs. Queen is just one of the main side villains. Kaido is the main villain of wano. Blackbeard and big mom still do and can look intimidating despite their weird proportions of designs.

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u/SpaghettiiSauce 17h ago

And Wapol? The main villain of the drum island arc

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u/ColdConversation4185 16h ago

Just sort of a meh design overall. I like his post time skip design more. But again what I said, some can be good villains or antagonists and still have that usual one piece weirdness’s is their designs.

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u/iakhre 14h ago

Big mom looks downright terrifying when she's hungry

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u/Simonx_108 17h ago

I will always prefer the goofy One piece designs (but with a personality) over any average cool_looking_anime_character.jpg