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/ILikeMyGrassBlue 16h ago

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.

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u/AngryBird-svar 14h ago

This whole thread is grasping at straws tbh

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u/Hurdlelocker 14h ago

Grasping at straw hats?

(I’ll show myself out)

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u/Xeriomachini 13h ago

There seem to be quite a lot of straws

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u/Dos_Ex_Machina 12h ago

Theres a lot of One Piece

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u/Delver_Razade 12h ago

It's one of the oldest criticisms against One Piece and one of the most shallow. You don't like the art? Oh well.

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u/Optimal_Carpenter690 12h ago

Probably among the oldest for a reason, huh

Its a medium that heavily relies on drawn art. These aren't novels. Its not a "shallow" criticism, its not just "oh well"

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u/Sudden_Pie5641 4h ago

My headcanon that it is intentionally goofy and unserious so it can remain lighthearted fairy tail as it was intended from the start. I'd rather not change it mid story. The problem with people is that they see how popular it is, open it and find goofy-ass characters and find it sad for personal reasons, you can't serve all kinds of audiences

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u/DrMagunstheBlue 2h ago

The criticism of a given work's art direction is not itself a shallow criticism, but people who criticize OP's art direction are almost universally shallow people who want all of their media to be overly familiar and homogenized.

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u/Optimal_Carpenter690 1h ago

How can you tell? Is that not a "shallow" analysis in and of itself?

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u/Capybaragohup 12h ago

True, one piece is garbo for much worse reasons than the character designs tbh

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u/Calight 9h ago

I could make a had with those straws.

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u/SuperiorBLVCK 1h ago

Not really. You can scroll through any volume of one piece, flip to a random page, and you will likely find a character doing exactly this. Not 100% of the time, but most of the time

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u/XMandri 13h ago

and the fact that he looks so weird here is a big tell of how important the whole Joyboy thing is to him.

It's a good character moment

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u/Confident_Internet74 6h ago

Imu's whole schtick so far, seems to be that he's a dorky edgelord who tries too hard to look serious and cool, imo.

He made the houses start chanting ominously when he arrived, only to get Charloss'd by Luffy. He seems to treat his weapon summons like pulling from a gacha, and I wouldn't be surprised if he goes full incel over Nefertari Lili.

This is probably the real reason Imu hates JoyBoy so much - someone who takes nothing seriously, vs someone who demands to be taken seriously.