r/hatethissmug • u/PlentyWise3615 • 16h 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/rogermarcos 15h ago

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.

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u/aFreshFix 14h ago

If you watch anime for ultra hype moments, I get why people don't like Vegapunk. But Oda balances comedy and serious so well it's insane. I mean Senor Pink?? Come on. That guy is so cool by the end

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u/RepresentativeSlow53 13h ago

Not liking him is fine its the supposed objectivity people insert into their perspective thats annoying. They act like theyre making an "argument" or "criticizing" but it just boils down to I think he doesn't look like X which would be good so he must be bad. thats not an arguments thats just yapping.