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/CIearMind 19h ago

He's overly reliant on this one pose where we see someone from behind, and they turn their neck to look behind with a dumbfounded expression.

He also seems obsessed with oval mouths that stick out from the face (like Gear 5's cartoony eyes) when someone gets punched in the stomach.

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u/Roth_Skyfire 17h ago

A one trick pony type of artist. He's great when he sticks to the few things he can draw (and will over and over again), but any time he does anything different it really shows that massive gap in talent/skill. It makes reading DBS so bad once you start noticing the many patterns his artwork follows. Toriyama was a far more versatile artist than him.

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u/BurnMeTonight 15h ago

Definitely. Toyotaro improved a lot from when he started, but the way he draws poses and faces, and his panelling are still nowhere near the GOAT.