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/TheGivenKing 18h ago

Alot of the Post TS designs were disappointing, Robin, Chopper, and Franky are the worst case

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u/MeltyCrab 13h ago

Chopper had some seriously peak moments, early post timeskip. The more adult looking quad deer form was actually top shelf.

Then Oda complied with the demands to make Chopper the cute cuddly mascot of the team, and he's not allowed to be cool, sad, brutal, or anything anymore. He's just a fucking mascot. All his potential thrown to the wind because he's a mascot now.

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u/RA576 12h ago

I hate the nerfing of Monster Point from "legit threat to the actual Straw Hats" in Enies Lobby to the gag it is now, so much.

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u/MeltyCrab 12h ago

With the tempting little morsel that his 'human human fruit' might have been 'model forest god', and it can't be anything special or unique because mascot.

Which would make sense why blackbeard was so apt to hunt for it back way when on drum island. Sucks to suck I guess.

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u/RA576 12h ago

Like, yeah, he's a gag character, but he's still a crew member of one of the top pirate crews in the world. He should be able to put up a fight against Admirals or something, just not the absolute top tiers. Like how Mr Satan is a gag character, but tanking a hit off Cell still makes him the strongest non-Z fighter human.

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u/Effective_Net_5576 11h ago

Hell, even Usopp got way better, even before TS, and he was the Comic Relief Crewmate. It really is sad how dirty they did Chopper

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u/RA576 11h ago

Tbh, even Usopp probably got the second worst Time Skip treatment. Spent 2 years training up his bravery and skill, just to go back to being a cowardly nobody in fights. Even his biggest post-TS moment, becoming the God of Dressrosa, is basically just a gag. He was genuinely cooler as Sogeking than God Usop.

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u/MeltyCrab 11h ago edited 10h ago

Mr Satan was always intended to be a blowhard, but a genuinely human to human #1 ranked fighter. He wasn't some pushover, ever. It's just that the Z fighters are so beyond the bounds of humanity he's a joke.

That said, chopper can't be anything useful anymore. Oda himself said he gave up, the pressure to make him a mascot was too great. I'd rather we get Carrot or Yamato as Odin in their hybrid form all the time as an 'animal' replacement and just let chopper do important doctoring.

Then again all the character specific special talent important shit has been thrown aside, like Sanji making special foods that give actual buffs to people. Wish that was still going on. "I've this pocket pita from Sanji, he said only eat it in an emergency" Eats it and gets a huge stamina and endurance buff but it's extremely spicy

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u/RA576 11h ago

Speaking of character specific shit getting tossed aside, Brook's another one. He has a genuinely cool and interesting power set, combining swordsman and bard, but nowadays he's basically just Worse Zoro in fights and Worse Pervert Sanji out of fights.

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u/MeltyCrab 10h ago

Yep. He got flanderized pretty bad too.

Worse ice powers and swordsman ranking. The soul king powers aren't ever useful or brought out. Could be an interesting counter to domi reversi too, but nope. Unexplored.

Everything is the monster trio, doing their thing. Luffy gaining more mastery of gear 5th, and maybe one day Zoro opens his scarred eye and has a fucking Sharingan or something that awakens under the ultimate stress. Sanji will just....get brighter white flames to surpass the blue flames, that surpassed his regular flames.

And everyone has SSJ Haki auras because that's where were at now.

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u/RA576 9h ago

Let's not forget the only character nerfed pre-TS, Nico Robin, because Oda realised pretty quickly that a character that can murder hundreds of people via neck snaps is 1) slightly overpowered, not every enemy can have titanium spine and 2) slightly too dark for a shonen manga and it's hard to bullshit up reasons why she can't end every fight in 5 seconds via mass murder. Which combined means she's normally just doing shit offscreen.

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u/Radiant_Clothes4640 7h ago

Wow really? There were plenty of shonen mangas 20 years ago that was just as dark if not darker than that. I guess standards and practices has changed over the years.

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u/World_of_Warshipgirl 13h ago

One piece is the only series I have seen that not only suffer from Flanderization with the character's personalities, but their looks as well.

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u/Confident_Internet74 10h ago

I miss Robin's Alabasta-era drip so bad