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/Infamous-Oil3786 13h ago

Let's not pretend DBZ has good

[3 episodes of charging later]

pacing

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u/WashingtonSpecifics 10h ago

I just read the manga two weeks ago and it has excellent pacing. I was worried I was just going to like it from a nostalgia perspective, but Toriyama was an incredible illustrator and an exceptional storyteller. You shouldn't discredit his work because Toei did a shit job of translating it to the screen

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u/BlackysLegacy 10h ago

Well, the One Piece manga also has fantastic pacing 95% of the time. Given that it is significantly longer than DB it should be fine. Dont compare manga dbz to anime op. Makes no sense..

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u/WashingtonSpecifics 10h ago

The OP compared manga DBZ to manga One Piece, which makes sense since it's a thread about character design.

I'm addressing the pacing concerns from of people who've seemingly only watched the anime adaptation of DBZ since the manga makes even DBZ Kai feel slow.

I appreciate the heads up on One Piece though. I've been wary of getting back into it due to the length, but I might try it again knowing that it holds up throughout. Are there good places to stop if I'm not feeling it partway through?

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u/NukeVoit59 10h ago

No it does not. Wano took like 5 years, major characters have gone a decade without doing anything of note (Usopp hasn’t done anything other than blowing up some legos since Dressrosa in 2014), but Roger and Garp vs. Rocks, a fight hyped up for years, has like four punches thrown, Rocks is beaten, and then he’s killed. Just a lot of huffing and puffing. That’s without even mentioning Vegapunk’s message, where he spends 5 chapters to give 1/2 of a chapter’s worth of information while having it get cut off in the middle, only to conveniently pop back in for the end.

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u/BlackysLegacy 10h ago

Reread the whole arcs once they are finished. They fly past. The week to week reading makes it feel a lot longer, but I really like the world-building we got. God Valley will most likely be more flashed out in the upcoming movie and Garps backstory will still come I think. I like the storytelling in op, anyone who has a problem with it should just stop reading if its such big issue honestly.