Yes I don’t like Betty’s design at all I’m very tired of Oda’s default design for female characters and the need to make them walk around basically naked… what is even steampunk about her outfit?? outside the damn hat?
So yeh nope I’m not taking any of it. Man I’m just very tired.
“There are a lot of flashback scenes in One Piece, but that’s because there is a special feeling I want to convey through them. I’d like to think that by showing you the characters when they were children, they could become like your childhood friends. […] As you watch over their growth like this, I feel that a deep bond has been formed between all of you and Luffy and his friends.” – Oda Eiichiro
My problem is that the designs alone aren’t that bad (ofc except the ones like Rebecca or Betty’s that are just ugh)
but they are a trend
Oda does such a fantastic job designing men in One Piece, they’re all so different and cool, yet the women, if they have any significance in the story are mostly Nami clones, and if they are not, they’re mocked for being ugly.
I used to think they weren’t for fanservice, I used to trust Oda in writing them but I just got so disappointed these past years. He uses them for fanservice, they don’t have any big roles in the story that aren’t support, heck Big Mom who is an emperor and has conqueror’s haki was just reduced to a baby with a tantrum for cake for most of the climax of her arc, what kind of agency is that?
Then you have characters like Sanji who treat women based on their appearance, they’re pretty? shit he’ll forget they’ve tried to kill him, hurt his sister and threatened his friends cuz man she’s cute (aka Pudding) and if they’re ugly he’ll vomit in front of them and treat them like crap (aka Kokoro and Kureha) I hate that, his so called chivalry is awful because if he truly respected women he’d treat them all equally and held them accountable for the shit they do when they’re evil. And also, what Oda does? makes characters like Pudding fall in love with Sanji cuz he called her pretty…. oh no she isn’t evil she’s just an insecure girl and she falls for the first man that’s nice to her even if she thought before he was gross and a pervert. Nice right?
Women aren’t pivotal to the story in One Piece, why do you think they’re mostly tokens in every group? only one or two for every 6+ guys.
It’s perfectly fine if you enjoy it as it is, but I can’t anymore, after Oda said in an sbs that he chooses to ignore complains from his female fans about his designs for women I just got done with making excuses for him, he used to do better, he can do better, but he chooses not to and I won’t take any of that.
I still love One Piece but I don’t think Oda is perfect or flawless anymore.
If you want, you can read Calgaras’ cool meta about the treatment of women in One Piece, she explains it way better than I do xP
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