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NSESN

Member
Nami: "Why are you still in your wedding dress? Lmao, do you still think he's going to marry you after all you've put us through!"

Sanji: "I mean..."

Nami: "Sanji!"
Pudding will jump on Nami's throat faster than Carrot jumping at Luffy's throat for eating her carrots.
 

caliph95

Member
Pudding will jump on Nami's throat faster than Carrot jumping at Luffy's throat for eating her carrots.
Next arc

Zolo: hey who's this broad and where's nami

Luffy: what are you talking there is no person name nami and this is pudding she's been with us since the beginning what a dummy Zolo
 

Ray Down

Banned
Nami: "Why are you still in your wedding dress? Lmao, do you still think he's going to marry you after all you've put us through!"

Sanji: "I mean..."

Nami: "Sanji!"

Pudding will jump on Nami's throat faster than Carrot jumping at Luffy's throat for eating her carrots.

Speaking of Pudding, Nami and Sanji.

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Just watched 802... it's insane that they actually censored the Cosette scene. They can show men and boys bloody, swollen and disfigured, but a battered woman crosses the line.

I'm going to laugh when they show child Sanji being brutalized next week with zero censorship. The double standard is maddening.
 

LotusHD

Banned
Just watched 802... it's insane that they actually censored the Cosette scene. They can show men and boys bloody, swollen and disfigured, but a battered woman crosses the line.

I'm going to laugh when they show child Sanji being brutalized next week with zero censorship. The double standard is maddening.

Tfw Cosette probably got roughed up more than the other female characters aside from Big Mom lol
 

Euphony

Banned
Tashigi got bit by Monet.

I guess that's something, but still not even close to the beating that male characters get in the series.

Ironically I didn't see Monet getting cut in half by Zoro as that violent considering he didn't actually do anything other than psyche her out.
 
Other than Cosette, when was the last time a female character was beaten up?

With a swollen face? Never.

Oda is a pretty firm believer that preserving a woman's beauty is paramount. He crossed an unprecedented line for himself with Cosette, only for the anime directors to nullify it.

Thank God that Aho Girl is airing this season to balance things out. Acting like women's faces can't get messed up, whether for comedy or for drama, is some seriously old school sexism.
 

LotusHD

Banned
I guess that's something, but still not even close to the beating that male characters get in the series.

It's so dumb too, since it ain't even a One Piece durability thing, considering all the damage Usopp has taken throughout the series despite him being weak af.
 

caliph95

Member
"For the sake feminism and ending sexism we demand women to be tortured and beaten to death until they are coughing blood and organs, women rights damn it"

I think we can count Big mom now depending on how injured she is

Name did got skewered by nail girl in the manga, can't remember anime
 

Veelk

Banned
"For the sake feminism and ending sexism we demand women to be tortured and beaten to death until they are coughing blood and organs, women rights damn it"

I'm not sure if you're just being facetious, but I would like to see more equality in not just how people in the series recieve wounds, but also how they're depicted.

Cosette is nothing but a victim. She's only in the story so she can helplessly get roughed up so Sanji can have his little moment of righteous rage against his shitty brothers. Cosette's swollen face and missing teeth are for Sanji's benefit. All Cosette gets out of it is victimization.

Meanwhile, male wounds are a matter of pride. Why does Luffy have that scar around his eye? Because he self inflicted it because he wanted to look tough. Scarred male characters are perceived as figures of strength. And when male characters carry wounds, it's usually because it was a self sacrifice at worst, or a mark that they rose up to a challenge that they didn't overcome, but they survived. Good examples are Zoro's scar from Mihawk, or even Luffy's from Akainu. Or how the narration talked about Whitebeard's wounded body in reverence and admiration.

Even moving away from scars, think about Zoro's scene with Kuma. The fact that he willingly submitted to extraordinary pain is depicted as noble and awesome. That Zoro could withstand that much pain is cool.

And I don't oppose this style of narration because....well, I agree with it. I am fully behind depicting suffering as a positive in the right circumstances. Self sacrifice, going the distance, facing death with dignity, I like all that.

No one wants just torture porn to include women. That's dumb. But yeah, it would be cool to see a female character as strong specifically because they faced an opponent or trial that left their body damaged, and have that be depicted as them being badass rather than victims.
 

caliph95

Member
I'm not sure if you're just being facetious, but I would like to see more equality in not just how people in the series recieve wounds, but also how they're depicted.

Cosette is nothing but a victim. She's only in the story so she can helplessly get roughed up so Sanji can have his little moment of righteous rage against his shitty brothers. Cosette's swollen face and missing teeth are for Sanji's benefit. All Cosette gets out of it is victimization.

Meanwhile, male wounds are a matter of pride. Why does Luffy have that scar around his eye? Because he self inflicted it because he wanted to look tough. Scarred male characters are perceived as figures of strength. And when male characters carry wounds, it's usually because it was a self sacrifice at worst, or a mark that they rose up to a challenge that they didn't overcome, but they survived. Good examples are Zoro's scar from Mihawk, or even Luffy's from Akainu. Or how the narration talked about Whitebeard's wounded body in reverence and admiration.

Even moving away from scars, think about Zoro's scene with Kuma. The fact that he willingly submitted to extraordinary pain is depicted as noble. That Zoro could withstand that much pain is cool. Or how the narration talked about Whitebeard's wounded body in reverence and admiration.

No one wants just torture porn to include women. That's dumb. But yeah, it would be cool to see a female character as strong specifically because they faced an opponent or trial that left their body damaged, and have that be depicted as them being badass rather than victims.
I'm obviously joking there and I agree with this thread
 

Euphony

Banned
I'm not sure if you're just being facetious, but I would like to see more equality in not just how people in the series recieve wounds, but also how they're depicted.

Cosette is nothing but a victim. She's only in the story so she can helplessly get roughed up so Sanji can have his little moment of righteous rage against his shitty brothers. Cosette's swollen face and missing teeth are for Sanji's benefit. All Cosette gets out of it is victimization.

Meanwhile, male wounds are a matter of pride. Why does Luffy have that scar around his eye? Because he self inflicted it because he wanted to look tough. Scarred male characters are perceived as figures of strength. And when male characters carry wounds, it's usually because it was a self sacrifice at worst, or a mark that they rose up to a challenge that they didn't overcome, but they survived. Good examples are Zoro's scar from Mihawk, or even Luffy's from Akainu. Or how the narration talked about Whitebeard's wounded body in reverence and admiration.

Even moving away from scars, think about Zoro's scene with Kuma. The fact that he willingly submitted to extraordinary pain is depicted as noble and awesome. That Zoro could withstand that much pain is cool.

And I don't oppose this style of narration because....well, I agree with it. I am fully behind depicting suffering as a positive in the right circumstances. Self sacrifice, going the distance, facing death with dignity, I like all that.

No one wants just torture porn to include women. That's dumb. But yeah, it would be cool to see a female character as strong specifically because they faced an opponent or trial that left their body damaged, and have that be depicted as them being badass rather than victims.

Very well said. Couldn't agree more
 

Man God

Non-Canon Member
Robin gets roughed up hard during Ennis Lobby, especially the anime version. It's only after she starts fighting back that it gets really painful.
 
Brulee also has a prominent facial scar.

To be clear: Women who aren't conventionally attractive don't count and never have. Oda has always been fine with beating up women who are old or ugly, because their value is no longer in their beauty.

This is why Alvida could get knocked around by Luffy when she was obese, but is now most often seen lounging around after eating a slimming devil fruit. It's why Big Mom and Hancock's Sisters can get into blood-boiling melees while Pudding and Hancock herself are defeated by love.

To make a beautiful woman ugly, even for an instant, is seen as a cardinal sin in Oda's eyes. This is why you'll never see Nami as a victim of the same sort of slapstick comedy she inflicts on her male crewmates.

What sucks the most is that, because so many people idolize Oda and are inspired by OP, his values will become their values and we'll end up with yet another era of uninteresting women in anime. Just as Goku led to 20+ years of idiot protagonists with hearts of gold.
 

LotusHD

Banned
To be clear: Women who aren't conventionally attractive don't count and never have. Oda has always been fine with beating up women who are old or ugly, because their value is no longer in their beauty.

This is why Alvida could get knocked around by Luffy when she was obese, but is now most often seen lounging around after eating a slimming devil fruit. It's why Big Mom and Hancock's Sisters can get into blood-boiling melees while Pudding and Hancock herself are defeated by love.

To make a beautiful woman ugly, even for an instant, is seen as a cardinal sin in Oda's eyes. This is why you'll never see Nami as a victim of the same sort of slapstick comedy she inflicts on her male crewmates.

What sucks the most is that, because so many people idolize Oda and are inspired by OP, his values will become their values and we'll end up with yet another era of uninteresting women in anime. Just as Goku led to 20+ years of idiot protagonists with hearts of gold.

Err, OP women having a vast disparity in terms of getting roughed up like her male counterparts doesn't make them uninteresting though.

Feels like it makes more sense to say there's a likelihood of there being a generation where they'll make female characters who rarely suffer any real harm.
 
To be clear: Women who aren't conventionally attractive don't count and never have. Oda has always been fine with beating up women who are old or ugly, because their value is no longer in their beauty.

This is why Alvida could get knocked around by Luffy when she was obese, but is now most often seen lounging around after eating a slimming devil fruit. It's why Big Mom and Hancock's Sisters can get into blood-boiling melees while Pudding and Hancock herself are defeated by love.

To make a beautiful woman ugly, even for an instant, is seen as a cardinal sin in Oda's eyes. This is why you'll never see Nami as a victim of the same sort of slapstick comedy she inflicts on her male crewmates.

What sucks the most is that, because so many people idolize Oda and are inspired by OP, his values will become their values and we'll end up with yet another era of uninteresting women in anime. Just as Goku led to 20+ years of idiot protagonists with hearts of gold.

Oh please, you're going to look at the anime/manga market and seriously say Oda is the purveyor of uninteresting, one dimensionally written women?
 

Euphony

Banned
The top post on the One Piece reddit gave me a chuckle. They're talking about Kaido being a D because his name can be spelled Kai D. O
 

LotusHD

Banned
You're going to get awakened super saiyan rinnegan edo tensei gear tenth Luffy and you're going to like it

Fine....

I'll take "will to take down a corrupt government passed down through generations" over, say, the reincarnation of an ancient Pirate God.

or something.

Considering there's several pirates with the D name, and there's top-tier Yonko without it, I guess it could easily not be some thing that only Luffy can do I guess, guess we'll see.

There is that whole Demons v. Celestial Dragons thing though I suppose.
 
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