One Piece Mega Convo Thread, the 2nd Chapter

[goldb]

You know what TDA, I've been meaning to mention this for a while but it had completely slipped my mind.

Well as of right now, we have a few black characters, others of questionable colours and then there are other races that have been gradually introduced.

I hope that Oda DOES show more coloured people as well as generally people of different ethnicity instead of just different races all together.

 

[Black Lagoon]

do you think Oda could do more to show more people of different skin colour?

take a look at what they've done here
(the last one)​

Spoiler

 

[Schabrak]

Well coloring him white was the right choice... Just look how racist was drawn with his whole look and those lips.-_- All pictures are just bleached up a bit, so it's no wonder, that Zorros skin is lighter on the censored pictures. Can't do anything about the truth, if you put more into something that is not there. And well it's the world of One Piece. There don't have to be "any" black people in it.

 

[OunknownO]

japan=>WW2=>atomic bomb=>american occupation after the war for 7 years=>influence of the white people:=>japanese are having complexes as a nation=>after couple generations boom of anime and manga=> majority of characters are white

 

[Akainu]

that's a rather simple way to explain this. oyu should then take into account, that japanese are asians and that the population is very homogeneous.
I would even go as far as to say, that there is hardly any real black character in OP as in of a supposed african origin.
On the contrary, there are rather "white" people and those that were exposed to the sun a little more. Other races are covered by fantasy creatures like fishmen etc. so Oda doesn't even positively discriminate any races that exist in the real world as that's totally unimportant for One Piece.
Dunno what the issue here is, if it was a french or american comic I'd expect it, but here...

 

[Razh]

I would even go as far as to say, that there is hardly any real black character in OP as in of a supposed african origin.

I can't recall anyone but Mr.1, that Buggy's crewman and Usopp.
Not that Usopp is a real black man because his father obviously had mixed parents.
Oh that's right, I almost forgot. Marco and Aokiji also look like they have mixed origin.

 

[Lord Rayleigh]

I can't recall anyone but Mr.1, that Buggy's crewman and Usopp.
Not that Usopp is a real black man because his father obviously had mixed parents.
Oh that's right, I almost forgot. Marco and Aokiji also look like they have mixed origin.

We have Mr 5 that is definitely a black person.

 

[Razh]

We have Mr 5 that is definitely a black person.

Yeah, forgot about him completely.

And remembered one more. Kuromarimo, the guy with king Wapol.

EDIT:Also, what's up with Brooke? He doesn't look like a black man and yet he has an afro.
And also Hamburger or what's his name, from Foxy pirates.

 

[Lord Rayleigh]

Yeah, forgot about him completely.

And remembered one more. Kuromarimo, the guy with king Wapol.

EDIT:Also, what's up with Brooke? He doesn't look like a black man and yet he has an afro.
And also Hamburger or what's his name, from Foxy pirates.

Yeah, some people of OP have some black aspects.
About Hamburger, he is a Monkeyman, like the ones we've seen in Shabondy Archipelago and who were in the slave business and like the ones of Java we've seen with Montblanc and who were in the wreck business.

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

Mr.5 was black?

 

[Lord Rayleigh]

Mr.5 was black?

It is obvious.

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

It is obvious.

Is it, he's light coloured. If he was black, he would be darker IMO, I just think he's like Aokiji, dark tanned japanese.

 

[Razh]

About Hamburger, he is a Monkeyman,

I never thought that I'll see such a level of racism on this forum.

Seriously though, I don't recall seeing a monkeyman on the slave auction listing.

But thanks, I just remembered that Masira and Shoujou were also black. At least partly.

Regarding Mr.5, his hair man, his hair!
Since we're with Baroque, I think Miss Monday (hulking nun) could also be black.

When you think about it, they aren't that rare. There's certainly more of them than in most manga.

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

The hair doesn't make him black, Aokiji has hair that might be associated with black people and we know he isn't black.

I guess ethnicity doesn't really exist in OP like how we know it in RL.

 

[beastboy]

What about the big reinforcement in this war be the missing baroque works...
Miss golden week would be a huge turn out... taint yellow (i think) and everybody targets there!!
And she would be teaming up with mr3..
mr4 and mr 5 would team up croc, and so would the animals..
the ones that were owned in whiskey peak would be with WB...
But the ones I miss more is miss wednesday and mr8 T_T!!
MR9 would be a good add tough!

 

[Razh]

The hair doesn't make him black, Aokiji has hair that might be associated with black people and we know he isn't black.

We don't know that. Aokiji looks like he has mixed origin to me. He's drawn with lips and his tan is dark.
If you want to consider Mr.5 white boy, that's your thing, but white boys don't have hair like that. To me, he looks like Warrick from CSI: Las Vegas.

EDIT: Gedatsu too.

 

[Poneglyph420]

Coming from a guy who lived in Japan for years.. You can see every possible look and stereotype, but on a Japanese person...Dudes who pay to get dreads or nappy hair (Which would be common at sea..) and girls tan until they look latin Also someone from Hokkaido compared to someone from Okinawa.

It's a fantasy world we can't expect the same "laws" to apply from the real world to a manga.

 

[Razh]

It's a fantasy world we can't expect the same "laws" to apply from the real world to a manga.

What laws? We were discussing about black guys in One Piece and I numbered most of them probably.
It's not really hard to recognize them. They have emphasized lips, darker tan and thicker hair.

 

[Fox666]

Someone to be black doesn't necessarly need to be colored darker. Since it's a black and white manga it is much more expressive to make these big lips and thicker hair.

If you think about it, being limited to black white it's better to make all characters lighter so that you can always use white tint.

 

[Poneglyph420]

What laws? We were discussing about black guys in One Piece and I numbered most of them probably.
It's not really hard to recognize them. They have emphasized lips, darker tan and thicker hair.

Maybe since there are no continents OP doesn't have ethnicity like we do.
Based on what we have seen sure there are elements of all the ethnicities on earth in OP. But because Mr.5 had nappy like hair he was black.
I've seen japanese guys that look just like him.

I however won't disturb your discussion.