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INTEREST: One Piece's Oda Gives His Thoughts on Critical Turning Point

Sure Oda, that's what every writer tells themselves in order to sleep at night

Guren Alchemist4 wrote:

spoiler[I don't like the fact that Robin has been become white whereas before she had a tanish color and that slicked back hair style is just terrible. At least Nami looks similar to her younger version while Robin seems to have had plastic surgery. ]

I just want to point out that if you read the manga, you would know that Robin's skin color has always been light, instead of a dark tan. And I also want to point out that Robin's eye color is brown in the manga but blue in the anime. But that was a consistency error on Oda's part.
The anime has a tendency to alter color schemes sometimes.

Which is a shame because I loved tan Robin a lot more.

Ichigo77 wrote:

Hmm spoiler[What cloak are you referring to? What Blackbeard did? I just paged through vol 59 but didn't see anything and have to get to bed so I didn't have time to page through the other volumes.]

I meant the one you can see in the chapter when spoiler[Whitebeard dies. While he fighting against Blackbeard there is a small panel with the scene I was referring to, in the sixth page from the beginning of the chapter, title/cover page excluded: someone, almost out of panel, is putting a cloak or blanket over Ace's back, in the middle of the confusion of the moment.]

I have no idea if it's in the weekly version of the chapter though, since I only read the Italian volumes and not scanlations. I'm pretty sure they included the scene in the anime, though.

I love One Piece and I can't praise Oda enough for managing to keep the story interesting and fun after so long. I'll admit that I follow the anime rather than the manga, so my comments are based more on that and I'm not sure how much input Oda has on it's quality. However, I'm sure character designs transfer over from manga to anime almost unaltered aside from color.

Guren Alchemist4 wrote:

I love One Piece and I can't praise Oda enough for managing to keep the story interesting and fun after so long. I'll admit that I follow the anime rather than the manga, so my comments are based more on that and I'm not sure how much input Oda has on it's quality. However, I'm sure character designs transfer over from manga to anime almost unaltered aside from color.

Oda did put a lot of thought in the new designs of them. Because you are an Anime only person I thought you might be interested in them. Some guy uploaded it and I saved the links:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/683/choyonepiecesx61073.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/830/choyonepiecesx61074.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/266/choyonepiecesx61167.png/

Hospodar wrote:

Guren Alchemist4 wrote: I love One Piece and I can't praise Oda enough for managing to keep the story interesting and fun after so long. I'll admit that I follow the anime rather than the manga, so my comments are based more on that and I'm not sure how much input Oda has on it's quality. However, I'm sure character designs transfer over from manga to anime almost unaltered aside from color. Oda did put a lot of thought in the new designs of them. Because you are an Anime only person I thought you might be interested in them. Some guy uploaded it and I saved the links: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/683/choyonepiecesx61073.png/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/830/choyonepiecesx61074.png/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/266/choyonepiecesx61167.png/

Good links. I wish he would have gone with the glasses version or the one on the far left with the two stands of hair coming down the front like in the movie Strong World. I wonder what made him choose the slicked back fair style for Robin.

Good eye. I went back and looked at vol 59 and there it was. spoiler[I saw the cloak and there was no one to put it there it on Ace since he was just surrounded by marines.]

Planning out your story ahead of time is a good thing.

Take note Kubo.

I love One Piece and I can't praise Oda enough for managing to keep the story interesting and fun after so long. I'll admit that I follow the anime rather than the manga, so my comments are based more on that and I'm not sure how much input Oda has on it's quality. However, I'm sure character designs transfer over from manga to anime almost unaltered aside from color.

Anyway, after reaching the new world and seeing the Straw Hat crews new character design for several episodes now, spoiler[I'm not liking some of the character designs Oda has chosen for some of the Straw Hate crew members, mainly Franky, Brook, and Robin.

Franky doesn't look like a cyborg anymore but more like a typical robot. His signature pose doesn't have the same effect any longer...it's more awkward whereas before it was funny. I also hope his robust frame won't affect his interaction with other members of the crew.

I really loved the darkness of Brook before, but now, he's just goofy (not that it's bad). I guess I feel he had more substance before...more layers to his character than just comedy. He had a mysterious edge to him to a certain extent.

I don't like the fact that Robin has been become white whereas before she had a tanish color and that slicked back hair style is just terrible. At least Nami looks similar to her younger version while Robin seems to have had plastic surgery.

I also have a slight issue with Zoro and Chopper. With respect to Zoro, the loss of his eye seems like a drastic choice...a simple scar across the eye would have been fine like Dark Night Rayleigh's. I mean...eyes are important for a swordsman. I can get use to it over time though. Lastly, I'm fine with Chopper in general, but in episode 533 when he went into his new kung-fu point, he looked stupid. As soon as I saw him, I thought “this is ripping off of Kung-fu Panda”.....they made him into a fat Chopper. I'm fine with him having the ability, but the character design is stupid and a bit lazy since I'm sure Oda could have come up with something better considering his ability.]