The power of his fans is once again present in this official art
Following requests from his fans, the creator of One Piece, Eiichiro Oda, drew many of his main characters swapping their genders, and the results are amazing. Do not forget that the great cast of strange characters in this franchise is constantly expanding, with just over 1,000 chapters of the manga on top and how incredibly popular the Wano Arc is, these types of illustrations always lift the spirits of their fans. .
One of the latest additions to the cast of main characters was Yamato, Kaido’s son, who we may see enlisting the Straw Hat crew in subsequent story arcs. The introduction of him to the franchise has caused a stir among fans, who discuss what is the true gender of this warrior. However, not all One Piece readers know that the creator of the manga, Eiichiro Oda likes to have fun with these kinds of doubts, and has actually gender-swapped many of his main characters in the past..
The “experiment” began in the SBS (Oda’s question and answer section at the end of manga volumes) of One Piece volume 56. As history at the time presented Ivankov, a gender-fluid character, a reader asked Oda to draw gender-swapped versions of the Straw Hat Pirates. The result was funny and unexpectedly accurate, to the point that many readers asked for a follow-up drawing, this time detailing all the pirates of the “Worst Generation”, also known as the Eleven Supernovas. For his part, Oda agreed in volume 72 and for number 76 it was the turn of the Shichibukai, the Seven Lords of the War of the Sea. Finally, in volume 87 of the manga, the mangaka accepted the request of another reader, this time to draw the four original Navy Admirals.
While Oda-sensei jokingly expressed his regret in a later SBS, calling the drawings “creepy” and “weird”, it’s clear that he had a lot of fun designing these characters., and he also put in a bit of effort, judging by the results, his fans may have loved this work. The incredible thing is that we see how there are characteristic elements that changed with the gender of each character, for example Sanji says: “Now I only prepare sweets” or Luffy himself says: “I will eat a little salad and become the next queen of the pirates”, knowing the appetite of this mugiwara, this sentence stands out.
Eiichiro Oda, creator of One Piece, gives funny versions of his characters
The user of Reddit Competitive_Reading9 He brought together all the artworks where the author gender-swapped his One Piece characters into a single image and some of the results are quite peculiar. In addition to the aforementioned, we see the male version of Nico Robin very muscular and corpulent and intimidating his enemies: “You just did something terrible, punk”, while the regular character is always calm and elegant.. But, the funniest change from the group, however, has to be the skeletal music, Brook, who obviously looks exactly the same.
An interesting detail is that it is clear that the first set of drawings was done in a bit of a hurry, while Oda put much more care into the swapped Supernova and Shichibukai designs, which were particularly appreciated by fans. He even changed Boa Hancock, the “most beautiful woman in the world”, for a man who lost the characteristic arrogance of the Serpent Empresssaying a ruder version of his catchphrase: “I can get away with it cause I’m so damn handsome!”
As we can see from the comments on the reddit post, fans loved these gender-swapped characters, especially the female versions of Scratchman Apoo and Mr. Crocodile. They also ask questions such as whether the Straw Hat’s cook, Sanji, famous for his weakness towards women, would keep his vow to never hit a woman if her gender was changed and if she would become a straight girl or a lesbian. One Piece’s gender-swapped characters are not only really funny, but also demonstrate Oda-sensei’s strength as a character designer and artist..
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