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Over the weekend break, Netflix and Wit Workshop shared idea art for their upcoming remake of the long-running anime juggernaut, The One Item. While a bulk of the Straw Hat pirate’s East Blue-era styles were a perfect fond memories event for followers, its proceeded whitewashing pattern of staff participant Usopp left a whole lot to be wanted.
Usopp’s brand-new idea art, while a significant separation from either developer Eiichiro Oda or Toei Computer animation’s styles upon very first flush, shows the pirate sniper with significantly fairer skin than he had in his launching. While whitewashing isn’t a brand-new sensation for anime followers with personalities like Casca from Berserk shedding her melanin as the collection advanced, it’s specifically native to One Item as a collection.
This has actually caused a lot of followers highlighting exactly how Usopp continually shows up to have fairer skin the longer One Item continues social networks. Right here are a couple of responses to Usopp’s layout in The One Item:
The reality that Usopp’s melanin is simply GONE is crazy. pic.twitter.com/gWNCcNHb6i
— Otaku Big Kid D.J. (@OhHeyDJ) August 11, 2024
its truly not that tough pic.twitter.com/yAJGJPydTV
— AK0 (@AK0UTLIAR) August 11, 2024
They still opting for those f ** kin’ lips, huh?
If Witch doctor King can repair it for its remake anime– One Item can conveniently. pic.twitter.com/PrRvR2ggWG
— Veerender Singh Jubbal (@Veeren_Jubbal) August 11, 2024
Apart From Usopp, fellow crewmember Nico Robin additionally obtained a brand-new layout post-time miss. While Nico’s whitewashing remains in opinion amongst followers, that think her time in Alabasta’s desert caused her having an olive complexion (in spite of her having the very same complexion in Impel Down recalls as a kid), Usopp’s whitewashing is much more troublesome when you consider his provided race.
In One Piece’s 56th Shitsumon wo Boshu Suru (SBS)— a Q&A column that would certainly come with a brand-new manga phase– developer Eiichiro Oda disclosed the citizenships of the Straw Hat staff, with Luffy being Brazilian, Zoro being Japanese, and Usopp being of African descent. While this little bit of tradition hasn’t been made clearly main unharmed’s tradition, it has actually been shown in the spreading of its online activity collection.
Plainly, a great deal of initiative is being taken into WIT workshop’s mix of market experts and startups that matured analysis One Item. Principal amongst them is the group’s execution of a video clip game-esque 3D map of its communities to take a breath a feeling of identification right into the setup and overarching styles. Extra especially, One Item’s primary styles or racial and sociopolitical battles, which supervisor Masashi Koizuka keeps in prestige as what makes the long-running collection unique.
” Styles in the initial manga is deep. Like battle or actioning in subjects of race. It permits any ages of viewers to contemplate regarding it, and be amused at the very same time,” supervisor Masashi Koizuka claimed in the video clip. “This is one of the most appealing component of the manga in my viewpoint.”
While these initiatives are commenable, followers seem like WIT allowed them down when it pertained to righting what’s long been really felt as an incorrect the fandom has actually neglected with Usopp’s layout.
Although the group is committed to not modifying excessive from the initial job in spite of Oda’s support not to duplicate and paste his panels while sharing themselves, followers seem like WIT currently allowed them down when it pertained to righting the incorrect of Usopp’s layout.
Isaiah Colbert is an independent author for IGN. You can follow them on Twitter @ShinEyeZehUhh.
