Gay one piece character
What One Piece can teach us about queer identities
Eiichiro Oda took 26 years to record and illustrate One Piece. Had I read the whole thing in one sitting, without eating or sleeping, it would only contain taken me just over a week, but I still had a existence to live. So, given its 1091 chapters and counting, I would think about the eight months it took me to read it a reasonable amount of time.
One Piece is a manga about Luffy, a boy made out of rubber, who decides he will claim the titular “One Piece” treasure and name himself King of the Pirates. Throughout his journey, Luffy assembles a motley crew vested with unlike specialties and superpowers. One Piece’s pretend universe is wealthy with its control geography, cultures, lore, and magic, and yet, what struck me the most was a word that Oda had not intended to convey: lessons on the complexity of trans identity and the position of queer identities in society.
There has been much debate on the prevalence of queerness in One Piece. While some think the visibility is meaningful, others see aspects of it as highly problematic. Furthermore, many of these analyses come from a Western perspective that the author—a hete
No one does queer representation quite like One Piece.
Allow me to explain in great detail.
I’m going to talk about the queer rep in Impel Down, and you’d best buckle up cause it’s rant age.
Impel Down is one of my favorite arcs because I love the story line, it’s downright hilarious, and Luffy’s battle to rescue Ace is incredibly compelling.
But there is another reason why I love Impel Down so much, and that’s the queer rep that utterly knocked me off my feet.
Now, I’ve come to accept that queer representation in anime (not touching on any other media in this rant) is generally nonexistent or extremely rare… if you’re watching anything other than a BL.
On the rare occasion that we do find some LGBT rep it is usually extremely subtle, and shown exclusively in convoluted subtext and minuscule details that are easily overlooked. While this representation is so incredibly meaningful to everyone who’s able to pick it out, the subtly makes it all the more easy for homophobes to argue that it was never in the first place.
Keeping all this in mind, I finally picked up One Piece several months ago after refusing to watch it for a long-assed time (It was too
Prediction Which One Piece characters are gay?
Fujitora - knocked his eyes out despite women creature the most beautiful thing ever, clearly he homosexual and tired of browsing ugly muscular fursuit pics. Can't blame him
Delinger - named after a bodybuiler, lower half lookin like Kiku - he gay
Kidd - his crew shows he has no taste in women, Hop's fine but she on that nun shit so doesn't count that lipstick don't help
Confirmed not gay
Why is Aokiji here when he pulled up on Nami with that satisfactory lady smoothness?
Others
Crocodile - don't me wrong I reflect he's into dudettes... but he's never escaped speculations about his secretive past with Iva. He might have been lesbian
There are various studies and statistics done on the subject. While the results vary, especially when it reflects different regions or when the definitions vary (for example, some only incorporate people that are 100% homosexual, while others include people with homosexual inclination to varying degree), they vary in the order of around 3% to 20% from what I've seen. No statistic or research that I comprehend of has produced a result next to to 50% or the majority.alakazam^ wrote:Not really sure why "minority" is a valid argument when I'm cute sure no one can prove homosexuality is one, but whatever.
I really doubt that. Tenshinhan's close relationship with Chaoztu, his seclusion and the reality that him and Lunch never move anywhere, would create people find that not so surprising at all. I've already read jokes/speculation among the fanbase about that, so...alakazam^ wrote:I'd bet that if Toriyama pulled a Dumbledore on us, you'd be among those complaining there was nothing pointing to it.
But Dragon Ball doesn't really focus at all in matters of relationships and it doesn't expand it at all. It only shows the bare minimum to give a sense of age going by and people having children