@lxvehera@IIHypemanII@raphstwit@saintoctane7 Stylized hair and slight tan ≠ ‘he’s Black.’ That’s just your personal interpretation and headcanon Oda’s design reference and official coloring say otherwise.
@lxvehera@saintoctane7@IIHypemanII@raphstwit Islands inspired by Earth cultures ≠ characters having Earth races. That’s a huge difference. Oda’s ‘nationalities’ for characters are just fun hypotheticals, not canon identities.
@lxvehera@saintoctane7@IIHypemanII@raphstwit Oda choosing actors for live action adaptations is about marketing and representation for Earth audiences, not an in universe racial canon for One Piece characters. The story’s world isn’t Earth race and nationality don’t map one to one. if they were real’ nationalities are just
@lxvehera@IIHypemanII@raphstwit@saintoctane7 You don’t get to rewrite canon because your headcanon got too loud. He’s not Black in the story, he’s not drawn that way, and Oda never said that. That’s not my opinion. That’s just the reality.
@lxvehera@IIHypemanII@raphstwit@saintoctane7 You’re mixing up setting inspiration with character race. Oda using real-world cultures for islands ≠ assigning Earth races to characters. Aokiji is designed after a Japanese actor and drawn with light skin — that’s the canon. The rest is headcanon. Simple.
@lxvehera@IIHypemanII@raphstwit@saintoctane7 Oda draws him with light skin and based his design on a Japanese actor Since One Piece isn’t Earth I’d just say he’s a white skinned One Piece human — not Earth Black, not Earth Japanese.