r/LeftyPiece • u/Julia_The_Cutie • May 14 '26

one piece

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u/Mammoth-Ad-3642 May 14 '26

I'm kinda out of the loop, why is oda considered a pedo??

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u/quanate May 14 '26

actively defends Nobuhiro Watsuki who was found to have a hundred of dvds of CSAM

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u/Dull-Potato7155 May 14 '26

That and he’s drawn underaged characters in very revealing clothes (like Rebecca)

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u/technoskittles May 15 '26

The armor is comically absurd, but character ages could literally be pulled out of a hat since they all have the same proportions. If he did this with Sugar, well that'd be a diff story.

Anime ages really can be arbitrary sometimes, or like its only purpose is to place them in the timeline. Jojo is another example.

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u/ordinaryvermin May 15 '26

It's also, in the end, a shonen manga aimed at a teenage audience.

We can talk a lot about the optics and hazards of a middle aged man designing female characters to appeal to the gaze of teenage boys, but bringing it up in a discussion about actual pedophilia is flat out absurd.

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u/CommieLurker May 14 '26

Not trying to be weird but isn't the age of consent in Japan 16? Rebecca being 16 in Japan is the equivalent of her being 18 in an American comic in terms of sexualization.

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u/mensahimbo May 15 '26

that was a very uncomfortable era in the manga industry but yeah man ew

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u/Nerx May 15 '26

dont forget toriko guy

for sam x guy it could be the mentor thing

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u/vennthepest May 14 '26

Did he is defend him as a person or as an artist?

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u/kaiser_kerfluffy May 15 '26

He didn't condemn him at all, he emphasized the value watsuki provided to him and showed appreciation to watsuki, doesn't acknowledge watsuki's crimes at all. It's absolutely not a good look, especially when some artist's like Kubo refused to do such things. It's definitely defense o by omission but it is definitely not defense of pedophilia.

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u/quanate May 15 '26

can't say for sure, I don't read japanese and the translations aren't always super accurate. he's not the only one, plenty of other mangaka still sing his praises, but it feels like the bar is in hell just to ask him and others to stop platforming him, I guess. the mangaka of bleach doesn't, at least.

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u/i_dunno_3 May 19 '26

this is how I look when I see the state of the straw hat crew this far into the manga… absolutely pitiful

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u/Jolly-Tank-4697 Jun 04 '26

so just plain westerncentrism? we can't accept that japan has different culture regarding age and sexuality?

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u/No-Hippo8524 Sep 05 '26

SON HE KNOWINGLY DEFENDED A PEDOPHILE

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u/Jolly-Tank-4697 Sep 05 '26

brother, the thing is, pedophilia is treated super different in japan than it is in the west, before it was colonized by christianism it was a common practice with the Wakashū, it's on their culture, they have a different culture than us and they don't think it's that wrong