New One Piece color spread of the series’ most prominent women features a female character headcanonned by trains as a man. Another instance of invalidation

Anime Drama! and it’s one piece! my favorite!

Context

There’s been a long-standing HEATED debate over whether Kaido’s daughter, Yamato, is trans (FtM) because she identifies as Kozuki Oden. Moreso, it’s because she wants to be like him and idolizes him. If Oden was an amorphous slime, so would she. Basically an obsession. Yamato is the character below

The trains’ arguments come from a scene where she bathed with men and a few instances where Kaido called her his son.

The chud counteroffense is that Oda, the author of One Piece, has gone on record in an SBS (little end of volume question column) saying she’s a woman, it’s in her official vivre card character profile, and her character introduction on reveal is “Kaido’s daughter” and that her identity as Oden is “self-styled”

Drama

Oda recently published this color spread with a lot of the series’ most prominent women

it notably includes Yamato. This causes seethe in the twitter user

https://twitter.com/lortomo2/status/1658839706086391808

https://twitter.com/sanjistars/status/1658789629124923392

https://twitter.com/3skulljoe/status/1658751672364019712

https://twitter.com/pinkhairedcoder/status/1658699098084483072

https://twitter.com/british_ninja0/status/1658798719582584832

What’s even more notable, but went under the radar was the exclusion of Kiku (MtF) who is about the best representation that trans people will ever get in popular shonen anime. No fetish, not weird or grotesque, and both a strong and somewhat reasonably developed minor character. See below

More drama on that

https://twitter.com/sanjiluvbot/status/1658832707655290881

https://twitter.com/rrrrxz_/status/1658699215957274625

https://twitter.com/punkmaze/status/1658820741201285120

Guess they’re stuck with Ivankov and the Newkamas

bonus in-theme pirate meme