Anime Drama! and it’s one piece! my favorite!
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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
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So how is it that trans twitter isn't up in arms over those grotesque men/women you linked, wouldn't they find that to be an "offensive representation of trans people?" Those newkamas are completely indistinguishable from soyjaks meant to depict trans people poorly (and I'm surprised chuds don't use them more).
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They claimed Samus was trans becuase in an interview the creater referred to her as a newhalf, the Japanese term for
, due to her tall appearance. They interpreted a misogynistic joke as confirmation of transness, lots of weebs just assume that everything Japanese has this deep and esoteric meaning which vindicates it.
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https://www.quora.com/Is-One-Piece-making-fun-of-transgender-people-or-accepting-them
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Wow, those quora replies. The depths weaboos will go to, defending obvious transphobic shit, just because "anime good"
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pasting from another reply i made
those chapters released/episodes aired in 2010 and 2011 respectively. it was still fine to make these jokes, much more so because one piece wasn’t mainstream like it is now. certainly wasn’t a normie fanbase, but was absolutely more chill.
also there’s two, ivankov and bon clay, who are well established and liked characters.
but yeah if this released today there would be so much more drama
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I mean
People are getting cancelled for shit they did in 2002
Why would it matter it's from 2010?
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unironically it’s probably because people want to see how it ends. even the trains in uprising aren’t really trying to get oda fired or one piece canceled bc it’s someth they really like
i’ve got over a decade investment in this show, and a some chuddery won’t get me bothered enough to care. until another act-age scale event happens, myself and many others can turn a blind eye tbh. even act-age has some people wanting to it come back and it only had ~130 chapters
way more people care deeply about oda losing his job and one piece being unfinished than james gunn unable to make another capeshit or any other corpo losing their job.
also i have a hard time believing shueisha or any japanese company would cut a cash cow for something like bigotry
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