@Gia:
Why hide his design when he basically has built up literally no hype for it?
Hey that's a great point.
Plus you don't even understand my argument. I stated that there is a big difference between the way he hides characters for hype and characters that mean nothing to the story.
There isn't yeah. Great point again!
Though there is one thing they share in common! They get SHOWN.
And the funny thing is he's never done the second thing before,
Done what. Hide lesser characters? Yeah he has.
Seriously? You don't get the difference? I'll give you little hint. ALL OF THESE CHARACTERS WHERE BUILT UP, HYPED, SHOWCASED, WHATEVER OTHER WORD BECAUSE APPARENTLY CAPPING IS A SHITTY WAY TO GET YOU TO UNDERSTAND.
Not showing a dude's face really really deliberately = hype, foreshadow etc.
Also there's countless examples of people's faces being hidden of all kinds of characters, all kinds of importances, and all kinds of levels of foreshadow or lack thereof.
The one countless thing in common no matter what is they get fucking shown.
I have a great example of a guy slightly hidden from us who turned out to be huge when he was fully shown with zero foreshadowing.
You might have heard of MONKEY D GARP? lol
Remember the cover story with the random marine officer whose eyes we never saw? Who was not hinted at being anything other than just an officer? Yeah that guy.
There was never any sign of mysteriousness with this stupid king lol.
Not seeing a guys face is mysterious dingus.
And again there is mystery with anything regarding Goa. Anything.
What kind of clueless schmuck takes "i hide massive things in tiny details Eiichiro Oda" and assumes a guy very clearly hidden on Luffy's and Dragon's and Garp's island in the highest power structure of it…will not be shown. I mean forget whether he's important or not, you don't even think we need to see his face.
I do not get why you are both getting such a hard on for a character that was 1. NEVER EVEN NAMED and 2. Has said like 3 sentences in 3 random panels.
It's almost like we're having the intended reaction to the narrative technique, and that someone illiterate is trying to say we're wrong.
When has any author not specifically shown some random unimportant character?
Like every other fricking story I've ever read or watched . Why don't you go watch Charlie Brown?
ahahahahahhahahaha, you are not fucking seriously bringing that up.
Why don't you go watch Cow and Chicken?
Holy shit you're clueless.
Ever watched toy story? The mother is literally seen for a second in first movie and is never seen again because SHE IS NOT THE FOCUS
She's SHOWN. And yeah you wanna know why we barely saw them? Because Pixar was shit at animating humans until later so they tried to avoid it.
The king is NOT the DAMN FOCUS.
Every single example you listed had a huge reason those characters weren't shown. That you're hopelessly clueless self obviously missed.
Both Peanuts (not Charlie Brown lol) and Cow and Chicken are playing off the "lol adults and parents are big and distant creatures" to the children characters. Or at least for Peanuts. For Cow & Chicken it was just a joke about faceless generic parents. There was a POINT.
So you've failed by question. Find small characters HIDDEN for no reason other than their unimportance. A thing Oda has never ever done before.
Do you even know the panels we're talking about? There's three panels the King shows up in, two have his head BLOCKED BY A SPEECH BALLOON.
You're acting like Oda didn't deliberately go out of his way to hide the guys face. Except that's exactly what he fucking did.
Get why I am referencing children's cartoons and movies?
And no understanding even them lol.