@sggupta:
they may be disjoint but they still are groups of people and connected.they are grouped together as one of the most influential factions in the overall plot.i'm not completely aware of the term"token female" aside from the direct meaning,so let's put that aside but either way having a "most beautiful" empress as the only female in a group of 7(actually more),which is a part of the three great powers and another as the only female in a group of 11 highly influential upstarts is pretty bad imo
So it is the fact that there is no black person in those groups, and no Indian, and only 1 fishmen, and no long leg, and no mink. Do you see what I'm doing. Is like is a duty to put females in groups, and worse, if there is one already is a duty to exist more.
And what the problem of her being the "most beautiful"? If she was "most ugly" would it still be a problem? Or the problem is in the "most"?
The fact that there is a woman in a Privateer group is a good thing! The fact that we have 1 woman in a rookie pirate star group is a good thing.
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@Monkey:
Realism??? What the fuck comic do you think you're reading lollll
The problem is not about what comic I think I'm reading, but your lack of understanding and knowledge about what I'm talking about. Realism means this:
the quality of being very much like real life : the quality of seeming to be real
You know, the quality that makes the characters in the story to appear to be people, the quality that makes the things they interact, like guns and ships and houses, and clothes and basically majority of things to seems like what they are in real life.
And important to what I was talking the setting depiction, that is the great Era of Piracy, or are you going to say that pirates and the Golden Era is a completely knew and not grounded to reality concept?
Any fiction has a level of realism. Anything that isn't explicitly or highly implied to have is own unique rules is governed by the real life rules. Is practically impossible for an author to explicitly, or to highly imply, everything in a given story. So there has to be something that is understood by the reader due to his knowledge of reality.
In the same vein, anything that is explicit or highly implied to be grounded in real world is influenced by it.
What this means? That given the fact that One Piece is depicting the great era of piracy it is highly influenced by the real world Golden Age of Piracy. Or are you going to deny that?
This means that given the fact that the Golden Age of Piracy had little, almost none, female pirates, and that this same thing is seen in One Piece, that it in fact pertains into One Piece level of realism. In other words, it pertains into One Piece depiction of the real Golden Age of Piracy and the quality of seeming like it.
And it doesn't matter that it is consciously or unconsciously made by the author, what matter is the two things match and that the series is depicting exactly that match.
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@Long:
Replace crewmate with friend of his and caused harm and this becomes a different list
Luffy doesnt only care about his crew though, he makes plenty of friends with people who dont join.
Yep, and the point of it not happening in post timeskip! When you change a part of your point you have to revise the entire argumentation.
Here: "L_uffy has always downed the big bad because they caused harm or hurt his crew and it was only in recent years had he started for fighting for people he had known for a few chapters or countries because they have a sad backstory attached to it."
So In Alvida arc Luffy knew Coby more than a few chapter?
And Zoro in Morgan?
And Chuchu, the mayor, and Nami in Buggy?
And Ussop and Kaya in Kuro?
And Sanji, Zeff, Gin in Krieg?
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You get my drift? Basically what you're proving by changing the crew to friends, is that the pre-timeskip was doing the same as the pos-timeskip. By doing so you're enforcing_ that the first argument was wrong, and in fact I am right!
, because they still do care but like we discussed because of the odds of finding something is so low it has made it very hard to progress.
