Our society has twisted good and evil so bad. Hiyori cleaning Zoro's body while he's injured to keep him from getting diseases and infections from being dirty isn't gross or perverted, it's an act of honest love. If I found out someone had cleaned my body after I had fallen into a coma, I would be happy and thankful.
Do people actually think Oda is implying that Hiyori assaulted Zoro? People act like Nami bathing with a child, Tama, she worked tirelessly to protect is sexual somehow. Stop sexualizing everything. There's plenty of horny stuff in this manga, but not everything is horny. Even Yamato's section in the bath wasn't erotic at all: she was literally just cheering with joy. Just because people are naked, it doesn't mean something lewd is happening.
In all seriousness its the porn addicts/coomers with their brains warped by their addictions to it that cause these irrational assumptions of thiers.
Japan does see nudity as more "innocent/pure" too. To them, bathing together like this is completely normal.
People unironically saying Hiyori assaulted Zoro as someone who was fucking assaulted physically and sexually multiple times in my life growing up makes me fucking sick and furious. They have no idea what real fucking sexual assault is and they are part of the reason it is heavily misunderstood, downplayed and treated as a joke.
Hiyori was acting like a doting lover/wife to Zoro, its an extremely sweet and romantic moment that has been building up since he saved her life and they got to know each other, once she revealed her true self to him and such. Oda even had him and her as pseudo parents to Toko too.
I've seen other series have women tenderly treating mens wounds and cleaning and bathing them as a sign of love and affection, of respect, compassion, sincerity and such. No hidden sexual degenerate intentions or anything else. Series like Rurouni Kenshin, Fairy Tail, I think maybe in Bleach and Naruto too and plenty others I'm sure too.
They are probably the same people who watch shit like Rising of the Shield Hero and Redo of Healer. I think those were both written by women ironically too but I digress. These are the same kind of guys who think women should be removed from games and that Samurai Warriors 4 having an option to remove women entirely is "based".
Fucking incel logic man. You can tell these people don't have much experience with women or at all.
Well said anyway, I completely agree and would react in the same way. I wish someone would take care of me like Hiyori does for Zoro but thats probably never going to happen with my track record and circumstances too. But such is life. Ill be 6 feet under or even ashes one day and it won't matter anymore.
I still felt uncomfortable with the Tama and Toko stuff this chapter but I know its meant to be innocent, its like a baby grabbing their mothers breasts and trying to get milk. I think with Tama, since she lost her parents and had to be alone and literally starving to almost death too, she is probably just trying to be affectionate and hug Nami too and such. Maybe fascinated by her body too in an innocent, child-like manner because children are fucking curious including about all parts of their and other bodies too.
If people think this chapter is bad, then god help them with lolicons, actual "loli" sexualisation in other series, although we've had some questionable stuff in OP too especially in the anime too thanks to Toei. I don't want to open up the Pedora's Box of controversy on here again but we've had shit like Van Der Decken lusting over Shirahoshi since she was a child and making sure his hand is permanently tracked onto her for most of her life now, so he always can "reach out to her" and find her and such.