So in the Elbaf arc, we had two new characters introduced with blue hair, Gunko and Rocks
It doesn´t seem like there´s any connection between these two characters, so in Oda´s mind, blue hair is just the coolest thing on the block to give to new characters
But like, why...? Obviously blue hair characters have existed in OP in the past, but it´s usually for scrubs and minor villain types:
Buggy was an east blue villain made to be silly
Vivi was meant to be just a scrub Baroque works member before Oda decided to make her a princess
Miss doublefinger, a nami opponent
Franky, a side SH who isn´t meant to be taken too seriously, associated with gags
Ulti, kind of a meme villain
Obviously OP is pretty cartoony and silly, but Oda usually plays it safe when making the top pirates/Marines:
Roger, Garp, Sengoku, WB etc all had pretty standard hair colors, and pre TS villains like Lucci, Croco,Smoker and Enel had pretty serious designs. This trend kind of continued post TS, until we have a top marine like Aramaki with green hair...... and now we have two pretty major characters with blue hair.
It gets even weirder when you look at panels of GV Garp, Roger and Rocks, and it´s pretty obvious Oda is trying to make them look like Ace, Luffy and Teach(In Rogers case, this is just borderline retarded, since GV Roger who is 39 looks more like 20 something Ace then he does the canon 50ish version of him that´s iconic and we have seen for most of the manga, including in Wano when Sengoku was describing GV), but for some reason Oda doesn´t care about making sure Teach and his dad have the same hair color....?
It doesn´t seem like there´s any connection between these two characters, so in Oda´s mind, blue hair is just the coolest thing on the block to give to new characters
But like, why...? Obviously blue hair characters have existed in OP in the past, but it´s usually for scrubs and minor villain types:
Buggy was an east blue villain made to be silly
Vivi was meant to be just a scrub Baroque works member before Oda decided to make her a princess
Miss doublefinger, a nami opponent
Franky, a side SH who isn´t meant to be taken too seriously, associated with gags
Ulti, kind of a meme villain
Obviously OP is pretty cartoony and silly, but Oda usually plays it safe when making the top pirates/Marines:
Roger, Garp, Sengoku, WB etc all had pretty standard hair colors, and pre TS villains like Lucci, Croco,Smoker and Enel had pretty serious designs. This trend kind of continued post TS, until we have a top marine like Aramaki with green hair...... and now we have two pretty major characters with blue hair.
It gets even weirder when you look at panels of GV Garp, Roger and Rocks, and it´s pretty obvious Oda is trying to make them look like Ace, Luffy and Teach(In Rogers case, this is just borderline retarded, since GV Roger who is 39 looks more like 20 something Ace then he does the canon 50ish version of him that´s iconic and we have seen for most of the manga, including in Wano when Sengoku was describing GV), but for some reason Oda doesn´t care about making sure Teach and his dad have the same hair color....?
