Why are Oda's Japanese characters white looking?

[Buggy D Clown]

Why don't his Japanese characters have any of the Japanese features? Zoro being a prime example.
Is Oda racist against his own race and does he discriminate against his own nation?

 

[Carre]

Japan dont exist in the One Piece world

 

[LANJI CUCKSMOKE]

???

 

[SakazOuki]

How can you call Oda racist against the japanese after the 150 chapters long trash called Wano

 

[LANJI CUCKSMOKE]

How can you call Oda racist against the japanese after the 150 chapters long trash called Wano

The arc died when oden’s flashback ended

 

[SakazOuki]

The arc died when oden’s flashback started

 

[Shiroyru]

Lighter skin is seen as a more desirable trait in Asian cultures because the poor people would be working in the fields all day and develop a tan, while rich people would be inside most of the day and develop light skin. Which is why anime characters look white

 

[LANJI CUCKSMOKE]

I didn’t stutter

 

[ZenZu]

Tbf are they white looking? Does Zoro look white?

 

[Albino 👑]

This post gives off hella bad vibes

 

[zenox]

I think only tsuru has Japanese features

 

[ZenZu]

I think only tsuru has Japanese features

Akainu looks pretty Japanese. Oden's ugly ass too.

 

[TheAncientCenturion]

Besides OP, since Oda gives them real-world counterparts, I just assume all anime characters are Japanese unless stated otherwise. Cause I can tell you 100% that Kishimoto images a Japanese man as Naruto, not some German kid.

 

[ZenZu]

Besides OP, since Oda gives them real-world counterparts, I just assume all anime characters are Japanese unless stated otherwise. Cause I can tell you 100% that Kishimoto images a Japanese man as Naruto, not some German kid.

Naruto looked very East Asian.

 

[BoaHancocksHusband]

The arc died when oden’s flashback ended

Hyogoro exists n looks Japanese

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Naruto looked very East Asian.

Sasuke did too

 

[Owl Ki]

How can you call Oda racist against the japanese after the 150 chapters long trash called Wano

Making the worst arc the Japanese arc was clearly Oda being racist against Japan bro.

 

[SakazOuki]

Making the worst arc the Japanese arc was clearly Oda being racist against Japan bro.

When you put it that way

 

[MonochromeYoru]

Making the worst arc the Japanese arc was clearly Oda being racist against Japan bro.

It unironically was.

What was the arc's underlying theme and goal?

Opening up the boarders. It is clearly Oda saying he supports the ending of Japan's Isolationist policies and opening it's boarders to the West circa 1850s.

Oda rejects his own country's feudal past, and embraces modernization. That is why he made oden, the shogun of wano, such an abysmal character.

 

[Alarica]

There was never dark skinned japanese.

 

[Punk Rotten]

There was never dark skinned japanese.

What? I think you are forgetting multiracial people. But Japan treats them like an anomaly as well. They are just obsessed like the rest of the world with pale skin