Years ago, the fearsome pirate king Gol D. Roger was executed, leaving a huge pile of treasure and the famous "One Piece" behind. Whoever claims the "One Piece" will be named the new pirate king. Monkey D. Luffy, a boy who consumed one of the "Devil's Fruits", has it in his head that he'll follow in the footsteps of his idol, the pirate Shanks, and find the One Piece. It helps, of course, that his body has the properties of rubber and he's surrounded by a bevy of skilled fighters and thieves to help him along the way. Monkey D. Luffy brings a bunch of his crew followed by, Roronoa Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Tony-Tony Chopper, Nico Robin, Franky, and Brook. They will do anything to get the One Piece and become King of the Pirates!
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Chouchou (dog) and Laboon (whale) can be seen as examples of this. Chouchou’s caretaker dies. Laboon was given promises to be returned to by a pirate crew but all but one of them died. Laboon makes a new promise with the main character to meet again, and we find out that the sole survivor of the crew wishes to meet him again.
Doflamingo could be viewed as an abusive parent to the Donquixote family. He grooms and gaslights the children he brings into the Donquixote family, and enforces the idea that their only value is in how useful they are * to him * (Baby 5, Buffalo, Monet). He is also creepily invested in getting Law back on his side during the Dressrosa arc, dismisses his genuine grievances like he's throwing a childish tantrum, treats him like a possession who should be greateful to be of use to him/die for him, physically mistreats him when he refuses (shoots him repeatedly, kidnaps him, physically chains him to a chair and later uses his string powers on him to force him to move against his will) and nearly kills him for choosing to love Corazon over him. He is equally as dismissive to the other members of the family, he loves them only as long as they are useful to him, and plays on their love for him/their desire to have his approval or outright manipulates them (compliments to Diamante for ex) to get them to do what he wants.
A main character forgives someone who was in the same cohort as her active abusers and was presented as being on their side. It’s presented as a learning experience regarding bad experiences not equating to all of the same “species.” (Allegory to racism in real life.) She does not forgive them for their abuse, and the character forgiven did not participate in it (as far as we are shown).
Another main character does not forgive his birth family and abusers, and cuts all ties.
In the Dressrosa arc, Rebecca is forced to fight as a gladiator in the collosseum. She wears a skimpy outfit and is averse to violence. The crowd enjoys and encourages competitors to be violent towards her. She is heavily sexualised, and the viewer/reader is clearly meant to enjoy the instances where she is pinned down and helpless. (vs Diamante comes to mind)
One of the main antagonists of the series is a villain due to suffering tremendous abuse as a child and then deciding to punish everyone else for his pain. He is also being targeted by an antihero who was abused as a child, partly by him, who wants to take him out to pay him back for what he did.
There is a lot in the Whole Cake Island and Wano Kingdom that could possibly be considered this, as they both involve abusive families with children that turn on others as adults.
There is a montage showing some characters as children either being left to fend for themselves or thrown into dangerous situations intentionally by a close relative. A main character is forced to work for a group of pirates and is shown being beaten. Many children are forcibly drugged. A child is beaten by their parents. A child is beaten by bandits.
Many examples, among others a Kraken's tentacles get cut off.
Also, many characters have the power to turn into animals and do get beat up while in that form. Chopper (humanoid reindeer from the main crew) for example.
Not normal rabbits, but later arcs have a humanoid rabbit character (Carrot) who gets beat up in battle like anyone else. She fights another humanoid rabbit at one point.
In a short comedic scene in the Jaya arc (just about a minute long), there are spiders falling from the trees that crawl towards three main characters.
In Wano, there’s also a supporting antagonist that can transform into a gigantic half-spider. It’s not really scary though as the spider has a cartoony appearance.
Several giant snakes and sea monsters that look like snakes. There is an arc where almost everyone on an island has and carries their pet snake. Several people can turn in to snakes. A recurring character is often scene with her human sized snake
Yes. In fishman island a grown man likes a young girl and wants to marry her
In WCI a 21 year old is forced into marriage with a 16 year old.
But you have to remember that in other countries, the age of consent is lower, and 16 year olds get married in other cultures so I’m not very sure about the WCI one.
But I am sure about the Fishman island because the creep had decided to court the young girl when she was younger than ten years old.
Potentially drowning is something that happens from time to time. In the Arlong Park arc, the main character is trapped underwater, and they have to try to save him for several episodes. During the Punk Hazard arc, a child has flashbacks of watching one of the main antagonists hold a man's head underwater repateadly while yelling at him.
It’s alluded a few times during the course of the series, commonly involving a certain group of nobles, in the egghead island arc there’s the implication that one of the caharacters was born as a product of rape
People are handcuffed or tied up quite often, including chldren. One of he main characters spends nearly an entire arc (Enies Lobby) handcuffed, and another prominant character spends several episodes being dragged around while handcuffed, while they try to find the key.
During a flashback in Whole Cake Island, it's revealed a character had an iron mask that covered his mouth put on his head for six months when he was a child.
The part where Sanji, a character known for being a pervert that chases after women, is trapped on Kamabakka Queendom can come across as this. He is chased by people who are portrayed as crossdressers/transgender women who believe he is "one of them" and they try to force him to "open his heart" and wear dresses.
well not necessarily sexually raped but there is a scene in thriller bark where a man with an invisible power pins down one of the main characters while she’s showering and sexually assaults her.
I don't recall anyone dying, but the main characer narrowly avoids being buried alive, during the Alabasta story arc, when he is thrown into a desert sinkhole and left to die.
A lot of Devil Fruit powers, especially the artificial SMILE fruits introduced later on, can give the user the ability to transform their body in ways that could be upsetting. While these transformations don't hurt the user, it could still be upsetting to watch, especially for the SMILE fruits that cause people to transform into Frankenstein-like animal hybrids (i.e. a man's hand becomes a wolf head)
Multiple characters lose their limbs. Within the first few episodes, a recurring character loses an arm. Another character loses a leg not too many episodes after this. One episode has a character who is trapped and unsuccessfully attempts to cut his own foot off to escape. In the dressrosa arc, one character loses an arm, and another character is shown to lose their leg in a flashback.
Nico Robin gets her revenge on Spandam for the abuse she suffered because of him by breaking his spine, though he's shown to have survived it somehow after the timeskip.
While it is not shown happening a character puts his young sister into a hiding place to keep her safe during an attack and comes back to get her, only to find the building burned, knowing she died inside. The same flashback shows many children who had been killed lying on the ground around him.
In Fishman Island, a mermaid princess Shirahoshi, a 16 year old, is often shown with large chest shots while she’s in a revealing outfit. Another is a Dressrosa character Rebecca, a 16 year old who only wears a scale armor bikini and loincloth throughout most the arc along with a few fanservice shots of her large chest. There is only one instance of a chest shot in the Whole Cake Island arc of a photograph of 16 year old Charlotte Pudding
Pedro, a jaguar person, sacrifices himself to help his crew. It's revealed in a flashback his partner, a polar bear, was also killed via having his lifespan drained from him.
While One Piece often avoids on screen/major character death, the series isn't completely free of it. Most deaths we see are in flashback however, with only a few arcs (i.e. Marineford, Whole Cake) having a character die on screen. The former could be particularly upsetting as it involved an on-screen grievous wound.
In the pink hazard arc a child takes all the drugs a villain was giving to the children in order to protect them and not allowing the younger kids to eat them while they were suffering the craving urges
There are a few non-sexual scenes involving a community bath house and some in the bathhouse on the ship.
There is one really bad one during thriller bark where a female character is assaulted in the shower by an invisible person and is licked but not much more graphic than that
Not in the traditional sense with ghosts and the like but there are times when one character's ability lets them take control of another person and it is usually done against their will (ex. Doflamingo)
A main character has a special move which consists of filling himself of air and farting to escape different situations or sending away villains, it used in 2 arcs: Ennies Lobby and Punk Hazard
This story is strongly anarchist. It shows some “good” marines, but shows that they are controlled by a corrupt organization and are bending marine protocol to help the main characters.
The Funimation dub refers to members of the Kamabakka Queendom and New Kama, many of whom are transgender, as "queers," though in some cases this is how characters describe themselves.
This happens more than once, but that is very well examined with Doflamingo as well as Big Mom and Kaido (who is known for trying to end his own life).
A main character insists she wants to die due to mental abuse she suffered and tries to sacrifice herself, but her friends help her realise it's ok for her to want to live and she ends up fighting to survive.
Luffy breaks down after his brother dies. He tales it out on the fauna around him and injures himself repeatedly. It takes Jinbei reminding him he has his friends to live for to snap him out of it.
The character Ivankov has the ability to manipulate people's hormones, allowing him to change their gender. He will use this to characters, which often results in them being very happy over their transformation.
There is also a scene where the character Bonclay sees Ivankov and other queer characters, to which he responds with happiness.
A recurring villain from the Dressrosa arc speaks in an unnaturally high-pitched voice that causes laughter and mockery from everyone present, including the main leads; he’s shown as very distressed by it, including the anime.
Several characters, especially the main protagonist enjoy overeating.
One character has a quote "Eating Disorder" where if she doesn't get specific meals to match her cravings at the time, she'll go on a rampage.
Absolutely. I'll mention those that I remember (SPOILERS):
- Robin with the Buster Call in Ennies Lobby arc, with the trauma itself used to manipulate her to be taken by the goverment to be tortured so her friends could get out of Water 7 alive. (She heals from it)
- Sanji with his fucking abusive family, in Whole Cake Island arc, very very present that PTSD. (He heals from it)
- Chopper before joining the crew, has issues due to all the trauma he suffered in his life, in Drum Island arc. (He heals from it)
- Boa Hancock and her sisters, from being slaves in their childhood, in Amazon Lily arc. (They can't heal from it and feel ""ashamed"" by the slave mark they have in their backs, because it meant that they were less than humans)
Fishman Island takes place on an underwater city, however it's surrounded by air and functions like dry land though there are scenes properly underwater. There are also scenes of Devil Fruit users almost drowning, though none of these have resulted in a death AFAIK
The closest would be that multiple pregnant women who seem to be suspicious would be killed (won’t say why due to major spoilers in the Marineford arc). There are no actual abortions however
Almost every trans character is misgendered at some point in the series. The author seems to have somewhat improved his depiction of trans characters in the Wano arc, with a surprisingly well done (as of now) trans female and trans male character. Still, there are many gross stereotypes in other trans or gay characters
No character that is canonically LGBT has officially died on screen.
Bentham, a trans character appeared to be killed, but in the manga its shown they're doing well.
The main character is implied to be incapable of sexual or romantic attraction, as a foe is able to control anyone with that capability. In that way, he is shown to be specifically immune to her powers (though likely some other characters would also apply). Oda has commented that One Piece is not a story about romance.
Yes, the O**** are misrepresentation of trans women (not trans men). Most to all of the trans characters are played by cis actors, depending on what dub you’re watching (this includes the portrayal of a trans man by a cis woman in the Japanese dub).
To add to the previous comment: it is not hate speech that the narrator has against this species, but hate speech being depicted to show the huge systemic problem that surrounds the lives of the people of that species.
The warlord Bartholomew Kuma holds a book labeled as a Bible, though its contents are currently unknown. Crosses and crucifixes appear multiple times, though it's mainly in a gothic/vampire context as well as grave markers. The arc Skypiea is about a "god", but while the characters resemble angels God is more akin to a political title than an actual deity. There's also a character referred to as a Sun God later on, though once again he's not an actual deity.
While it’s not described as a demon.. a main villain in the egghead arc looks very demonic and transforms using a pentagram, plus the magical fruits where the characters get their powers from are referred as “devil fruits” and there are many characters who are referred to as devils/demons
Fanservice is pretty common in One Piece. Several of the female cast are often sexualized via skimpy to outright impractical outfits (Nami, Robin, Boa Hancock, Rebecca, Shirahoshi come to mind).
Though less degrading in the way they're depicted, male characters like Roronoa Zoro and Trafalgar Law often wear clearly fanservice-y designed clothes too. The (brief) plotpoint of Law being turned into a woman is also used as a way to sexualise him/her, and serves little narrative purpose outside from the fanservice.
The author actually makes a great point of showing that crying (ugly crying, even) is a natural and a good thing, because it shows that you are alive. One of the main male characters, depicted to be "hyper masculine", is extremely emotional and has absolutely no issue with showing it. He is not ridiculed for doing so, it is seen as a character quirk that makes him deserve his place in the crew.
One of the main characters was a runaway for 20 years. As a result, she has been depicted to be homeless several times. There are several depictions of homeless people in the background, to show the issues of a particular country that need to be resolved.
One of the side characters questions whether or not he should have been born. Other things such as the reason for living (including a main character who “dies” but “comes back to life”) are included in themes throughout the series.
In one of the movies cars exist and several crash during a race. Cars are not seen in the regular anime. One character have a motorcycle but does not crash it
Planes don't exist in universe but there are flying islands with some flying ships and there are some close calls. Some ships do fall from the sky while flying.
By the fourth episode, a man is shot and killed in front of a boy that he (the man who is shot) is holding hostage. The shooter is shown, not the man shot.
Within the first season one flashback shows a mother being shot at close range and killed in front of her two young children. Guns, threats of violence, being shot, and being shot and killed are a frequent occurence in the show.
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