Now, I’ve written before about how disgusted I am with what Oda did with the whole fight between Sanji and Absalom over Nami. Think about that because I’m going to return to that point. I’m going to stop there because that’s where Nami’s knowledge of what happened to her stopped. She was grabbed around the neck, rendered unconscious, and… I’m going to stop there. As we know, Nami was forcibly abducted by Absalom. To Oda, just because a woman is being sexually assaulted doesn’t mean we can’t still laugh at the same time.
Those lines and reactions are supposed to add humor to this scene. Oda wanted us to laugh while Nami was being sexually assaulted. Those parts weren’t mean to be serious–they were meant to be funny. Why are those things a part of this scene? Simple: because Oda wanted us to laugh. However, the seriousness of the situation is completely undercut by multiple fart jokes and by Usopp’s extremely inappropriate “ Thanks so much for this chance to see Nami’s naked body while she’s being sexually assaulted!” Of course Usopp didn’t realize (yet) that she was being assaulted, but all the same Oda still included that line and that reaction in there. Yes, some of Nami’s facial expression express her terror with the situation here. Originally when I was first thinking about this scene, something I was going to say was “at least this scene overall treats this as something awful and scary for Nami.” But after reading the scene again, it really doesn’t. I’m just going to repost the whole sceneĪbsalom broke in while Nami was naked and taking a bath, pulled her out of the water, pinned her against a wall, and forced her mouth closed so that she couldn’t call for help. First she was sexually assaulted by Absalom. Let me walk through what happened to Nami. Oda treated Nami’s experience with all this as though it didn’t really matter–didn’t really exist–because she was unconscious, and that’s appalling. The “joke” was the observation that even though Nami was the one being forced to marry someone, the whole thing was still more about Sanji because Nami was unconscious nearly the whole time. And the more I thought about that, the more pissed off I got. This is a reference to Thriller Bark, when Sanji had to protect an unconscious Nami from Absalom. “This is actually the second time in the manga we’ve had a forced marriage story that revolves around Sanji” Half joke, half contemptuous observation.
Last night I offhandedly thought of a snide dig at One Piece’s current arc and general treatment of women.
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