![]() She is shown as a strong swordswoman (through the Lola zombie), who is brave and stands by her convictions (as she does when she refuses to run from the daylight even though it would kill her). More than that, her search for a husband is secondary to her real story as a captain of the Rolling Pirates who have been trapped on Thriller Bark. She just wants to find someone to marry for love. While this desire to marry is presented as a quirky part of her character, she is never upset to be rejected nor discouraged or ashamed that she isn’t married yet. By the time she meets the Straw Hat pirates, Lola had proposed to men more than four thousand times. The real Lola had escaped an arranged marriage and now wanted to marry for love. The obsession with marriage was one of them. Moria had stitched Lola’s shadow to the warthog zombie, which is why it had many aspects of her personality. Lola’s personality is first introduced as a warthog zombie in love with and wanting to marry Absalom. We meet Lola in the Thriller Bark arc as one of the victims who’d lost their shadows to Geko Moria. Let’s take a look at these first, since romantic tropes were a major complaint in Naruto. At the moment, I can only recall a couple women throughout the series who had men or romance as a noticeable part of their stories. Just as there are romantically-inclined women in real life, there are a few in the world of One Piece. Men are who they are because of what happened in their lives, and, in One Piece, women are too. To not only allow women to have male friends who aren’t interested in them (san Sanji) but then to present that as the rule rather than the exception gives women’s stories equal treatment as men’s and improves their characters and the series as a whole. Women are so often cast in the romantic role even when their major stories or plots do not include it. It’s something that is sorely lacking in media, especially when geared to boys. The best thing about the women in One Piece is the fact they are friends with men without crushing on or being involved with any of them. ![]() ![]() The character most obsessed with love and romance is actually Sanji, the cook of the Straw Hat crew, who falls for any beautiful woman he see and happily does anything Nami or Robin ask with hearts in his eyes. But despite the limited numbers, the women that are present are not completely stereotypical and none of the main women have stories contingent on men or romantic relationships. I’m going to take a look at the main women and a couple smaller ones since, sadly, women are the minority of the Straw Hat pirates. So let’s head for the Grand Line and see what’s there. It’s not that One Piece has perfect women, but the issues aren’t in their stories. Since I did the women of Naruto before, I decided to look at the women of One Piece by Eiichiro Oda, and, boy, is there a difference. ![]()
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