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flashyfools

8 months ago

A zoomed-in screenshot from the One Piece anime, during the Reverie arc, depicting Ahiru of the Revolutionary Army. She has tanned skin, brown hair and brown eyes, and she's wearing a green jacket with a black button-up underneath. She has a mechanical arm, which is olive green, matching her jacket.

if after the most recent op episode you start to take a liking to ahiru (belo betty's subordinate), and you want to draw her or create any fan content of her, please keep in mind she has already appeared in the anime and THIS was her original color scheme (she looks the same in the official colored manga if you're wondering) !!!

toei whitewashed her and changed her whole color scheme for the newest episode:

Another screenshot from the One Piece anime, this time from the Egghead arc, depicting Ahiru of the Revolutionary Army. She now has white skin and black hair, while her eyes are still brown. Her mechanical arm now appears to be colored pink.

so this is how she appears now, apparently.

as we all know, the one piece anime is notorious for whitewashing its characters. i think it's incredibly important to keep using ahiru's original color scheme in fan content, because she was originally a person of color and it's vital that we as a fandom do not succumb to toei's attempt at erasing other races and ethnicities.

to all op artists, please draw fanart for ahiru and please use her original color scheme!!! don't let the new one replace the original one!!!