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@AndrasDeak--СлаваУкраїні Still One Piece, you have Carrot on top and Yamato on bottom. Yamato is a new character introduced at the end of the Wano arc and basically shoehorned in "potential new crew member" role from the start. At the same time, Carrot is sidewritten to marginal role during all the arc.
Becomes even more suspicious if you consider the "similarities" in some behaviors the two have - the pannels are meant to point out that.
Even Yamato transformation (middle one on second row) despite being based on Amateratsu wolf form (see Okami for example) looks quite similar to Carrot's (the middle one on the first row)
Still a stretch comparison mind you but... when you consider the whole picture you do wonder. Yamato is also an Oni, so why a form based on Amateratsu? I mean.. I get that the character is portrayed as the protector of a country based on Japan so Amateratsu is very fitting... yet it feels kinda weird
@AndrasDeak--СлаваУкраїні probably because that is not just an exercise in language like we love to do her but an actual attempt at understanding what the character intended nature is, disturbed by trolls on one side and the author unclear representation on the other.
@AndrasDeak--СлаваУкраїні Nope. You can emulate a console. You can't copy its firmware unless you "own" it somehow (owning in general "licensed to use" meaning). So, you can safely write a NES emulator but while you can write a PS1 one you should try to avoid depending on the console firmware and you should not distribute it with the emulator. Yet you could duplicate the firmware api.
The guy who made MAME - the multi platform arcade machines emulator - used it as it graduation thesis and even passed with full marks with honors. He is Italian if I remember correctly.
@AndrasDeak--СлаваУкраїні also worth considering is this:
America / Disney: the "animal girl" characters has very distinctive "animal" facial traits.
Consider for example the Enchantimals dolls and show I mentioned before
The rabbit girl has a rabbit face with animal nose and mouth shape.
Now... look at the average "cat girl" in anime.
Kemono Friends is a franchise made by Sega (== Sonic). I think it started as a gacha game and then got an actual tv show.
all the characters but one are supposed to be "animal girls". Do you see any animal feature other than tail and ears?
best case you get the "cat mouth" ( ⓛ ω ⓛ ) in some frames, but only because the Japanese find that very cute (so cute it is just used as a "smirk" in many anime, even when the character is not a cat)
Even anime like Monster Musume (mostly fanservice I think, but the premise is also about "monster girls") mostly limit the "animal" traits to legs/arms without touching the face or -surprise surprise - the chest area.
"Cat girl" in anime means "cat ears and a tail".
So... I am not surprised if many One Piece fans opposed what they probably called "furry character" and I would be even less surprised if the author decided to drop the character because of that. Like I said, people ranted about Chopper before...
