#despite the fact that I can’t stand Enel and his lackeys to the point that I do not enjoy watching their scenes

[lilnasxvevo]

Idk what’s GOING to happen with this but in my ideal dream world what WOULD happen with OPLA doing Skypiea is that the costumes and props people would work with Native American artists, designers, and artisans to create a cohesive, specific aesthetic for the Shandorians based on a SPECIFIC culture and drawing on Native American and indigenous futurist art and design.

Because I totally get what Oda was going for, and drawing on Aztec and Great Plains nations designs for the Shandorians’ clothing and architecture IMWO (in my white opinion) was clearly done in an attempt to sympathize with their plight of getting their land stolen out from under them, but I think if they put some of the Shandorians’ original designs in OPLA in the year 2025 the overall affect is going to be “Oh yeesh that’s horribly racist. Oh that’s really bad.”

I think some of the designs are ok and can stay mostly intact (I quite famously love Kamakiri’s design and if his pink fur vest and round sunglasses don’t make it into OPLA I will be genuinely devastated). And like I totally get that some aspects of the Shandorians’ clothes that make it seem at first glance like Oda was going for a “primitive” look can actually be chalked up to the fact that the Shandorians have virtually no resources and don’t always have a way to replace clothing that’s ripped or frayed, for example. But I think that in the live action, if those design decisions are preserved, they need to put a lot of specificity and intentionality into it, or like I said, it’s gonna leave a reaallllly bad taste in people’s mouths.