Totland arc was a promising arc, you have the Strawhats trying to save Sanji from his forced marriage to a daughter of a Yonko. Sanji had a potential to develop outside his obsession with women, and we met a female villain, who is both a psychopath and attractive, making her the main source for Sanji’s development. However, the arc declined in quality, the rescue mission lasted a while, and when we finally started with it, the two characters who had the most potential are now ruined, and this arc is becoming unbearable.
The biggest problem with chapter 862 is:
It’s trying to make readers sympathize with Pudding because she has “problems” with her appearance (or possibly redeem her as a villain)
This affected potential character development for Sanji.
Her Sad FlashbackTM makes Big Mom look so out of character.
So let’s begin with her problems with her appearance:
It shouldn’t even exist or be complex for her in the first place. Why?
She lived her entire life in a place where the people she calls family are mixed races, each sibling is different from the other, and there are siblings who are a lot stranger than Pudding and her third eye:
So she shouldn’t even begin to think she’s ugly or that her third eye makes her stand out. If she was living with normal looking humans, then her complex with her third eye would be understandable.
Her siblings shouldn’t even bully her in the first place, why bully Pudding alone who looks like a supermodel? because she has a third eye? They are also surrounded by odd looking siblings, so a third eye shouldn’t be a problem to them in the first place.
This is a very cliché method to show that a villain is redeemable (especially with female villains). Out of all of her siblings, she resembles a human the most, she has no flaw in her appearance that would be considered “ugly” or “disgusting” (e.g. obesity, skin disease, disfigured body/face..etc). Pudding literally looks like a supermodel, she has a cute face and an hourglass shaped body.
BUT OH NO! She has a THIRD EYE! Now she ugly and has 0 friends. BUT OH WAIT! Extremely Hot GuyTM says she is beautiful!!! Now all her psychological problems are solved and she has many friends.
Sanji’s character development is thrown out of the window:
His development was actually on the brink of disappearing when he started to question whether what he saw was just a dream (Ch. 361). Despite the fact that he himself overheard the plan, no one came up to him and said:
“Hey Sanji, Pudding hates you, and she’ll kill you in the wedding to overthrow your family.”
Again, if someone actually told him that, and he didn’t overhear anything, then it wouldn’t be a surprise that he still has some trust in Pudding. But no, his obsession with women completely overpowers his reasoning and he falls head over heels for Pudding, even though he is aware she’s planning to kill him.
It would have been nice to see him showing his cunning side again, where he can act like he is in love with Pudding. Because obviously it would be odd if he suddenly gave her the cold shoulder, and it can put him in a dangerous position as their plans of assassination might be discovered.
Big Mom is out of character in Pudding’s flashback:
Big Mom’s main goal is to create a Utopia where all races can live together in peace and harmony. Yet she finds her daughter’s third eye disturbing?
Her third eye is not even a mutation for her to find it disgusting or creepy. Because there’s an entire race who are born with three eyes and Big mom willingly had sex with a man who has three eyes for the purpose of having a child of that race!
And it’s not like Pudding is the only child of a strange race or has different features. All of her children are mixed races!
Lastly, we want to point out that Pudding doesn’t need a Sad FlashbackTM to justify her psychopathy because she is the daughter of a pirate, she lived her entire life as a criminal, and her mother is using her to gain more power. Now she is forced to get married to a man she does not know, just so her mother can expand her power. And if she even dares to defy her mother's wishes she would most likely be executed on the spot and not have the chance to escape like Lola (since she is the first to defy her mother)
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