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Great character design, strong female character, outgoing personality, and recency bias. These are probably the main reasons why she is popular. This is true to many characters in One Piece and not just Yamato. People can like characters just based on shallow and superficial reasons.
Jun 18, 2022 · One Piece Finally Settled Yamato's Huge Controversy for Good. Warning: contains minor spoilers for chapter 1052 of One Piece. Few One Piece heroes have inspired as much debate as the Straw Hat Crew's newest member, Yamato.
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Yamato is the son of Kaidou. Born as Kaidou's daughter and groomed from a young age to be his heir, Yamato instead developed a profound admiration for the legendary samurai Kozuki Oden. After Oden's death, Yamato decided to become like him, impersonating him and adopting his mannerisms. As a result of this desire to emulate Oden, Yamato decided to become a man and identify as Kaidou's son, with his father and the Beasts Pirates referring to him as such as well.
This path has put Yamato at odds with Kaidou, with much of his life being spent imprisoned on Onigashima. Yamato befriended Portgas D. Ace during his visit to Wano Country, and after learning of Ace's death waited for the arrival of his sworn brother, Monkey D. Luffy. Initially desiring to join Luffy's crew, Yamato ultimately decided to remain behind in Wano to help protect it from outside forces, though he still intends to join them in the future.
Being assigned female at birth and not usually choosing to explicitly present as male, Yamato has typically been referred to as a woman by people when they first encounter him. Yamato is taller than an average human, standing at 263 cm (8'8"). He has long, white hair that is bound between orange rods into a ponytail at the back, which fades into aqua green and then blue the further down it goes, and ends in rectangular locks similar to Kaidou. Yamato also has large, orange eyes with prominent eyelashes, wears gold hoop earrings on both ears, and has horns on the top of his head which are mostly red, but gradually become more flesh-colored toward the base.
Yamato's current outfit is a sleeveless white garment with a diamond-shaped design on both sides and an indigo, wisp-patterned bottom half. He wears a pair of red hakama pants and sandals, and, much like Oden, wears a large purple and white nio-dasuki behind his back.
While in disguise, Yamato originally also wore a hannya mask, which has a blue wig with an extremely long and wild mane attached to the top and a long blue goatee attached to the bottom. The kimono initially had long white sleeves, but were ripped off along with the rest of the disguise making Yamato's kimono more form-fitting.
Four years ago, Yamato wore a similar long-sleeved outfit, but with different symbols near the breasts. The symbols resemble an oden skewer.
Yamato greatly admires the legendary samurai Kozuki Oden to the point of even proclaiming to carry his identity. Yamato has self-identified as Oden on multiple occasions and has even emulated his gender, proclaiming to be the son of Kaidou due to Oden being a man. Although initially carrying doubts as to how to present as Oden, Yamato has steadily expressed a straightforward attitude regarding this identity as time has gone on, even proclaiming this as such to Oden's son Momonosuke, to the boy's horror. Although having wholeheartedly embraced this identity, Yamato retains his original persona, referring to Yamato as his "other name". Yamato does not seem to like being misnamed, having quickly corrected Luffy when given a nickname.
Having read of the great exploits documented by Oden in his logbook, which he considers his "bible", Yamato dreams of leaving Wano Country's confines and setting out to sea with the Straw Hat Pirates, much like Oden did with the Whitebeard and Roger Pirates decades before. Yamato also wishes to fulfill the goals that Oden had, namely opening Wano's borders, in direct defiance to Kaidou's wishes for the country. Yamato has shown to be extremely strong-willed, having put up considerable resistance to Kaidou's imprisonment despite taking decades to finally break free. Although initially seeming to be more subordinate to him previously, Yamato's battle with Ace led to him destroying Kaidou's dragon statue in an act of defiance that has since led to more outright rebellion. Yamato has engaged in combat with Kaidou numerous times and has openly expressed opposition and defiance to his plans concerning the two of them, accompanied by insults. When the Ninja-Pirate-Mink-Samurai Alliance invaded Onigashima, Yamato was immediately willing to help them and had no qualms with attacking members of his father's crew, making his intentions and loyalty clear to them in the process. Yamato is also willing to go to great lengths to achieve his objectives, having basically kidnapped Luffy in order to get to talk to him and following through with this tactic even after Luffy responded by fighting back.
Yamato is more than willing to put his body and life on the line to protect people out of care, believing that Oden would never abandon a comrade in danger. Yamato resolutely withstood a barrage of powerful artillery strikes by the Armored Division to protect Momonosuke, and later confronted Kaidou alone to stall him until Luffy returned despite knowing he was no match for his father.
However, Yamato also takes enjoyment in engaging in combat; despite framing his plan to split up from Momonosuke as a decoy strategy to trick the Beasts Pirates, Momonosuke and Shinobu both noted to themselves that he seemed mainly interested in going to fight.
Yamato is an extremely powerful warrior, with Black Maria noting that bringing him back to Kaidou's fortress after he had escaped would be a difficult task. In the past, Yamato was able to clash against Ace, a powerful Logia user, on equal ground. Afterwards, Ace acknowledged Yamato's abilities, saying he could not believe someone so strong was not the captain and lamenting that he could not join his crew.
During the Raid on Onigashima, Yamato clashed with Kaidou, a particularly notable feat considering the Emperor's nearly unparalleled physical might, with Kaidou himself acknowledging his son's strength and value as a soldier. Luffy also greatly respects Yamato's abilities, trusting him with protecting Wano after it became vulnerable to outside forces following Kaidou's defeat, despite wishing for Yamato to join his pirate crew.
Past
Yamato was born 28 years ago to his father Kaidou in an unknown location. Twenty years ago, at the age of eight, Yamato witnessed Kozuki Oden's execution during the Legendary Hour and developed an immense admiration for the samurai. Following Oden's death, Yamato went to Kuri Castle to try and help save Oden's family, but he was too weak to intervene and was forced to helplessly watch Kaidou as he threatened to kill Momonosuke. Yamato then discovered Oden's logbook floating in a nearby stream. As a result of this, Yamato developed the desire to become Oden and carry on his dream of opening Wano Country's borders, but when he told Kaidou about this, his father responded by beating him up and putting shackles on his wrists that would ostensibly explode if he left the country. Yamato sowed riots for a week in Onigashima, where he was chained to a post. This then caused him to unknowingly knock out many of his father's subordinates, while he continued to declare his admiration for Oden. Seeing the men on the ground, Kaidou asked him if it was his fault and Yamato replied that he didn't know, but was hungry and wanted some food. His father told him that it was promising since he possessed Haoshoku Haki; however, since he impersonated Oden, he would have to die. In order to help Yamato see sense, Kaidou imprisoned him inside a cave for a month with some powerful imprisoned samurai, who were also being held until their spirits broke and they joined him. Noting that everyone inside was hungry, Kaidou gave them enough food for one person as well as swords they could use to fight over it. Yamato became extremely scared that the samurai would attack him due to him being Kaidou's son, but one of them proceeded to immediately give him the food, saying they did not feel hunger. One of them, Shimotsuki Ushimaru, cut Yamato free from his chains and was friendly to the young child, as Oden was a friend to him and the other samurai. Yamato asked if the samurai could help him read Oden's logbook, and they did so with great interest, reading his accounts with great fascination. Ten days later, Yamato was greatly weakened from starvation, so the samurai, seeing that Kaidou was really going to let him die, tell Yamato that at this rate, he may not be able to see the battle that Oden predicted would occur in twenty years. Yamato tells them that he will fight for Wano that day and then go to sea, becoming much stronger. He then watches as the samurai emerge from the cave, where they plan to make a likely suicidal attack on Kaidou in order to free Yamato. Not long after, one of his father's subordinates found him and gave him blankets and food; however, Yamato later watched as he was executed for it. At some point, when the Number Fuga ate a SMILE that gave him a hybrid horse body, his fellow Numbers mocked him and Kaidou punished him for stealing that fruit. Yamato, however, found his hybrid horse form cool and they became great friends. Four years ago, the pirate Portgas D. Ace and his crew came to Wano in order to kill Kaidou. With Kaidou and his top officers away on an expedition at the time, Yamato battled with Ace instead because of boredom. However, as the battle between the two progressed, Yamato made it clear that he wished to get away from Kaidou and Ace encouraged him to do so. This culminated in Yamato destroying a prized dragon statue belonging to Kaidou while declaring his desire to go out to sea, and Ace commended Yamato for this before doing further damage to the statue. As night fell, Yamato and Ace talked over a campfire and Yamato expressed regret at being unable to go out to sea with the pirate due to the exploding handcuffs on his wrists. He then asked Ace if there were any other rookie pirates attaining infamy, and Ace replied that his younger brother Luffy, who would not be setting sail for a couple more years, would be the toughest one of them all. Ace ended up revealing Luffy's dream to Yamato and quickly begged him not to laugh at it, but Yamato did not do so as Luffy's dream was the same one that the Pirate King Roger was recorded to have in Oden's logbook. The next day as Ace prepared to depart, Yamato gave him a Vivre Card so they could find each other again. Two years later, however, the Vivre Card disappeared and soon afterward Yamato learned via the newspaper that Ace had been killed. At the same time, however, Yamato learned that Luffy was active and gaining infamy as a pirate, and with the words of both Oden and Ace in mind, Yamato began to wait to meet Luffy as well as for a new generation of pirates to arrive in the New World and bring down Kaidou.
•Yamato vs. Portgas D. Ace
•Yamato vs. Monkey D. Luffy
•Yamato vs. Ulti (Onigashima Live Floor)
•Yamato vs. Armored Division
•Yamato vs. Kaidou
•Yamato, Luffy and Kozuki Momonosuke vs. Kaidou
In the anime, Yamato was shown to be the unknown figure who observed Robin and Jinbe when the Straw Hats enter into Onigashima's castle. The manga has yet to clarify whether the person was Yamato or not.
Gender
There are discrepancies in how Yamato is referred to between how he is referred to by characters in the story including himself and how he is referred to in narration and promotional material. Given that the Japanese language rarely uses third person pronouns, it is less frequent for characters to be referred to in a gendered fashion and so a bit more difficult to resolve this discrepancy. However, based on what has been said and done so far by characters, it is generally interpreted that Yamato refers to himself as a man and characters who are acquainted with him address him as such as well: •Yamato consistently calls himself the son of Kaidou and Kaidou and his crew consistently refer to him as such as well. The only time characters have been shown referring to Yamato as a female is when first meeting him. •Yamato was called "Oni Princess" as a child, but only in a flashback to 20 years prior when he was just starting to adopt the identity of Oden. •Yamato elected to bathe with the men when the Straw Hats and their friends went to the bathhouse. •Yamato uses the first-person Japanese pronoun "boku", which is typically used by young boys. It should be noted, though, that this not a universal indicator of one's preferred gender as a few female characters in other media have used predominantly male pronouns. However, Yamato is the only female-assigned character in One Piece to use boku. •Luffy's nickname for Yamato, "Yama-o" (ヤマ男?), uses the kanji for "man" (男) in the suffix which has typically been translated as "-guy" in the official translations. •The Funimation dub initially had Luffy call Yamato by his actual name, with the nicknaming element being a mispronunciation by the former (Yuh-may-toh in place of Yah-muh-toh), before replacing this with him calling Yamato "Yama-bro".
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I think Yamato is a bad character but even she is let down by her Dan base. And then they have the gall to accuse Carrot fans of being awful when we're on the defensive 90% of the time. I don't usually see pro Yamato comments getting downvoted to hell like the do with Carrot.
I'll make her one of my favorites characters in one piece If she is bad since I like bad men and bad women . I'm not sure if she is considered bad…
Dec 22, 2023 · Yamato, Kaido's son, is a complex character symbolizing resistance and self-discovery in One Piece. Yamato's hannya mask serves as a symbolic representation of his true self and his journey to self-discovery. With a Mythical Zoan-Type Devil Fruit, Yamato has enhanced abilities and can go head-to-head with his father, Kaido.
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