Each one has their favorite character within the crew of The Straw Hat Pirates from ‘One Piece’, but what cannot be denied is that Tony Tony Chopper he is the cutest and most adorable of them all.
Of course in its original design, chopper was not as cuqui as now, and according to Eiichiro Oda it was precisely because of the anime that he decided to change the appearance of the character.
We don’t like pets! Unless…
Chopper entered the crew of the going merry like the ship’s doctor, and when he first appeared he looked a bit different. The aesthetics of anime have been changing slightly over the years, but it is true that Chopper’s proportions have been altered the most.
At first, Oda wanted to give him an appearance like some kind of humanoid reindeer because I didn’t want it to seem like it was just a cute pet.. However, her opinion changed when she heard the voice that had been chosen for the series.
“I changed Chopper to a mascot character after hearing his voice in the anime. I have a policy of never drawing mascots, but Otaki Ikue’s voice was too cute,” Oda said in an interview with Gosho Aoyama, the creator of ‘ Detective Conan’.
Although Chopper was already monkey in his first appearance, its proportions have been changing in the manga by Oda’s decision and this has also been reflected in the anime. Little by little, his head became bigger and his features were exaggerated to give him a more “chibi” look, giving rise to the Chopper that we can now see in the series.