Why is One Piece animator José B. Rebolledo going viral on Twitter? If you’re a One Piece fan and you’ve also been on X (formerly Twitter) within the past day, chances are you might have seen the epic clapback of animator José B. Rebolledo against a tweet involving AI-generated art of Luffy. Some might have missed out and are wondering what happened with the animator and another X user. Here is what One Piece animator José B. Rebolledo said.
What happened to One Piece animator José B. Rebolledo on X?
It began with another X (Twitter) user named Óscar Bartolomé. After mentioning that he watched an episode of One Piece, he included an AI-generated image of a wanted poster of Luffy in his tweet. José B. Rebolledo responded to Bartolomé’s tweet, saying that Bartolomé should “Learn how to color properly, or learn how to draw to begin with.” Bartolomé responds with another tweet, telling Rebolledo “Not even in your dreams would you be able to make an illustration like this.”
Check out their exchange below:
Rebolledo clapped back by saying “I can do better, I can animate it, because I’ve been ANIMATING FOR ONE PIECE YOU IDIOT.” Alongside this was an image from the anime showing the names of the staff. Rebolledo’s name is credited on the photo. As of writing, Rebolledo’s tweet has now been deleted. But many anime fans on social media have already seen the exchange between the two Twitter users.
One Piece is a shonen manga series created by Eiichiro Oda. Shueisha began serializing the manga in July 1997 in their Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. Toei Animation produced the anime adaptation, which premiered in October 1999. The story follows Monkey D. Luffy and his crew as they explore the world in search of a treasure called the One Piece.
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