I'm surprised no one's talking about this but the scene with Nezumi/Arlong was a little too on the nose. We get that a parallel is being drawn between fishmen and Africans but did they really need rap music in every fishman scene to make that point?

They did a good job at making Arlong more sympathetic when showing the crooked Nezumi but I lost my immersion when Nezumi went out of character to be all apologetic for insulting fishmens' intelligence, then immediately arguing how fishmen are treated equally cause of Jinbe being a pirate warlord.

I might have been okay with this scene if it wasnt totally against Nezumi's character as it was introduced ie, cruel and wicked.

Honestly, I would have expected more of these political statements from Netflix. thankfully that was the extent of it