I hate when people and Oda himself go with the “well it would be a lot of trouble to draw the scars in every pannel” excuse for not giving the women in One Piece any scars.
What the frickity frackity FUCK
Oda gave Luffy a scar literally in the third page of his manga. Really. First chapter of One Piece. And two pages later there’s Shanks with, oh boy, not one, but three scars in his left eye!!
Male characters with scars are the norm in One Piece. Zoro has a scar in his left eye, one across his chest and another one in each ankle. Franky, Whitebeard, and Luffy’s torso, Rob Lucci’s back, Moria’s neck… Some of the scars Oda draws could be easily covered by clothes but the thing is… the vast majority of characters with scars have face scars. He gives them visible scars and is well aware that when he draws the character he has to give them their scars. Luffy, Zoro, Shanks, Sabo, Garp Crocodile, King Riku, Kid, Smoker… Just as he bothers to draw Dragon’s waffle tattoo, he takes a tiny bit of his precious time to draw all those face scars.
So if you ever come to me with the shitty excuse that Oda doesn’t give scars to women because it would be too much trouble; that he actually removed! Nami’s shoulder scar because it was a pain in the ass drawing it every time, I’m gonna scream BULLSHIT so hard that Blackbeard, Doflamingo and the Vinsmokes are going to raise their heads and wonder if someone just called them.