User blog comment:Mejiaj1/One piece censoring nipples, what are your thoughts about?/@comment-972068-20130326032603

Nipples are censored because One Piece is a show for children. Since women's nipples are deemed inappropriate for children, they are never seen. Japan has a very strict censoring law, anyways. Even in most adult/porographic films produced in Japan, they will blur out genitals, even if it's live action. This law is even used graphic novels, where in their cases sometimes the genitals have black bars over the middle of them (How I know about this information is classified).

What you might not know is that nipples aren't just blocked out: They're invisible. If the implication of nipples in an anime are the same as a real-life female's nipples, then there's no way they can't be invisible. It's very common in art to have nipples in a completely wrong place. This may be to censor, to make it look attractive, or because the fat neckbeard who drew it doesn't know what a real boob looks like. Here are a few examples.

'''These images don't really have nipples drawn on them, but it's implied. Please look at if you don't have anybody watching you, and don't look at in school unless you want to be suspended.'''

Here is where the anime likely implied Tashigi's nipples to be; labeled in green.

Here are where the nipples most likely are actually located; labeled in red.

Robin's implied nipple locations.

Robin's actual nipple locations.

Hancock's implied nipple locations.

Hancock's actual nipple locations.

My examples are probably not very accurate, but it's the general area. Nipples SHOULD be visible.