User blog comment:ThePK/Nami's Catch-22/@comment-4493594-20120127094147

Tuckyd hates on AWCs. Neo makes a blog about it. Neo hates on Nami. Tuckyd makes a blog about it... lol

Nami is like a mix between Sakura from Naruto and Karen/Kallen from Code Geass. She used to be quite useless and was yet heavily overrated due to her being the only woman on the crew. In fact I think if she had been the 2nd female character she wouldn't have that many fans seeing how generic she is in comparison to Robin.

She's the navigator. I guess in a crew consisting of Luffy and Zoro this is about as useful as you can be but there was never any comparison to any other navigator and I believe that while she is said to have an extraordinary sense for the weather what she does is the minimum requirement for a navigator. For her "profession" I don't see how she's any special.
 * Random Nami-Fan #1: But, Neo! She can predict the weather!
 * Neo: O rly? Someone get a frog-suit and a ladder over here! This is called meteorosensitivity btw. and is generally seen as a sickness/handicap kind of phenomenon. I hope she suffers headaches. >_>

She's weak. Always was, always will be. Notice how she is always the one in need of being saved by one of the others. That's okay for a woman. But she was given a magic rod and everyone thought she's awesome. Well, if she's so awesome then why doesn't she fend for herself?
 * Random Nami-Fan #2: But, Neo! She had such a hard past! She's very strong!
 * Neo: Oh, boohoo. Who in OP hadn't a hard past? I feel more sorry for Robin than for shitty Nami.

I admit, as a character, she was needed. A necessary evil to slap some sense into the goofy male cast. And for the fanservice... That's the most important thing about a female character, right? Personally, I don't like the way she looks. I used to think that Nami looks generic but then there was a time-skip. And all of the sudden she looked even more generic. Funnily enough people drooled about her even more just because of those slutty clothes. (Imagine a woman in real life with that outfit. You know it's true.)

As a fan who likes to draw fanart I don't like Nami's over-presence. It's a piece of cake to get good references of her. But because she is everywhere you can get hardly any pictures of the more interesting females in OP. Try google for any female other than Nami or Robin. >_>

To me Nami is a Mary Sue. I can tolerate her because she's funny. And because getting rid of her would be off. But just because you spread your fanboy juices all over the place doesn't mean I have to worship her like everybody else.