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After time skip, the appearance of characters in One Piece are changed.
Several of them change significantly like Nami with her long hair, Robin with
brighter skin, Chopper with all of his transformation different before time
skip, even Usopp have more muscular body and longer hair, he also have goatee.

But I want to know what happened with this goatee. Beside Usopp, other
characters also have goatee after time skip like :

Sanji

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QZzdf.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QZzdf.jpg)

Capone Bege

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oGL2I.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oGL2I.png)

Well maybe I'm not sure who's the others, but why many of them have goatee?
First I think it's for make them more mature or to shows that time has passed
several years, but when I see (maybe it's bad example) Pokemon, in the latest
generation they have another "evolution" called mega evolution, in this mega
form, many Pokemon changes their appearance with some goatee like attributes.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DaJbN.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DaJbN.png)

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/S2Kp3.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/S2Kp3.png)

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/k7ytz.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/k7ytz.jpg)

Is this goatee is trend in Japan or what?


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Why the appearance of One Piece characters have goatee after time skip?


> I think it's for make them more mature or to shows that time has passed
> several years

Your way of thinking is correct here. Although it certainly makes them look
mature, facial hair growth more correctly shows the _passage of time_. It is
known as the [TimePassageBeard
trope](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TimePassageBeard).

> Is this goatee is trend in Japan or what?

It's not a trend in Japan, but one of the tools/visual cues used by writers
(and mangakas too) to easily show the passage of time. This kind of trope is
not only seen in anime, but in other types of media as well. The previously
linked page lists some examples, but let me put some here whilst adding some
of my own:

  1. In The Big Bang Theory, At the end of season two the gang goes to the North Pole for three months. When they come back in the following premiere they all have big beards (except Sheldon, who has a neatly-trimmed goatee).This came from the linked page
  2. In the recent movie [In the Heart of the Sea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Heart_of_the_Sea_\(film\)), the main character Owen Chase is shown to have grown facial hair to show the passage of time.
  3. In the game Assassin's Creed II, main character Ezio Auditore is shown to grow facial hair as you finish more memories.

So why goatees? Or more importantly why hair? The keyword here is **easily
show**.

**Passage of Time:** [Human hair
growth](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_hair_growth) speed is roughly
1.25 cm per month. That means that if you don't cut your hair (facial or not)
for a year, it will grow at least 12 cm, the size of a ruler! The average
human face is roughly 50 cm in length. Having hair that is 12 cm long in that
face is _easily_ visible. And because we all know that hair grows with time,
seeing a long hair on someone helps establish that _some time has passed_
since we last seen him/her.

**Maturity:** As for maturity, it's simple. In the ancient times and even in
the modern times, facial hair is always seen in adult people. You don't see
facial hair in young people right? Putting facial hair on a character helps
establish the fact that this character _isn't young anymore_.

tldr; Yes you are correct. Goatees, or hair growth in general easily shows
maturity and/or passage of time.

As for the Pokemon, at least in Alakazam's case, it looks like the goatee
there more symbolizes wisdom than passage of time. As for others, well...


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