Recent content by Ketimatsu

Irrelevant as "fighters" - yes. But this has been going since the time skip, where Oda has chosen to develop other characters such as Law rather than the strawhats. You can also just enjoy chapters like the last one, where Oda properly develops some of them still, especially Sanji who has been...

Main problem of the development is actually all the haki stuff, not Sanji's narrative, which for some reason is one of the best, if not the best of the straw hats. Throughout the whole manga it has been pretty consistent, and this perfectly makes sense. If not taking hits deliberately, he has...

I guess my final take on that is really around this low-esteem he has of himself. Somehow Oda, could really wrap up nicely a narrative that has run for a long time, at least since Thriller Bark where the contrast between Sanji and Zoro was not that apparent then. But thinking again, although...

I guess this is one of these moments, where you have to come with your own framing to say to everyone you are right, and everyone is wrong.... That is just a matter of how you use words, but Haki is willpower, well probably the best English translation we have of it. And what you say at the...

What's that answer? I would certainly welcome a real fight and Zoro struggling or something. Here the chapter does not change anything compared to the previous one. Oh no wait, Zoro put on his bandana.... There is no change in dynamic compared to the previous chapter whatsoever, nothing. Just...

Useless chapter. Period. Sommers fooling around like in the previous one, Zorro taking it easy and pretty much AGAIN on the verge to one shot him, ending AGAIN with a funny WTF face.

You must have been 60 when it started, you have to be blind to see the manga "is the same". Whatever the judgment of quality we want to have, it has changed in many respects, especially pre/post time skip.

Another trope incoming?.... pfff as if we needed that. Glad to get the others strawhats for probably... two panels max cause you know, Oda stopped caring about them ages ago. Pity cause I stopped caring about Luffy when a "rubber fruit" became the one being the one with the soul of a god turning...

While I enjoyed some parts of this arc like the flashback, the last chapters have been... Gruesome. Some of the worst writing by Oda imo. Every chapter lately has been: - Imu is sooo powerful - Imu one shot someone - There is nothing anyone can do... - Epic save: someone comes in - Imu...

It does not require a further training arc, and most likely will not happen, for the sheer fact that the manga has to conclude at some point. Could easily see Sanjji and Zoro, barely managing to incapacitate or "defeat" their opponents right when there would be losing and maybe forcing retreat...

Think Oda, lost track of that it needs balance, and some more serious moments. Luffy can keep fooling around, but what makes the story great is also these contrasts. Against Crocodile it was a case in point, the goofiness was great and well introduced, followed by a final match up very serious...

I think a simple way of putting and a stark contrast between Zoro and Sanji is their convictions. For Zoro they are a strength, for Sanji they are a weakness. Zoro would stop at nothing to achieve his goal, Sanji just sacrifices himself. Sanji ties with others don't make him stronger, like...

Worse, we have rinnegan, with a guy hiding in the shadows looking for eyes... If Oda wanted to copy Naruto, he could have chosen the good parts, not the crappy ones...

Yeah, actually Sommers would be a better match for Sanji to unlock it, in a super Saiyan fashion unlocking for "mistreating love" and triggering hard Sanji a bit like Absalom did back in time

Jeez going now into another flashback, what terrible pacing...