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Wano went from underwhelming to bad as weeks passed by. I just reread the arc to try and get clear picture of what went wrong
I can confirm that even when you binge read it, you get the urge to skip the page, the pace is so slow and there is little to none valuable information or character development and the humour is one note.
Now that I look back, one piece always suffered from this issue. Oda has a formula, you can notice the pattern with every arc, it has its flow, after all a serie with 1000+ch and still far from the end, clearly there is an issue.
So we start with act 1 and we get to see wano for the first time the landscape is nothing mind blowing, it's Japan we are all familiar with it. The characters seem interesting at surface level, yasuie denjiro...
Then we get the oden flashback and this is how things start to go wrong.
The scabbars take so much space of wano, they are more important than the straw hats but you don't feel emotionally invested in them because oda failed to make us feel for oden. People loved the Roger vs Wb panels but really what did we learn about the one piece? What mystery did this flashback unravel? Nothing.
With the chapter oda start referencing prophecies and destiny more and more, with toki talking about the dawn and how oden said in 20 years the chosen one will liberate wano.
Finally we get to see oden vs kaido, how he got the scar and it turn oden death was as tragic as a car accident, he is just dumb.
Nobody care but the character are crying and you start second guessing yourself, maybe I missed something, so you read it again and nope still feel nothing.
So we move on to act 2 or the training arc, Queen clown behavior is one thing but he looked stupid letting luffy train under his eyes, it made one of the top 5 in wano look stupid and non threatening.
Let's skip past that, we spent too much time on preparation, the paper the sword the ship... And once we get to onigashima, kaido lift the island and we are on our way back to the flower capital, couldn't oda just have them fight in capital and cut the rubbish.
Anyway, we are at onigashima and they are supposed to sneak inside but we know that it s useless luffy and zoro blew it, again too much set up for little pay off.
Then again we waste a dozen chapter on scabbards mink vs kaido and Jack, meanwhile we get a virus plot to make queen look even dumber and throw chopper a bone because the mascot didn't do anything since punk hazard.
And we get a new addition to the oden wank club, yamato. Which bring me to the biggest issue is that the cast is bloated, luffy zoro law kidd killer hawking Drake sanji franky jinbei Robin nami usopp yamato tama momo the scabbars, each one of these character had their moment but its so crammed that the payoff feel lackluster. Too much noise and lack of focus, lead to lack of emotional investment. Since oda is trying to fit in all of these characters, they have to keep moving. First off you had the virus then the bomb then the fire and now onigashima is falling, then probably marines are coming. While he wrap up one thread he has to create another to give the cast something to do meanwhile.
Oda took more than he can chew and in the end botched the pace, we are still 4 years and counting with no conclusion and no payoff.
And finally the chosen one bullshit, not only is luffy one of the most privileged people in the universe he is the savior of the universe.
He can't lose, he lose his enemy throw him to the ocean he heal instantly and get back to the top, he lose again, suddenly his DF is the one even wg fear and literally turned him into a reincarnation of a god, then you got people df, omg oda is having so much fun drawing cartoons. Luffy vs kaido is so original it s like watching Tom and Jerry, oda is a genius.
Can you hear me shaking my head.
The climax of this war, 10 year in the making, is a joke.
And the oddest thing is how fans keep praising like we are in a cult.
I can confirm that even when you binge read it, you get the urge to skip the page, the pace is so slow and there is little to none valuable information or character development and the humour is one note.
Now that I look back, one piece always suffered from this issue. Oda has a formula, you can notice the pattern with every arc, it has its flow, after all a serie with 1000+ch and still far from the end, clearly there is an issue.
So we start with act 1 and we get to see wano for the first time the landscape is nothing mind blowing, it's Japan we are all familiar with it. The characters seem interesting at surface level, yasuie denjiro...
Then we get the oden flashback and this is how things start to go wrong.
The scabbars take so much space of wano, they are more important than the straw hats but you don't feel emotionally invested in them because oda failed to make us feel for oden. People loved the Roger vs Wb panels but really what did we learn about the one piece? What mystery did this flashback unravel? Nothing.
With the chapter oda start referencing prophecies and destiny more and more, with toki talking about the dawn and how oden said in 20 years the chosen one will liberate wano.
Finally we get to see oden vs kaido, how he got the scar and it turn oden death was as tragic as a car accident, he is just dumb.
Nobody care but the character are crying and you start second guessing yourself, maybe I missed something, so you read it again and nope still feel nothing.
So we move on to act 2 or the training arc, Queen clown behavior is one thing but he looked stupid letting luffy train under his eyes, it made one of the top 5 in wano look stupid and non threatening.
Let's skip past that, we spent too much time on preparation, the paper the sword the ship... And once we get to onigashima, kaido lift the island and we are on our way back to the flower capital, couldn't oda just have them fight in capital and cut the rubbish.
Anyway, we are at onigashima and they are supposed to sneak inside but we know that it s useless luffy and zoro blew it, again too much set up for little pay off.
Then again we waste a dozen chapter on scabbards mink vs kaido and Jack, meanwhile we get a virus plot to make queen look even dumber and throw chopper a bone because the mascot didn't do anything since punk hazard.
And we get a new addition to the oden wank club, yamato. Which bring me to the biggest issue is that the cast is bloated, luffy zoro law kidd killer hawking Drake sanji franky jinbei Robin nami usopp yamato tama momo the scabbars, each one of these character had their moment but its so crammed that the payoff feel lackluster. Too much noise and lack of focus, lead to lack of emotional investment. Since oda is trying to fit in all of these characters, they have to keep moving. First off you had the virus then the bomb then the fire and now onigashima is falling, then probably marines are coming. While he wrap up one thread he has to create another to give the cast something to do meanwhile.
Oda took more than he can chew and in the end botched the pace, we are still 4 years and counting with no conclusion and no payoff.
And finally the chosen one bullshit, not only is luffy one of the most privileged people in the universe he is the savior of the universe.
He can't lose, he lose his enemy throw him to the ocean he heal instantly and get back to the top, he lose again, suddenly his DF is the one even wg fear and literally turned him into a reincarnation of a god, then you got people df, omg oda is having so much fun drawing cartoons. Luffy vs kaido is so original it s like watching Tom and Jerry, oda is a genius.
Can you hear me shaking my head.
The climax of this war, 10 year in the making, is a joke.
And the oddest thing is how fans keep praising like we are in a cult.
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