Well they’re gonna have to all shine if they’re going to come through with the biggest win in the entire series. And with how bad Sanji was treated this chapter, you simply cannot think his best moments aren’t ahead of him. I mean the fact that Robin was the most animated she has been since the pretimeskip days in this chapter kinda speaks for itself, they’re all getting their repsective moments for sure.
Yup. Its 100% necessary now. Oda needs to convince us that they are ready for the endgame. All 10 (or 11?) need to be shown in exceptional ways to win by the end of the arc. Basically Enies Lobby but on Crack.
Sidetracking, but its funny how much this arc seems to also mimic Water 7/Enies Lobby, hell, the whole timeskip if we start with Alabasta
- Dressrosa/Alabasta (tons of parallels)
- WCI/Skypiea (sort of a stretch but has an impossible/fantastical aspect to the islands)
- Wano/CP-9 (2 primary locations, half of the villains weren't shown until the main battle, etc)
Makes me wonder if a Vegapunk/Elbaf arc will be our "Thriller Bark" and then Lodestar/Laugh Tale/God Valley/New Marineford/Mariejois/Final War will be like our Sabaody/Amazon Lily/Impel Down/Marineford/Paramount War.
Seems to "roughly" workout that way lol