The first problem with this thread is that One Piece is an adventure story first with battle elements not a battle manga with adventure elements. The power system is not as important as the other things that are going on in the story. Early One Piece was not about power scaling but more so about the creative way Oda handled the fights. Fans ruin it with power scaling hence why this thread is garbage to begin with.
Your first point is negated by the plot armor known as "Nanika" the biggest plot hole in the entire series. You guys use restrictions on Kurapika as justification while neglecting to say there is no limit to the power "Nanika" can use and no suitable explanation for why that is. That selective shit ruins your argument.
What is this run on paragraph? Good points but man that was hard to read.
Anyway I love Luffy's awakening because it makes me feel like Oda is getting back to early One Piece with this battle, which was crazy and unpredictable. HxH fights are predictable because of the power system we can all figure out what is coming but that is what makes OP different fans never know what they are going to get. That is a big difference between the two series. And as I stated above power scaling is a fan construct not something Oda was ever focused on. I do not agree that Haki has taken any charm or creativity away, especially when we see all the creative aspects of how Luffy (and others) incorporates Haki into his fighting style.
- Buggy getting his body parts tied up by Nami.
- Usopp beating a fishman with fire, a hammer, and the rubber band of doom.
- Sanji blowing carbon dioxide into a fishmans gills.
- Usopp beating Perona with a balloon that looked like a hammer.
- etc...
Yes and for that he loses his nen and his life.
Compare that to Luffy who has zero consequences other than shortening his bullshit life span.
Compare that to Luffy who has zero consequences other than shortening his bullshit life span.
Luffy beat Doflamingo with a form that depends on haki, needed future sight to beat Katakuri and unlocked three types of advanced haki against Kaido to compete with him; in the three most difficult fights Luffy had in the series thus far Oda chose to make haki apart of it, again what I'm saying here is that this concept doesn't need to exist, it's very one dimensional, repetitive and is used by Oda as a scapegoat to make Luffy win and win in a fashion that just doesn't fit his character; Luffy should triumph because of his creativity and childlike applications of his DF, as he did in early One piece, that's what Luffy is about and haki took a lot of charm and creativity away from the story until recently with awakenings.
Anyway I love Luffy's awakening because it makes me feel like Oda is getting back to early One Piece with this battle, which was crazy and unpredictable. HxH fights are predictable because of the power system we can all figure out what is coming but that is what makes OP different fans never know what they are going to get. That is a big difference between the two series. And as I stated above power scaling is a fan construct not something Oda was ever focused on. I do not agree that Haki has taken any charm or creativity away, especially when we see all the creative aspects of how Luffy (and others) incorporates Haki into his fighting style.
- Boundman
- Tank Man
- Snake Man
- and now his Awakening
- Chinjao coating the point on his head