Yeah: Seeing the history of Wano, the backstories of Oden, Orochi and the scabbards, young Whitebeard, the last year of Roger’s journey, him reaching Laugh take and the reactions of him and his crew when witnessing the treasure which is the freaking core of the whole godamn manga...
Despite how much you liked it, saying that this flashback was a waste of time is simply asinine, idiotic...
It's idiotic? Really?
History of Wano? So 20 years ago is for you History?...
Oden is a bad writen Character. All he did was causing Problems, he even ate from a dead person's Body and for what ever reason People stil thought how cool he was and liked him???? Wtf
People liked him just because...only after he became Shogun he actually did something for the People and Wano.
He made tons of stupid decisions and the FB had logic- and plotholes.
Trusting Orochi and Kaidou who fucked up his whole Country and made a ridiculous deal with them to Dance for 5 years to save some People, until they would make their ship Ready and leave lol. Who would believe that? He had all the reasons to try to kill them - he had all the Samurai on his side. Because he didn't wanted anyone to get killed? Ehm...people were forced to work under unhumand conditions and if you refused to do so, they killed you and even your Family members…
Well, but 5 years later he goes to fight Kaidou after he stacked up his Forces with just 10 People...
Later...
This guy was in a woden Cage and had his magical swords with him, which could cut even Kaidou. And what does he do? He gives them away….instead of Breaking out and saving his retainers...
No, he waited for them to get boiled and Risk this retainers lives for no reason - then asking Orochi and Kaidou - who allready lied to him before - to make a deal again. Which they ofc broke again...
Ah yeah, Orochi's backstory and the way they overthrown the Kozuki Family. Reminds me very strongly about alabasta - maybe because Oda used Bon clay's DF for the same fucking reason again? This is lazy writing. In almost every arc there is a princess in Need and a over thrown country or they are about too over throw it. It's very repetitive - so nothing new here. And looking at Orochi how he grew up from being a pathetic little shit to a pathetic big shit...wow! something i really wanted to see! He is the exact same scared Little bitch he Always was. He didn't grew as a Person. Orochi even had the same Moment as Doffy (copy of another Arc again), he got a DF from a Person who wanted to help him to become bad (or whatever). Well, Doffy did something with it and became a very powerfull Person, who actually could do something by himself. Orochi Needs protection from everything and everyone - and the old hag did the most important things in over throwing the Kozuki Family. Couldn't careless About this guy.
How much did we see from WB? Yeah, not really much. And we had 1 single Panel of WB and Roger clashing...WOW! Totally worth 16 chapters!
Seeing Roger and his Adventure - where he visited the same Islands as Luffy, did you really needed to see that? We already knew he visited the same Islands as Luffy.
What exactly new did we get from Roger being in front of the OP treasure and laugh about it? We didn't see the treasure (ofc) nor did we see the actual Island or anything else which would be new for us. We only saw a laughing Roger and his Crew - that's it. And we even already knew about the Name 'Laugh Tale' from the OP movie Stampede - so nothing new here either.
The FB did had some interesting info's, like about Joyboy and his ''reincarnation'' for example. We saw a Little more of Roger's Crew, how he fought and a ''new''(?) form of haki, Denjiro being Kyoshiro etc.
But i don't see it being worth 16 Chapters...so yeah, it was a waste for me.