Has anybody been reading for the last 10 years and went I like where Oda is going with this?
smoker fans dissapointed
Moriah fans dissapointed
Tashigi fans dissapointed
usopp fans disappointed
big mom fans dissapointed
unless you wank zoro, akainu, Luffy or Coby I dont see what were getting out of following the story.
Robin has two fights in the manga
I guess one could arguee that he is writing about the theme of liberation and freedom, so individual charachters get neglected. But then one can criticise the execution of it: is this generalised freedom for all conveid in a way that somebody cares? Wouldn't it be better to show the theme through the development of the charachters and not by cookie cutter defeats of one dimmensional tyrants oppresing nameless background charachters?
Who wouldn't love to see Usopp become free of his fears, of his insecurities and some physical constraints (call me shallow but at the end everybody loves a cool powerup) and thw positive freedom of archieving his dream?
Who wouldnt prefer to see Smoker archieve his goal of a World goverment free of coruption, rising in Rank and strength to fullfil his ambition (I'll write on the squanderd potential of haki=ambition in another shizo rant)
Certainly I would prefer Tashiginto emancipate herself from her limitations that people place on her gender instead of the tranny stuff Oda seems to love (guess being slave to weird gender fetishes is more freeing than a woman getting a power up or archieving her goals in her own way)
Moriah seemed to have learnt some lesson about friendship but I guess using him as a hype tool is better than having him team up thematically with luffy to free him of the guilt of losing his old crew and making him able to redeem himself and able to find new comrades.
Big mom... yeah kinda sad if she never gets free of her childhood trauma and allways gets stuck in a cage of childhood only falling like a baby throwing a tantrum till her death.
Also my **** Koby better show up and not be a scrub lol😂