You know what is actually really, really ridiculous. How Luffy was the only one to get ryuo training.
The 3 billion berry bounty would make so much more sense if Oda just had Kid and Law train ryuo with Luffy. But he had to go out of his way to make sure that only Luffy got the special skill. But this is fucking ridiculous because Oda gave Luffy a whole host of other special skills. Lets go down the list, shall we?
- future sight
- internal destruction CoA
- sky splitter tier ACoC
- god Nika DF
- god Nika awakening
This is my issue. You can give Luffy every power up in the book, but you couldn't give Kid and Law the one basic power up they'd need to fight big mom and kaido? And this is especially true for Kid because Oda legitimately makes him look weak as he is the only member on the roof without internal damage abilities or advanced haki. This is why people were clowning him so much after the rooftop. This is why people still claim that Law carried the big mom fight.
If Kid and Law both got Ryuo and Kid even got ACoC, and then Oda only gave Luffy the Nika awakening to make him special, then nobody would have issues with the bounties. Because in this scenario, while Luffy is still special, Kid and Law still feel like rivals. But what we got instead is a situation where Oda went out of his way to utterly irrelevantize Kid and Law by giving Luffy every power up in the book and giving Kid and Law(Kid especially) almost nothing.
Yet he still feels the need to push rivalries, have Kid and Law beat Big Mom by plot convenience, and somehow make their bounties equal.
To sum it up, Oda's recent arcs have been utter trash and he's butchering characters he's been building up for years.
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I seriously don't know what the fuck is wrong with Oda, to where he can give the fucking irrelevant fodder scabbards ryuo, but he couldn't give it to Kid, the guy he hyped up to be Luffy's rival since sabaody.
"but he's not really a rival"
It doesn't fucking matter. Kid does not need to be Luffy's equal. He never needed to be Luffy's equal. He just needed to be able to keep up with him. Yet Oda literally made Kid look worse than Killer on the roof by giving him a fighting style he previously portrayed to be useless against kaido. Then Oda needs to offscreen big mom using ACoC because he can't logically come up with a scenario where Kid and Law are somehow able to deal with it. Then Oda needs to have big mom punch a bomb to KO herself because the supernovas' attacks weren't strong enough. Then Oda needs to convey the rivalry with bounties instead of actual feats and portrayl.
I would have loved for Kid to get ACoC, but towards the end of the fight I had given up even on that. I just assumed that Oda would at least give Kid a power up he previously portrayed to be a basic skill needed to hurt the emperors. Luffy not only has Ryuo, but he has internal destruction ryuo, and ACoC, and he's mastered ACoC to the point of sky splitting. Surely it couldn't hurt to give Kid scabbard tier ryuo, right? Right Oda? right?
Like I've been saying. Oda ruined his character and actually fuck him for doing it. I can't believe I've been invested in one piece as long as I have just for Oda to shit the bed in the most important arc.