The decline was really visible in WCI, with the Tamatebako shitfest, Big Mom's tantrum and Katakuri stabbing himself and letting Luffy defeat him. We just didn't want to see it.
Wano just cemented it really. Besides Kaido & Big Mom's defeats being just anti climactic as fuck, there was a lot of terrible stuff.
Kid & Law vs Big Mom was a crap fight for a main villain of the saga.
Some Strawhats received almost no shine like Usopp or Brook. Nami's win was really cheap, it was due to Big Mom.
Sanji turning into a cyborg was really unnecessary, wasn't he supposed to be different from his siblings?
Zoro's dream was completely irrelevant in the lands of swordsmen. What happened with the Grim Reaper? And what happened with Zoro's lineage and his relationship with Ryuma & Ushimaru ? The amount of ignored plot lines with Zoro are astonishing.
And of course, the amount of plot armor for Luffy was insane, dude can just lose 1000 times, it doesn't matter, he will just be found randomly by Law's crew in the middle of the sea after being dropped from a flying island. And when you knock him out again, he will just awaken randomly lmao. I feel bad for Kaido.
There was a lot wrong about this arc really, it's hard to remember it all.
People should stop expecting too much from Oda. This isn't the same author we had for the first part of the series who had masterful writing where we felt every little foreshadowing or little hint mattered and nothing was left to randomness. You cannot say that about Oda anymore, not after the disaster class that was the Yonko saga. Maybe dude just has too much money now he doesn't care about the quality of his craft as much. My only hope now is that he actually planned the ending of the series a long time ago so it could be good.
Wano just cemented it really. Besides Kaido & Big Mom's defeats being just anti climactic as fuck, there was a lot of terrible stuff.
Kid & Law vs Big Mom was a crap fight for a main villain of the saga.
Some Strawhats received almost no shine like Usopp or Brook. Nami's win was really cheap, it was due to Big Mom.
Sanji turning into a cyborg was really unnecessary, wasn't he supposed to be different from his siblings?
Zoro's dream was completely irrelevant in the lands of swordsmen. What happened with the Grim Reaper? And what happened with Zoro's lineage and his relationship with Ryuma & Ushimaru ? The amount of ignored plot lines with Zoro are astonishing.
And of course, the amount of plot armor for Luffy was insane, dude can just lose 1000 times, it doesn't matter, he will just be found randomly by Law's crew in the middle of the sea after being dropped from a flying island. And when you knock him out again, he will just awaken randomly lmao. I feel bad for Kaido.
There was a lot wrong about this arc really, it's hard to remember it all.
People should stop expecting too much from Oda. This isn't the same author we had for the first part of the series who had masterful writing where we felt every little foreshadowing or little hint mattered and nothing was left to randomness. You cannot say that about Oda anymore, not after the disaster class that was the Yonko saga. Maybe dude just has too much money now he doesn't care about the quality of his craft as much. My only hope now is that he actually planned the ending of the series a long time ago so it could be good.
