The raid at least had tons of fights involved, bigger stakes/tension, 2 Yonkos involved and some Yonko Commanders and such.
It was heavily flawed and dragged out but we got some dope scenes and imo fights too.
l'm not feeling the tension at Egghead at all, its just so mediocre and lethargic. Kizaru taking months to arrive and now some Saturn is with him as we found out later, God knows how much longer they're gonna take to arrive.
The same Kizaru who is so chaotic, unpredictable, is made of light via his DF and rode a fucking cannonball as his entrance. Also mercilessly bodied the SHs, the Supernovas and then captured 500 pirates out of anger for letting the SHs escape.
Never has an Admirals appearance been so underwhelming and we had Green Bull getting bullshitted by a movie promotion!
The best things in OP happen offscreen mostly. Or and take far too long to happen.
The longer they take to arrive, the more they are burdened to not disappoint and thus rescue/carry this arc too.
It's not even just any Admiral but Kizaru too and an actual Gorosei too! This is easily gonna be a 30 chapter plus arc at this rate, sigh. Maybe 40 at worst? Surely not more than that?!
If Egghead is like this, what will future arcs be like, especially Elbaf if we get it? I dread to think...
I know Oda has to set up his pieces, his players, his storylines etc but this is just getting ridiculous now especially. I used to hate other manga for being too fast paced/lacking information and such, how ironic lol.
I guess Saturn coming from Mary Geoise is why it's taking so long too ofc but, man what if the SHs leave before Kizaru and Saturn get there? I'm assuming they are close enough to arrive that same day though ofc? Just anime time at work? Making it seem much longer than what's actually going on?
Doesn't help Smoker and Fujitora are non existent and we barely got anything on Tashigi and the Punk Hazard kids. After waiting so damned long too...I just realised, did Chopper try to treat them before and couldn't or something?