Who will be the Next Strawhat?


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Biggest issue with Bonney is that Oda's been dragging out her story beats between everything else that's currently happening.

Everything she's doing makes sense, but I really feel like Oda should just dedicate the time to wrapping up her conflict with Vegapunk/Discovering her father's past rather than just popping back up and moving forward like a inch every other chapter with her.
 
I think the biggest issue with the York situation is that we don't have time frames. If Oda had provided us with timestamps. You could reasonably map it out so that it logically makes sense by having everything be desynchronized.

Like if it was revealed that S-Snake attacking Franky's group was actually 30 minutes before Luffy and Zoro were fighting, you could make things reasonably sound.
Last scene we get with York is her getting petrified near the SHs, next scene she's going down the stairs to Vegapunk to shoot Shaka as he's saving Vegapunk.

Talk about perfect timing with no info
 
Oda specifically said the new strawhats would join right after each other.

It was not specified if Jinbei was included in that or not. If he is, then technically a new crewmate should join this arc, if Oda is still keeping true to his old statements from 2014
 
Oda specifically said the new strawhats would join right after each other.

It was not specified if Jinbei was included in that or not. If he is, then technically a new crewmate should join this arc, if Oda is still keeping true to his old statements from 2014
There wasn't anyone joining after 2014, right? Brook was before that, I think. So, that means Oda is refering to the last two.
 

CoC: Color of Clowns

Mr. Go is Admiral Level
Half of the shit you listed is background, not her actual persona.

As for the second half, people are fawning over Lilith and York just as much as they are stussy. I don't think you live in reality if you don't see how much ungodly amounts of fan art lilith in particular gets.

I don't want her lineage. I want her personality. Biting Kaku and Lucci was a cool moment. But that's all it is, a moment.

For someone who has so much going for her in terms of her backstory all she's done for the last like 8 chapters is go "Where's vegapunk" and exposition dump.

I'm sorry if I expect more from the Clone of Ms Buckingham, Queen of the Pleasure Districts and possibly the oldest CP0 agent than just "You're so silly, sanji"
Lol "For someone who has so much going for her in terms of her backstory all she's done for the last like 8 chapters is go 'Where's Vegapunk' and exposition dump."

So, Stussy is interesting, but has become boring thanks to Vegapunk's shitty ploltline? Are you TRYING TO PROVE MY POINT FOR ME???
 
Lol "For someone who has so much going for her in terms of her backstory all she's done for the last like 8 chapters is go 'Where's Vegapunk' and exposition dump."

So, Stussy is interesting, but has become boring thanks to Vegapunk's shitty ploltline? Are you TRYING TO PROVE MY POINT FOR ME???
Boss, I ain't defending Vegapunk.

I'm laying at her feet a lack of characterization. Even before Vegapunk became central to her, she was exposition dumping. Her whole gag with Kaku was basically her exposition dumping too late.

You can always do more, even in utterly dull situations.
 
I just wanted Vegapunk to make sense, have some fun wacky science moments, connect with Franky, and not do a lot of random shit for no reason, like so many other hyped up characters.
So you didn't have expectations but you had a lot of expectation.


I mean, Shaka was watching Luffy and Zoro fight the Seraphim for how long? Does Shaka seriously not know how Lunarian flames work, despite BUILDING THE SERAPHIM?!? We're clowning on Zoro for this, Mr. Brilliant Scientist is getting attacked and like "Should I tell them how the Seraphim's defense system works? Nah." How in the hell does Vegapunk not know how to fight his own robots? What the fuck are we doing here?

Vegapunk experimented on King... what? Over two decades ago? Even ignoring how dumb it is that Vegapunk, the man who IS BUILDING A GIANT DATABASE USING HIS BRAIN BRAIN FRUIT AND WANTS TO SPREAD INFORMATION FREELY THROUGH THE WORLD, didn't know that King was a Lunarian, how in the fuck has he been experimenting with Lunarian DNA to the point he's made Lunarian CLONE CYBORGS and he can't tell Luffy and Zoro: "Oh, BTW, these guys are special and won't take damage when their flames are on. Here's when their flames turns off."
Maybe, you know, he doesn't really want his creation to be turned to shred ? Did that pass at least once through your mind that vegapunk is an actual scientific and human that loves his creation too much ? Oda is always in the subtext for that kind of things. Vegapunk Shaka holding back information in that context is perfectly explainable.

People like you see character like machines. They should not make no mistakes, no error of judgment. But One Piece is FULL of that type of subtle characterization.


Luffy and Zoro refusing to use CoC is also ridiculous on a large amount of levels.
Same BS. You think of character like machine, that should be 100% all the time.But the thing is: that wouldn't be good storytelling. Not in One Piece at least.

Plus, they have something called stamina, there is no reason to think those attack will work.

Franky's been ignore the entire arc except by Edison, who next bothered to ask why Franky can shoot laser beams in the first place. Man is clearly a cyborg, and Vegapunk doesn't care.
Same BS, you don't think Vegapunk as other things to think about rather than Franky right now ?


The pacing would be sooooo much smoother if they didn't get separated at the beginning of EVERY FUCKING ARC.
No it would not. Actually, the split helps the pacing go faster, not slower. I think you are confusing pacing and focus.
The pacing is always great on One Piece (afar from a few exceptions). This is a common missconception.


That's why the outside stuff is so much more hype: look at how fast paced, crisp, and full of energy Blackbeard vs Law is. When Oda writes outside the arc, his pacing dramatically approves. Look at the Reverie.
No, That's not because of pacing, that's because of Worldbuilding. Oda always condenses much more worldbuilding during those transition scene, that's why you think they are special.


Oda learned from the things that made Wano drag
Wano didn't Drag for the most part. Again, common confused analysis of wanabee storyteller. Ask anyone reading Wano now if Wano is a drag. They will tell you : "what the frick ?" Aside from exception here and there in the arc, Wano had very few pacing mistakes and mistakes in general.


Straw Hats split up too much, little crew interaction. Too many characters introduced at once (Scabbards/Punks), without individual plotlines/moments to make them feel important.
Sometimes, the story is not all about the strawhats. I can understand the frustration but this is not inheretly bad, its just a choice by Oda.

And contrary to the belief, pretime skip wasn't much more focus on the strawhat either, the difference is that we had more introduction arcs than post time skip.
 
Wasn’t Oda once saying the last crew member will join back to back with Jinbe?
I think he said the last ones would join one after another I’d have to loook back and check.

With egghead incident approaching this feels like the right time. Since my hope has been Stussy Bellamy and Sabo, I wouldn’t be shocked if they show up as Stussys already on Egghead, Bellamy pulling up with the Grand Fleet would make this “a major incident,” and Sabo returning would also fit with how dragon and the revs have been connected to the arc as well.
 
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