Oh yeah definitely! Shes much better than other princesses in the series anyway imo. I love that she is known for playing the Shamisen and Oda even had Enma "reacting" to it, to signify Oden was still alive via the sword somewhat, his will was persisting in it and thus Oden was reacting to hearing his daughter playing, like how he used to adore hearing her play before whilst he was alive ofc. Also her tendency to dropkick Momo was pretty funny too.
Yeah shes definitely gone on her parents much more than Momo has. Part of really wanted to see Oden and Toki be alive somehow, for Oda to asspull them alive so they could see their children grown up and what they've become, especially Momo getting aged up, sacrificing his childhood and becoming a "good version" of Kaido with his cloned fruit of his.
LMAO, that shit drives me crazy! Plus if Yamato really wants to be Oden so badly, does she want to dance naked for 5 years? Start a harem war? Get herself boiled/fried to death?
Thats exactly it. Imagine Sabo turning around and saying, "I'M PORTGAS D. ACE AND I WAS BORN TO BURN!" Or Zoro going around and saying, "I'M KUINA AND I WAS BORN TO DIE TO STAIRS/NEVER BE THE WSS BECAUSE I'M A GIRL ER I MEAN BE THE VERY VERY STRONGEST!"
Nah but seriously, I get why Yamato did it, why she idolised Oden in his final moments and what it meant for her but my god, the complete lack of awareness and tact. I mean I get it, she was isolated her whole life pretty much BUT Ushimaru and the other 2 samurai not only freed her, BUT they GAVE THEIR LIVES distracting Kaido so she could escape and be free!
For her idolisation of Oden too, she never even learned his fighting style. She refers to herself as Kaido's son or w/e to Green Bull. Ushimaru used 2 sword style, Oden used it too but she never learned it? WHy didn't she contact the Scabbards and team up with them or at least try too?
She escaped at 8 years old I think, she's 28 now and should know MUCH better! For comparison, Robin had to go on the run for her life, being completely alone, unable to trust anyone, having to hide her origins/identity entirely and so on at merely 8 years old and turned out FAR better!
Ironically I've ended up going on an Anti-Yamato tirade but it can't be helped, especially with what I mentioned there lmaoooo.
Back to Hiyori and Yamato's Oden LARPing, thats exactly it. She self inserts herself in a narcissistic, "look at me", peacocking, self righteous, non-consentual identity theft/assumption of a hero, a man who died tragically and brutally trying to save the people of Wano and the country from tyrannical monsters and she thinks she can just usurp his identity, take his name for herself and become him just like that?
Hiyori got SLANDERED so much for what she had to do, what she was forced to do BUT Yamato had 20 freaking years, what was she doing this whole time!? If Kaido captured her and kept her hostage this whole time maybe and her finding a way to break free/escape during this fire festival/Kaido celebration party whatever, then I could have accepted/believed that more at least.
I thought Hiyori was still really well written, quite grounded/realistic/mature and sympathetic. I loved the contrast between her real Hiyori self and the complete polar opposite, false persona of Komurasaki too. Her standing up to Orochi and being prepared to die to him and then Denjiro was brilliant too. Her and Denjiro were such a cool duo originally too, they felt like real power players and wild cards. Very "gangster" and "cool". And then we got Maria later who felt like another Komurasaki ironically lol. Kaidos equivalent in more ways than one even.
Oden and Toki would be phenomenally proud of their children, I can already picture what they would say, how they would react and its just genuinely wonderful and beautiful. Very stirring/emotional. Hiyori is great regardless.