Biggest 2025 expectation?

  • Nami cutting her hair

    Votes: 6 13.0%
  • Shanks not having a twin

    Votes: 5 10.9%
  • Finding One Piece

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Imu face reveal

    Votes: 29 63.0%
  • Vegaskunk finally dying

    Votes: 6 13.0%

  • Total voters
    46

TheKnightOfTheSea

𝕷𝖔𝖗𝖉 𝖔𝖋 𝕸𝖔𝖔𝖓'𝖘 𝕾𝖕𝖆𝖜𝖓
Which further confirms that the time skip was not planned and only forced by Lolda's editors to stretch the series for ultimate franchise milking potential
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Time skip was definitely planned lol.

It was emphasized pretty heavily that the Straw Hats aren't ready for the New World during the Summit War Saga. Luffy and the rest of the crew weren't ready, and they needed time to prepare and train.

I do agree that post time skip has been milked to a ludicrous degree though.
 
Bug Mom and Laido were unnecessary, the four you mentioned are the real Yonko crews
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Post automatically merged:

Perona and Moriah will probably join the Cross Guild together imo.

Perona would go to Mihawk for safety and bring Moria with her.
Yes that makes a lot more sense now that you've mentioned perona.
 
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Time skip was definitely planned lol.

It was emphasized pretty heavily that the Straw Hats aren't ready for the New World during the Summit War Saga. Luffy and the rest of the crew weren't ready, and they needed time to prepare and train.

I do agree that post time skip has been milked to a ludicrous degree though.
I mean the seperation of the story in two halves and the introduction of 1036293629332 new characters
 
The race for the OP will be between 4 crews: Straw Hats, Red Hair Pirates, Cross Guild and Blackbeard Pirates.

Just realized that almost all of the most prominent core members of those crews were introduced pre time skip...
Well, it should've been clear for years now.

OP was meant to be much shorter, so it's only natural that almost all the endgame players appeared very early.

Shanks, Blackbeard, Buggy, Mihawk, Crocodile, Vivi, Gorosei (therefore the WG) etc. all appeared in the first 230 chapters.

It was all set up back then and Oda could always prepare a much faster finale, if his manga somehow got a lot less popular fast (was always unlikely, but crazier things have happened).

All the other stuff with Moria, Doflamingo, BM, Kaido etc. was just bonus.

Well, in BM's and Kaido's case it was always planned, but never really important for the "true" endgame.
 
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