Oden character that was so cool, strong, and beastly is for the sake of plot so he gets his retainers, wano people AND yamato admiration. If you don't like oden, fine but his character impact the other characters inside the story
mAh maN. Talk dirty to me
You guys are delirious. You are acting like as if there aren't OBJECTIVELY badly written aspects about oden. Like just on the fundamental way a good character is written, Oden fails at.
I can even point one out. A very very simple one. Oden has no character arc. That's Just ONE thing that's as basic as it gets. And you can't even say he doesn't need one. No. The story actually calls him "the protagonist". This has never happened for any other flashback character ever in the series. For example Corazon is a flashback character and Law is the one who is tbe protagonist of the flashback YET Corazon AND LAW have character arcs but ODEN DOES NOT.
That's the literal minimum you cab do to make a good character and Oden doesn't have it.
So you can claim "love and hate" all you want but this guy is objectively badly written. You just don't care about that and that's all