Chapter Discussion Oda does not care about the Strawhat crew
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This point is key and unfortunately is the reason this happens. Yes, 150% Oda shat the bed with not just Post-TS, but pre-TS introducing a thousand characters in this story. Realize Egghead is comprised of literally ALL pre-TS characters save for Vegapunk (who still was referenced many times in Pre), and that should tell you where this problem started. He is dealing with the fallout of decisions he made over a decade ago with his world building.
And now, unless we want the series to last another 20 years, he quite literally has to addess all of the secondary characters he introduced and their plotlines. My assumption is Oda has key points where he intends the crew to still have defining moments in the story (i.e. Usopp probably getting Elbaf focus since its likely tied to his dream), but he sacrifices their presence in areas where they just kind of exist on x island.
Its a problem with making an adventure manga with 10 main characters and now he needs to resolve all major storylines in one final saga. All we can hope for is that if Akainu, Blackbeard and Shanks get focus, the crew also does too at those points. I dont doubt Imu and whatever final fights occur will give them all signficant focus and endings but even then we are expecting major wars with each of these characters lol
Writing endings to stories is hard. Writing endings to 30 year stories with no loose ends is nigh impossible. We are lucky he intends to end it, even if it means sacrificing screentime for other crewmembers.
And now, unless we want the series to last another 20 years, he quite literally has to addess all of the secondary characters he introduced and their plotlines. My assumption is Oda has key points where he intends the crew to still have defining moments in the story (i.e. Usopp probably getting Elbaf focus since its likely tied to his dream), but he sacrifices their presence in areas where they just kind of exist on x island.
Its a problem with making an adventure manga with 10 main characters and now he needs to resolve all major storylines in one final saga. All we can hope for is that if Akainu, Blackbeard and Shanks get focus, the crew also does too at those points. I dont doubt Imu and whatever final fights occur will give them all signficant focus and endings but even then we are expecting major wars with each of these characters lol
Writing endings to stories is hard. Writing endings to 30 year stories with no loose ends is nigh impossible. We are lucky he intends to end it, even if it means sacrificing screentime for other crewmembers.
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we should treat this as something impressive ?
she wasnt able to accomplish her life long goal regardless of the vast empire she established
died in a ditch after some rookies took her down
bigmom has the least impressive pirate career among the top dawgs
she is a failure who literally started bashing roger when she was heading to her death
didnt even do anything to the person she came for , died from his friends
which got destroyed ?
she wasnt able to accomplish her life long goal regardless of the vast empire she established
died in a ditch after some rookies took her down
bigmom has the least impressive pirate career among the top dawgs
she is a failure who literally started bashing roger when she was heading to her death
didnt even do anything to the person she came for , died from his friends
Flashback Mum treated Rocks crew like it was her daycare center 
Luffy fans taking endless W's while almost every other fandom cries endlessly
Keep in mind these are the same people that have read and enjoyed the story up to this point, so lets not act like this is how its always been or that its an issue of bloated expectations.
That's literally the point of an MC, the story is about him and he'll always get tenfold the focus of any other character lmfao, and you guys are just a loud minority, the majority of One Piece readers simply don't care that Luffy gets all the spotlight because it's expected.
Oda literally kept Luffy in a snake's stomach for a dozen chapters in Skypeia so that Zoro, Chopper, and Robin would have chances to show off. He had the perfect set up in this arc with Luffy going down temporarily, but he spent that time on a flashback to only further emphasize why Luffy is the only character that matters anymore.
But they have't done basically nothing though, that's your problem, you're expecting far too much from them, multiple people in this thread have already gone over the various things they've done this arc, they have their moments, those moments are just nowhere near the moments Luffy has because again, Luffy is the main character, they aren't.
I'm not expecting too much from them. I'm holding the crew to the same standard that they were set to in the pre-ts. Not only are the Strawhats doing less but Oda cares less about emphasizing what they actually do.
Robin figuring out who the traitor was and saving Vegapunk could have been a MASSIVE moment for her character, but Oda off screened it because it was just another plot point and not important apparently. To make matters worse she's injured OFF SCREEN and gets sidelined for the rest of the arc. Strait up garbage writing.
Zoro defeating S-Hawk could have been a cool chance to show what he learned in his fight with King AND an interesting preview for Mihawk vs Zoro. Instead it gets off-screened.
Sanji could have actually taken out Kaku rather than just Oda resolving shit in one panel with a fucking bubble gun.
Brook figuring out a way to move the Sunny could have been set up and portrayed to be a much bigger W than it was.
None of these moments need to outshine Luffy saving Bonny from Saturn and Kizaru, but they deserve SOME shine. Oda just doesn't care about making the crew seem important anymore.
Robin figuring out who the traitor was and saving Vegapunk could have been a MASSIVE moment for her character, but Oda off screened it because it was just another plot point and not important apparently. To make matters worse she's injured OFF SCREEN and gets sidelined for the rest of the arc. Strait up garbage writing.
Zoro defeating S-Hawk could have been a cool chance to show what he learned in his fight with King AND an interesting preview for Mihawk vs Zoro. Instead it gets off-screened.
Sanji could have actually taken out Kaku rather than just Oda resolving shit in one panel with a fucking bubble gun.
Brook figuring out a way to move the Sunny could have been set up and portrayed to be a much bigger W than it was.
None of these moments need to outshine Luffy saving Bonny from Saturn and Kizaru, but they deserve SOME shine. Oda just doesn't care about making the crew seem important anymore.
