Biggest 2025 expectation?

  • Nami cutting her hair

    Votes: 20 13.5%
  • Shanks not having a twin

    Votes: 12 8.1%
  • Finding One Piece

    Votes: 5 3.4%
  • Imu face reveal

    Votes: 94 63.5%
  • Vegaskunk finally dying

    Votes: 17 11.5%

  • Total voters
    148
eh that's not very logical cause Kid is meant to be Luffy's rival

what the fandoms want doesn't really matter here
It's actually very important
Think Zoro fans won't buy the manga anymore, it's a huge loss for the author
While Kid's fans are very few
Law had more fans so Oda respected him more
Fandoms are very influential
Although Oda himself has clearly shown that he cares more about Zoro and Sanji
 
He literally is, like it or no
He's a rival in the sense every Worst Gen captain is his rival. As in, they are competing for the One Piece and only one can make it. He even seemed worthy of taking of Luffy during his introduction and they have posed side to side from time to time (but then again, so has Zoro on other scenes).

But Oda has fumbled him so hard so far that it's hard to see their rivalry actually working as a power level argument. With the Nika stuff I'd even go as far as to say it's impossible Kid can ever actually match Luffy again like Whitebeard matched Roger.

And of course as a Zoro fan I must also say Kid won't surpass Luffy's second.
 
No because Don Krieg was left in the past

even in recent promo material Oda has drawn Luffy Kid and Law competing. They have a rivalry dynamic

I mean shonen's legendary rivarly (Goku and Vegeta) is one sided as fuck too lol
Fair enough, I guess
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he would be if Oda said so
Did oda ever specifically call kidd luffys rival lol?
 
It's actually very important
Think Zoro fans won't buy the manga anymore, it's a huge loss for the author
While Kid's fans are very few
Law had more fans so Oda respected him more
Fandoms are very influential
Although Oda himself has clearly shown that he cares more about Zoro and Sanji
Kid is a top 20 character, Shanks is barely above him in popularity but Oda didn’t care about the optics for Kidd in that moment. So it doesn’t matter that much.

The planned narrative will hold more weight, and Kidd’s narrative isn’t finished. He will come back as one of the strongest characters since he‘s a new gen leader. Law already alluded to what’s coming all the way back in Punk Hazard.
Kidd, Law and Luffy literally changed the course of history by beating Kaido/BM. All of that buildup won’t head to nothing imo. That was just the start of their legend.
 
Kid is a top 20 character, Shanks is barely above him in popularity but Oda didn’t care about the optics for Kidd in that moment. So it doesn’t matter that much.

The planned narrative will hold more weight, and Kidd’s narrative isn’t finished. He will come back as one of the strongest characters since he‘s a new gen leader. Law already alluded to what’s coming all the way back in Punk Hazard.
Kidd, Law and Luffy literally changed the course of history by beating Kaido/BM. All of that buildup won’t head to nothing imo.
Law has been top 5 in the rankings since dressrosa and Oda had him lose to BB who doesn't even crack the top 30 irrc

Oda won't sacrifice his story for fandom shit
 
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