Anime & Manga One Piece Spoilers - The Waiting Room

[ArturCantSpeakJapanese]

Nah. For the same reason Barto won't be. Oda will NEVER force Luffy to deal with his friends killing his friends. It's too complicated a situation with no clear bad guy for Luffy to punch in the face to solve. Even the fact that the RHP and Dorry/Broggy beat the shit out of Kid and destroyed the ship he loved and named after his dead friend is apparently too much for Oda to deal with. Which is why he has gone to great lengths not to bring it up. Lol.

shanks is a rat, theyre both dead

 

[Mr. Reloaded]

Oh please stop trying to be an Oda angel and actually acknowledge that the flashback interrupts the existing pacing and flow of the story. Who cares about Brook when we have the fights set up?

I care about Brook

 

[Shiroyru]

Oh please stop trying to be an Oda angel and actually acknowledge that the flashback interrupts the existing pacing and flow of the story. Who cares about Brook when we have the fights set up?

 

[CoC: Color of Clowns]

I care about Brook

Do you wanna join the "Lilith makes Brook a new cyborg body" fanclub? Foreshadowed here.

Lilith can make his entire body into an instrument, like Apoo.

I have no problem inviting you into the Brook fan base because he literally lacks vital organs for you to stab. You leave his Afro alone though. Or else I'll summon your ex wife from hell.

Like, imagine Lilith makes Brook's buttcheeks into actual bongos.

There's a lot of shit we could do with this. Spinal fretboard.

Blackbeard Apoo vs Brook is real.

 

[Mr. Reloaded]

Do you wanna join the "Lilith makes Brook a new cyborg body" fanclub? Foreshadowed here.

Lilith can make his entire body into an instrument, like Apoo.

I have no problem inviting you into the Brook fan base because he literally lacks vital organs for you to stab. You leave his Afro alone though. Or else I'll summon your ex wife from hell.

Like, imagine Lilith makes Brook's buttcheeks into actual bongos.

There's a lot of shit we could do with this. Spinal fretboard.

Blackbeard Apoo vs Brook is real.

deal

 

[soupongo]

Brooks alright, it´s just a bit jarring when his relevance is limited to the Big Mom stuff....pretty much the entire decade since he was introduced in thriller bark.

It´ll be cool to see the Gods Knights/world....from so many years ago.

 

[Blazing Lion]

Oh please stop trying to be an Oda angel and actually acknowledge that the flashback interrupts the existing pacing and flow of the story. Who cares about Brook when we have the fights set up?

At this point don't really want any flashback unless it has deep lore

 

[kekaro]

I care about Brook

We love brook here

 

[vikas]

WG is scummy

In the end you will know. WG is the Righteous one or atleast far lesser of the two evils.

 

[NikaInParis]

I don’t get the hate for this flashback tbh

It's bad timing. It would have worked better the first time Brook and Gunko interacted, when Imu still wasn't at Elbaf personally.

 

[DarkWitch]

We love brook here

It's good being a Sanji and Brook fan, so far they are the only two Straw Hats to get two backstories.

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

It's bad timing. It would have worked better the first time Brook and Gunko interacted, when Imu still wasn't at Elbaf personally.

Or not Maybe we will see Imu influencing in background and why she is important for Imu ?

There are mystery why Gunko is very special for him.

 

[NikaInParis]

Or not Maybe we will see Imu influencing in background and why she is important for Imu ?

There are mystery why Gunko is very special for him.

We could have got the same at an eariler time, no? Still see why she is special at a time when the story was laser focused on her.

Currently Gunko is an afterthought with Imu there in person.

 

[soupongo]

 

[DarkWitch]

W Super Sommers, one of the very few who didn't simp for Shakky and only wanted her as a slave.

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

We could have got the same at an eariler time, no? Still see why she is special at a time when the story was laser focused on her.

Currently Gunko is an afterthought with Imu there in person.

I am not surprised Oda has always been like this, he cares zero fuck about fights. This has always been cons for his storyline he creates way too many character and it becomes clusterfuck I think Oda has no constraints that his manga wont be in pressure of cancellation so he just plays with it.

 

[Kurozumi Wiwi]

We could have got the same at an eariler time, no? Still see why she is special at a time when the story was laser focused on her.

Currently Gunko is an afterthought with Imu there in person.

Basically my feelings.
It's likely for Imu to be featured in the flashback though, and maybe Oda wanted his design to be revealed in the present first? That would explain the timing.

 

[Welkin]

It's bad timing. It would have worked better the first time Brook and Gunko interacted, when Imu still wasn't at Elbaf personally.

I think the issue with people discussing the timing is if you look at how the recent chapters have been framed I really don’t think there was ever a good time to do it

If he did it when Brook and Shuri first interacted then the complaints arguably would’ve been worse

Brook and Gunko met for the first time in chapter 1146 and they didn’t actually interact until 1147. That’s only 5 chapters before the Harald/Rocks flashback began

So we’d go from Brook’s flashback -> to Rocks’ flashback with little to no downtime at all

Not to mention Brook’s connection with Gunko still wouldn’t be relevant… at least not right then

Now there’s also a chance you’re talking about when Brook clashed with Gunko after the Rocks flashback. Well if that’s the case then the timing is honestly even worse

Brook clashes with ImuGunko in 1173 which is only 2 chapters after the end of the Rocks flashback. Finally getting out of the longest flashback in One Piece history before jumping right into Brook’s after only 2 chapters? The complaints would be endless

Narratively (assuming Gunko remains frozen until the fighting is finished) it would make more sense to have the flashback take place closer to the end of the arc but that causes another problem. The end of the arc is supposed to give us time to take a breather + provide us with updates on the outside world

Who would really want a Brook/Gunko flashback at that point? Just think about the other things that we’d have to go over

Louis Arnot’s warning, Biblo’s true identity, the mystery of the Heaven World, what Gaban wanted to talk to the Strawhats about, Loki’s past with Shanks, the location of the final Road Poneglyph, Mosa’s identity, etc

Oda’s stuck between a rock and a hard place. In order for a Brook/Gunko flashback to work without messing up the pacing he’d have to completely alter the events/setup of the arc. Cause with the way he wrote it there just isn’t a good place to slow the story down with a flashback

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

Oddly i am not complaining about Brook’s past , he has always been mystery box fir me. If he had known about Domi reversi and Native hunting competition i am pretty sure it would be handy for the crew because he experienced it.

 

[Kurozumi Wiwi]

This flashback isn't helped by the fact it comes after the longest flashback in the series that lasted over half a year and ended less than 15 chapters ago. Even if I enjoyed it, at some point you naturally want the present story to progress.