And your point is wrong! Is never been this bad. I already showed you the pacing pretimeskip doesn’t come close to post time skip. Literally WCI, Dressrosa and wano took up over 8 years ! That is my point. And the reason isn’t because the story somehow is more involved than it is pre time skip Instead it is because of the nonstop dedication by Oda in showing us trivial events that only drags the story.
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CP9 was NOT a 107 chapter arc dude so now you are down right lying!
Water 7 and Enies Lobby, which is CP9 together, is 107 chapters. It started Chapter 322. It ended at Chapter 441 including Post-Enies Lobby. So actually, its 119 chapters. It is still the longest arc in the series by far. Wano will surpass it in 35 chapters, assuming it will. Dressrosa is a 102 chapters. Nothing has yet to surpass CP9.
Also, the arcs you are mentioning (Dressrosa, WCI, Wano) started at a time when Oda was doing less chapters per year. You are comparing CP9, when he was doing 50 chapters on average per year. To Dressrosa onwards, which has been 38-42 chapters per year since 2014 due to his health.
So no, I'm not lying, I'm not wrong. Actually read what I'm saying. The only difference, truly is the number of characters and what YOU, the reader, care about. You CARE about those older arcs because they involved the strawhats way more personally. Newer arcs don't and a lot of secondary characters also drive the plot (Law, Kinemon, Kyros, Caesar, Germa, etc).
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Imagine Water 7, the powerful scene in which Usopp tries to take their money back from the Franky Family, and instead of watching the snipper actually facing Franky, sharing their viewpoints and ultimately being beat up by both him and his subordinates, we only see Usopp entering the house and his lying, wounded body as Luffy and company find him with no explicit clue of what happened between those scenes. Because that's pretty much what Oda has been doing with important moments like Jack's or Kanjuro's.
Did you just compare Usopp's defining scene about repairing Merry and losing that chance to....Jack losing to Minks? Comparing a main character storyline to a sub storyline between 3 secondary characters?
Ridiculous