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Luffy just got told by Imu that Joy Boy wasn't this weak. And now a member of Roger's original monster trio shows up to bail him out? That's typical One Piece. Oda never lets his legends look anything less than terrifying.

Now I am become Gyaban, the destroyer of agendas.

Zoro hasn’t moved the needle for me in ages. I’ve basically accepted that Oda is incapable of adding new layers or dynamics to characters once he’s decided they only serve one or two specific narrative functions. What I honestly don't get is the criteria he uses to choose which characters are...

Yeah, maybe, but at this point I'm not even sure Imu is the monster in the mural. And honestly, even with all the mystery around the Void Century and Imu's origin, Teach still feels even more special than he looks on the surface. There's just something about the way Oda handles him that screams...

Honestly, trying to use Burgess to cap Sanji’s ceiling is just pure cope. If Teach actually becomes the final boss with awakened absolute darkness/Davy Jones successor, his core crew is getting hit with the most ridiculous endgame buffs imaginable. Power creep hits everyone at the top, so it...

At this rate, give him two more arcs and he’ll be casually kicking Yonkos into the next dimension without even messing up his suit.

Looks like Oda just can't keep it in his pants anymore—here comes another round of chef wank for Sanji. Leaks say the guy's about to shine brighter than a supernova again. Classic.

Oda had the opportunity to shake things up with King, but even with the undeniable narrative weight of the Lunarians, the character himself is so passive that there's nothing to be done.

Have you noticed that all the powerful characters up to this point respect Gaban as a legendary figure, as a fighter, and as a person? Even the supremely arrogant villains fear him and are very careful when dealing with him. Betting against and underestimating this character is only for those...

Oda is actually being very meticulous with Gaban, to the point that even when he technically receives an "L", he continues to be portrayed as an old legend: a wise, cream of the crop, cool-headed mentor. That's why this character is causing so much discomfort among a certain disillusioned fandom.

It's not just that he's a complex or badass character (which he is!). It's that everything about him feels weighty, larger-than-life, epic in scale, and beyond the norm. You know when you watch a movie and there's that big scene, with the soundtrack playing loudly and everything? It's like every...

Zoro is the best functional supporting character in shonen: 1) He doesn't get in the way; 2) He doesn't question Luffy; 3) He doesn't have existential crises. But is that a virtue? It's just narrative comfort. Zoro is a glorified support: he cuts down pirates, makes "lost" jokes, repeats...

Hisoka is capable of benevolent actions if this is necessary to make room for a fierce fight, that is, although he does not care about the positive faculty of the act, the possibility of doing good is not beyond him. It is Chrollo's indifference that makes him an abysmally greater evil.

If shounen were a library, Sasuke wouldn’t just be a standout book. He’d be the very shelf on which all the others are organized. While deuteragonists like Vegeta, Bakugou, or Zoro (if you want to consider him one, which he actually isn't, but let's make an exception) shine in their own ways...

Two characters can have opposing ideals, be enemies, indifferent or adversaries, have their own characteristics, backstory and fighting styles, and still be parallel to each other. As I come from the Naruto fandom, I can cite Sasuke and Madara as a well-known example.