Who is the strongest Gorosei?


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Well if you disagree you are just a cheap reader who gets satisfied with any shit Oda throws at you. I don't like people like you. Zero shame and standards.

One Piece was great in the past, now it's just a shell of its former self.

W/e. Pointless to continue this.
You're a cheap reader who only remembers the story via personal nostalgia. 99% of the time when someone says the post-TS is ass they mention something that Oda has been doing literally the whole series, whether character gags, diverting focus from main plot points to tangential stuff, goofy character designs, or that guy earlier complaining about teasing flashbacks.

The actual things that have caused a decline in quality in the post-TS has been

1: Execution - Oda doesn't have the finesse he used to when tying up the hundreds of threads he opens up for himself in the first half of the arcs, leading to overly-long arcs with cramped panelling and anti-climactic final acts.

2: Change in themes and genre. Romance and adventure were largely out of focus in the yonkou saga in favour of more action-oriented plots to get through the task of defeating the yonkou. Oda still writes great emotional scenes but lots of fans simply don't care and only like Zou in the post-TS because it's the only one that really returned to that grand adventure type of storytelling for a brief moment and gives them that epic rising feeling.

Pretty much no week-to-week haters understand this and rip on Oda for not doing something that ends up happening next chapter, and they think what they don't like about the series changed much more recently than in actually did, usually around when they caught up.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk
 

Seth

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You're a cheap reader who only remembers the story via personal nostalgia. 99% of the time when someone says the post-TS is ass they mention something that Oda has been doing literally the whole series, whether character gags, diverting focus from main plot points to tangential stuff, goofy character designs, or that guy earlier complaining about teasing flashbacks.

The actual things that have caused a decline in quality in the post-TS has been

1: Execution - Oda doesn't have the finesse he used to when tying up the hundreds of threads he opens up for himself in the first half of the arcs, leading to overly-long arcs with cramped panelling and anti-climactic final acts.

2: Change in themes and genre. Romance and adventure were largely out of focus in the yonkou saga in favour of more action-oriented plots to get through the task of defeating the yonkou. Oda still writes great emotional scenes but lots of fans simply don't care and only like Zou in the post-TS because it's the only one that really returned to that grand adventure type of storytelling for a brief moment and gives them that epic rising feeling.

Pretty much no week-to-week haters understand this and rip on Oda for not doing something that ends up happening next chapter, and they think what they don't like about the series changed much more recently than in actually did, usually around when they caught up.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk
No thank you. Enjoy reading shit.
 
Wano was the culmination of Oda's inability to tie together all the plot points that he makes for himself. This recent change in Egghead with the tangents taking place outside of the arc has me hopeful because it allows for the arc itself to stay simple and breathe while still letting Oda do all the random stuff he wants to.
 
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