I think he does but I also think Oda has such a high opinion of himself that he genuinely thought that G5 was a genius idea and that everybody would like it.
Now he can lie about that after seeing that some people didn't like it but I'm sure he thought he was being a genius when he came up with that idea.
Now he has no choice but to force it into the story which is not working at all. Nobody ever heard or talked about Nika for more than a 1000 chapters and then suddenly everyone mentions this shitty god out of nowhere.
Fuck G5, fuck Nika and fuck Oda for ruining his own MC.
Now he can lie about that after seeing that some people didn't like it but I'm sure he thought he was being a genius when he came up with that idea.
Now he has no choice but to force it into the story which is not working at all. Nobody ever heard or talked about Nika for more than a 1000 chapters and then suddenly everyone mentions this shitty god out of nowhere.
Fuck G5, fuck Nika and fuck Oda for ruining his own MC.
If Oda felt like he wanted to write Shanks twerking, he will do it, he doesn't care about how the community will respond.
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