Character Discussion Is Nami still the 3rd main protagonist of One Piece or is it Sanji now?
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Nami was probably higher in plot relevance before the grand line but since then Sanji has overtaken her. With that being said, there's no protagonist trio. Oda has reiterated this multiple times. Luffy is the MC and the rest of the strawhats are all equals behind him in terms of plot relevance.
It's Luffy then the rest...
It's Luffy then the rest...
Well, Luffy then Shanks then the rest 
Alt of a blud i dont know who thought we would not notice he included zoro with 0 arcs (nami has atleast 1 arc)
but we did
Elbaf is not even in his midpoint. Just wait oda is not gonna let my boylike this in elbaf
but we did
Elbaf is not even in his midpoint. Just wait oda is not gonna let my boylike this in elbaf
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The yonko Saga offically started when they entered wci
Sanji fans will vote for Sanji and Zoro fans will vote for Nami, but the answer doesn't really matter. There's no doubt Sanji has overall a greater impact on the story, but that doesn't mean he's the intended "tritagonist". The thing is Sanji is bound to be more relevant more often because he's one of the main fighters of the crew and the SHs have to resolve conflicts by fighting strong foes most of the time.
Nami could obviously never outshine him in that aspect of the story, but she's been at the center of a lot of key moments and there's of course the whole key symbolic at Enies Lobby (Zoro and Nami being the only SHs having a relevant key that helped them win the battle and save Robin).
All the SHs are main characters anyway.
Nami could obviously never outshine him in that aspect of the story, but she's been at the center of a lot of key moments and there's of course the whole key symbolic at Enies Lobby (Zoro and Nami being the only SHs having a relevant key that helped them win the battle and save Robin).
All the SHs are main characters anyway.
I disagree. When is the last time we've heard about All Blue for example? Why is Robin such fodder? Whens the last time we heard of Usopp or Nami's dreams. Why was Zoro mostly inconsequential to Wano, the land of the samurais, where instead he should have had a better character arc? The roof top was great and so was the fight with King but mostly nothing before that, but we got a bunch of useless Smilies, Tama, and crappy retainer samurai who got loads of screen time just to mostly be fodder in the end anyway.
If you want to take it even further back, why was there no conversation about Ace dying? Or even Gear 5? The SH's have been reduced to the same meme panels and they barely interact in a meaningful way. All of these side characters are just noise, I don't mind side characters in general but Oda goes overboard sometimes. He didn't draw Akainu vs Aokiji because he was too busy thinking of new side characters no one will remember.
Feels like every chapter we are introduced to a new character when we havent had any real development even for Dragon and the Admirals in a while. I thought they would get fleshed out stories with the SH's too, but if the endgame is coming soon like Oda says then a lot of characters will be getting off-screened in one way or the other and a lot of them will be undercooked compared to the potential Oda set them up with in the beginning. Pre time skip was great and felt a lot more focused to me.
If Oda is planning on ending OP soon like he says, then I don't think he should be focusing so much on making new characters every 2 seconds. Most of them are just a waste of panel space honestly. Same with all the "panic" and "running" panels from fodder.
Okay rant over.
If you want to take it even further back, why was there no conversation about Ace dying? Or even Gear 5? The SH's have been reduced to the same meme panels and they barely interact in a meaningful way. All of these side characters are just noise, I don't mind side characters in general but Oda goes overboard sometimes. He didn't draw Akainu vs Aokiji because he was too busy thinking of new side characters no one will remember.
Feels like every chapter we are introduced to a new character when we havent had any real development even for Dragon and the Admirals in a while. I thought they would get fleshed out stories with the SH's too, but if the endgame is coming soon like Oda says then a lot of characters will be getting off-screened in one way or the other and a lot of them will be undercooked compared to the potential Oda set them up with in the beginning. Pre time skip was great and felt a lot more focused to me.
If Oda is planning on ending OP soon like he says, then I don't think he should be focusing so much on making new characters every 2 seconds. Most of them are just a waste of panel space honestly. Same with all the "panic" and "running" panels from fodder.
Okay rant over.
