Spoiler One Piece Chapter 1156 Spoilers Discussion

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Okamakama

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Kizaruber Eats said:
Aye those are great points man. Makes sense. If it ain't broke or well more if it makes big money, don't fix it lol.

I have wondered if Oda has grown to hate certain characters now. It feels like it with some of his jokes. I swear he hates the ultra masculine, edgy type characters now too going by some patterns lol.
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People change as they get older. The interests of Oda when he was young are likely not the interests he has now as an old man. Testosterone levels decrease as you get older, which changes how people act. This may explain your later point.

I personally think Oda doesn't like Usopp and, this may surprise you, Zoro, anymore. Zoro lost so much character post-TS. My dude used to be pretty funny - now he's a one-bit walking stereotype toughman.

I feel like one of the things Oda has failed at in OP is the progression towards the crew's dreams. I haven't heard any Strawhat speak of their dream in anything of real consequence in so long.

For a story about pursuing dreams, it's actually just about the Pirate King. Everything else will be achieved collaterally.
 
Sir Yasheen

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Okamakama said:
It's pretty clear that Oda is trying to show us that Roger wasn't always the strongest man on the sea.

Even then... it feels like Oda is determined to completely assassinate his aura.

The old glimpses of Roger we got early on don't even feel like the Roger we've gotten to know.
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I’m think that’s the point. Roger was always supposed to be this larger than life figure back when we weren’t even close to the one piece. But now that we see Luffy is close to attaining it and becoming the pirate king, Roger’s legend doesn’t portray him as larger than life anymore because we’re so close to it ourselves. So odas showing Roger as just a guy. He wasn’t some unbeatable godly strong dude, he wasn’t this unmatched aura farmer, he was just a dude.
 
Okamakama

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Kizaruber Eats said:
Damn that's so ironically profound on such a depressing subject. Completely true ofc. Birth of the capitalist, death of the artist or something.
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Oda's style did change. It became a lot more about satisfying the masses. Law became ever-present when he wasn't even in the original plans of the story (I like Law, btw, but even then).

I know stories do morph over time though. Sometimes the most enjoyable part of the story is the discovery of the world early on. We're reaching the end, and a lot of the mystery and magic feels dead. Xebec, ironically, has been the most interested I've been in so long - and even then... it's nothing compared to my excitement about seeing Skypiea or Water 7.
 
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