Questions & Mysteries Oda completely lost it in Wano and ended up writing some of the biggest bullshit in the entire series.
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I don't think even actual shounen-aged boys (10-12) could've believed that half page of setup. "Oh, no, Zoro will kill himself because this no-name rando we've never seen before told him to. Who will save him?" Like, there was no fake tension there. That wasn't the premise of that short narrative detour. It was Oda simply wanting to show Zoro do a badass finisher as his re-introduction within the Wano arc. The end.
You completely missed the point ...
This feeling of superiority over the story and author is the very reason many people can't enjoy the story. You might think you know better.. without realizing that Oda was not planning for you to be scared for Zoro here. As a result, you dismissed an entire analysis of the work and frankly relevant here.
Well.. It's not the first time that I work for nothing. Hope you don't have too much trouble enjoying stories nowadays.
Oh! Here comes the "it's not that deep" team.
Of course these people do not understand what it takes to built such story. And probably thought that Oda invented Gear 5 in Onigashima.
There was, but not the one you thought. You probably simply refused to accept it. Mostly because like you are demonstrating here, while reading, you most probably went ahead of the author in thinking that he was trying to make you cheap-subvert you into thinking that Zoro was in danger and needed to be saved, probably without understanding there was a thematic relevancy in the action of Zoro and the fact that this is something he would actually do if he thought himself to be non-honorable.
So instead, you probably considered that Oda was being stupid and blocked yourself from feeling anything. This is a common reaction with people who think they know better than the author and people who completely stripped their ability to manage their expectations and understand the weight of thematics.
Oda was not trying to scare you, but to make you feel uneasy, unsettle, to make you worry, to make you ask "why is this happenning, wtf is he going to do?". You probably took that in the opposite direction and felt nothing as a result. This is why it's important to manage expectations and our media literacy when we read something like One Piece on a week to week basis.
Yes, also. But you can do that in various ways. Here, Oda began Wano with a VERY SPECIFIC and weighted situation. Not simply Zoro slashing a band of bad guyz.
But hey...
I'm not one lmao
This feeling of superiority over the story and author is the very reason many people can't enjoy the story. You might think you know better.. without realizing that Oda was not planning for you to be scared for Zoro here. As a result, you dismissed an entire analysis of the work and frankly relevant here.
Well.. It's not the first time that I work for nothing. Hope you don't have too much trouble enjoying stories nowadays.
Oh! Here comes the "it's not that deep" team.
Of course these people do not understand what it takes to built such story. And probably thought that Oda invented Gear 5 in Onigashima.
There was, but not the one you thought. You probably simply refused to accept it. Mostly because like you are demonstrating here, while reading, you most probably went ahead of the author in thinking that he was trying to make you cheap-subvert you into thinking that Zoro was in danger and needed to be saved, probably without understanding there was a thematic relevancy in the action of Zoro and the fact that this is something he would actually do if he thought himself to be non-honorable.
So instead, you probably considered that Oda was being stupid and blocked yourself from feeling anything. This is a common reaction with people who think they know better than the author and people who completely stripped their ability to manage their expectations and understand the weight of thematics.
Oda was not trying to scare you, but to make you feel uneasy, unsettle, to make you worry, to make you ask "why is this happenning, wtf is he going to do?". You probably took that in the opposite direction and felt nothing as a result. This is why it's important to manage expectations and our media literacy when we read something like One Piece on a week to week basis.
Yes, also. But you can do that in various ways. Here, Oda began Wano with a VERY SPECIFIC and weighted situation. Not simply Zoro slashing a band of bad guyz.
But hey...
I'm not one lmao
Now that I think about it, I have to say that it wasn't a new set of problems but a compound of his typical problems. Like he made Hajrudin and Giants in general look pretty dog shit. And now we're at a point where they suddenly have to not be dog shit so he's going to inexplicably write them here and there as extremely powerful when all he had to do was not make them look like dog shit in the first place.
Luffy was unstoppable and was getting stronger than him at crazy speed. Katakuri realized that. He lost by forfeit and through the understanding of who Luffy was. Someone that would take a big role in defeating Big Mom one day.
Katakuri VS Luffy is one of the best battle that ever happened in One Piece. It was not a defeat. It was a liberation.
Katakuri VS Luffy is one of the best battle that ever happened in One Piece. It was not a defeat. It was a liberation.