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    Controversial Was Rocks planned?

    Name 1 example of Oda writing a setup that lead to a good payoff? The closest I could cite would be Ace's death but that didn't change Luffy or anything really. Oda's strengths are world-building and lore but those don't result in a strong ending. I don't see any reason to believe that Oda could...
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    Controversial Was Rocks planned?

    What do you want to see in the finale? If you want a lore dump that explains lore: the void century, grand line, celestial dragons, etc., then I think you'll get that but I think One Piece is past the point of no return of a good ending. Let me explain. The ending of One Piece MUST be a battle...
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    Speculations Eichiro Oda May Benefit From Using More Activism in The Story

    These are good ideas but One Piece isn't a deep philosophical story. The Celestial Dragons are just bad guys for Luffy to beat down.
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    General & Others Unpopular Opinions?

    Aizen is the worst villian of all time and he is so bad that it's honestly worth reading/watching bleach just to see him. Gear 5, Yamato and Kaido were huge red flags. Even Big Mama Meme. I feel like OP TS is similar to Naruto Shippiden and we're at the point of no return where the show just...
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    Controversial Was Rocks planned?

    Oda's writing reminds me of Lost (2004). The main draw of Lost was the mysteries. They were the carrot on the stick that kept people invested in the show. Even at the end of the show's life, it was still average like 66% of it's peak. It seems to be that mystery and by extension the lore that...
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    Current Events The supernova are the new shichibukai

    huh? the final war will end with the revolutionary army and the pirates, led by JoyBoy, overthrowing the WG and CD and restoring power to the noble royal families. The shichibukai are based on privateers in the real age of piracy and they aren't necessary to the story and are just cannon-filler.
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    Character Discussion Are Kaido and Linlin important to the story?

    Dragonball wasn't 1 grand story like One Piece so this isn't an apples to apples comparison. Dragonball arcs are more self contained since they are not leading to a grand conclusion. I would say that none of those fights were important in the war arc. Kishimoto failed to build upon the start of...
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    What are your views on Kakashi Hatake?

    Inconsistent. Whenever the plot needed him be serious, he was serious. Whenever the plot needed him to allow Naruto to be reckless, he was reckless. Given his backstory, I would expect him to be a total hardass because he understands that mistakes lead to death.
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    What are your views on Sasuke?

    Failed Potential. Kishimoto should have built up Sasuke as a true villain. The foreshadowing was already there. Sasuke was the new Orochimaru. Kishimoto even gave Sasuke his own minions in Shippuden. Sasuke should have went full dark side. Naruto should have learned that talk no jutsu doesn't...
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    Part 1 of Naruto is a masterpiece in shounen manga

    Saint Seiya
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    Part 1 of Naruto is a masterpiece in shounen manga

    Land of Waves to Chunin exams and Crush were all rising. Tsunade was the 1st bad arc. Sasuke retrieve was a plateau. It wasn't better than previous arcs but it wasn't bad either. My main issue is it felt kinda bloated and the sound ninja 5 felt like filler and too many fake-out deaths. Nah. the...
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    Character Discussion Oda tries so hard to make the celestial dragons look evil. Its not good writing.

    Here is the problem. Someone else already posted this too. When we were originally introduced to One Piece, what you're saying made sense but as the show has progressed, the biggest thread to people has become the WG, maybe starting with allowing Airlong to operate to now 3 yr genocides...
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    Character Discussion Oda tries so hard to make the celestial dragons look evil. Its not good writing.

    Your understanding of society is oversimplified. Even an authoritarian ruler must must get the consent of his generals and bureaucrats otherwise they'll be coup d'état. Why was Stalin tolerated? Because the ruling class believed in Communism and so they believed the ends justified the means...
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    Character Discussion Oda tries so hard to make the celestial dragons look evil. Its not good writing.

    I never said that. I agree that you can convince people to accept genocide but that requires a VERY strong argument and the CD do not have such an argument. This wasn't genocide but it's an okay example. The rationale was "we're at war and we SHOULD use this nuke to end the war and protect...
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    Character Discussion Oda tries so hard to make the celestial dragons look evil. Its not good writing.

    Despite being attacked and scalped by Native Americans, the White colonizers still couldn't genocide all the Native Americans and the fell back to putting them on reservations. The Israel-Palestine is another example. Israelis are being attacked by Palestinians but they still can't justify...
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    Character Discussion Oda tries so hard to make the celestial dragons look evil. Its not good writing.

    In real life, when 1 group wants to genocide another group, they usually back it up with real MORAL claims, such as indigenous rights or self-defense, however the Celestial Dragons could never make real moral claims because they're just assholes hence they come off as Saturday morning cartoon...
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    Chapter Discussion Roger Pirates have a lots of explaining to do

    Did Wano live up the potential?
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    Character Discussion Oda tries so hard to make the celestial dragons look evil. Its not good writing.

    Oda is destroying his worldbuilding. One Piece was based on the Age of Piracy and there was some slavery in that era but the primary task of government wasn't to enforce slavery through the Navy and that's why in real life you there were good Navel Officers and the good Marines, like Garp, are...
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