Why should it be Lodestar?
"The island that only the pirate king ever reached" is certainly not Lodestar.
Lodestar is only the last island in the New World, if you follow the Log Pose. There you are supposed to learn aout Ponegliffs for the first time according to Inu/Neko (they explained it...
Oda has actually done this very nicely with Rocks and Harald (and I've criticized his writing often lately).
Oda shows that (political) extremes only lead to a quick and ugly downfall.
Rocks is the aggressive conqueror type, who wants to become king of the world by taking over with force - he...
Oda' message here is very simple, but powerful:
A little idealism is never wrong, but don't be naive and overdo it. Don't sell out your national identity.
It's a fun read, but if we really want to judge storywriting - my God it is so flawed in so many areas (pacing, inner-manga logic, character usage etc.).
But again - I recently reread it and if you just want some entertainment without thinking too much, it's actually quite nice.
He made a mistake so many otherwise intelligent and empathic people make these days - trying to get on good terms with the bully by succumbing to them and playing by their rules.
Only problem - the bully gives a flying fuck about that. If you give them the little finger, they will take the...
Garling - the man, the myth, the legend.
Coming in "clutch" against already defeated opponents like he was prime Ronaldo.
All jokes aside - Rocks really wasn't a bad guy and even in this chapter he showed it again ("Roger ... Garp ... run! You can't die here!").
Imho the two main problems with Wano were
1) Oda once again wanted too much and gave a ton of exposure to side characters that didn't even really matter much in the end.
2) He didn't really plan out the Raid on Onigashima beforehand. It felt like once we were there he improvised week to week...
We never saw him destroy any town other than this religious scumbag monastery. It's obvious that Oda specifially uses THIS island/town to demonstrate how wrong the anti-Rocks propaganda is (aka "sure, he might've destroyed some islands/towns, but now look closely what those islands/towns really...
Straight to the point:
What on earth was the point of that insanely long cover story?
Not a single important thing for future events was set up. No Pluton lore, no (much needed) character development for Yamato, nothing.
I honestly don't know which route Oda will go, but I personally think Blackbeard as real final villain over Imu would be a bad choice.
Sure, Blackbeard is the most stereotype pirate in the series and therefore primed to be Luffy's main pirate rival (it's a series about pirates at its core after...
The problem isn't that Kaido doesn't have any depth.
Not every villain needs a grand backstory.
The problem is that Oda teased the readers about some deep backstory multiple (!) times (suicide motives, Oni background, Joyboy connection etc.) and didn't deliver on single one of those points...
Togashi has - due to his health and status as living mangaka legend - a very unique schedule.
He basically has the freedom to do anything he wants.
Whereas other mangaka are about 3 or 4 chapters ahead most of the time (only working on those), Togashi is currently simultaneously working on...
Thing is that post-skip there has really almost been next to zero interaction between Luffy and anyone not named Zoro/Nami/Sanji/Jinbei.
He's doing his Nika stuff, but SHs like Franky or Brook feel like they are, well, just there, but not really recognized by their own boss.
It's just the...
He is just poorly written, that's the problem.
You want readers to believe that Kizaru cares about Kuma and Vegapunk so much that he doesn't fight seriously, feeds Luffy, pretends to be defeated etc.?
Ok, all fine.
But then in the meantime you also have him just watch his friend Kuma getting...
That's what they TELL you, but have you actually seen anything that indicates he's so violent on paper?
He didn't want to hurt Loki initially and when the latter attacked he himself taught the kid a hard, but fair lesson. He didn't go overboard while he could've easily just killed Loki there...
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