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I've been thinking about this for a while now. What is the point of having Marco be part of the raid in Onigashima? Is it just fanservice? He hasn't done anything particularly noteworthy to justify his particular presence. If he wasn't there you could easily have other characters fill in for him...

I'm still trying to figure out what Yamato's purpose even is. Even if it's to join the crew, she hasn't done enough to really call herself a big player, unlike Franky in Enies Lobby, for example. Her role has been 90% running around, and 10% acting overly familiar with characters she just met...

Thriller Bark after Kuma appeared is so damn good. The Strawhats were already exhausted after facing Oars and then this seemingly invincible Shichibukai shows up with the sole intent of capturing Luffy. It just oozes tension because you KNOW there's now way they're defeating this guy right now...

I saw someone say that it's all white because he's supposed to look like a black/white rubber hose cartoon character. If that's what Oda is going for, I suppose the white makes sense

Oda channeling his inner DeviantArt artist by having Kaido vore luffy and then drawing him inflated

I'm slowly warming up to the concept of the fruit, but I actually agree with all of your points. The WG issue is the most glaring one, and it's the one most people have been pointing out (including me), but you also mention a few others that I hadn't really thought of. Creating an in-universe...

I was thinking that it could have a time limit similar to Gear 4, followed by a period of incapacitation like the initial Gear 3/Gear 4 fights, but I don't know if that makes a lot of sense? Honestly, right now this power-up feels way more like an endgame power-up, like the one you'd see in the...

Right now I'm coping and assuming that this is just Luffy's "initial high" after his first awakening, so that's why he's so giddy and excited. That'd mean that in his future fights he'd be back to normal... hopefully. I mentioned this in another thread, but I doubt that Oda would turn his series...

I'm also struggling to figure out how Oda will explain the WG's failure to prioritize Luffy's capture after all these years. It's not like the Gorosei are only just finding out that Luffy's Gomu Gomu is actually the Nika Nika, since Who's Who already had all the information. I really hope that...

I'm not a big fan of the cartoony aesthetic Oda is going for either, but I doubt that it means that every fight from here on will have the same tone. Oda has been making a lot of questionable decisions, but I don't think he's suddenly turning OP into a gag manga Also, did you seriously create a...

I managed to avoid spoilers so I came into the chapter with no expectations and... I don't know how to feel about this retcon. It makes the WG look completely incompetent by not putting more effort into catching Luffy, and I don't know how I feel about the super cartoony Jim Carrey's Mask...

When you say God level feats, are you speaking about DBZ level, world-ending feats? Because something I like about One Piece is that even the most powerful characters don't seem capable of doing stuff like that, except for maybe the Gura Gura

I've always thought that if your main reason for reading/watching OP is the fights, you'd be doing yourself a disservice, as other series do the choreography and plotting of fights way better than Oda. It just isn't one of his big strengths.

I think what M944 means if that a pirate could theoretically find One Piece and become the Pirate King without needing to be Joyboy's reincarnation, but only Joyboy is capable of using One Piece (the true knowledge or the actual treasure, who knows) to bring the dawn of the world and tear down...

Yeah I get this feeling that One Piece has started to suffer from the same issues that a lot of other Shonen suffer as they enter their endgame - the focus of the story inevitably starts shifting towards the more powerful characters, and the "weaker" ones are left behind to become essentially...

It's so obviously referring to their wills, I swear some people in here have powerscaling brainrot :lusalty: Yeah I sure expected Luffy to say "Samurai top tier, they easy diff Kaido and the Admirals + ratio"

Difficult to decide between the three Luffy fights. Lucci vs. Luffy is the most emotionally impactful for sure, but I wonder if that's more because of how good Enies Lobby is? Are we speaking about the fights in isolation? Katakuri vs. Luffy has a "respectful fight between equals" vibe going...

I hate the "Chosen One" trope with a passion, and I honestly struggle to find a good example of it... maybe Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson? Idk. However, I don't think the example you gave is necessarily a case of Luffy's "chosen one" privileges, it seems more like a side-effect of him being...

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I find it bizarre how this forum sometimes actively roots against Luffy, the main character of a shonen manga. He'll obviously get a new power-up to defeat the big bad guy, I don't know why anyone would expect otherwise from this genre. You could argue about Zoro vs Luffy all day but I think...