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How would you rank the One Piece arcs from before the timeskip, from Romance Dawn arc to Post-Marineford arc, from your least favorite arc to your favorite Preskip arc? What would be your arguments to explain your ranking and choices of best and least favorite arcs, and in-between?

Who are the One Piece characters that the manga glazes the most, whenever it's through the narration, author statements from Oda, SBS, or other characters describing said characters as so amazing and deserving of worship despite them doing little or nothing to earn such praise and adoration from...

Who amongst the characters present in God Valley's fb were treated and/or fleshed out better by this flashback? Who became worse characters because of it?

What are your opinions on SWORD, the special operation unit of the Marines, that is led by X-Drake with Koby, Helmeppo, Grus, Hibari and Kujaku as its members? What do you think of the way they have been written and used in the story? Did you have big expectations about them or not? I admit...

How would you have used and written the fact that Queen is Franky's biological father? What interactions and relation would you have given to the two? How would you have made the two meet each other in Wano? Would they fight? How would the two react to the reveal? What would they think of the...

What is or are your favorite One Piece cover story(ies)? Which one(s) is/are your least favorite(s)? CP9's Independent Report is my all time favorite, it was entertaining, it gave some depth and humanize the CP9 agents, while also having some dramatic and epic moments with them saving a town...

It's a known fact Oda loves to fake deaths and to reveal that characters thought to be dead are in fact alive, one of the many things that have hurt the manga's story over the years with it contributing to the loss of any sense of danger or threat or stakes, and which makes it very hard to...

What are the power ups, new powers, skills or techniques that the various OP characters should have received but didn't for some reason? What are your ideas of power ups and new techniques they should have had?

What is the moment, the arc, where One Piece really lost its charm and way as a story, and started to become the shadow of its former self it is today? For me the Tamatebakko explosion is the point from which I started to become increasingly baffled and frustrated with the manga's story and...

Who are the characters who appeared before the timeskip and who have suffered the worst of the timeskip and postskip writing, with their postskip characterization and treatment being way inferior to their preskip's? Robin felt so much better as a character before the timeskip, it's baffling...

Are the Straw Hat Pirates characters you find really likeable and sympathetic characters for whom you have a real attachement? Or do you find them to be annoying/and or unsympathetic? Which ones do you like or dislike the most as characters?

How truly likeable and intetesting, or unlikeable and uninteresting, are the Straw Hat Pirates as characters and as protagonists of the story? Do you think that Oda succeeded at making the crew endearing and easy to root for, or at keeping them tha way, or did he fail?

What do you really think of the Straw Hat Pirates as a group and as characters and protagonists? Do you like them, or do you dislike them, or are you indifferent toward them ? Has your opinion of them changed over time and the progression of the manga? Do you find them better or worse than before?

Which One Piece arc, most likely before the timeskip but you can also choose a postskip arc, did truly give you adventures vibes and felt the most like an exploration and amusing discovery to you ?

Who are some characters in One Piece that are supposed to be great heroes or characters we should admire and love, or at least sympathetic but that fail to gain sympathy or respect from you with the manga making them appear as far from admirable or sympathetic as Oda intended them to be ? Old...

What are in your mind the worst cases and moments of writing in One Piece, whenever it's an arc, one or several characters and the way they are written and handled, one or several fights, or even the smallest moments that make absolutely no sense and were absolutely terrible ?

Who amongst OP characters do you think has the best character development and become a better character the most since the beginning of the manga ? Who on the other hand has regressed the most as a character, losing substance and development and being the worst victim of flanderization in the...

Which arc of One Piece had the best fights in the manga, visually, choregraphy and/or powerwise ? And which arc had on the contrary the very worst fights in the history of One Piece ? And also which arc had the best battle ? Which one had the worst battle ?

Of the many antagonist groups who faced and opposed the Straw Hats, WG-affiliated or not, which one(s) do you think was/were handled in the worst way by Oda, either failing to make them interesting or destroying their credibility as an antagonist group and threat or both?

What is or are your favorite power up(s) in the manga ? For which reasons do you love it and prefer it to others ? And what is/are your least favorite power up(s) ?