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Willpower = haki. Kizaru was wishing someone could stop him the whole time. You can't conveniently square away him falling to tears and being hostile towards Akainu after returning from the mission. It was similar when base Lucci straight fodderized Luffy and Zoro in Water 7. They didn't know...

None of them. Thriller Bark's focus on the Straw Hats is the type of stuff I initially got hooked on this series for. And it excelled in that. WCI and Egghead are doing some pretty nice things for me, though. I think it's got some interesting things going on. Lots of hype moments as well...

Gunkmu might pull up and Rocks might get Domi Reversi'd. It's difficult to imagine Roger and Garp fighting Rocks to the death. They've no reason to do that based on what we know so far. Wouldn't be strange if we were led astray by WG propaganda.

Ultimately, it's kind of filler to connect us to this Final Saga. But it was entertaining and gave us a sense of scale to the power progression of this world. So it did it's job. Wano was obese, though.

"Death of the author" is meant to give you the option to find your own deeper meanings in a piece of work. The hidden symbolism and messages. I don't think it was meant as a way for you to just prefer alternative facts, which I feel is being conflated (because you're talking about character...

Why did he have to beat anyone in particular? Did WB beat anyone to become WSM or did the world just agree to acknowledge him as that naturally after Roger passed and Rocks was forgotten? I think there's an assumption here that's a bit shaky and also unimaginative. Maybe Shanks was the Roger in...

To add to some of this, having your name be remembered for hundreds of year is a feat in and of itself in One Piece. When you look at the short list of characters that applies to, it's easy to see why it's a big deal. Is Dragon going to have that privilege? Is Herald? Even Rocks himself is...

What is special about 2 weeks in Wano compared to any number of weeks on the ship with Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji all present?

Not really. Mihawk was introduced as the WSS in a vacuum when we didn't know Shanks was actually a big deal. And the opposite happened first. Shanks' conversation with Whitebeard actually used Mihawk to hype up Shanks, because that was a point in the story where we didn't know where Shanks (and...

Nah. If the anime scene against Kaido is any indication, this is an attack that focuses all blades into one continuous slash by spinning like a top.

Elbaph revealing that Zoro not understanding he has CoC was basically a soft indicator that Zoro can't use KoH techniques on-demand. Just like Asura, he probably needs to be pushed to extreme difficulty. So him huffing and puffing against Lucci until the moment Sanji started talking shit makes...

I think Oda has started to diversify the power system. We're getting different types of swordsmanship, whatever power of love is, whatever Shanks did to GB, whatever "observation killing" is, whatever Shakky is doing to men without a DF, etc. We still have yet to fully understand Asura and...

Unironically, bagging the Kuja Empress is huge for portrayal. CoC, willlpower, aura, however you wanna quantify it. It's a big deal that Hancock was into Luffy. Now we know that Shakuyaku specifically chose Rayleigh over the PK. Crazy.

Cucking the Pirate King is unironically the best feat in the series.

All of this, but I think the bolded is the most important. She's not "cool". lol But also, we keep seeing indicators that she's a big sister figure to Kaido. Someone that invested in his growth and took care of him. At least to the extent that a relationship like that can occur between savate...

Whitebeard's reputation is that he can have the One Piece if he wanted it. Even if that stopped being the case in his old age, no one else can lay claim to that reputation.

Whatever Shanks or anyone else from this era can do with their sword (e.g. 0.5 shotting Kid), we're supposed to think that Mihawk can match or do better. I think that's a minimum and conservative assumption to make. But that is still somehow controversial for some people.

Franky is clearly above everyone on the Straw Hats except for M3+Jinbe. The way he "struggles" in his fights is not the same as Robin. He does not typically have difficulty in the same way the weaker members do and has raw AP and durability more on par with M3+Jinbe. I think it's a joke that...

I don't think the prediction that he'll literally come back is in any contention. Many other characters will be making an appearance in the final saga in some capacity after all. Probably even BM and Kaido who are "dead". The question is, will he be relevant, much less pivotal, to the plot in...

Comparing it to long-running franchises like OP that have the burden of decades of legacy content (and therefore have a higher cost of buy-in from new viewers) is not really appropriate to gauge its success. In comparison to other modern anime, however, I'd argue it has good execution in...