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Yes. It was naïve from me, but I had so much hope and strong expectations at the time, and with her being described as one of the monsters of the BMP I was hoping that Oda would do something with her and Smoothie. I couldn't have imagined just how wrong I was and how badly Oda would screw up...

Most of the Straw Hats. Jinbei Gold Roger Smoker and Tashigi Garp Whitebeard. Dragon Big Mom and her daughters, especially Compote and Smoothie Kaido and the Beast Pirates Kid and Killer Apoo Hawkins

The way Zoans are written, with the animals senses that the Zoan users should logically have been granted being totally left out of the story.

I just couldn't stand that Oden glazing and how he was treated as the most amazing guy everyone loved and worshiped despite having neither the personality nor actions to justify said glaze and worship, and his stupid actions such as this super cringe and dumb dance; and Yamato's extremely cringe...

Most surely why he seems to be gunning for Vivi right now. Replacement goldfishes for the queen of Alabasta he was in love with.

The only interesting and semi-highlighted relation and dynamic in the Beast Pirates, the relations and interactions between the rest of the crew were so neglected. Wano should have had much less of Frauden and his worshipers and more writing for Kaido and the Beast Pirates.

Jack was one of the worst wasted characters in Wano, the arc which was full of them and of wasted potential. It's really baffling just how little Oda cared to write the Beast Pirates as a crew, and in terms of powers and to make them look like a threat and to show the dynamics of the crew.

But yeah it's sad that One Piece has lost it spark and become a shell of its former self, I should have known that it was inevitable with its longevity and slow pace and with Oda often recycling things, but seeing the decline of quality and then outright fall during the Yonko saga, and...

Yeah though a part of me was telling me that if WCI could be terrible, then there was no way to be sure that Wano would be better, though early Wano was enough to make me believe in a miracle only for the arc to turn out to be much worse than I could have imagined.

Using the Yonko Saga to try to showcase Oda's talent at writing is not a good idea at all. This saga exposed all of Oda's weaknesses and the issues existing within One Piece. It was truly in this saga that the magic was definitively lost forever.

The period between Jaya/Skypeia and the CP9 saga with Water Seven and Enies Lobby was the best period of One Piece as an aventure manga for the former and as a story for the latter.

Same. I have long stopped reading the manga, having lost interest, I just sometimes read the spoilers to see how the story is going.

TPM and AOTC aren't great, but Revenge of the Sith was amazing, it's still my favorite Star Wars movie of all times.

And Anakin's spirit had been broken by the death of Padmé and being told he was the one who killed her. Vader could have become stronger than Anakin but he was too swallowed in grief, self-loathing and self-pity for him to ever truly recover his fighting spirit, which is why Darth Sidious was...

Well I do like them, as well as their navy and the various organic armies and militias fighting for the CIS.

Oda screwed up royally with Big Mom, combatwise with her being handicapped all the time and in the most cringe and ridiculous ways ever imagined, and Kaido in terms of writing of his character, past and crew dynamics.

Dragon and the Revolutionary Army as well. Of the major powers they are by far the least interesting, and Dragon has yet to do or say anything meaningful since saving Luffy at Loguetown.

Queen did have his funny moments but he felt so nerfed in Onigashima, all of the Calamities and F6 were, and he had a cruel lack of interactions and dynamics with Kaido. And Oda somehow thought it was a good idea to make him Franky's father and yet have zero interaction between the two.

I can't describe how disappointed I was with Kaido and his crew's neglected writing and lack of dynamics and build, and how much I hated Oden, the Scabbards and Yamato, and also Big Mom's godawful nerfing and writing.

To return to the subject, Wano as a whole and especially Onigashima was perhaps the greatest wet firecracker in One Piece history. So much hype and anticipation for this arc which was supposed to be the epic culmination of years of buildup for such a gigantic and catastrophic letdown.