Character Discussion Are Admirals>Yonkous as characters?

[Sir Yasheen]

It's less about the groups and more of individuals.

Teach and Kuzan are some of the best written characters and they're in the same group.

Sakazuki, Whitebeard and Fujitora are also well-written.

Rest of the emperors and Admirals, not much.

As of now I wouldn’t even put Fujitora as well written.

 

[Blackbeard]

As of now I wouldn’t even put Fujitora as well written.

The man will shine EoS.

 

[Sir Yasheen]

The man will shine EoS.

Or he stays loyal to the marines and gets defeated with the rest. As of now, he’s not well written because it depends on if Oda actually makes him leave the marines or just makes him a hypocrite

 

[RyoQ]

All of the Admirals are more well-written than the Yonko. They are philosophical characters, through which Oda has been able to express much further, many concepts related to good and evil, justice, the state and it's obligations, human rights, etc.

Yonko are just pirates on a race for some treasure

 

[Uncle Van]

As individual characters yes. Kaido's writing is very easy to dismiss if you're unaware of the Thematic storytelling of Wano, as it adds tons of context to Kaido's character and actions. Decent at most.

BM is insanely wasted potential and a walking contrivance. Shanks is still bland and unexplored. WB's writing is honestly very simple and to the point. BB's writing is also simple and to the point, but effective for OP.

Admirals are just overflowing with nuance and complexity. Yonkos overall are mostly simple.

 

[Djordje]

Yes with exception of Whitebeard.

 

[Sir Yasheen]

Yes with exception of Whitebeard.

Buggy and Blackbeard are great too

 

[Djordje]

Buggy and Blackbeard are great too

Yes

 

[Ven437]

BM backstory clears all admiral backstories so far

 

[GalaxyLevelShanks]

Kuzan is better written than every one of them otherwise no

 

[DonWick]

As the Title says, can we say the Admirals are better than Emperors in terms of character development?

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Naw Luffy and Buggy win

 

[Blax Blah]

It depends on what good writing is to you too

 

[Buusatan94]

It depends on what good writing is to you too

In One Piece it's an increasingly lower standard

 

[EmperorKinyagi]

Yes, the marines have the advantage of being the only inherently morally complex (good guys working for bad guys) faction in the entire story though lmao

 

[Zemlya]

Whitebeard is very complex. One minute he’s this macho man willing to die for his family. Next minute he lets his brother’s country get taken over by a tyrant for 20 years.

Very intricate indeed..

Blackbeard has the potential to be the best written top tier ever, but other than that it’s a blowout for the admirals

 

[FutureWarrior123]

Kaido and Big Mom fell short to the hundreds of chapters worth of buildup while the admirals continue to be given nuanced characterization to this day with a promising future still in store for them.

 

[Sir Yasheen]

Also

Warlords clear both in terms of writing

 

[comrade]

I don't really feel like the admirals have much depth or nuance. They are just soldiers who fall to command. Some of them heavily struggling with committing atrocities (yet still committing them) is like the only thing that gives them nuance. The Yonko have more character by virtue of opposing authority.

 

[Bad English]

Also

Warlords clear both in terms of writing

And we yet to see Mihawk's story arc damn.

 

[ZenZu]

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