General & Others Can you skip Act 1 and Act 2 while reading Wano?

[ImmaIvanoM]

If you have a friend or someone thats catching up to One Piece, can you try this out with them and see if it would change something.

Give them the inbetween chapters of Act 1- Act 2 and Act 2- Act 3 and then let the continue reading from Oden’s flashback up to now.

I have this feeling that literally nothing will be lost for them.

 

[Sasparan]

Setup is as important as payoff. I dont recommend skipping.

 

[ImmaIvanoM]

Setup is as important as payoff. I dont recommend skipping.

Thing is, i do not believe the set up of Wano mattered… For example Luffy’s training… Luffy trains AdvCoA… Reaches Act 3 and pulls AdvCoC out of nowhere instead and thats what is actually able to do shit to Kaido… So that whole section of Act 2 is useless… Same with shit like the whole Kid and Killer business… Killer has a defective smile fruit but it doesnt go anywhere in Act 3, Kid has a vendetta against Kaido but that also doesnt go anywhere in Act 3 and he goes after Big mom instead

Even the big Set ups such as The rounding up of all the samurai went nowhere… Like as you read this raid, does it seem like it ever matters why the Samurai are important? Kinda just always seems like fodder are just fodder. We even have Queen killing his own fodder to show how useless they all are in general…

So you’ve kinda come to the reason i made this thread… I actually dont think any of the set up of Act 1 and 2 mattered

 

[Sasparan]

Thing is, i do not believe the set up of Wano mattered… For example Luffy’s training… Luffy trains AdvCoA… Reaches Act 3 and pulls AdvCoC out of bowhere instead and thats what is actually able to do shit to Kaidl… So that whole section of Act 2 is useless… Same with shit like the whole Kid and Killer business… Killer has a defective smile fruit but it doesnt go anywhere in Act 3, Kid has a vendetta against Kaido but that also doesnt go anywhere in Act 3 and he goes after Big mom instead

Even the big Set ups such as The rounding up of all the samurai went nowhere… Like as you read this raid, does it seem like it ever matters why the Samurai are important? Kinda just always seems like fodder are just fodder. We even have Queen killing his own fodder to show how useless they all are in general…

So you’ve kinda come to the reason i made this thread… I actually dont think any of the set up of Act 1 and 2 mattered

I mean Oda kinda messed up some places with pacing but this setup is important.
We know who are the scabbards and what they are to Oden (which is what Oden fb didnt explain.)

We are seeing what Orochi did to this land more clearly and most important of all we are having a clear motivation to fight Kaido.
The whole Udon scene is about that. Kid also gets a motivation to fight with Kaido.

I mean my friend reads act 3 and if i dont want him to say (Why Kid and BM is here, Who is Hiyori, Why Zoro has a new sword.) these questions then i would tell him to read.

 

[Finalbeta]

I think the Udon events are fundamental to understand a lot of things if you are a power scaler. Just like the Enma matter for Zoro.

Meanwhile there are some other crucial story moment not to be missed more in general, such as the reason why Zoro is hellbent on Kaido and also what happened between Zoro and Hiyori and the Momo plot.

 

[Warchief Sanji D Goat]

Skipping Act 1 and 2 and jumps straight to Act 3 is like skipping Water 7 and jump to Enies Lobby or skipping Impel Down and jump to Marineford. Most people won't know what's going on.

 

[Roo]

if you're binge reading i see no reason to skip

 

[Sir Yasheen]

Nah. Yeah it has its lows (a lot of them) but you need to read them. If you’re binging wano though those low will be less noticeable as they were weekly

 

[TheAncientCenturion]

You still need to know who everyone is. Act 1 & 2's problem is the glutton of unnecessary info in those chapters too. So for a first time reader, I wouldn't recommend it.

 

[Finalbeta]

Skipping Act 1 and 2 and jumps straight to Act 3 is like skipping Water 7 and jump to Enies Lobby or skipping Impel Down and jump to Marineford. Most people won't know what's going on.

*Skypeia memes in action*

 

[York]

Anyone skipping to act 3 will be twice as pissed off at the Onigashima character bloat

 

[Jailer]

A first time reader should read all chapters, if he didn't like OP while binging 900 chapters, then doubt that changes anything might well read those acts too, get to know characters, their intros all that.

 

[Finalbeta]

I have never even read half OP chapters in their entirety but I turned fine. :cheers: