Kaido is the worst character Oda has ever written. His personality is an inconsistent mish-mash of random character traits that contradict each other left and right, and he feels more like a gag character than an actual villain. One second, he’s eager to find a place to die and to start the world’s greatest war, and the next second he’s begging his subordinates to keep Big Mom out of Wano out of fear of the conflict she may bring with her. One second he’s desperate to entertain himself and wants to start a war with the whole world, and the next second he’s screaming like a little bitch because the Samurai can actually give him paper cuts.
Wano has no story whatsoever. In the past, OP has had fairly interesting plots like the Dance Powder/Revolution being masterminded by Crocodile plot lines in Alabasta, the hypocrisy of the World Government’s Peace & Justice in Enies Lobby, the commentary on racism in Fishman Island, etc. but the story of Wano is literally just Luffy learning magic punches that allow him to hurt Kaido. That’s it. And almost all of this story is off-paneled anyway, the only part of it we explore is Luffy saying “I want to learn the magic anti-Kaido Haki!” And then he just learns it off screen while we go through the dumbest flashback in OP history featuring the second worst character Oda has ever written in Kozuki Oden.
Oda tried to hide the fact that Wano has literally no story whatsoever by creating the third worst character he has ever written in Otama. When Oda realized how garbage Wano was about to be, he tried to create the worst “please show me sympathy” character in manga history, an 8 year old girl who is just so mistreated by the comically evil Kaido! And who can’t wait for Ace-Ni to eventually return to her some day! Otama’s role in Wano is simple: get the metaphorical shit kicked out of her left and right so Oda can go for cheap sympathy points. “See how evil Kaido and Orochi are?? This poor little helpless girl!!” *Cries in Shonen*
Yeah speaking of Orochi, what the fuck was that? Was purpose did this character serve? Talk about a character who was literally in-power for no reason whatsoever. In a real manga, this repulsive piece of shit would’ve been beheaded the second he tried to claim the Shogunate for himself, but this is OP and Oda has to sleep deprive himself for thousands of hours to come to the conclusion that “fans really won’t expect it if it makes absolutely no sense that the Shogun of Wano is weak as shit and has no legitimate claim to ruling Wano! Expectations subverted!”
I could go on since absolutely nothing about Wano is good in anyway. Whole Cake Island is high art compared to this trash.