Ok, the point is that Oden was strong, hyped by Oda more than what was needed and matched and even bested a young Kaido.. yet he was nothing compared to prime Roger and prime WB. For what I can see I think there is no problem in having the admirals at least slightly above Oden.
Same. And as hyped was Oden was, something that puts someone above him Is already very good, in my opinion.
Also, not just "slightly" imho. Take GB: he has a BB, yes, but has a Logia on top of It.
We don't know how close was Oden to forging a BB, but even if he was close, GB not only did It, but have a Logia on top of that. That means that their fight wouldn't have been an extreme diff fight since GB Is superior to him even in swordmanship and + he has a Logia. It would be at least a high diff fight.
And GB Is not even the top of Admirals; it goes whitout saying that someone like Akainu or Aokiji would have It even "easier".
And tbh having the fandom put Admirals above the hyper hyped Oden, especially because it wouldn't even be that close especially for Akainu and such, for me Is totally ok.
*To be clear I have BM above Oden too.
The only logical issue would be prime beard who was scared to challenge that young Kaido in Wano because he feared he would lose too many people.. that doesn't click so well with WB character to begin with so the mistake for me is WB behaving like that. But indeed aside from that I see no problems. This is also the problem you spoke about, when Oda needs to hype a character then that comes before everything else.
I agree.
That scene didn't have much sense, I hated It and It went against all we knew about WB.
I mean Buggy told us the exact opposite.
The fact that a black blade would be Zoro last hurdle, or at least one of the last, well that would be a problem for sure with the Zoro fandom because it would imply that one or more among "sword mastery", coa, coc, boat too probably would be equalized among Ryuma, Mihawk and GB.. that would be blasphemy pretty much XD
In some way yes, but in some others I am sure Oda will hype the BB to the stars. So, overall, we will be "forced" to see BB as a great feat anyway.
Also the black blade imo doesn't put you above Roger, Mihawk is weaker than Roger, let's say that the black blade could be the apex of a side path in this manga, the sword path, that in order to reach you require enormous levels of either sword mastery, coa, maybe coc but that would already clash with Shanks (why Shanks as a swordsman and incredible levels of CoC hasn't a black blade?), but Oda has yet to clarify that. Anyway for sure Mihawk isn't an equal to Roger, he said so in his intro to Luffy and even in Marineford he admitted to be inferior to WB. I like Mihawk as a character but I have no agendas.
Same.
I like Mihawk, I have him above Shanks and that Is already enormous in OP terms, but Mihawk wasn't even stronger than old but sane WB, let alone WB prime who was ~ to Roger.
The theory that put Mihawk above the likes of Roger because for the Black Blade was always absurd imho. But yeah, for those who did think that I undestand why Ryo having a BB would be a huge blow, but I mean: with all due respect It was delusional to begin with.
