Larrot drawing us back to the early days of One Piece? That has to be the shittiest joke I've heard of in my 19 years of living. Larrot's been with the SH's for 7 years with almost 0 meaningful panels for 3 Arcs, in those 3 arcs not 1 panel has convinced me Oda is writing Larrot in such a way that it would lead me to believe she will be on the Sunny by the end of Wano.
Wrong. You are purposely ignoring multitudes of panels from the moment she appears from the first time, passing through her second introduction toward the death of Pedro, passing through her Sulong moment up until her moment with Sanji. You are calling Carrot "Larrot", there is logically no world where you can objectively look at the story and find panels where Carrot shine.
This is called a bias and the story proves you wrong.
WCI proved you need a look out but you forget the fact that Larrot and the exponentially better written Mink with the BETTER and EXTENDED backstory that is Pedro were only their to to temporarily replace missing Strawhat roles, Ussop wasn't there in WCI to do the lookout role but now in Onigashima when the role was emphasised, Ussop ceased the opportunity to do the role right in Larrot's face without her noticing.
Carrot and Pedro were used as ally and Look-outs. There is therefore no replacement of any strawhats of any kind. You are interpretating the story here.
Composition and Design don't mean shit when literally everybody in One Piece has at least 1 panel that is drawn like Larrot Sulong Form ie Zoro, King, Sanji, Queen and King, Bartolomeo, Cavendish. Reaction from the other characters is something that does matter, at least you got 1 thing right for once. The reactions from Brook, Nami, Chopper and Jinbe are important but the way I read it, they are only amazed by the transformation instead of Larrot. The transformation of Sulong was highlighted only because of what it meant symbolically to the Kozuki's and the Moon, how important it was for it to be highlighted in WCI so that it can be extensively used in Wano as the story comes together for Momo, after that Sulong is literally a dead transformation that only happens once every full moon and could potentially lead to the minks death under certain circumstances.
You just denied you credibility as an analyst with you first sentence.
For your information : From a structural and outlining perspective, almost NO character (in the entirerity of the story) came even close to the treatment of Carrot.
That transformation was unique. Why ? Because here Oda mixed Wonder and femininity, with feralness, strenght and mystic.
That is litterally something that is
UNPRECEDENTED in the WHOLE story. There is a reason why you can see some reactionners talk about this chapter/moment as almost "not One Piece". Because here Oda is reaching very far into the depth of magical and mythical inspirations. Even Luffy's transformations don't come even close to the mystical aspect of this moment.
This transformation was not highlighted and so impactfull because it was a show of strenght from one of the mink.
No. It was such an impactfull and highlighted moment because it was a show of splendor from a character that up until then did not shine to much. Therefore if this chapter indeed gave us what Mink were really capable of,
it highlighted first and foremost the potential and the gracefullness of Carrot as a fighter. That's why the very last panel of this chapter is not a comment about the mink tribe.. but a little smile from Carrot.
Battle is only happening under the moonlight now because it was setup that way for one time because of it's important significance towards the Kozuki's, if Larrot were to join then Oda would need to write the moonlight bullshit every time Larrot has to make use of Sulong and that's impossible bcause it happens every 2-3 weeks on 1 day.
And it was setup that way for the mink. So if Oda wants to make Carrot fight, he will find a way, might it be the moon or an artificial one. The lack of the moon is therefore not a good excuse. It would be like saying "Oda can't make Luffy fight because Luffy has a stamina limite" this would negate that Oda is the writer here and in the words of Stan Lee: If he wants to make a character win, the character WILL win.
She has only ever done this Job once, that's really dire considering it's suppose to be important to the core of her character. So her not doing it frequently is concerning.
Wrong. Carrot has done the look out job four times now. Once before the arrival on the island of Whole cake. Second just after the death of Pedro. Third after she wakes up from her moon power (note that nobody was at the post meanwhile) and fourth after the departure of Totland and the arrival to Wano.
Flying in One Piece has only ever been useful a few times in the story in Alabasta, Wano and Dressrosa. Dlying has never been used for combat purposes. Larrot doesn't fly, she leaps.
Wrong. Carrot's float in base form, meaning that she can change her course while in midair (she is the only mink able to do that to date) and fly in Sulong. This was clearly inked in the storyduring her moment in 888 and 889. Flying is best possible capacity to have for a centry posted in the crow's nest. As chapter 888 clearly shown.
She is not, not even close, literally nothing in favour of her being written as a Straw Hat. Please don't bring your arbitrary writing skills into Oda's manga, writing through the lens of the background character? Another Joke of yours. Chopper was the same age as Larrot in Drum Island, he was the sole focus of his own arc but he still decided to stay until Kureha and Luffy pushed him. Right now nobody is pushing Larrot into any direction, not Luffy, not Wanda and not Neko. Judge Literally had his kids do war by his side after the training, I don't think Oda limits what a kid can do in One Piece.
Those are not writing skills, I'm not writing anything. My skills are analytic (I know how to write stories but this is different).
You see, youreally thought through you arguments before you throw them at an analyst : Chopper while being the same age, was completely petrified by his fear of being seen as a monster. While he would have loved to see how the sea is, he was to afraid to even bring the subject. Carrot is different, she loves the sea and is not afraid of taking what she wants. And Oda constructed her that way :
- Carrot choosed to attack Zoro
- Carrot choosed to sneak on the Sunny
- Carrot choosed to take on the role of Pedro for herself
- Carrot choosed to face Daifuku's fleet with her Sulong form
- Carrot choosed to attack Perospero
Carrot is a taker and this is only one of her quality as Oda as CLEARLY constructed Carrot as a strawhat (Post / Dynamic / Moral PIllar / tragedy / Actions / Comedy / Quirk / relationships etc.) ....
But..
The fact that Carrot wants to go out to sea doesn't mean that she will do that at first. This is something I was keeping for a bit later, but there are reason to think that Carrot will feel useless after the war. After all, Carrot is constructed around the myth of the jade rabbit of the moon.
In the myth, the rabbit is unable to fullfill the needs of an old man in provision, so in fear of feeling useless.. the rabbit throw himself in the fire. He is later rewarded by the old man (being in fact the jade emperor) by being sent on the moon. This would be the reason why we can see a rabbit on the face of the moon. My guess is that Carrot will be torn apart by a desire to go at see while thinking taht she doesn't deserve it.. This is where Wanda (in my mind)will come into play and convince Carrot to go.
WCI doesn't balance anything when WCI at it's peak for Larrot was only decent, Wano just makes her character worse in every chapter that goes by.
I'm meant that whole cake was part of Carrot "backstory"
15 year old grass eater can't carry the Burden of bringing the Dawn to the minks, Neko, Inu and Zunsha doing a better job than her without even thinking about it. You are taking our statements to literally, when we say she is irrelevant, we mean she doesn't add anything towards progressing the story, we acknowledge her existence occasionally but most of the time she is a cheerleader.
But a 8 year old can become a SHogun ? Don't bring age to the table, it's meaningless.
-Mink with the most panel doesn't mean anything when their are factually more important minks by name in Neko and Inu.
-Larrot doesn't have a good dynamic with the crew, everything she does is either in amazement of what the Straw Hats get themselves into or Garchu which is so shallow.
-I agree she does have the Transformation with the most impact among the minks in the situation she was in.
-Wanda, Neko, Inu, Shishillian and Bepo have a better design than Larrot but that's subjective so their is no argument to be had.
-Neko and Inu "Raizo is safe" is lightyears ahead of any Larrot emotional moment.
- Yes it does, but it's just a logical result of how Carrot was portrayed. Inu and Neko are Scabbard, Carrot is the representation of the minks, even today and even in the meta. That why you can see carrot on the Minks Vivre card.
- You are inventing here. Carrot as a PERFECT dynamic with the crew with Chopper calling her litterally is "little Sis" something that no strawhat ever did. Don't mix up a bit of Garchu with true relationships.
- Ok
- Any casual reader or any artist can tell you that Carrot's design is the best by FAR.
- "The Raizo is safe" does not concern only Neko and Inu but ALL the mink. And if this is indeed a very powerfull moment Carrot had powerfull ones too. But this moment is not a good comparison as it is literally one of the best moment in the entire story.
"Everything you wrote here are inventions. The story tells a completely different narrative." I think this only applies to you, were speaking from the Manga while you speak from your own storytelling head canon like your the Mangaka of the Manga.
Nah. But I guess you will soon understand why.
That thread of yours on Twitter is purely false info and wishful thinking to fit your own headcanon, it's like you're trying to speak facts about chapters that aren't even out yet.
No this is what a real story analysis is. I know you guyz are not used to that too much as most youtubers are just simily conspiracy theorists but this doesn't negate the fact behind those analysis. If this is my interpretation and I could be wrong.. this is also the most logical and simplest answers to what the story shows us.
"Again, this is not up for debate" are you seriously telling us this? everything on this forum is false until proven right unless things said on here directly correlate with the manga. Everything that isn't from the Manga is headcanon and false info. everything is up for debate because their is no true answer and it must be decided upon by the people of the forum. If nothing is up for debate than we would have gotten our answer as to who is joining next and this thread on the forum would be left inactive but it isn't is it?
Some things are not up for debate. They are described well enough in the story not to have any debate about them.