Chapter Discussion Oda can't write a battle anymore
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Yeah, really, most of Oda's fights in the series are actually awful and filled with dialogue/cutscenes.
- Just think of how many complaints people have every fight. That shouldn't be happening, we should have clear victories- not questions about why Luffy shouldn't be losing to a man made of Mochi based on a whim or why Kizaru "lost" because he was mentally nerfed.
Only Oda makes "mental nerf" possible like wtf
You can't scale emotional shit. It can happen to anybody at any time lmao
- Just think of how many complaints people have every fight. That shouldn't be happening, we should have clear victories- not questions about why Luffy shouldn't be losing to a man made of Mochi based on a whim or why Kizaru "lost" because he was mentally nerfed.
Only Oda makes "mental nerf" possible like wtf
You can't scale emotional shit. It can happen to anybody at any time lmao
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Loki vs Imu is in a filler phase now, all we'll get are cling clangs and single panels until the plot is ready to move forward.
Which is fair enough, there's always a sequence to these things happening, e.g., Luffy's battle always comes after everyone else's battle has been resolved, and Loki's role is to occupy Imu until then so Luffy can return.
It's just a generally lazy way of writing battles. And One Piece choreography has been ass for a hot minute.
Which is fair enough, there's always a sequence to these things happening, e.g., Luffy's battle always comes after everyone else's battle has been resolved, and Loki's role is to occupy Imu until then so Luffy can return.
It's just a generally lazy way of writing battles. And One Piece choreography has been ass for a hot minute.
If you go back and read almost any other One Piece arc he’s always done this lol
Go back and reread the consensus best fight in One Piece Luffy vs Lucci
90% of the fight is just Luffy and Lucci fighting for a few pages before cutting away to something else happening in Enies Lobby
Really it’s closer to 100% because it doesn’t get full focus until literally the very end of the fight
This isn’t new at all
Go back and reread the consensus best fight in One Piece Luffy vs Lucci
90% of the fight is just Luffy and Lucci fighting for a few pages before cutting away to something else happening in Enies Lobby
Really it’s closer to 100% because it doesn’t get full focus until literally the very end of the fight
This isn’t new at all
Tbf this probably the worst time to bring this up because just very recently a couple chapters ago Oda gave us a top 5 One Piece fight chapter all time.
It's about as much as you're gonna get from One Piece, solid art, proper back and forth with solid paneling and transitions, and actual IQ being involved as well with Imu going through his movelist with a proper flow.
We got a mix of haki, omen nukes, lethality with the conjured blade, and appropriate physical clashes where Imu physically amped himself to be able to match Loki. Not to mention the sheer scale of it all was a spectacle worthy of a god tier lvl fight, with how powerful Loki's blows look, the ones being blocked looked like island busters, the one that landed sending Imu across the entire island, followed up with a lightning nuke.
I can't think of 5 One Piece chapters clearly better than that from a combat perspective. It has scale, speed, strength, IQ.
Imu is surprisingly one of the most thoughtful fighters we ever had, everything is optimized. On the fly he is able to come up with the best way to approach each situation. Very very rare for One Piece.
It's about as much as you're gonna get from One Piece, solid art, proper back and forth with solid paneling and transitions, and actual IQ being involved as well with Imu going through his movelist with a proper flow.
We got a mix of haki, omen nukes, lethality with the conjured blade, and appropriate physical clashes where Imu physically amped himself to be able to match Loki. Not to mention the sheer scale of it all was a spectacle worthy of a god tier lvl fight, with how powerful Loki's blows look, the ones being blocked looked like island busters, the one that landed sending Imu across the entire island, followed up with a lightning nuke.
I can't think of 5 One Piece chapters clearly better than that from a combat perspective. It has scale, speed, strength, IQ.
Imu is surprisingly one of the most thoughtful fighters we ever had, everything is optimized. On the fly he is able to come up with the best way to approach each situation. Very very rare for One Piece.
That's your typical off panel portion of a One Piece fight.
I haven't read a chapter since the one I'm referring to because I realized we are in the phase of the fight where it's mostly offpanel. For those standards Oda still seems to be pulling some things off, I saw a panel of another sword based attacks with Loki's lightning involved. Usually for these chapters we get cling clangs with nothing in it so this is a massive step up for those standards.
I haven't read a chapter since the one I'm referring to because I realized we are in the phase of the fight where it's mostly offpanel. For those standards Oda still seems to be pulling some things off, I saw a panel of another sword based attacks with Loki's lightning involved. Usually for these chapters we get cling clangs with nothing in it so this is a massive step up for those standards.