Before Oden returned to Wano, citizens were effectively slaves, starved and executed if they refused to work in those conditions.
Four years during Oden's dancing the people of Wano were still being oppressed and were suffering, despite Oden having the strength to fight back as one of the strongest alive. "
NOTHING had changed in the country"
It's revealed that "
EVERYTHING WAS A LIE" . They never planned to leave Wano and people were still being taken as offerings.
Orochi has no clue what Oden is talking about as they had never honoured the agreement to begin with and were talking people all along. Oden didn't even realise that Hyoguro had been taken until he was told by Orochi himself.
Oden was a clown from beginning to end
Man oh man so much wrong in a post.
1. Yes they were in cruel conditions before Oden arrived. Those cruel conditions were fixed, hence Shinobu in the recent chapter stated that people of Wano enjoyed peace for 5 years. So let's not use selective reading where we just use chapter 969 to put down Oden, and forget what was revealed in chapter 971, that Wano was effectively at peace.
2. "Nothing had changed", nice job taking it out of context. The nothing had changed refers to Orochi not doing anything against Wano for those 4 years, and in his 5th year is when Orochi made his move on Kuri specifically. That statement of "nothing had changed" is directly connected with Shinobu's statement of "Nothing had changed" aka Wano was at peace.
3. Orochi told Oden about The Hero of the Capital and Oden didn't know about means that it had just happened. Oden eventually would've found out and taken action regardless.. why? Because again as revealed in chapter 971, he visited region to region every week to check if things had changed, and Hyou (As well as Yasu) would be one of the people he visited. So this is pretty much a ridiculous point to hold against him.
So what'd Oden do wrong? Trust Orochi & Kaido? ok, he trusted them, saved thousands of lives, apologized on behalf of people of wano who committed a genocide against the Kurozumi, and then took action against Kaido when things were no longer at peace.
- Danced for 5 years, Wano is at peace for 5 years
- Peace is broken, plans Kaido's assassination the moment peace is broken
- Is going for the raid, gets Yasu to protect Kuri while he's away
- gets betrayed by a comrade, allowing Kaido to prepare a whole army for Oden, and still almost nearly kills him
So let's remove the traitor and see what happens:
- Danced for 5 years, Wano is at peace for 5 years
- Peace is broken, Starts the Kaido assassination at Oni island
- Yasu protects kuri while Oden goes on raid
- Fights an unguarded drunk Kaido with unprepared army, and kills him.
- Then takes out Orochi at the capital, who has essentially nobody backing him up
- Wano is free without a war.
So what's the issue here? From the sounds of it you just want Oden to be a dumbfuck who thinks of war as his first resort to solve an issue rather than negotiation and then war.
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For the anti-Oden squad in here saying non-sense like "he stood a better chance 5 years ago".. So can you guarantee he wouldn't have been betrayed 5 years ago?
Taking the L in a giant war that involves a whole country is much much more devastating to a nation than taking an L in a battle involving just 10 people.