I was ao angry that never came to fruition. The setup was there, especially with Franky fighting him too! Wano was really the country of letdowns/disappointment. City/Country of Gold or whatever? My ass!
We never learned what the true name of Onigashima was either! Nothing about Onis at all nor black blades and such. How did Kozukis enscribe Ponegylphs too? What about Wano being the origin of seastone gathering and thus exportation? Making it into other weapons too?
Also Oda the absolute asshole troll unveils Pluton was at Wano all along, which Robin NEVER cared to mention before despite knowing for a few years now FFS! Not even to the Revolutionaries apparently!? Not to mention the bigger Wano that was under Wano this whole time, with no indication/foreshadowing about it either! And we just leave the Wano with never elaborating on it!?:
There's so much I'd want to do for a rewrite for an arc and thus post here too but not right now, I'll do it soon at some point though.
@Pooth @lee33 you may be interested in this thread too lol. I would tag Peper but they're on such a rampage including ranting brutally about Wano/OP elsewhere earlier, so idk if I should now.
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This should have been Kidds arc imo, where we saw his backstory and learned about him and Killer. Given what his backstory is too, Oda could show in the present with Kidd taking over Udon from Queen and getting revenge, in how that relates to Kidd uniting the bandit gangs or whatever in his homeland and conquering the biggest gang who ruled over them all. Would make a very nice parallel.
Udon was such nonsense, that teasing of who "that mysterious prisoner" was, Oda constantly showing their eyes in the darkness and baiting us with that suspense/myserty on their identity, with people trying to frantically guess who it was, to the point even names like Roger, Oden, Shiki came up lmfao. Why does that sound still relevant right now? Like its happening again right now? Hmmm...




We also had Oda showing Big Mom moving like a snail towards Wano, chapters upon chapters of seeing her slowly approaching Udon and thus that glacial stalling, like Luffy going to the rooftop too.