Luffy was a delicate character that if handled improperly would devolve into a full on Gary Stu, and I think the Nika and COC stuff pushed him over the line.
Well, he’s always been like one since… well, the beginning I guess?
He’s certainly liked and respected by a lot of characters.
I think the Nika thing could’ve been done a bit differently, like maybe not making it an ancient OP fruit used by a “Sun God”? We‘ve gone so long thinking that the fruit was always Gomu Gomu no Mi only for that to be changed so suddenly!
I don’t really pay attention to CoC stuff (Conqueror’s Haki is what it means right?) but I do notice that quite a few
characters seem to have it.
Yamato has it even though she’s done literally nothing special during the entirety of Wano or pretty much all her life besides meeting Ace. Katakuri also has it but he’s one of the strongest of the BMP apparently so I guess it’s expected.
Yamato’s the only one with CoC that I don’t understand. This makes me think all the more that we’re revisiting Wano at some point and she really will join. The way Oda wrote her with this Oden persona
really made me dislike her though, so I almost wish she never appears again.
She has no real personality; It’s all built on this obsession with being someone else. She has no real value either as a character, and that’s unfortunate.