Pound's "death" was one of the biggest highlights of Whole Cake Island. Yeah it was sad that Pound's daughters never knew who he was. But that was the point. That's what made Pound's sacrifice so selfless. He was doing a thing for his daughters that he would never get credit for. His death also raised the stakes of the arc dramatically. First Pedro then Pound, these deaths showed us that dealing with a yonko was serious business and it wasn't just "little pirate games" like pre-skip.
The entirety of the arc had this serious feel to it. Whereas previous arc villains had continuously underestimated the SHs, the big mom pirates were the first ones to take them seriously as a threat and systematically try to destroy them. We saw how the Big Mom pirates plotted and schemed to trap the SHs but ultimately failed due to sanji, germa, and the sun pirates.
The fact that Pound can survive getting sliced in the neck at point blank range by a character FAR stronger than him just gives the impression that nothing really matters in one piece. By some BS plot nonsense Whitebeard and Ace could probably be revived as well. And I know Oda has done this in the past but Pound was the first one that really bothered me. Even moreso than Kinemon.
At least with Kinemon, it was confirmed he was alive only a few chapters after he supposedly died. Oda retconned Pound's death in a fucking cover story. I just don't know how Oda expects people to read chapter 887 in retrospect with full knowledge that pound doesn't die, and feel literally anything.
The entirety of the arc had this serious feel to it. Whereas previous arc villains had continuously underestimated the SHs, the big mom pirates were the first ones to take them seriously as a threat and systematically try to destroy them. We saw how the Big Mom pirates plotted and schemed to trap the SHs but ultimately failed due to sanji, germa, and the sun pirates.
The fact that Pound can survive getting sliced in the neck at point blank range by a character FAR stronger than him just gives the impression that nothing really matters in one piece. By some BS plot nonsense Whitebeard and Ace could probably be revived as well. And I know Oda has done this in the past but Pound was the first one that really bothered me. Even moreso than Kinemon.
At least with Kinemon, it was confirmed he was alive only a few chapters after he supposedly died. Oda retconned Pound's death in a fucking cover story. I just don't know how Oda expects people to read chapter 887 in retrospect with full knowledge that pound doesn't die, and feel literally anything.
