Break Week Samurai land with no focus on Zoro, technology land with no focus on Franky, you guys better stop expecting anything for Usopp on Elbaf...

#6
Zoro got focus in Wano the problem is the conclusion pretty much threw it all away

If Oda tied everything together at the end with his connection to the Shimotsuki's, visiting Ryuma's grave, and collecting Nidai (among a few other things) it would've been a decent arc for him

Franky though...
Yeah, pretty much.

Until rooftop ended, it was pretty much universally accepted that Wano was Zoro's arc, he had so much going on for him in terms of screentime and plot.

And then..........LOda just abandoned them.

But really, it isn't just Zoro that got fucked over by LOda's shit writing and rush in Wano.

Kaido, the dude who dictated the entire post TS, got a grand total 5-6 pages of flashback, this is indefensible. LOda fanboys will of course defend with some variant of "b..but saved for Rocks" of course, but there is plenty of Kaido's character and backstory that was outside of Rocks.
Random plot points of Robin getting captured, smile users' situation (3 doctors in the arc BTW), Zunesha coming and going, King getting 2-3 pages of flashback, Kanjuri failing to die like 5 times etc.

Point being, Zoro getting fucked over wasn't the only character disaster of Wano.

One can maybe hope that Wano being a disaster in general won't deter character moments of Strawhats (bar Luffy who gets all the spotlight) in the future.

That being said.
I simply think Franky is too irrelevant for Oda to give him anything more than a couple of pages dedicated to one of his random powerups/inventions.

But Usssop is a part of the east blue mains. These 5 are said to be the core/main-assembly of Strawhats by Oda. Yeah, Ussop got nothing at all in Wano and his power level is simply too fodder to be relevant in 1v1 combat, but I have some hope that Oda will give him some major character moments when the time comes.
I don't think Ussop, Nami and Chopper (except in monster point) are meant to be 1v1 combatants anyway, they get fodderized unless there is massive CIS. But there are many other ways to get them to shine.
 
#10
https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/wvkjan
THE TOP 50 CHARACTERS IN ALL OF WANO WITH THE MOST APPEARANCES! Be-Beng!!

  1. Monkey D. Luffy - 1689
  2. Kaido - 989
  3. Roronoa Zoro - 922
  4. Kin'emon - 684
  5. Kozuki Momonosuke - 674


The idea Zoro never got any focus in Wano is nonsense. Part of the reason the end of Wano was shit was that he did get focus throughout and Oda just dropped the end of his story after the King fight.

The same applies to number two on that list, with Kaido’s dreadful flashback and anti-climatic defeat.
 
#12
https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/wvkjan
THE TOP 50 CHARACTERS IN ALL OF WANO WITH THE MOST APPEARANCES! Be-Beng!!

  1. Monkey D. Luffy - 1689
  2. Kaido - 989
  3. Roronoa Zoro - 922
  4. Kin'emon - 684
  5. Kozuki Momonosuke - 674


The idea Zoro never got any focus in Wano is nonsense. Part of the reason the end of Wano was shit was that he did get focus throughout and Oda just dropped the end of his story after the King fight.

The same applies to number two on that list, with Kaido’s dreadful flashback and anti-climatic defeat.
1.6k so cringe
 
#18
Oda went full MC is all that matters and fuck the rest route, i lost hope on the "brave warrior of the sea" regarding usopp.
In the case of zoro the issue was that the focus on the end of wano was in nakama shit instead of the plot points and it was not only zoro that suffered. We saw that he introduced elements that could have greatly helped the character. The pages wasted on Yamato could have been used to improve the shit fights and characters.
But we had to waste time on that shit character.
 
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