Character Discussion Shanks Connection With Imu

#1
The snitch theory finally solved.
What is Shanks' animal according to Oda? Lion. What does that have to do with anything? Look at Imu's chair with the 2 lion handrests, ironically a red throne too.

"Since it's you Redhair, I'll allow it", Shanks replies with "thank you"
Damn son look how fired up Doberman is, but his higher up Sengoku knows shit not everybody does.


Look how chill the Gorosei are, reading their newspapers and minding their own business, basically sitting with their homeboy instead of a dangerous pirate who can potentially wreak havoc in their country. "We only made time because it's you"



Even in film Red the gorosei mention him as one of their own

Here Shanks asked Roger about his parents, when Roger told him the truth he couldn't bare the guilt and started crying. That's when he started acting like a nobody and dressing like a hobo, even allowing rookies like Higuma and Lord of the Coast to low diff him. This carefree attitude proves that even if you were the son of the devil, you can still turn out to be good, unless ofcourse you're a fucking Kurozumi.


The reason he has powerful CoC is because he inherited from his tyrant family that has actively ruled the world for 800 years destroying countless lives in the process. He was found on god island, Imu was probably one of the CDs Garp protected, she was having a go with Xebec or one of his lackeys.

So now it will be symbolic for the man who carries Xebec's will to rid the world of this evil bloodline. Like Mihawk trained, Roger had a dream, Whitebeard had a gifted body with the gura, the admirals are well trained with broken devil fruits, then why tf does this hobo sit among the top brass when he's handicapped and care free. This strong CoC concept is how Oda justifies a useless character like this to be strong, like there's 0 logical reasons for this guy to compete with even Big Meme, but muh haki does the trick, basically destroy the powerscaling system to wank a cripple who will most likely get offscreened anyway
:kobeha:

Look at this amazing perfect person taking a beating for the people OMG he's so great.


Stop powerscaling this guy, having him at YC1 is the same as PK, his role is concise and was indicated a long time ago. Basically a karen who lectures people left and right but still runs his murderous criminal gang who all have abandonment issues or whatever, and ofcourse he motivates 7 years olds into piracy, yet still has the attitude to lecture Greenbull for attacking a couple criminals
:ohreally:

Snitch was pretty much created to be adored by teenage girls, if you're within legal drinking age get over that shit.


 
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Lee Ba Shou

Conqueror of the Stars
#8
You love to see the Shanks hate threads. I’m glad more people are starting to realize why Shanks is trash, in a world full of morally grey and complex characters, Shanks is a goody goody peacekeeper with no flaws who women love and his enemies respect.

I was always confused when Oda said he wanted to draw a pirate crew who resembled more traditional pirates, because Oda’s power system was only ever interesting from the way the variety of creative Devil fruit powers interacted with each other. By making the Red Hairs a traditional crew, Oda was basically introducing a bland and forgettable pirate crew in a world full of much more interesting and memorable crews.

When Oda introduced Haki and ruined all that, you can imagine my disgust when Oda made his generic and uninteresting pirate crew all masters of the power system that broke the OP manga in the first place lol.

On the one hand, Shanks destroying Kid was a much needed way to reintroduce tension to this tension-less manga. On the other hand, Shanks is just so trash and the way Oda tried to portray Shanks as righteous man loved by Elbaf who was innocently protecting his Nakama when the evil Kid attacked, was just so bad lol.

Oda should’ve doubled down on making Shanks a villain, subverting the expectations of everyone who views Shanks as a boring messiah and twisting Luffy’s love for Shanks (which never made any fucking sense to begin with) on its head. But nah, Oda has to have his marketing fanservice character to continue selling his manga to idiots lol.
 
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