I wanted to make this thread because people seem to be very aggressive when I point out Oda's mistakes. I'll try to be as respectful towards Oda and fellow one piece fans as possible (unlike my usual speaking manners) and I'll ask you to be respectful towards me and stop calling me a "one piece/Oda hater". I'll use only one example to make this rather long topic as short as possible. Now let's get into it.
As an example I'll use the current plot of Luffy and others trying to get into the roof to help the scabbards. I'm pretty sure you all see the problem here, let me show you it first and then I'll explain it you.
Luffy can fly in gear 4th form and he's been using gear 4th rather often in Wano, Luffy also is extremely fast in his gear 4th mode.
Law can use chambers to teleport people into long distances which he already used once.
Marco can fly and already used that ability very efficiently.
Sanji can fly in his raid suit and he's extremely fast (just like Luffy) and possibly the fastest character in Wano right now, who knows.
Now I know what you all are going to say.
"B-but King is protecting the entrance with flying beast pirates" or "but Marco and Law are busy right now, stop complaining". ok, let me address this things first.
Now I'm not saying that Law or Marco should necessarily help, maybe they're really busy off screen and doing something important (I doubt it though), or maybe Oda is preparing some plot twist with them, I don't know. I'm not talking about specific ability here, what I'm talking about, is that getting into the roof to the scabbards is quite easy. Luffy even dosen't need to get through king in order to reach to the roof, since he can get there by making his own root there. I'm pretty sure Luffy can break through the sealing of the roof and bypass king since king is protecting the hole in the roof. Luffy also is quite fast which makes it even more easier, on top of that Sanji can help him with his raid suit if necessary.
For me as a reader, to enjoy this arc I need to forget that there are characters with abilities that allow them to bypass king and get to the roof very easily, especially with Law's ability. There are also a lot of characters that can distract King.
As you can see the plot has no logic in it, there isn't any grand obstacle in front of the MCs, the problem is manufactured and isn't real. But why so? Well, the answer is quite easy: because Oda is trying to squeeze much longer plot into 10 chapters long plot in order to have a specific scene in chapter 1000th. Oda dosen't pay attention to current plot, instead, he focuses only on chapter 1000th. This is just simple example of what has been happening in Wano and post-timskip overall.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that pre-timskip was perfect, of course not. There's nothing perfect and one piece wasn't an exception, but in post-timskip Oda sacrifices a lot things for specific scene, Oda did it with Big Mom many times.
If Oda instead focused on current chapters we would have a very good chapters every day. Now ask yourself, why haven't we seen characters like Law and Marco so far?
As an example I'll use the current plot of Luffy and others trying to get into the roof to help the scabbards. I'm pretty sure you all see the problem here, let me show you it first and then I'll explain it you.
Luffy can fly in gear 4th form and he's been using gear 4th rather often in Wano, Luffy also is extremely fast in his gear 4th mode.
Law can use chambers to teleport people into long distances which he already used once.
Marco can fly and already used that ability very efficiently.
Sanji can fly in his raid suit and he's extremely fast (just like Luffy) and possibly the fastest character in Wano right now, who knows.
Now I know what you all are going to say.
"B-but King is protecting the entrance with flying beast pirates" or "but Marco and Law are busy right now, stop complaining". ok, let me address this things first.
Now I'm not saying that Law or Marco should necessarily help, maybe they're really busy off screen and doing something important (I doubt it though), or maybe Oda is preparing some plot twist with them, I don't know. I'm not talking about specific ability here, what I'm talking about, is that getting into the roof to the scabbards is quite easy. Luffy even dosen't need to get through king in order to reach to the roof, since he can get there by making his own root there. I'm pretty sure Luffy can break through the sealing of the roof and bypass king since king is protecting the hole in the roof. Luffy also is quite fast which makes it even more easier, on top of that Sanji can help him with his raid suit if necessary.
For me as a reader, to enjoy this arc I need to forget that there are characters with abilities that allow them to bypass king and get to the roof very easily, especially with Law's ability. There are also a lot of characters that can distract King.
As you can see the plot has no logic in it, there isn't any grand obstacle in front of the MCs, the problem is manufactured and isn't real. But why so? Well, the answer is quite easy: because Oda is trying to squeeze much longer plot into 10 chapters long plot in order to have a specific scene in chapter 1000th. Oda dosen't pay attention to current plot, instead, he focuses only on chapter 1000th. This is just simple example of what has been happening in Wano and post-timskip overall.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that pre-timskip was perfect, of course not. There's nothing perfect and one piece wasn't an exception, but in post-timskip Oda sacrifices a lot things for specific scene, Oda did it with Big Mom many times.
If Oda instead focused on current chapters we would have a very good chapters every day. Now ask yourself, why haven't we seen characters like Law and Marco so far?
