The other gorosei shouldn’t have come here. Let VP speech run its course with only Saturn jobbing around or make Kizaru vs Luffy the finale. Oda wasted the emotional crescendo he got from Kuma’s FB and him punching Saturn. After that, it was all filler shit happening. As a whole, it’s still the best arc post-ts even though Oda fumbled the bag that hard.
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Great arc overall.
Abysmall pacing at the climax moment. That's a thing with the entire post-TS. there are simply too many "time bombs" being stacked.
Kizaru was main baddie. Then shifts to Saturn. Then shifts to 5 Gorosei, but 5 Gorosei are kinda poopoo outside of their regen hack.
Vegapunk's message is like the spoon killer. Extremely slow and inefficient pacing.
Break weeks/months exponentially increases the frustration this bad pacing has in the story.
Nika glazing or whatever you guys call means very little to me. If you go back and re-read the entire story, Luffy's been at the center of the spotlight since day 1. I might not like the "parallel" Nika=Joyboy=Luffy stuff very much, but that's more like a subjective preference. Kuma's backstory was cool. A bit cheesy, imo, but cool. Bonney is very bland as an "arc's supernova", but could be worse like Hawkins, Kid or Drake's participations.
"Pacing" is, by far, the biggest offender. Pacing not only from the chapters during the climax themselves, but added to the egregious amount of break weeks. There are chapters where you legit feel nothing happened at all. Characters move from point A to point B in one chapter, only to go back to point A in the next. Onigashima had a lot of this as well.
BUt reading the chapter in one go, this issue practically goes away, then it becomes a quite good arc.
Abysmall pacing at the climax moment. That's a thing with the entire post-TS. there are simply too many "time bombs" being stacked.
Kizaru was main baddie. Then shifts to Saturn. Then shifts to 5 Gorosei, but 5 Gorosei are kinda poopoo outside of their regen hack.
Vegapunk's message is like the spoon killer. Extremely slow and inefficient pacing.
Break weeks/months exponentially increases the frustration this bad pacing has in the story.
Nika glazing or whatever you guys call means very little to me. If you go back and re-read the entire story, Luffy's been at the center of the spotlight since day 1. I might not like the "parallel" Nika=Joyboy=Luffy stuff very much, but that's more like a subjective preference. Kuma's backstory was cool. A bit cheesy, imo, but cool. Bonney is very bland as an "arc's supernova", but could be worse like Hawkins, Kid or Drake's participations.
"Pacing" is, by far, the biggest offender. Pacing not only from the chapters during the climax themselves, but added to the egregious amount of break weeks. There are chapters where you legit feel nothing happened at all. Characters move from point A to point B in one chapter, only to go back to point A in the next. Onigashima had a lot of this as well.
BUt reading the chapter in one go, this issue practically goes away, then it becomes a quite good arc.
I'm fine with every part of it.
Actually amazing arc for me because I predicted Vegapunk would predict his own death, and I even predicted he would tell Dragon about it. I also guessed the name of the final unknown race being Buccaneers. I also guessed there was a fusion reactor on the island before it was even mentioned. I even guessed that Devil Fruits are based on hopes/desires/will before Vegapunk explained it (that really frustrated me because I said the explanation he gives you would only raise further questions - I also explained Vegapunk was not smart enough to know Ancient Kingdom technology properly).
I did not guess that Bonney could create distorted futures of her own version of Nika. That was a cool development. I did not guess that York was the traitor. Though, the clues for these things were all there.
I also finished a tech course as the arc began. So, it was great for me, and it includes some surprises. It's unfortunate that I didn't have enough time to really think about things at the beginning of the arc since I was busy with school otherwise I may have guessed those things I mentioned that surprised me.
Actually amazing arc for me because I predicted Vegapunk would predict his own death, and I even predicted he would tell Dragon about it. I also guessed the name of the final unknown race being Buccaneers. I also guessed there was a fusion reactor on the island before it was even mentioned. I even guessed that Devil Fruits are based on hopes/desires/will before Vegapunk explained it (that really frustrated me because I said the explanation he gives you would only raise further questions - I also explained Vegapunk was not smart enough to know Ancient Kingdom technology properly).
I did not guess that Bonney could create distorted futures of her own version of Nika. That was a cool development. I did not guess that York was the traitor. Though, the clues for these things were all there.
I also finished a tech course as the arc began. So, it was great for me, and it includes some surprises. It's unfortunate that I didn't have enough time to really think about things at the beginning of the arc since I was busy with school otherwise I may have guessed those things I mentioned that surprised me.
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Didn't like the cake, but loved the frosting 
Cons
- Wasnt a fan of the SH outfits
- Disliked all the Vegas except Stella
- Bonney's Nika form
Pros
- Luffys fights w/ Lucci n' Borsalino
- All the side stories were great (I got a bad feelin about Caribou
(as usual))
- Seraphims
- Emet
Favorite Moment
Dorry & Brogys justification for helping Luffy; "HES OUR PAL"
Cons
- Wasnt a fan of the SH outfits
- Disliked all the Vegas except Stella
- Bonney's Nika form
Pros
- Luffys fights w/ Lucci n' Borsalino
- All the side stories were great (I got a bad feelin about Caribou
(as usual))- Seraphims
- Emet
Favorite Moment
Dorry & Brogys justification for helping Luffy; "HES OUR PAL"
If Wano didn't do irreparable damage to One Piece Egghead would easily be the worst arc. Vegapunk namek aside, it's shocking that after decades of speculation, Oda finally decided to make the Gorosei fighters and tried hard to make them threatening to the reader by forcing characters to constantly say it on top of giving them every hax available in the series but when he had to make them do something he made them fail every task and get tossed around by characters that had no business manhandling them.
Saint Jaygarcia "I'm the Warrior God of Scientific Defense you can't fool me Vegapunk" Saturn? Couldn't even be bothered to check whether Vegapunk put a functioning bomb in Kuma or not.
Does Oda do it on purpose? How does one create such joke characters and label them endgame villains?
Saint Jaygarcia "I'm the Warrior God of Scientific Defense you can't fool me Vegapunk" Saturn? Couldn't even be bothered to check whether Vegapunk put a functioning bomb in Kuma or not.
Does Oda do it on purpose? How does one create such joke characters and label them endgame villains?