Ehhh I disagree. Ennies Lobby was great. But look at Alabasta Luffy; he showed amazing maturity when he taught Vivi the realism of war and told her to stop trying to shoulder everything. He showed intelligence when he learned the water trick and even more with the blood trick. And his stupidity with water Luffy that croc ridiculed him angrily about saying Luffy wasn’t taking this seriously just for Luffy to counter it with how serious he truly was is so fucking great.
Ennies Lobby Luffy lost the joy and focused too much on him being the serious and more generic Shonen MC it didn’t have the combination of seriousness and goofiness that made me really like Alabasta and east blue Luffy. Just like modern Luffy lost the seriousness which is why it feels much lamer.
Ennies Lobby Luffy lost the joy and focused too much on him being the serious and more generic Shonen MC it didn’t have the combination of seriousness and goofiness that made me really like Alabasta and east blue Luffy. Just like modern Luffy lost the seriousness which is why it feels much lamer.