Character Discussion Why does Oda make Nami so irrelevant?

[Sir Yasheen]

Because OP as a manga has drastically changed since Enies Lobby. Initially, yes Nami was a clearly very important character, but Enies Libby is when OP turned into a battle centric manga and Nami as a character didn’t fit the new manga styling.

Her role as a navigator gets touched on some, but it’s no longer important. I still stand by the biggest insult Oda did to her was having the Barto club be new world pirates without a navigator showing her role was barely needed.

She will hopefully get some shine, in the future, but she’s not the tritagonist of the straw hats anymore, that’s Sanji. Nami and Usopp are each the human character the readers are supposed to connect to. (Like leorio in HxH/Zenitsu in KNY/Magna in BC)

 

[kumae]

a character doesn't have to be relevant in term of fights if is not for nami and her navigate skills crew would be already dead also wait she is going to play a big role at BB's arc

 

[Ravagerblade]

Useless is as Useless does.

 

[ZenZu]

Wtf are you guys arguing about? Nami eats up majority of the screen time in the straw hat crew, you don't choose who's relevant or irrelevant based on what they bring to the crew, that's for the author to decide. She can be the most useless member of the crew and still be one of the most relevant, the two things aren't mutually exclusive.

 

[Monkey D Theories]

I know this obviously isn't the case, but Nami honestly seems like the most replaceable straw hat.

I feel like you could replace Nami with Bepo and at least in regards to the post skip, nothing would really change.

 

[BlackLegFring]

What does that say about Usopp who Oda treats even worse?

 

[Water1415]

What does that say about Usopp who Oda treats even worse?

Oda treats weak characters poorly now I guess

 

[Zaretball]

If Oda really intends to make Nami the third most important character, he simply doesn't execute it well. Both Law and Sanji have become much more prominent characters than her in the post ts and the situation tends to get worse because the closer the ending, the more important characters will have to be ingress in the main plot.

 

[Finalbeta]

Without Nami the lads would not even have made it to Fishman Island probably

 

[Warchief Sanji D Goat]

Uhhh pretty sure she's second in screen-time after Luffy, and her role in WCI was amazing.

 

[yvg]

Nami irrelevant? fightfags are so funny. She is always in the spotlight as the voice of reason.

 

[Monkey D Theories]

Nami irrelevant? fightfags are so funny. She is always in the spotlight as the voice of reason.

it has nothing to do with powerlevels. Weak characters more relevant than nami in wano:

• tama
• momo(even before he became an adult)
• Toko
• Yasu
• Chopper

 

[yvg]

it has nothing to do with powerlevels. Weak characters more relevant than nami in wano:

• tama
• momo(even before he became an adult)
• Toko
• Yasu
• Chopper

Bullshit. Only Tama of these characters has ever done anything, and that's thanks to the fact that Nami and Usopp constantly protected her. Even wounded, Ulti would have killed Tama if Nami and Zeus hadn't finished her off.
It was also Nami who found out about the supply of weapons, she saved robin and Toko from Orochi.

 

[wraithery]

a character doesn't have to be relevant in term of fights if is not for nami and her navigate skills crew would be already dead also wait she is going to play a big role at BB's arc

Most crews do just fine navigating the seas. Nami is supposed to be important but it's not highlighted to the point that it feels important or special.

Nobody in the canon is constantly stating how hard it is to navigate this area or that.

Also even her dream of drawing the map of the places she visits, we don't even see that. Oda said she does it off screen, that's how she's going to reach her dream when she set out to sea? Offscreen her actually making the map and just show up one chapter with it done?

 

[Finalbeta]

Uhhh pretty sure she's second in screen-time after Luffy, and her role in WCI was amazing.

She is always amazing

 

[Akagami Law]

Because this is a battle shonen and Nami is not a strong character, so when the big battle comes she inevitably get overshadowed.

 

[Night Flight]

Yeah I get this feeling that One Piece has started to suffer from the same issues that a lot of other Shonen suffer as they enter their endgame - the focus of the story inevitably starts shifting towards the more powerful characters, and the "weaker" ones are left behind to become essentially just cheerleaders to the top tiers. I still have some faith in Oda that the weaker Strawhats will have actually important things to do in the future, even if it's not combat related (combat is just a small part of the overall narrative after all), but I can't deny that a lot of them have been getting the short end of the stick since entering the New World

 

[PurpleSwordsman]

It has nothing to do with power-levels

Proceeds to name powerlvl stuff from the other two characters who he is comparing with:

Luffy is the next joyboy. He has ACoC, VOAT, will of D, son of dragon and grandson of garp, and probably a legendary DF.
Zoro is the next Ryuma. He has ACoC and ties to the shimotsuki clan, with it being hinted that he's related to Ryuma.

xd

P.S: Nami is not the 3 main character anymore since many years ago.

 

[NAMELESS]

Nami is important to sell merchandising.She was created to provide fan service,that is it.Just look how much her body changed as OP become more popular among young adults.

 

[Finalbeta]

What happened to this forum? 🤔