What are your opinions on SWORD, the special operation unit of the Marines, that is led by X-Drake with Koby, Helmeppo, Grus, Hibari and Kujaku as its members?
What do you think of the way they have been written and used in the story? Did you have big expectations about them or not?
I admit that I had some big expectations when X-Drake was revealed to still be a Marine undercover and when the group's name was revealed, I was hoping that they would be a very important part of the Navy story, and would become the backbone of the anti-CD rebellion within the Navy, and that Vegapunk and Kuzan were associates with the organisation, and Smoker and Tashigi would become involved with them as well with a bigger role too, and that they would have a big role in Vegapunk's arc.
Of course reality was disappointing. While Hibari, Grus and Kujaku have interesting devil fruits, I was very disappointed with how X-Drake was handled and treated during Wano arc (just like for Apoo and Hawkins), they didn't have any association with Vegapunk nor played a role in Egghead (with the Blackbeard Pirates but not during what happened with Vegapunk and his island) or Kuzan, Tashigi was relegated as a background character without her having any power and character progression since how poorly she was treated in Punk Hazard, and I wasn't particularly impressed with how Koby became the hope of all the Navy with Blackbeard kidnapping him, and Garp mounting that whole rescue mission for him without giving real reasons to justify this (why Blackbeard had such an interest in Koby), etc...
What do you think of the way they have been written and used in the story? Did you have big expectations about them or not?
I admit that I had some big expectations when X-Drake was revealed to still be a Marine undercover and when the group's name was revealed, I was hoping that they would be a very important part of the Navy story, and would become the backbone of the anti-CD rebellion within the Navy, and that Vegapunk and Kuzan were associates with the organisation, and Smoker and Tashigi would become involved with them as well with a bigger role too, and that they would have a big role in Vegapunk's arc.
Of course reality was disappointing. While Hibari, Grus and Kujaku have interesting devil fruits, I was very disappointed with how X-Drake was handled and treated during Wano arc (just like for Apoo and Hawkins), they didn't have any association with Vegapunk nor played a role in Egghead (with the Blackbeard Pirates but not during what happened with Vegapunk and his island) or Kuzan, Tashigi was relegated as a background character without her having any power and character progression since how poorly she was treated in Punk Hazard, and I wasn't particularly impressed with how Koby became the hope of all the Navy with Blackbeard kidnapping him, and Garp mounting that whole rescue mission for him without giving real reasons to justify this (why Blackbeard had such an interest in Koby), etc...
