Recent Chapter Discussion

[sei'taer]

Last good fight was Luffy vs Doflamingo to me.

Luffy vs Katakuri was the best fight post time skip easily for me.

 

[SSJ2]

Glad that Momo isn't a carbon copy of Oden.

 

[Future Warrior]

Ight guys I think I'm dropping one piece after this arc.

 

[Papasmurf]

Ight guys I think I'm dropping one piece after this arc.

Did something happen in a recent chapter

 

[Future Warrior]

Wano as a whole, recent chapters just made me lose hope.

 

[Papasmurf]

Weren't you calling OP your favorite manga a few days ago? Jeez.

I'll probably still catch up, but it might be delayed by a few more years.

 

[Future Warrior]

I wasn't including Wano because I wanted to see how it would finish first, but now all my hopes are shattered. I still stand by my opinion that One Piece was GOAT before Wano.

I don't mind if an amazing series has one or two bad arcs here or there, but with Wano it's different. This is basically the finale to a saga that started in Punk Hazard, 10 years ago. Arguably the most important arc we've had so far period. Yet, all that buildup we've had led up to this poorly structured, badly written mess of a disappointment. Now it's hard for me to see Dressrosa, Zou, and WCI the same way again knowing what comes up later.

By nature of how the OP story is structured, being a continues storyline where each arc is a piece of the broader narrative, it's 10x more damaging for it to happen here than in any other story. And it's a damn shame.

 

[sei'taer]

Other than the final fight I didn't hate this arc. Not the best time skip arc, and it went a bit too long, but the good far outweighed the bad for me.

 

[ahill1]

Biggest disappointment to me lied on Kaido. Expected more from his background, the fight wasn't all that imo, but specially his background. We just weren't given enough.

 

[sei'taer]

Biggest disappointment to me lied on Kaido. Expected more from his background, the fight wasn't all that imo, but specially his background. We just weren't given enough.

I feel Oda is holding off on an inevitable Rocks flashback. I'm kind of glad we didn't get a 3 chapter flashback in the middle of the fight as well.

 

[Future Warrior]

Biggest disappointment to me lied on Kaido. Expected more from his background, the fight wasn't all that imo, but specially his background. We just weren't given enough.

Kaido could have actually been made into the best villain in OP just from a flashback exploring his motivations and background. Oda gave us so many clues and hints throughout the arc about it and we are left with the same perspective by the end. Showing the flashback several arcs later wouldn't salvage it when the reasoning behind why he wants to take over Wano is related to his backstory, which is something that should have been addressed in the ''WANO'' arc.

It's so terrible... not even mentioning the other major problems with Wano.

 

[Papasmurf]

Oda needs a 6 month break not a 1 month. He's clearly running out of steam

 

[SSJ2]

Lmao that chapter. @Future Warrior need to know what you think of this one

 

[Future Warrior]

Just another continues line of pure garbage that is Wano. Law, Kid, and Luffy having equal bounties is the most fanfic BS ever, and it doesn’t even make sense.

Seriously, is Oda even writing this story anymore? I’ll just keep up till the end of Wano and then I’m done for good with this manga.

 

[SSJ2]

I guess you could argue that the Gorosei want to minimize the rise of Luffy, but he's already considered a Yonko and Kid/Law aren't. Makes no sense. Plus Buggy being made a Yonko now

 

[Papasmurf]

Buggy is a Yonko? Oda is really off his rocker now.

 

[Papasmurf]

Holy fuck I had to see this to confirm it's true

Spoiler

With how much of a laughingstock this chapter has been it's fitting Luffy is featured in his faggiest looking form in his bounty poster. Also how the fuck did they take a photo of his Gear 5 form? Did they have some artist with Superman vision ready to draw a pixel perfect portrait of this asshole? Fuck

 

[Symbiote]

CP0 took the picture.

 

[Papasmurf]

CP0 took the picture.

Why would the WG reveal he is in his joyboy form

I thought they'd want to hide the existence of the Joyboy Nica fruit lol

 

[Symbiote]

Why would the WG reveal he is in his joyboy form

I thought they'd want to hide the existence of the Joyboy Nica fruit lol

It’s not like every swinging dick in the world knows it’s the Nika fruit. We don’t even know if Luffy is aware.