@Crossword:
All right, have to get this out of my system first. ''Ugh, another chapter of nothing but page spreads!'' Okay, all done.
Did you remember to flush?
Hm, doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to this fight.
Well no, no apparently you didn't. Allow me.
Just an excuse for Oda to throw a bunch of crazy stuff at us.
I love how all these inane bitchings about this war boil down to nothing but vague meaningless claims of "NO RHYME REASON, LETS GET TO PLOT."
Can you fucks actually point out to the audience what lack of rhyme or reason there is here?
Or here's a better idea, stop masking your impatience with the pacing of any given combat week by week as anything but the ADD shit it is.
Don't glorify the damn thing.
Or maybe you are literally so incapable of following a shonen comic books plot that all this actually seems meaningless to you.
Hopefully a more cohesive structure will show up after everyones done showing their powers off.
It's a battle royale dingus, it's not flawed for not having a shonen fight structure to it.
Hell MOST One Piece combat portions start with more general unfocused action before match ups show up. Kuro arc, Krieg arc, Arlong arc, Alabasta arc, Skypiea arc, TB arc, hell Eneis Lobby had an entire volume of it!
But no, let's wait until now to realize this.