@RobbyBevard:
Decent chapter, but pretty much every single page was promising a future payoff. The island being destroyed, meeting Jinbe again, Luffy wanting to see Shanks, and Shirahoshi (who will surely be crucial in the great war that comes at series' end) not to mention Caribou is still loose with his important info… And of course the reverie, but I never thought that was going to be in this arc, it seemed like an end series thing too.
The idea of fishmen going to the surface to get "hero hats" seems to bode badly as well. Rather than being a cute little side note like usual, there's an element of danger and risk in there.
And like I've been saying for months, arc ain't over until Nami gets the new logpose explained ot her, and lo, its the very last thing.
This feels like the most incomplete arc Oda has ever done, and its felt that way for a long time. Its one thing to start dropping in new plot threads at the end of an arc... but there's just a TON that aren't really resolved yet. I'm sure it'll fit fine when the series is all said and done, but thats probably 10+ years away.
I wonder if we're going to catch up to Jinbe when the crew actually encounters Big Mom in a hundred chapters and find he's already been there and gotten into trouble, or if he's going to get a cover story after we finish catching up and running through the usual 10 playing with animals pieces? (We still have Water 7, Thriller Bark, and Shabondy... but thats not a whole lot left since he's been skipping villains and characters that'll reappear later.)
Odas doing his set ups. He has to do them completely different as things have changed. I for one like it as its clear they're going back to FI at one point or another
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@RobbyBevard:
FI is similar, in that started a lot of things that it hasn't finished in its own arc. And, Oda was incredibly sloppy with the start of the arc and really rushed it. Doesn't help that Hody was INTENTIONALLY a terrible and empty villain.
I wouldn't call it sloppy. Maybe rushed….but you phrase it as if Oda should've known better. The man strives to appease the whole fanbase and honestly the OP fanbase is full of ignorant and disrespectful people. Hody was a great villain because of that. Its appalling to me how people apparently wanted a villain of generic formula over the unique twist we got.
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@BingBang:
I didn't like this arc because it was like Arabasta (more or less same plot). Oda please, don't repeat yourself the next time! Because i don't want to see Elbaf with the queen becoming friends with Ussop and Luffy and the mugiwaras stopping a giant revolution in the country. New stuff please :DDD
What? The only similarity was that a revolution was occurring. By that logic, OMG THERES FIGHTING IN THIS ARC TOO ITS SAME ARC. Racism wasn't in Alabasta at all….nor was there an outside figure try to take control.
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@$abZ:
but things like a villian with no real depth or originality, random undeveloped characters like Den, lack of adventure and exploration of the only underesea island the SHs will probably ever go to, and random scenes to accelerate the story like Sanji's nosebleed.
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Hodi was INTENTIONALLY like this. WTF HOW is he not original? Please name another villain whose basically a troll, has no reason for doing what he's doing (just a psycho freak). Den didn't need to be developed, honestly wtf you want him to like fall in love with Nami or something.
My god people "why didn't oda do this or that and this or that" HE HAS A WHOLE MANGA TO PLAN. Of course he could've expanded but honestly you hypocrites would hate on that if he did it. Sanjis nosebleed is a complaint I agree with. Oda honestly bad move there but the rest you all expect way too much from the man
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@Shift:
People thinking they're going to backtrack or go a second lap just to make Shyarly's prediction come true are missing the point. It's a very poignant message about how the future is never, never certain, that there will always be things that can't be foreseen, or foreseen mistakenly, no matter how much knowledge or preparation there is. Maybe Shyarly is clairvoyant to an extent, considering all she foretold in the past. But as we saw, it was foolish to take her word as gospel and try to impede the Straw Hats, potentially making the real villains' paths all the less obstructed. So if it does come true in a year, or more, or less, they're ready to take it as it come, and I think that, par for the course, is the best conclusion Oda could give.
HAHA Kind of like Minority Report no?