@Kdom:
on the countrary, I'm happy we learn what Hawkins fruit is about.
I'm not a big fan of mind games neither in mangas. I don't have the impression that's really what Oda wants to write anyway
To each their own, I guess.
And I agree, Oda seems to be indifferent to that sort of narration. Doesn't mean that it wouldn't bring a breeze of fresh air to the world he's built up so far, though.
@Maju:
that kid of thing is fun only if the audience is along for the ride trying o deduce the same thing….but we already know how hawkins' powers work, so it would be empty to keep it a mistery fro zoro e luffy for so long since it wouldn't be a mistery for us.
We didn't really know what his powers were about other than the voodoo-strawmen before this chapter. Some readers even went as far as theorizing that the tarrot cards were a gimmick that lay outside the DF's effects.
@silver_planet:
then the readers wont know what happen without the explanation
Which they'd get by showcasing brainstorming among the characters and/or inner monologue.
@Kaptayn:
Perhaps Piitan had Hunter x Hunter in mind, where it's stated several times that keeping your nen ability a secret is a winning-strategy. Only fights in HxH are very different from those in OP. They're more of a "mind-game" type, to use your term. There are instances in One Piece where a devil fruit user shouldn't reveal what's happening (Mr. 2, Doflamingo, Van Der Decken…), for obvious reason. This situation isn't a part of them, imo.
I had HxH in mind. And while I know Togashi and Oda, and their worlds respectively, work in different ways, I do think less info-dump from Oda could streamline the narration.
@Kaptayn:
There are tons of ways of explaining a power without having someone say it. You can show it; you can use the narrator; you can use a flashback, etc.
The clone ability didn't need verbal confirmation, we all knew what was happening. Oda really loves to have characters say the obvious, like Luffy's: "something came out of him!" in this very chapter.
Exactly. It's annoying when most characters have a "I'm the X-X man" monologue or the "I ate the Y-Y fruit and I can do Z and Z!". Like, dude, shut up, you don't know who's listening and your big mouth could be your own downfall.
@badwolf1234:
we have that at the impel down with the minotaur and that is on heck of a train wreck. I want more to know about their powers.
That's mainly because Oda still don't want to reveal the rules for awakened Zoans.
@badwolf1234:
Also Law does not explain his fruit it was smoker who did it so it count as well
And the beginning of Punk Hazard had a nice mystery going of for it, between the weird climate and the creature with mismatched body parts.
