That point again ! The same kind of person who cries blasphemy when you say One Piece is a battle manga.
If you only like the adventure part of One Piece, that is your problem and I'm perfectly fine with it. But please stop dividing the world into 2 minorities of readers. The great majority of us like both the adventure AND the action
I like action just fine. But at Enies Lobby it grinds to a complete halt. For like five solid volumes. Longer if you count the train.
It was a LOT of fighting in one spot and it drags the arc as a whole down. Like I said, everything around it was good, but that huge slowdown slog in the middle kills it.
the best choreographed fight in the manga, franky's entertaining as hell fight, chopper being an actual badass, nami's best fight, sanji motivating usopp and kicking jyabura's ass to redeem himself, zoro vs kaku, you're fired, usopp's best moment in the series, robin is saved, gear 3
Chopper's berserker form was a super cool moment but almost got people killed and he had to be taken out by Franky. Sanji willing to let Robin and the rest of the crew die because he can't fight a woman not even in a knock around the scenery and just get the key from her fashion, Usopp getting shortchanged constantly and failing to do anything? That sniping moment was cool but it was not his best moment in the series. Nami in a lets get naked T and A bathhouse fight that was a bad showing for her and Kalifa both. Climax powerups all out of nowhere with zero foreshadowing especially from Zoro and Sanji. Playing musical chairs with all the opponents just making it all take longer. and Luffy/Lucchi as cool as it was with the gears and all just went on for ages… not helped by the fact that Lucchi has zero personality, ambition, or stake in any of it. He just wants to kill because. Spandam was perfectly hateable but he was such a PoS with nothing to back it up that there's nothing entertaining or interesting there.
Arlong Park and Alabasta were also able to give everyone lengthy battles without absolutely wrecking the pace and some of the characters in the process. Yes, there were a few less members then, but Alabasta had almost as many fighters without the drag. Fishmen Island went the opposite direction and had the crew completely decimate their opponents in a group one on one in like, three chapters... and that was too far in the other direction, that was TOO fast.
**I strongly disagree.
Did you read my entire post? I said all the stuff in Water 7 is good and even pointed out a lot of those things already. It's the Enies Lobby portion that drags it all down and weakens the arc as a whole.**