@Robby:
Still really annoyed they didn't change the New World tag when cake started. At this point its just going to be the subtitle for the rest of the series, until maybe the final war.
I liked Skypeia and Water 7 being broken up (even if they ended Skypeia early due to ONE chapter of Foxy being in the last volume) and yes it got a little messy when they went between thriller bark, sabondy, impel down and the war in fairly rapid succession but…. New World should have been the return and then Fishman Island, and then they should have switched to Dresserossa.
Not this ongoing nonsense. Might as well have pumped in a couple chapters extra into 60 to end it clean on the timeskip and then just started One Piece Z with a fresh #1 if this was going to be their approach.
I mean, there were at least two, more likely three Foxy chapters in v32, depending on your interpretation of exact saga start and end points. And it was the same deal with the two/three Sabaody chapters at the end of volume 50, which should have been Thriller Bark. They still should definitely have rounded up and not down, but it was a few chapters of stuff to deal with.
I guess the reasoning would be that they didn't want someone picking up the first volume of a new saga and getting confused cos the actual first chapters of that saga aren't in it. It's not a bad idea theoretically, but in practice it just does not work.
My hopes of a change up for Wano aren't high, since all of the build up for that arc and Kaido has been part of the New World stories so far, alternating with the building conflict with Big Mom. We're gonna be left with this titanic saga that includes all the build up to and pay off for Luffy's first two conflicts with the Emperors. Not ideal, but it kinda works. If they think they can keep New World going past the end of Wano though, that would be something truly stupid.
Annnd yeah, I still don't get the breaking up of Sabaody/Impel Down/Marineford when everything else got to be a full saga (or in New World's case, three full sagas and counting). The whole idea could have been handled so much better.