@Nex:
Hey dumbass, I never made the claim the arc was almost over. And even after I corrected you on that fact, you continue to argue me on points unrelated to that claim, with an argument so lacking I didn't feel the need to respond. But since you decided to call me out here…
Yeah no shit?
Because we've never had a long arc in One-Piece?
I'm saying it wouldn't be a good thing. And that since the monsterosity that the CP9 arc turned into Oda has noticably been keeping things shorter.
We have Water 7 at like 5 volumes.
Enies Lobby at 6 Volumes.
Plus 45.
All basically one plot at 12 volumes in length.
After this?
TB=5
Saobody=2
Amazon Lilly=1
Impel Down=3
War=4
New World Prologue=1
Fishman Island=5
Punk Hazard=4
If Dressrosa is just one piece in a larger plot about taking down Kaidou it doesn't seem smart for Oda to make it into some sort of massive Skypiea type thing
And, are you saying that Doflamingo won't have to deal with Luffy because the arena will kill him?
I'm saying that's what Dofla apparently thinks.
Hyozu got it. All of the Fishmen Pirate got it.
Uh no they didn't.
They were all near immediately given introduction boxes and fully displayed, and were all clear minions of the arc boss.
Shura got it.
Shura was introduced right off. Not taunted at us for chapters on end in charge of some huge event.
Bon Clay got it.
Bon Clay was taunted a total time of once. And is a pretty crappy example, because he did end up being very exceptional to normal minion rules.
I never said they did. But his home right now is his Kingdom. It is where he is living. It is, at the plainest of definitions of the word, his home.
But he has bigger ties to bigger plots and places. This one island isn't the end all be all for his character, so the argument of him being pointless past it is pretty flawed.
You're assuming it's going to run its whole course, even though there is an army heading to the Colosseum? That just makes it seem prime for an interruption.
There is a tiny army of dwarves, who specialize in being avoided and unseen, and apparently have a network of tunnels, heading toward a thing located an unspecified depth but presumably secretive depth below the arena.
This does not require, in fact would IDEALLY not involve them just pouring out into the crowd or whatever you've been imagining lol.