@Monkey:
I'm sorry, but maybe you could explain how he's out of the picture now lol? Mystery character gone forever because reasons.
Do you think the only way new kings get crowned is through death or something? Abdication is a thing.
And you know this only proves my point that the character has to have a mystery to them.
Given that if all Oda intended with that character was just to have them exist and eventually be made irrelevant by Stelly…1. Why would he have bothered depicting him at all, shadowed or otherwise. As I said, none of those panels were important.
2. Why hide his face. If he was just an unimportant placeholder Oda would have had no reason to conceal him whatsoever.If your jump-in-sideline ass has an answer to any of those maybe, maybe THEN you can attempt some sort of victory dance in a thing you were apparently too scared to get involved with till you thought it was safe.
You were wrong all along, stop it. Gia sado's explanation was pretty simple and it turns out it was true.
@Gia:
You are not getting what I'm saying, yea he ordered it. But because of how ignorant he is due to royalty is all you need to know about his character. There was nothing important about hiding this character. Yea we may see him at the reverie, but that will be just to introduce the King of Goa Kingdom, not to dramatically reveal some amazing character. You can tell when Oda hides characters faces for suspense. This was not one of those times.
@Gia:
I think that King of Goa being hidden was to show how important, yet unimportant the character was. First and foremost, he is a king, but because he is one, it seems as if he is comepletely clueless about what is going on in his kingdom regarding violence and tragedies, hence him being not of importance to the story.
You ignored it and bashed his opinion, as well as making fun of him. And it turns out you were the one being wrong, how lovely. Goa's king was a noname, a noname and unimportant character. He was so unimportant that Oda didn't even feel to draw his face. The fact that it isn't the same king anymore and Oda put Stelly as Goa's king for the Reverie shows that. If that king was so important he would sill be Goa's king right now and he would be part of the Reverie. He is not. You can still save your face and say that we will see him in a few years in a flashback involving Dragon and Goa, but you would be wrong again because the readers would not be able to tell if the king in that supposed flashback would be the same king who set the fire in Goa since you know, we haven't seen his face, let alone his silhouette.