@Master:
As of now, I'm disappointed with a lot of things.
We were introduced with a lot of badass characters like Fujitora, Sabo, and BigMom's ship near Dressrosa.
However, Oda first shows them, makes us go crazy, and then puts them aside and plays with other less heart touching characters.
I am disappointed with Diamante's powers: I don't know if I'm the only one but, to me this guy seems ridiculous. I really thought that he would be a real deal, when Doffy has such a belief in him. In terms of power I'd rank Vergo and Pica after DD. Diamante and Trebol, seems to be tricky but I don't thing they are such a big deal, even though I might be wrong. If DD thinks that guy can handle a Yonko commander, he is pure shit, and will eat that shit as he watches the finals..
I am disappointed with the tournament. I guess now it is turning to be more of a game to reach the fruit then to fight for it. Diamante using those tricky abilities he got, might make him the hero of the coliseum, but I'm pretty sure Sabo or Burgess can K.O him with only one hit in his face. But I guess he is gonna use those tricks to compete with these guys, and this is what I dislike the most. However, I really hope at least to see a good fight at some point between Sabo and Burgess, unless even Burgess joins Fuji and BigMom and just gets defeated by falling in water :)
Another thing I wanted to see was, Luffy surprising DD. That was ruined, and now Pica is in their way. I think Zoro vs Pica would be good, even Luffy vs Pica would be nice to see. I like Pica and Vergo in comparison with other DD members. However, I really wanted to see Zoro fight Fuji, or why the hell did Oda invite that Guy to Dressrosa?
I would love to see Luffy and Zoro beating Pica together, then Zorro vs Fuji and Luffy vs DD, but I have no real hope on this.
Law was shot to death, a couple of chapters ago.. and now he is just sitting there in a chair relaxing, and waiting while Luffy defeats DD and then heals him… WTF man, I was really touched by that scene when DD shot Law, it was really emotional, but Oda has made it look like a joke..
I am a really big fan of One Piece, and I really think that this arc is one of the best ever, but with these things that have been going lately I am really disappointed. If Fujitora, Big Mom, and Sabo would not have been introduced till this point, I would really enjoy these fights with these DD executive members, but after watching those big guys, now these fights are less amusing at this point for me, and I dislike it, I really do not want to be let down by One Piece. However I will continue to have hope that starting from the next chapter things will change positively :(
As for Law sitting on heart seat- 2 things. 1st you dont know if somebody didnt take care of those bullets, 2nd we seen plenty of strawhats utterly destroyed/ wounded and waking up a bit later. Scene with Law getting shot is emotional, all more if you take into account what Doflamingo said to Luffy seconds later about Law being his man and fact that its his role to lecture him. If Doflamingo would want to kill Law he would just cut of his head, he shoot him up(maybe even with Seastone bullets) to stop Law from further resistance/ using his ability.
I might be only one but I feel kind of bad about battle royale of 5 strong people at once. I would prefer this one in all time tournament lasting even a bit longer with for example Sabo vs Burgess and Barto vs Rebbeca than battle royale of 3 people but it is how it is. Non will get proper fight- show off so to say, most probably.
I am so hungry of some long one on one battle like we had around ennies lobby. Maybe I should expect it this arc as SH match ups will be clear but still we didnt had proper long fight of badasses since ages. We have chaos chaos and some build up.
Vergo is one of very few enemies that after time skip had some nicely done 1 on 1 with Sanji, Law and Smoker and it was great to see him fight them, it felt nice to re-read. Now with so many characters some only get bits and bits on new small build up pieces so to say. Diamante after all of Doflamingo words still does not feel like a monster he was hyped to be. Senor Pink is awesome and badass character full of contradictions, even Lao G gotten some funny time in this chapter and as it goes for Diamante he is still hyped but he was not impressive to me in this chapter. Tall guy with interesting ability and smile of Mike Jagger for now. Do hope for more out of him. Even Pica with 2 pages looks like a boss type of enemy so to say.
Maybe it will work better if I will read it in volume format.. Sure thing wait for how Oda will handle it is best choice instead of saying that it will be bad or good this way.
I do hope for Zoro staying and fighting with Pica, Luffy going for Doflamingo. This team that we had at end of chapter and that cliffhanger with Pica kind of reminds me Zoro and Luffy vs Dragon.
Kind of shame that Sanji is so far away and Oda decided to start all action and Sanji showing will have to wait until most of strawhats will get their match ups. This makes Zou pretty far from Dressrosa, not like jump away from it and this is something that I like.
All in all action started but it seems we will have to wait some more chapters for true Strawhats showdown.