@Cyclone_Baroness:
I'm not sure what the western audience has to with Riku family stuff.
This episode was alright. The best parts was Luffy being asleep, eating and being angry about Kyros and Rebecca's situation. You could tell his crew knew that wouldnt be something he could ignore lol.
Riku is kinda ridiculous for many reasons. But thinking of having Rebecca who's never lived as royalty become the future ruler? Plain silly. He's thrown protocol out the window before may as well look to Violet as the successor despite it being Rebecca's right.
@sanji''s_dad:
People expected more from rebecca that is the main reason they don't like her also king riku should have been killed by doflamingo instead he is biggest asshole out of the good people in one piece he is the one that caused all the problems that allowed doflamingo to take over in the first place!
faking that his daughter died so that he could banish her and kyros who might have been able to take doflamingo out before sugar and the others came to back him up kyros had to take on doflamingo's entire crew by himself because he did not learn of doflamingo taking over until doflamingo had over taken over the entire kingdom even luffy would not have been able to take doflamingo and his entire crew out by himself.
king riku did not even try to contact the world govt/marines about doflamingo wanting to take over he had no bird cage up.
To be honest I really don't think it hard to understand why so many people dislike them.
But sometimes people might think an episode had a bad pacing or a bad quality just because they disliked the contents the episode covered, even though the pacing and quality of the episode was good indeed. And after reading some posts outside of AP I found that today's episode might be another example.
However, unlike Dressrosa, characters in the next arc are generally welcomed as far as I know, so I think maybe people will give the next arc a much more positive attitude if the next arc can keep up the overall pacing and quality.