@Alfiere said in Chapter 1090: Kizaru:
So there isn't really any reason for not devoting not one chapter, but an entire subplot to Sanji dealing with the hunger in Wano because that's what I'm expecting from Sanji on a famined island after 20+ years of following his adventures. İf it's missing, anyone who cares about the character is bound to be disappointed.
Please do not speak for other fans like that. For one, Sanji already had his subplot (Germa suit which was relevant for both Sanji as a character and for the events of Wano's act 2 and 3), and he saw some other action such as rescuing Otoko with Zoro as well. In order to read and understand this series well enough, you should start by knowing that Sanji does not have a monopoly on food-related matters. We've seen a ton of affection regarding the famine - which includes the victims themselves, the citizens of Wano, because what would you know, the strawhats are not obligated to be the most victimized or concerned by all the nonsense that plagues the lands they visit. Luffy, Zoro and Tama covered the famine thing well enough in the first 10 chapters or so. And the average reader will know for themselves that the other SHs are made aware of the circumstances at some point and feel bad for the land of Wano. The reader doesn't need Oda keeping a checklist of every strawhat like "oh did I give Usopp a panel of him being sickened by Kaido's treatment of this country, did I give Sanji at least two chapters of him being scandalized about the food distribution?"
I'm going to talk about the seraphim down below, but that is the same thing really. No need to see ten straw hats bring up the issue when, even before they came across S-Shark for the first time, we could already apprehend a possible redundancy, what with SEVEN warlords needing to meet and react to their clone and express some doubt, Hancock already did that btw.
We also had what, 15 chapters of Sanji making an ambitious cake and ravishing an Emperor with it just 20 chapters before Wano started and hit us with the famine plot right away. Or at the beginning of WCI, when he had a fight with his brothers over them wasting food and beating up a maid over it. Plus Luffy wanting to be fed by him no matter what. etc... No need to be redundant with the food stuff when it has never been any more of a priority for his character than several of his other traits. Besides, Wano was already long enough as is lol.
Regarding the seraphim, a lot of the talk about them is either saved for downtime later, if/when Vegapunk can give more details about them to the SHs; or a lot of it is rightfully offscreened, because Jinbei emitting concerns over such a thing would be out of character in the first place (unless only HE was cloned, but he could pretty much see it was a warlord thing), but even if he did have to bring it up to Vegapunk, it's easy to assume the conversation would be this:
Jinbei: boi what's up with that?
Vegapunk: oh, WG commissioned this new form of pacifista to replace the warlords, but this technology is in ITS LITERAL INFANCY and cannot recreate fully grown, superpowerful adults yet
Jinbei: makes sense, ok chief
and that's it. Not even worth a page. Egghead has been super meaty in terms of exposition and especially the tech stuff. We already know the concept of the seraphim. We already saw one warlord react. We already know Vegapunk doesn't produce weapons on his own (whether from Dragon's testimony or Germa cover story). We already know that the WG ordered the seraphim's creation and we've known for hundreds of chapters now that the WG sucks. The reader can figure the extent of Vegapunk's guilt (if any) for themselves with all that info.
The SHs aren't idiots. They don't have to torture themselves over questions that were already answered in implicit, time-saving ways. If Nami really has beef with someone for having a kid Jinbei try to kill her AND she had a breakdown as she hesitated to defend herself (this is actually a worthwhile SH reaction regarding the seraphim topic), then she can take it up to Saturn or whoever she happens to see when they eventually raid the holy land.
We don't know if Vegapunk has really made reprehensible creations OF HIS OWN ACCORD, but the only possibility presented so far was the Kuma modification, robbing him of his agency and whatnot. Bonney rightfully chased him to seek answers and revenge. But now she might understand what was up with that, considering she doesn't even want revenge anymore. Vegapunk at least did feel some guilt for what he did and for not wanting to tell Bonney, so there's that at least.