One Piece - I'm Gonna Be the Pirate King!

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Small-arms Supremacy said:
What side plots? Brook disappears to fight Ryuma for most of the arc. Shows up once to save Robin from the spider and then is there for the end. The entire arc he's running around being mysterious until his backstory is shown right at the end. Other than telling everyone about the salt, Brook did nearly nothing in TB. He literally got bodied by the guy Zoro ended up fighting to hype Ryuma up. Plus are you forgetting that the crew's response when they met Brook was to think it was a joke? He even asked to join right on first contact like Yamato did. Its a very comparable situation.

Wano arc currently has almost triple the number of chapters of Thriller Bark and act 3 isnt even over. 60+ chapters in still has Yamato in the story longer now than Brook was at the end of his arc. For reference TB was 48 chapters, Wano as of 1050 is 141 chapters. Yamato was first referenced in 979 and shows up in person in 983. From 983 to 1050 is 67 chapters. This is me being extra generous since she's shown in silhouette in the Oden flashback several chapters earlier.

I don't understand how people are not waiting for this arc to end before judging when we're right off the tail of WCI. Everyone judged the last arc for being too long or boring or whatever and on reread most people think its the best post timeskip arc. I really dont care whether Yamato joins or not but saying characters are undeveloped before the arc ends is stupid. Have some patience.
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For one, I never said she was underdeveloped. I said that cramming everything about her into the third act of an arc that already had 30 other characters to juggle through made her feel comparatively rushed and resulted in her scenes having less of an emotional impact, and that at this point having zero development between her and the vast majority of the main characters means attempting to add that in now can only result in stolen time elsewhere.

For another, the chapter discrepancy was my point. Thriller Bark might be shorter, but far more of that time was spent making direct connections between Brook and the crew. He has multiple conversations not just explaining how Thriller Bark operates, but moments like the one he has with Robin and Franky are there to illustrate his own outlook on life (and death) that draw parallels between him and the other current members. The whole reason that Zoro fighting Ryuma even happens is because Zoro relates to Brook’s determination to keep the promises he made to living and dead friends, which directly leads into them sharing that funeral scene at the end. Yamato just doesn’t have any scenes like that. Despite being in roughly 67 chapters, only about 5 of those include any meaningful interaction between her and Luffy, the main character; the rest has been mostly spent with Momo, and the rest of the Straw Hats don’t even know who she is.

Also, Brook didn’t ask to join first. Luffy offered, Brook initially said yes, then changed his mind because his missing shadow made him a liability and he had unfinished business.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Not even a silhouette of Momonosuke to close out the chapter? C'mon, Oda.

But the choice to not yet open up Wano is interesting. Will Luffy still need to have Wano under his protection, or no?
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Pretty sure that means we aren't done with Wano yet. I don't think we are leaving Wano with the borders still closed since getting rid of Kaido, bringing joyboy to Wano and opening the borders have been the entire point of the arc so far.

As for whether it will need Luffy's protection. Probably not. It's ruled by a Samurai Dragon after all.
 
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My reaction to this chapter:
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Also I was listening to this while reading the chapter, it actually went really well with it.
 
I'M BORED NOW

I need something like the fucking lava killing half of Wano or the WG annexation team wrecking shit or Cobra getting roasted by Sabo or some plot twist or something because One Piece sucks now. The final clash was shit-for-pacing, Act 3 is now fizzling and is STILL SOMEHOW NOT OVER GODDAMN
 
Mr. 0 said:
I'M BORED NOW


I need something like the fucking lava killing half of Wano or the WG annexation team wrecking shit or Cobra getting roasted by Sabo or some plot twist or something because One Piece sucks now. The final clash was shit-for-pacing, Act 3 is now fizzling and is STILL SOMEHOW NOT OVER GODDAMN
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I'm still waiting on us going to Fuji. Don't think we've seen there yet.
 
An incredible conclusion chapter. That Victory music that normally plays during these times played in my head reading the entire time.

I’m rather mixed on if Kaido and Big Mom are both truly over. In particular I noticed Zeus in the Chapter. Isn’t he still part of Big Mom’s soul? I know Linlin did “Kill” him and he became apart of the Clima Tact but this still seems fishy.

That being said, I’m expecting a big twist soon, and I honestly think it’s gonna be Drama involving Zoro.

I’m really beginning to worry about that Grim Reaper thing. Back then it was easy to joke that the Grim Reaper was just Brook, but this is the first time the crew is acknowledging something isn’t right with Zoro.
 
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