As said, only reason Luffy is alive is WG literally retarded more than him.
Then they’d definitely been stomped if an Elder decided to tag along.
They were quite litterally expecting one to kill the other and planning to take out whoever was left.
They were there under the assumption that the survivor would be far more injured than they ended up being. They overestimated Kaidou and underestimated Luffy. Do not get me wrong, if Luffy hadn't mastered Ryo Haki he would have lost an arm to Kaidou's final attack. That and the fact that Shanks was there too. Greenbull was crushed by shear haki. Assuming the Elders would not also find difficulties is unrealistic.
But they did not. They had to deal with the Revolutionary Army back home. Even the Elders are not immortal. Also, assuming that victory is certain is stupid. Not only would the Elder have to climb up a massive mountain, they would have to deal with a lot of heavy hitters and the water that surrounds Wano. Maybe Mars would be able to do it since he can fly but the rest should not attempt that. And again, Shank was there around.
Big events were happening that were of great importance. The Cross Guild, the attack in the Holy Land, the use of the Mother Flame, the revolutions all around the world etc etc. They were busy.
And that Kind of did not happen.
Add the fact that in order to invade they have to catch carps that climb up waterfalls (and thus can be intercepted), you get a very risky operation.
The truths that was discovered on Laugh Tale were:
There is no doubt that One Piece has political themes, in fact a major part of it's popularity is that it follows the same universalist morality and messagings that most successfull things follow to be succesfull. It is the same reason why so called alternative influencers immediately town their views down the moment they become mainstream. You need to conform to the modern day consensus to be massively and universally popular, unfortunitely. Regardless, these commentators think that by having One Piece align with their views in this way makes it unique and important but to me, all that does is make One Piece another generic and uninteresting since we already have like a gazillion "fascism, nazi dictatorship and racism bad" franshises and storylines since the end of the second world war. Even these commentors and the original youtube video themsleves are jut regurgitating the same post WW II fears of fascism and hope that One Piece is doing the same as them.
In before half of it is bitching about Rebecca.
I feel the Void Century specifically is sort of an encompassing thing to explain a lot of the anomalies of the world of One Piece. To me it's one of the most interesting parts of the lore since it's a whole ass 100 years that just doesn't exist and a lot of the weirder things going on right now might have an answer here.
My general thought with the Stories on the Elbaf wall is that Imu came to the conclusion that the Ragnarok like cycles of "Worlds ending" could be stopped if nobody knew about the previous "Worlds"
That’s exactly what Oda was aiming to do when he introduced the Void Century. The fact of the matter is this: no matter what happened back then, it has to be incredibly profound and world chasing , but also something so moronic and childish that somebody like Luffy would find it hilarious, and others would find it somewhat amusing, if not laughing as much as Luffy.
any themes of these themes discussed are irrelevant because they are burred under 500 hours of shonen shit
Remember when Franky almost killed chopper by eating the Rumbleballs almost instantly.
I think the What happened is going to be Horrifying...but the details of the Why will be hilarious.
I think you can say the same thing for every shonen since DBZ.
You mean any fiction.
ah ha
Yes…and no? The way I see it, Oda has been sprinkling things about the bigger issues and mysteries surrounding everything (the great kingdom, Joy Boy, Imu, “D”, the WG suppressing things), but the thing is this: