What THE FUCK happened to oda? there are no stakes...

what THE FUCK happened to oda? there are no stakes, there is no emotional resonance or climactic payoff to fights anymore.. it's all fucking tiresome

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>MC's power is basically looney tunes shit
>surprised there are no stakes

Yeah he’s degraded a lot. It’s sad because old Oda surely had great ideas for the final arcs but current Oda is just going to ruin it.

Soul v. Soulless
It happened because one piece should have ended after skypiea. Hard pill to swallow but every arc after it was far worse than what preceded it. Also wano fucking sucks dude I’m so glad its over. Now I just want Oda to retcon nika nika back to gomu gome OPM style.

>Hard pill to swallow but every arc after it was far worse than what preceded it.
Wano sucks, but this isn't true.

>no stakes, there is no emotional resonance or climactic payoff to fights anymore
Wan Piss never had any of this

Maybe not, but going through (overall) very shitty arcs like Dressrosa, Wano, Fishman Island just for rare but great moments like Enies Lobby and Usopp v. Sugar doesn’t mean the quality is better than Skypiea. All three major villains preceding skypiea were effective as antagonists who the crew had to figure out how to beat. With Kaido, the strongest creature, they only needed to punch him really hard without any clever trick. With doflamingo, a character OP for 0 reason they only needed to punch him really hard without any strategy. There will never be a better series of fights in One Piece than Luffy v. Crocodile, it’s a dead series walking.

I think generally everything before the time skip was pretty good, I wouldn't draw the line at Skypiea.

there's no stakes in the first panel either because the story and characters are shallow and 1 dimensional.

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You’re literally listing all of its best qualities

>there are no stakes
Why are you crying about this now when we had shit like Pell surviving a nuke to the face years ago? You should have known what you signed up for.

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Pre-timeskip is a classic adventure story, post-timeskip just suffers from too much bloat. There are still lots of great individual moments but the whole package suffers from bloat. Even the repetition could be more forgivable if the arcs were shorter and focused less on the million side characters who are mostly unremarkable and stock.

i fucking hate the fact that Oda needs to do a reaction for every fucking thing. It goes:
>punch
>EEEEEEHHHHHHHHHH W-WHAT????!!!!!
>*generic commentary/thoughts from bystanders*
just let the moment stand for itself without telling us how to react

Skypiea wasn't even that good dude
One of the weaker arcs overall

>giant magma explosion out of no where
>fodder weakling characters should just look stoic and cool watching it

Please seek therapy.

who cares. one piece is shit

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now show us the equivalent of luffy hitting the bell in nu piece

Raizo is Safe

>Shitty Background Character That Takes Panel Time From Actual Important Characters is Safe
i wish he was not

Raizo saved everyone from the fire in onigashima with zunesha's water speedreader

WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED BROS?

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>character does something
>this means he's not expendable
you realize oda could've literally written that role for any other character? odadrones are legit smoothbrains

>>fodder weakling characters should just look stoic and cool watching it
Weakling fodder characters shouldn't be shown in the fucking panel you stupid faggot

kek you really tried hard to find a good page in wano but you still couldn't..

thats a good page in wano

the same could be said about everyone in skypeia

it's not. AND EVEN IF IT IS (it is not), what made the bell scene great was not the page itself, it's the whole buildup to the scene. It's the emotional stakes of cricket and wyper wanting to fulfill their promises to noland, luffy wanting to prove the existence of the city of gold. meanwhile what's happening in that shitty wano doublespread you posted? luffy punching kaido really hard with the power of toon force? while wanting wano country to never starve again? because tama feed him that one time? that's your emotional stakes? odadrones are braindead.

>tried hard
literally from a chapter ago but okay

it's not. AND EVEN IF IT IS (it is not), what made the kaido KO scene great was not the page itself, it's the whole buildup to the scene. It's the emotional stakes of yamato and momo wanting to fulfill their promises to onde, luffy wanting to create a world where his friends can eat all they want. meanwhile what's happening in that shitty skypeia doublespread you posted? luffy punching enel really hard with the power of rubber force? while wanting skypeia to not be destroyed by lightning? because aisa found him him that one time? that's your emotional stakes? odadrones are braindead.

>compares the climax of the longest, most set up arc in the entire series to the literal falling action of another
>still looks worse
topkek

it doesnt look worse

who cares. one piece is shit