The reason you can't compare Fishman Island to Wano in that regards is because Fishman Island is setup. It's literally just a warmup arc. It's supposed to just set things up. It's a test run. Not a finale. Wano is a finale. It has NO BUSINESS leaving things half assed.
Lingering Plot Threads: -Kokeshi dolls/poneglyph mystery. -The guy in wano clothing drinking with Crocus. -Ame no Habakiri and Sandai Kitetsu. -The man Hitetsu is waiting for and Hitetsu's identity. -Tama's promise with ace, hopefully some closure to Ace's storyline. -Family to repair Noah mentioned in Fishman Island (Kozuki?). -Brainwashing of children in flower capitol. -Any character development for Kid. -Zoro's buld up in Act 2 was focused on his relationship with Yasuie and desire to get revenge on Orochi. Only for them to never interact in Act 3? -Queen vs. Who's-Who (Five different mentions of them wanting to kill each other with no resolution.) -No resolution between Apoo and Kid. Actually no point in Apoo's existence in general. I'm kind of interested in why he gets along with the numbers so well, one of the fodder samurai even says he's like an animal trainer. -Tons of mentions of betrayals and the fragility of pirate alliances. Not just from Kaido but from characters like Law and Shinobu in Act 2 and Apoo in Act 3. Would feel pointless if we didn't get to see these words tested. -Whatever name Onigashima used to go by (according to Marco) and what the hell it is. I did notice Denjiro refered to the tree he was tied to as a sacred tree, so maybe that's something. -Why Kaido and the Beast Pirates refer to Yamato as a he. I'm pretty sure it isn't because of how progressive they are. -Yamato's character arc in general. She was presented as being obsessed with "being" Oden to the point of doing clearly delusional things like introducing herself as Oden to Momonosuke. We also know it's a deep-seated obsession that she's held for twenty years, would be weird for her just to go "yeah I'm not Oden" casually for no real reason in the epilogue. -We still know nothing about her mother, why she was called "oni princess" (no one refers to Kaido as king/royalty), onis in general or why her Devil Fruit is special to Wano. There is also no sense of finality to close off her relationship with Kaido, the last scene between them is literally a cliff-hanger of Kaido ranting about her fate as an oni. If Kaido is out of the picture that means there is no chance for her to prove him wrong. You could argue she could prove him wrong by joining the Straw Hats but, aside from her weakness as a candidate (dreams/lack of interaction with straw hats/backstory) proving him wrong doesn't hold as much weight when we neither get to see him proven wrong to his face nor know much of anything about Yamato, her relationship with Kaido or the onis in general. -Just Carrot in general. She's been a complete non-factor in the arc despite her one moment of focus being a scene which basically forces her to continue adventuring instead of going back to Zou. -Basil Hawkins's ability that lets people/himself fight beyond their natural limit mentioned in act 1 was never used. The 1 month timeline he gave was apparently just a completely random slip-up by Oda. The fact that he didn't want to join Kaido and his cards turning against him while Killer was talking about betting on himself suggests a character arc that never took place. -Road Poneglyph is still missing. -Importance of dragons to Wano, given Kaido's status as a "guardian diety" and that the Dragon Statue that Ace destroyed isn't modeled after Kaido. -A member of the Beast Pirates intelligence agency was actively serving CP0 even knowing they were planning to strike Wano. -Shadow at the end of Chapter 1004. -Who's Who's identiy, being killed by CP0. Story about random prison guard randomly telling him about such top-secret information is really weird too, if there's nothing to that that's some extremely clunky overly convenient writing. Also Jinbei seemed familiar with the Nika story. -The numbers Yamato is friends with looking similar to the Daimyo from the cave. -Zunesha's role in Wano. Why Zuneha's apperance made the Gorosei start talking about Luffy's fruit awakening. -Opening the borders of Wano. -Zoro's "death" and duel with the grim reaper. -Kanjuro, seeing as he was unable to complete his final will in burning Orochi to death it would be pretty weird if he just quietly died after failing that. Not to mention that his whole flame demon thing was completely irrelevant to the plot. -Kaido's victory cry, mentoined in 1038. Assuming Oda isn't completely writing this arc by the seat of his pants it's bizarre that he would drop this foreshadowing so late in the arc and then have it be completely meaningless. -What Big Mom said about the country having a piece of the One Piece. -Luffy's "death" and rebirth, what exactly is going on with his body/ability and why he appeared to turn to an old man and start dying again when he was running low on stamina during the fight. -Big Mom Pirates. -CPO ships. -Unless you think King and Queen are going to drown and die they have to get back up and land somewhere. -Yamato gave a big speech to Momonosuke about fighting against impossible odds and dying together, but Momonosuke never got a chance to respond and do it since Luffy awakened right after. --Caribou. Kaido and Big Mom's stated goal was to seize the ancient weapons and Oda went through an entire cover story just to get Caribou to Wano. Yet all he did was give Luffy some meat at a random time? He still has the Poseidon info to sell to someone and having him go to Wano just to go somewhere else and sell it to someone else is really weird, convoluted writing. -Oda spent over a year drumming up Onigashima landing on the Flower Capitol, starting in Chapter 985 and even having a chapter (1027: Danger Beyond Imagining) named after it and gave sketches on how horrible it would be - only to literally never do it? At this point Oda's just going against the basic rules of writing. --For an arc so focused on the dawn, it's not only currently night time but the volcanic eruption means the ashes are currently blocking out the sky. -There was a chapter called "I Can't Imagine Losing" and the tone somehow managed to not get darker for the entire raid. -Usopp said he would take down two of the Tobi Roppo. Ussop has never made lies that either didn't come true or couldn't eventually come true to my knowledge. -No confirmation of how Orochi's devil fruit works so readers can't even know if things are over or not. -How will Law even approach his goal of learning true history without any way of reading the poneglyphs? -Somehow the strongest zoan crew in the world and the strongest creature in the world who has had his devil fruit for 40 years doesn't have awakenings but the Impel Down jailers do? -Celebration is very lax in emotion compared to the usual celebrations, Dressrosa was filled with people crying and shouting in victory for example. -Why Momonosuke can't die, why Yamato and Oden think he will guide the world to the dawn. Oden's Journal. -We still don't know why Kaido wants to die, literally the central factor Oda focused on when introducing him in a chapter called Suicide. -"Humans always cling to faith. In a way, they can't afford to abandon it...that's the issue! If they're not shown prove, their faith in you will never die. Isn't that right?" - this dialogue from Kaido went nowhere, despite being referenced again in 1043. -Drake/CP0/Sword stuff is vague and Drake's role in the arc feels pretty pointless and all over the place. -Usopp and Brook literally got nothing in the entire arc. Usopp hasn't done anything but cry and act cowardly with no redemption moments since 2014. -Sanji Germa transformation has been ignored ever since 1031 ended. -There's probably more I just re-read Act 3 yesterday and jotted some others down from memory.
@@herickbrandelero2293 I don't have a reddit account...or the patience lol. You can take it and post it if you want though, no need to credit or anything.
This is great. A few I'd like to add are: - Big Mom's plan. When Perospero asked her why she allied with Kaido, she said she had a plan but that never came up again. - Marco's Role. Marco mentioned when fighting Big Mom that, aside from helping the next generation, he didn't know what his role in this war would be and later he said he wasn't planning on fighting Kaido YET. This implies Marco was meant to do something significant but ended up just being support. - Kaido saying that the people of Wano are losers who have accepted defeat. It's a shame that they never got a chance to prove Kaido wrong. - It's also a little weird that Brook and Chopper didn't have a bigger role. The whole death motif of the arc, all the callbacks to Thriller Bark, and his wish to get stronger after Pedro's death would make you think that Brook would have more of a role. The presence of sakura blossoms should have at least warranted a reference to Dr. Hiriluk from Chopper. - Sins of the People of Wano. What the people of Wano did to the Kurozumi clan shouldn't be brushed under the rug especially since how it lead to their 20 years of suffering. Not to mention how some citizens discriminate against Minks and Fishmen. Isn't it Jimbe's dream to help bring peace between humans and fishmen?
Great stuff! You help me come to terms with Luffy vs Kaido. Your right his final punch wasn’t enough. Kaido chose to take the punch. IMO If it wasn’t for Kaido crashing threw earth and into magma I think he’d be back up. And that makes the final clash now satisfying to me. It doesn’t lessen Kaido at all and is similar to BM. It took her crashing into the earth, blown up from bombs and floating in magma to keep her down. The 3 captains still have a long way to go but they’ve won.
Still don't think it's over. There are just TOO many things that were dropped for me to believe this is the conclusion. Not to mention Yamato "joining" the crew without having spent any time with any of the crew members let alone an actual character arc to transition her into a strawhat? I'm sorry, but no. I don't believe this. I cannot conceive of Oda actually ending an arc this inconclusively.
This is slightly off-topic but if your theory that Kaidou's fruit gives him good fortune is true, it presents an interesting possibility for his awakening. It's possible that Kaidou could grant other people good fortune or even grant wishes Shenron style. This would add a new layer to Kaidou asking Luffy what kind of world he wished for.
As much as I want Yamato to join the crew, I feel like Yamato still has a lot of her character arc that needs to be resolved before she leaves Wano. Her whole Oden obsession doesn't seem like a thing that would persist past this arc since it makes the most sense in the context of the Wano arc. To me, this was clearly setup to be the basis of a character arc where she'll realize she doesn't need to be Oden to be free or make friends, and will begin to forge her own identity as she travels with the crew. Like with many other characters in this arc, her character arc seems somewhat incomplete and I wonder how Oda will deal with this in the future. I, personally, still believe the Wano arc has much more to go but your review has made it the idea that the arc is truly ending here a bit more credible. I'm still somewhat disappointed by how the arc has been executed overall but I have faith that Oda could still find a way to resolve things in a satisfying way.
I'm sorry but this video just...doesn't make any sense? You keep trying to compare this to Fishman Island but at no point do you bring up the massive differences that would go against the points you're trying to make. Oda had not been drumming up Luffy's destruction of Fishman Island for years before Fishman Island like he did with opening Wano's borders, which gets a double-page spread in Zou and is basically the mission statement leading into the arc (and during the arc and during the Oden flashback). Noah DID interact with the arc in a way that would satisfy readers, becoming a ticking time bomb for the story, as opposed to being built up to a lot in the arc only to have no impact what so ever. The residents, antagonist and protagonist all had clear complete story arcs in Fishman Island with foreshadowing promising later grand developments. Fishman Island is a complete story arc. Literally every One Piece arc, even build-up arcs like Jaya, have always been complete story arcs with clear story beats and feelings of closure/satisfaction upon completing them. Almost all subplots are drawn to a conclusion, with some lingering bigger mysteries left (and they are often introduced in the falling action - not presented as central to the plot of the arc itself). You're not only suggesting that Oda is suddenly going against his style of writing for 20+ years but that he's doing it in an arc that he spent ten years building up to and suggested would make Marineford look cute (Jump Festa 2018)? That would be the LAST arc you want to leave readers feeling unfulfilled and yet, despite not doing it with any other arc in the series (well aside from Reverie which is more of an interlude), you suddenly think he must be doing it here? Because of some flimsy comparison with Fishman Island that doesn't even hold up? Also you state the major reason for this shift in thought is Momonosuke stating he doesn't want to open the borders yet? You really expect such a level of finality from the words of a character who has been repeatedly portrayed as having to be pushed into doing action? You're really shocked an eight year old who had to be given speeches by adults before he reluctantly did any of the "impressive" actions he has done through out the story came to this conclusion? You don't think it might just be part of his character arc, another thing he needs to be pushed into doing? Or maybe that Oda needs to put it on hold so he can actually explain what the hell opening the borders even means in the first place and then, you know, build up to it? Fishman Island being part of the final arc makes sense, it's literally right beneath Mariejois. It's a perfect fit for the arc. Wano doesn't have that advantage, it's a logistic nightmare to try and have an entire concurrent battle for Wano happening while the final war is also happening. I don't think anyone will really care about revisiting those things at that point, especially when packed with so many more interesting things happening involving the main characters and main villains would be happening somewhere else. That's not even touching on the fact that these Wano specific strands like onis, samurais, borders, importance of the country, etc. have not received anywhere near the attention and sustained build of Fishmen related topics. I guess we're gonna push that back into the final arc too, bloating it even further with things past the expiration date for readers to be invested in? The power scaling part doesn't make any sense. Kaido and Big Mom were already knocked out after the fights, otherwise why would they just be chilling and floating around in the lava for a bit before the eruption? It's not like the eruption is an instantaneous thing that happens as soon as Kaido smacked into the magma chamber. Also I don't follow the logic behind a volcano defeating Kaido? The guy just set himself on fire with fire so hot that Luffy had trouble putting his fist close to it, not even actually in it. Now he's supposed to be defeated by a volcano, not even hitting him like a tidal wave but shooting upward underneath him? I'm not really sure about the math behind the pressure of a volcanic eruption but I can say from an artistic stand-point being carried upward comes across as less dramatic than being hit by a tidal wave. If Oda really wanted to have Kaido beat by a fucking volcano of all random things, well for starters he probably wouldn't make setting himself on fire his trump card and grabbing flames his signature but, I can fanfic a better way to do after literally just thinking about it for a minute. Have the Volcano situated diagonal to the capitol instead of center to it (idk if it's actually center but whatever), maybe even have an old abandoned town like that one in Italy for some cool visuals and foreshadowing the volcano as active. Have Kaido hit more at an angle so he flies diagonally into this town instead of directly downwards. Have him still immediately get up despite people thinking it was over, but then have the Volcano explode from the impact of the punch after showing people panicking about an earthquake. The lava then flows like a tidal wave down to Kaido, we could even see him smile at the thought of dying by it before it smashes into him (maybe flashbacking to his desire to die) as he smiles and embraces it. You could even have the CP0 agent see it while reporting in a little den den mushi, maybe he could say something like it wasn't Luffy but more the country itself that killed him. Naturally in an abandoned town with an earthquake going on no one else would see or focus on Kaido's death, making him die/get defeated alone and unseen. Also if you're thinking lava flows too slowly for that, that's just a thing crappy movies do lava can actually flow up to 430 MPH after an eruption. And if he still gets up from that readers would probably be a lot more impressed than if he doesn't get blasted away like Team Rocket (we've really stooped low when we have to consider that as a possible ending for the arc). Oh and I should just mention the absurdity of thinking a bunch magma could kill Kaido. I guess anyone with a magma fruit could kill Kaido then? Akainu is awakened and has haki, I bet he could fucking low dif Kaido. Apparently in all their execution attempts the government was too dumb to just boil him alive eh. If all those points aren't enough to convince you that you aren't stretching more than Luffy himself to try and make this point, here's my 100% guarantee that wasn't Oda's intention. Oda has gone on record and said multiple times he writes the story with teenage boys in mind. There's no way he would be trying to signal that Luffy was weaker than Kaido to the audience in such a subtle way. You already have the proper comparison to make with the Big Mom fight and Oda was not subtle with showing that Big Mom was stronger than Law & Kid combined. For 99% of the readers Luffy is now the strongest person in the world, and what's even worse is he did it on low stamina with his first ever use of Gear 5. There's not a whole lot of intrigue going into Luffy vs. Big Mom now, and there will be even less if she and her crew just high tail out of here because they're too fucking weak to apparently accomplish anything - even capturing two Vinsmokes is simply too big an ordeal for them. If he could do that to Kaido imagine what he could do to Shanks with full stamina and more practice of Gear 5? Blackbeard now needs a third devil fruit to just catch-up and be competitive with Luffy! Also all that build-up about the reunion of Rocks and the dangers of Yonko alliance (something that's been drummed up since Jaya!) and they literally never fight together? This whole video just feels like an exercise in mental gymnastics. Sorry if I sound angry at you personally, wasn't my intention. More just disappointed and confused.
@@jolly1559 it's not really spoilers. It was the full chapter translated by fans. Sorry that I don't wanna wait 4 extra days so see the official translation spell Zoro's name wrong lol
The reason you can't compare Fishman Island to Wano in that regards is because Fishman Island is setup. It's literally just a warmup arc. It's supposed to just set things up. It's a test run. Not a finale. Wano is a finale. It has NO BUSINESS leaving things half assed.
Lingering Plot Threads:
-Kokeshi dolls/poneglyph mystery.
-The guy in wano clothing drinking with Crocus.
-Ame no Habakiri and Sandai Kitetsu.
-The man Hitetsu is waiting for and Hitetsu's identity.
-Tama's promise with ace, hopefully some closure to Ace's storyline.
-Family to repair Noah mentioned in Fishman Island (Kozuki?).
-Brainwashing of children in flower capitol.
-Any character development for Kid.
-Zoro's buld up in Act 2 was focused on his relationship with Yasuie and desire to get revenge on Orochi. Only for them to never interact in Act 3?
-Queen vs. Who's-Who (Five different mentions of them wanting to kill each other with no resolution.)
-No resolution between Apoo and Kid. Actually no point in Apoo's existence in general. I'm kind of interested in why he gets along with the numbers so well, one of the fodder samurai even says he's like an animal trainer.
-Tons of mentions of betrayals and the fragility of pirate alliances. Not just from Kaido but from characters like Law and Shinobu in Act 2 and Apoo in Act 3. Would feel pointless if we didn't get to see these words tested.
-Whatever name Onigashima used to go by (according to Marco) and what the hell it is. I did notice Denjiro refered to the tree he was tied to as a sacred tree, so maybe that's something.
-Why Kaido and the Beast Pirates refer to Yamato as a he. I'm pretty sure it isn't because of how progressive they are.
-Yamato's character arc in general. She was presented as being obsessed with "being" Oden to the point of doing clearly delusional things like introducing herself as Oden to Momonosuke. We also know it's a deep-seated obsession that she's held for twenty years, would be weird for her just to go "yeah I'm not Oden" casually for no real reason in the epilogue.
-We still know nothing about her mother, why she was called "oni princess" (no one refers to Kaido as king/royalty), onis in general or why her Devil Fruit is special to Wano. There is also no sense of finality to close off her relationship with Kaido, the last scene between them is literally a cliff-hanger of Kaido ranting about her fate as an oni. If Kaido is out of the picture that means there is no chance for her to prove him wrong. You could argue she could prove him wrong by joining the Straw Hats but, aside from her weakness as a candidate (dreams/lack of interaction with straw hats/backstory) proving him wrong doesn't hold as much weight when we neither get to see him proven wrong to his face nor know much of anything about Yamato, her relationship with Kaido or the onis in general.
-Just Carrot in general. She's been a complete non-factor in the arc despite her one moment of focus being a scene which basically forces her to continue adventuring instead of going back to Zou.
-Basil Hawkins's ability that lets people/himself fight beyond their natural limit mentioned in act 1 was never used. The 1 month timeline he gave was apparently just a completely random slip-up by Oda. The fact that he didn't want to join Kaido and his cards turning against him while Killer was talking about betting on himself suggests a character arc that never took place.
-Road Poneglyph is still missing.
-Importance of dragons to Wano, given Kaido's status as a "guardian diety" and that the Dragon Statue that Ace destroyed isn't modeled after Kaido.
-A member of the Beast Pirates intelligence agency was actively serving CP0 even knowing they were planning to strike Wano.
-Shadow at the end of Chapter 1004.
-Who's Who's identiy, being killed by CP0. Story about random prison guard randomly telling him about such top-secret information is really weird too, if there's nothing to that that's some extremely clunky overly convenient writing. Also Jinbei seemed familiar with the Nika story.
-The numbers Yamato is friends with looking similar to the Daimyo from the cave.
-Zunesha's role in Wano. Why Zuneha's apperance made the Gorosei start talking about Luffy's fruit awakening.
-Opening the borders of Wano.
-Zoro's "death" and duel with the grim reaper.
-Kanjuro, seeing as he was unable to complete his final will in burning Orochi to death it would be pretty weird if he just quietly died after failing that. Not to mention that his whole flame demon thing was completely irrelevant to the plot.
-Kaido's victory cry, mentoined in 1038. Assuming Oda isn't completely writing this arc by the seat of his pants it's bizarre that he would drop this foreshadowing so late in the arc and then have it be completely meaningless.
-What Big Mom said about the country having a piece of the One Piece.
-Luffy's "death" and rebirth, what exactly is going on with his body/ability and why he appeared to turn to an old man and start dying again when he was running low on stamina during the fight.
-Big Mom Pirates.
-CPO ships.
-Unless you think King and Queen are going to drown and die they have to get back up and land somewhere.
-Yamato gave a big speech to Momonosuke about fighting against impossible odds and dying together, but Momonosuke never got a chance to respond and do it since Luffy awakened right after.
--Caribou. Kaido and Big Mom's stated goal was to seize the ancient weapons and Oda went through an entire cover story just to get Caribou to Wano. Yet all he did was give Luffy some meat at a random time? He still has the Poseidon info to sell to someone and having him go to Wano just to go somewhere else and sell it to someone else is really weird, convoluted writing.
-Oda spent over a year drumming up Onigashima landing on the Flower Capitol, starting in Chapter 985 and even having a chapter (1027: Danger Beyond Imagining) named after it and gave sketches on how horrible it would be - only to literally never do it? At this point Oda's just going against the basic rules of writing.
--For an arc so focused on the dawn, it's not only currently night time but the volcanic eruption means the ashes are currently blocking out the sky.
-There was a chapter called "I Can't Imagine Losing" and the tone somehow managed to not get darker for the entire raid.
-Usopp said he would take down two of the Tobi Roppo. Ussop has never made lies that either didn't come true or couldn't eventually come true to my knowledge.
-No confirmation of how Orochi's devil fruit works so readers can't even know if things are over or not.
-How will Law even approach his goal of learning true history without any way of reading the poneglyphs?
-Somehow the strongest zoan crew in the world and the strongest creature in the world who has had his devil fruit for 40 years doesn't have awakenings but the Impel Down jailers do?
-Celebration is very lax in emotion compared to the usual celebrations, Dressrosa was filled with people crying and shouting in victory for example.
-Why Momonosuke can't die, why Yamato and Oden think he will guide the world to the dawn. Oden's Journal.
-We still don't know why Kaido wants to die, literally the central factor Oda focused on when introducing him in a chapter called Suicide.
-"Humans always cling to faith. In a way, they can't afford to abandon it...that's the issue! If they're not shown prove, their faith in you will never die. Isn't that right?" - this dialogue from Kaido went nowhere, despite being referenced again in 1043.
-Drake/CP0/Sword stuff is vague and Drake's role in the arc feels pretty pointless and all over the place.
-Usopp and Brook literally got nothing in the entire arc. Usopp hasn't done anything but cry and act cowardly with no redemption moments since 2014.
-Sanji Germa transformation has been ignored ever since 1031 ended.
-There's probably more I just re-read Act 3 yesterday and jotted some others down from memory.
Very nice summary
Could you post on reddit? More people need to see this
@@herickbrandelero2293 I don't have a reddit account...or the patience lol. You can take it and post it if you want though, no need to credit or anything.
@@burninghammer4765 Ok thanks, I will do that
This is great. A few I'd like to add are:
- Big Mom's plan. When Perospero asked her why she allied with Kaido, she said she had a plan but that never came up again.
- Marco's Role. Marco mentioned when fighting Big Mom that, aside from helping the next generation, he didn't know what his role in this war would be and later he said he wasn't planning on fighting Kaido YET. This implies Marco was meant to do something significant but ended up just being support.
- Kaido saying that the people of Wano are losers who have accepted defeat. It's a shame that they never got a chance to prove Kaido wrong.
- It's also a little weird that Brook and Chopper didn't have a bigger role. The whole death motif of the arc, all the callbacks to Thriller Bark, and his wish to get stronger after Pedro's death would make you think that Brook would have more of a role. The presence of sakura blossoms should have at least warranted a reference to Dr. Hiriluk from Chopper.
- Sins of the People of Wano. What the people of Wano did to the Kurozumi clan shouldn't be brushed under the rug especially since how it lead to their 20 years of suffering. Not to mention how some citizens discriminate against Minks and Fishmen. Isn't it Jimbe's dream to help bring peace between humans and fishmen?
Great stuff! You help me come to terms with Luffy vs Kaido. Your right his final punch wasn’t enough. Kaido chose to take the punch. IMO If it wasn’t for Kaido crashing threw earth and into magma I think he’d be back up. And that makes the final clash now satisfying to me. It doesn’t lessen Kaido at all and is similar to BM. It took her crashing into the earth, blown up from bombs and floating in magma to keep her down. The 3 captains still have a long way to go but they’ve won.
Still don't think it's over. There are just TOO many things that were dropped for me to believe this is the conclusion. Not to mention Yamato "joining" the crew without having spent any time with any of the crew members let alone an actual character arc to transition her into a strawhat? I'm sorry, but no. I don't believe this. I cannot conceive of Oda actually ending an arc this inconclusively.
This is slightly off-topic but if your theory that Kaidou's fruit gives him good fortune is true, it presents an interesting possibility for his awakening. It's possible that Kaidou could grant other people good fortune or even grant wishes Shenron style. This would add a new layer to Kaidou asking Luffy what kind of world he wished for.
Pretty sure that if Kaido has an Awakening it'll be more *Godzilla than *Shenron.
As much as I want Yamato to join the crew, I feel like Yamato still has a lot of her character arc that needs to be resolved before she leaves Wano. Her whole Oden obsession doesn't seem like a thing that would persist past this arc since it makes the most sense in the context of the Wano arc. To me, this was clearly setup to be the basis of a character arc where she'll realize she doesn't need to be Oden to be free or make friends, and will begin to forge her own identity as she travels with the crew. Like with many other characters in this arc, her character arc seems somewhat incomplete and I wonder how Oda will deal with this in the future.
I, personally, still believe the Wano arc has much more to go but your review has made it the idea that the arc is truly ending here a bit more credible. I'm still somewhat disappointed by how the arc has been executed overall but I have faith that Oda could still find a way to resolve things in a satisfying way.
I'm sorry but this video just...doesn't make any sense? You keep trying to compare this to Fishman Island but at no point do you bring up the massive differences that would go against the points you're trying to make. Oda had not been drumming up Luffy's destruction of Fishman Island for years before Fishman Island like he did with opening Wano's borders, which gets a double-page spread in Zou and is basically the mission statement leading into the arc (and during the arc and during the Oden flashback). Noah DID interact with the arc in a way that would satisfy readers, becoming a ticking time bomb for the story, as opposed to being built up to a lot in the arc only to have no impact what so ever. The residents, antagonist and protagonist all had clear complete story arcs in Fishman Island with foreshadowing promising later grand developments.
Fishman Island is a complete story arc. Literally every One Piece arc, even build-up arcs like Jaya, have always been complete story arcs with clear story beats and feelings of closure/satisfaction upon completing them. Almost all subplots are drawn to a conclusion, with some lingering bigger mysteries left (and they are often introduced in the falling action - not presented as central to the plot of the arc itself). You're not only suggesting that Oda is suddenly going against his style of writing for 20+ years but that he's doing it in an arc that he spent ten years building up to and suggested would make Marineford look cute (Jump Festa 2018)? That would be the LAST arc you want to leave readers feeling unfulfilled and yet, despite not doing it with any other arc in the series (well aside from Reverie which is more of an interlude), you suddenly think he must be doing it here? Because of some flimsy comparison with Fishman Island that doesn't even hold up?
Also you state the major reason for this shift in thought is Momonosuke stating he doesn't want to open the borders yet? You really expect such a level of finality from the words of a character who has been repeatedly portrayed as having to be pushed into doing action? You're really shocked an eight year old who had to be given speeches by adults before he reluctantly did any of the "impressive" actions he has done through out the story came to this conclusion? You don't think it might just be part of his character arc, another thing he needs to be pushed into doing? Or maybe that Oda needs to put it on hold so he can actually explain what the hell opening the borders even means in the first place and then, you know, build up to it?
Fishman Island being part of the final arc makes sense, it's literally right beneath Mariejois. It's a perfect fit for the arc. Wano doesn't have that advantage, it's a logistic nightmare to try and have an entire concurrent battle for Wano happening while the final war is also happening. I don't think anyone will really care about revisiting those things at that point, especially when packed with so many more interesting things happening involving the main characters and main villains would be happening somewhere else. That's not even touching on the fact that these Wano specific strands like onis, samurais, borders, importance of the country, etc. have not received anywhere near the attention and sustained build of Fishmen related topics. I guess we're gonna push that back into the final arc too, bloating it even further with things past the expiration date for readers to be invested in?
The power scaling part doesn't make any sense. Kaido and Big Mom were already knocked out after the fights, otherwise why would they just be chilling and floating around in the lava for a bit before the eruption? It's not like the eruption is an instantaneous thing that happens as soon as Kaido smacked into the magma chamber. Also I don't follow the logic behind a volcano defeating Kaido? The guy just set himself on fire with fire so hot that Luffy had trouble putting his fist close to it, not even actually in it. Now he's supposed to be defeated by a volcano, not even hitting him like a tidal wave but shooting upward underneath him?
I'm not really sure about the math behind the pressure of a volcanic eruption but I can say from an artistic stand-point being carried upward comes across as less dramatic than being hit by a tidal wave. If Oda really wanted to have Kaido beat by a fucking volcano of all random things, well for starters he probably wouldn't make setting himself on fire his trump card and grabbing flames his signature but, I can fanfic a better way to do after literally just thinking about it for a minute. Have the Volcano situated diagonal to the capitol instead of center to it (idk if it's actually center but whatever), maybe even have an old abandoned town like that one in Italy for some cool visuals and foreshadowing the volcano as active. Have Kaido hit more at an angle so he flies diagonally into this town instead of directly downwards. Have him still immediately get up despite people thinking it was over, but then have the Volcano explode from the impact of the punch after showing people panicking about an earthquake. The lava then flows like a tidal wave down to Kaido, we could even see him smile at the thought of dying by it before it smashes into him (maybe flashbacking to his desire to die) as he smiles and embraces it. You could even have the CP0 agent see it while reporting in a little den den mushi, maybe he could say something like it wasn't Luffy but more the country itself that killed him. Naturally in an abandoned town with an earthquake going on no one else would see or focus on Kaido's death, making him die/get defeated alone and unseen. Also if you're thinking lava flows too slowly for that, that's just a thing crappy movies do lava can actually flow up to 430 MPH after an eruption. And if he still gets up from that readers would probably be a lot more impressed than if he doesn't get blasted away like Team Rocket (we've really stooped low when we have to consider that as a possible ending for the arc).
Oh and I should just mention the absurdity of thinking a bunch magma could kill Kaido. I guess anyone with a magma fruit could kill Kaido then? Akainu is awakened and has haki, I bet he could fucking low dif Kaido. Apparently in all their execution attempts the government was too dumb to just boil him alive eh.
If all those points aren't enough to convince you that you aren't stretching more than Luffy himself to try and make this point, here's my 100% guarantee that wasn't Oda's intention. Oda has gone on record and said multiple times he writes the story with teenage boys in mind. There's no way he would be trying to signal that Luffy was weaker than Kaido to the audience in such a subtle way. You already have the proper comparison to make with the Big Mom fight and Oda was not subtle with showing that Big Mom was stronger than Law & Kid combined. For 99% of the readers Luffy is now the strongest person in the world, and what's even worse is he did it on low stamina with his first ever use of Gear 5. There's not a whole lot of intrigue going into Luffy vs. Big Mom now, and there will be even less if she and her crew just high tail out of here because they're too fucking weak to apparently accomplish anything - even capturing two Vinsmokes is simply too big an ordeal for them. If he could do that to Kaido imagine what he could do to Shanks with full stamina and more practice of Gear 5? Blackbeard now needs a third devil fruit to just catch-up and be competitive with Luffy! Also all that build-up about the reunion of Rocks and the dangers of Yonko alliance (something that's been drummed up since Jaya!) and they literally never fight together?
This whole video just feels like an exercise in mental gymnastics.
Sorry if I sound angry at you personally, wasn't my intention. More just disappointed and confused.
The chapter 1051 spoilers came out yesterday so it's a little too late to post theories that have already been proven wrong
This is a chapter review. Not everyone reads the spoilers you know.
imagine reading spoilers after luffy ray and usopp's scene about the treasure
@@jolly1559 it's not really spoilers. It was the full chapter translated by fans. Sorry that I don't wanna wait 4 extra days so see the official translation spell Zoro's name wrong lol
@@jolly1559 imagine still believing the kaido awakening theory