One Piece

I dunno why the post-timeskip villains have been falling so flat. The two I most like were the mud guy and fake crew.

Originally posted by Q99
I dunno why the post-timeskip villains have been falling so flat. The two I most like were the mud guy and fake crew.

It's because Akainu and Blackbeard are still around and the other Yonko haven't been introduced. And then there are the other Supernova's, the Impel Down guys, Crocodile, and DoFlamingo. We have the potential for villains already but instead we get racist/just plain evil Hody and Mad Scientist Caesar. I like it when Oda does his own thing with his villains instead of going for the easy archetypes.

Edit: Though I can see the argument that Oda is doing this for readers who just picked it up after the timeskip.

People just don't want to see that Oda is doing his own thing, because they want to see characters that they were already hyped for. I wouldn't mind if we didn't get to see a Yonkou again in the next 100 chapters.

... I bet this Virgo thing has something to do with a Yonkou anyways.

Originally posted by Q99
I dunno why the post-timeskip villains have been falling so flat. The two I most like were the mud guy and fake crew.

If I had to guess it would be similar to the start of the manga when Luffy was quite easily above the villains he fought. Oda is doing the long con in establishing how powerful Luffy is right now in relation to the other major players.

Now at the start he managed to make the villains threatening anyway by being clever, so i wish he'd do that more.

Also I'm not crazy am I? That guy really did have a piece of steak stuck to his cheek.

Meh...One Piece still sells like crack in Japan so I guess Oda has nothing to loose by it. Still by making another stall villain after finishing the worst arc in OP history isn't very cooll.

If Virgo can actually be interesting then I well welcome it with open arms.

Amazon Lily is the worst OP arc.

Edit: Fishman Island was still awful though.

Except the beginning of one piece was fun and this is just... not.

Originally posted by Gecko4lif
Except the beginning of one piece was fun and this is just... not.

Now the beginning of OP was fun? 😬

Originally posted by Bentley
Amazon Lily is the worst OP arc.

Edit: Fishman Island was still awful though.

I don't think Amazon Lily was even an arc. It was just a bridge between the previous arc and Impel Down.

Spoiler:
So yeah I'm pretty sure this arc has no main purpose but to get us excited for future events. Doflamingo? YES. I've been waiting for this guys return.

Other than that it was a mixed bag. The beginning was bleh, the reveal of who Virgo is kinda makes a plot hole(All the marines were supposed to be at Marineford, though maybe Oda did have him somewhere. Not going to look back). The stuff with Zoro's party was good, I love this kinda weird stuff in my One Piece. A Salamander Slime monster? Awesome. Other than that, I appreciated the call back to Alabasta.

Originally posted by Nephthys
I don't think Amazon Lily was even an arc. It was just a bridge between the previous arc and Impel Down.

Mini arc. And considering it was just a short little mini arc I don't mind it.

If I had to guess it would be similar to the start of the manga when Luffy was quite easily above the villains he fought. Oda is doing the long con in establishing how powerful Luffy is right now in relation to the other major players.

Now at the start he managed to make the villains threatening anyway by being clever, so i wish he'd do that more.

Quite. Cleverness makes up for a lot.

Cleverness really only applies to Kuro and maybe Arlong a bit. Krieg wasn't clever, he was just cool.

The reason it worked in the beginning was simply because there were fewer heroes. Now there are nine of these bastards and we have to watch them take out supporting characters we don't care about.

Caesar is mixing things up though since he apparently only really has one minion, just really big. The plot is still divided to support three parties but less pointless action. For the moment anyway.

Originally posted by TheAuraAngel
Cleverness really only applies to Kuro and maybe Arlong a bit. Krieg wasn't clever, he was just cool.

The reason it worked in the beginning was simply because there were fewer heroes. Now there are nine of these bastards and we have to watch them take out supporting characters we don't care about.

Caesar is mixing things up though since he apparently only really has one minion, just really big. The plot is still divided to support three parties but less pointless action. For the moment anyway.

Yeah, I don't think we are going to get our 9 vs 9 combat here, maybe something Moria/Oz style with everyone doing stuff, but obviously less awesome because Moria rockzors.

I admit I'm not sure where this is arc is heading though, they should score a decisive goal against Caesar, but maybe he ends up not being the big bad? I mean, he should since he koed Luffy, but I'm not exactly picturing the end combat right now.

Not sure who the true 'big bad' of this arc is.
I'm guessing it'll be Caesar or Virgo.
Too early to put Doflamingo into the picture.

Caesar is stupid versatile, kind of makes Smoker's abilities pointless.

Lol at Caesar saying not all gas is poisonous and then siting oxygen as the example. Funneh.

So I saw Pekons and Kidd at the end, but did any other character seemed recognizable?

One of them kinda reminded me of Basil. I didn't even recognize Pekons.

I actually liked One Piece this week though mostly it was for the ending. Even though I still don't care for Caesar and care even less for Brownbeard, I though the action was pretty cool.

I also saw a guy that looked kinda like Hawkins but I enjoyed the Kidd cameo the most.

Ceaser reminds me too much of Orochimaru. He just needs to die, hard and fast.