The Controversial Arc That Broke One Piece (Wano Analysis)

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Title: The Controversial Arc That Broke One Piece
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[jstar]

I still think the best twist is Kanjuro being right handed the entire time

[CreepyGralloch]

One thing that personally surprised me in the Wano arc was that despite hunger and starvation being such crucial roles of conflict on the island we didn't really get a single comment about it from Sanji. He had a lot of character development and the whole spotlight in Whole Cake, but it still felt slightly out of character that we didn't really see much of a reaction from him on it, given his relationship with food and hunger. Or then I might've missed a chapter or an episode somewhere?

[MASTERCRAFT]

It didn't just break everything. It marks the start of the end. It's as if you knew the day you were gonna die.
Everything after wano is just preparing for the eventual and ever faster approaching grand finale.

It makes me sad, but we don't have much time left. Let's enjoy every chapter released like it would be the last :, D

[davidhenry]

I think Kinemo's death would also have made sense because he acted as Momo's father figure after they time traveled. So I think him dying would have worked well with momo's growing up this arc

[johnlindsay]

I love these long comprehensive videos discussing the details of One Piece and it’s infinite rabbit holes there to explore. I’d love to see more like this. Great vid.

[asj]

Finally a one piece fan who can admit that there are some flaws. Epsiode 1015 when kinemon is on the floor crying to Luffy surrounded by the scabbards bodies and says to him that he is entrusting Wano to him. Goosebumps. If he had died there with the other scabbards that would've been top 3 most emotional scenes in One piece. All of that just for him to be alive anyway at the end of wano

[CopyNoPastee]

It’s a W day when ohara posts a 1 hour video

[Thecrazymerio]

Thank you for this. People spread so much negativity about Wano, but when you put it in perspective like it’s impossible to deny how much good happened during the arc and how impressive some of the events and foreshadowing were.

When your trying to balance as many plot threads as Oda was it’s hard to believe the arc turned out as well as it did in the first place and that it was fairly consistent in how entertaining it is chapter to chapter. I think it’s also important to try to appreciate each chapter on its own as something meant to engage and entertain the reader. There are certainly slip-ups when you write a story that way and I think it’s just an inherent aspect of the medium.

[oelemuo]

I feel like Wano has so many peak/amazing moments that it is impossible to consider it a dissatisfying arc. But it also has moments of bad and rushed writing that makes it near impossible to say that I was completely satisfied by it. Doesn’t meam It was a bad arc at all.

[iDivici]

Didn’t know how much I needed this video!
It’s easy to forget all the great things that happened during Wano

[mugsby]

I'm also probably one of the only people who loved the Big Mom amnesia arc in Wano. These people are human after all, and they have emotions, unpredictable ones. Ones that cause relationships where you wouldn't think a relationship would exist. It served many purposes, including Luffy learning Ryuo, Nami defeating Ulti, BM herself being an absolute menace forcing Kid and Law to show is two of the best awakenings in the series imo, and more. The biggest implication living rent free in my head right now that comes from the BM amnesia arc is Sabo. Big Mom turned on her alliance temporarily because of the pain she felt from Okabure town. The pain led to an unbridled rage that made her take down two tobbi roppo. Now imagine if you had amnesia for 10 years? How much do we truly truly know about Sabo? What type of person is he, and what was he exposed to during his amnesia when he forgot his brothers and the ideals that Ace and Luffy gave him? Food for thought. Plus that scene of her knocking out Page One is one of my favorites. I am also a Big Mom stan! Lmao

[praverdoy]

What I find interesting is how natural the expectation came that we should get a major flashback for the main villain to build up his personality. I mean, yes, we did get that the arcs directly before that for big mom and Doffy, but there were plenty of villains that did not get a real backstory until a few hundred chapter later, or not at all: Crocodile (still mysterious), Buggy & Arlong (roughly 500-600 chapters later), Enel, Caesar, Lucci (pretty comparable to Kaido in volume of the backstory), Wapol, Foxy (yeah right, sry, I'm kidding with these two :D). I think we're still up for Kaidos backstory though, maybe even with some Vegapunk revelations about lineage factor in the future.

[adityajoshi]

30:56 Wasn't Denjiro the witching hour boy? Yasu dressed up as the thief to get caught, in order to take the heat off the rebellion

[destroctiveblade]

I feel that the kaido backstory wasn't bad, it was just rushed. the anime will hopefully take its time with it and show the impact of its emotional moments like him being sold to the gouvernment and being experimented upon for his strength and his meeting with king and how he discovered joy boy.

[SJNaka]

Gosh that dichotomy between "godly writing" and "complete disaster" doesn't have to be that way lol. Wano had a lot of very good writing from oda, and yeah it got a bit too bloated for him to tie up all the loose ends. You could call it a mixed bag, but this was my first week-to-week arc and I know for a fact we were all loving it for most of the arc, with only occasional complaints of varying size. I think it suffers a little bit from game-of-thrones-itis, where, because the landing wasn't stuck very well, a lot of people retroactively feel the whole thing is worse than it was.

I'd say anyone placing wano in their top 3 arcs is probably a bit.... uh, let's just say they're probably wearing some pretty rosy glasses. But, also, anyone placing wano in their trash tiers probably have some glasses of strong tint as well. It was a good arc. Oda's done better. That's all.

[hgoggs]

Amazing video, one minor correction is that Big Mom didn’t have actual hunger pangs in the jail arc where she loses consciousness and goes crazy she was in her right mind the entire time just super hungry, @Parvision ‘s most recent video on big mom contextualizes this amazingly and it makes the amnesia arc a lot less disappointing (although tbh it wasn’t disappointing to me in the first place)

[abirdnamedwill]

The only things I don't find disappointing that you mention is the Kaido backstory. I love a good super complex villain as much as the next guy, but Kaido is perfect and totally understandable as he is. I will be happy to learn more from Rox but I do not feel like there is anything more to understand about him. He was born this way, and through sheer force of will pushed on through life as a flat character ( not in a bad way ).
I view him very similarly to Luffy himself, Luffy has always been the same exact person we know him as, not bending or changing to the world, only getting better at fighting against it.

[luisingle]

I think the whole point of kaidos lack luster backstory was to highlight the survival of the fittest mentality the beast pirates encapsulates.
Kaido never had the opportunity to be anything but the strongest, it was his only means of survival. Born into a barbarian like culture whos only method of survival was war. The only times he wasn't fighting was when he was sold and experimented on for his only value, his strength.
In an attempt to escape this fate he became a pirate. But his prison of strength eventually became a overwhelming tyrany over wano. In his attempt to bring his vision of might is right, he forces his own misfortune upon them.
But throughout his fight with luffy we start to see someone who shares many similarities with luffy. A man who fights with freedom, a captain who cultivates strength, a mythical zoan user.
The more kaido fights luffy, the more goofy he gets, the wackier his techniques become. Kaido begins respecting luffys strength. The key difference is kaido was liberated through his own strength, but luffy uses his strength to bring liberation.
His tenure in the story was to prove that strength isn't enough to change the world, ideals are.
People are upset because big mom got a substantial backstory, but whole cake island was a character focused story while wano carried an atmosphere of mythology.

[commonviewer]

We hadn't seen Robin have a serious fight post-timeskip, so it was glorious when she showed off her awakening

[toryistatertot]

I love how you break down the story without a ton of repetition. Some of the other One Piece theorists seem to beat the same ideas from every direction without ever taking us forward. You are clear, concise and keep things moving which makes it easy to follow you and be entertained. Thank you for that.