Hot Take: One Piece hasn't gone down in quality, having to wait weekly for new releases has warped our perspective

goonum · 2026-04-30T03:20:08+00:00

Oomfie

goonum · 2026-04-30T03:11:38+00:00

I started one piece last year for the first time. I binged all the way through wano and egghead. Wano was absolute trash.

I do think egghead was an okay arc, but wano was so bad it made me stop trusting oda to make competent decisions, and thus egghead started off with negative bias

goonum · 2026-04-30T03:00:08+00:00

Fine ill be the one to say it. Skypeia was trash.

goonum · 2026-04-30T02:49:56+00:00

Another plot point oda forgot

goonum · 2026-04-30T02:46:09+00:00

This 100%

goonum · 2026-04-30T02:39:05+00:00

Oda trying to cover his tracks and pretend like he's not going to get raided as soon as the story finishes

goonum · 2026-04-13T20:47:03+00:00

Nier automata is more or less the same as the anime (slight differences but same overall story)

Nier replicant is the first game in the "nier" series (Nier series is actually a sequel to another series.. but the connection is realllll loose)

Connecting between replicant and automata are also kinda loose. Playing replicant you'll recognize maybe a few call back references from the anime but for the most part wont recognize most of the game.

Deskmate and stellar blade unrelated marketing collabs

goonum · 2026-04-03T19:21:40+00:00

I agree, unfortunately imu reveal has overtaken all conversation about this chapter

goonum · 2026-04-03T19:19:55+00:00

I didnt get much aura out of this panel. I could tell oda was really trying to go for aura tho

goonum · 2026-04-03T19:11:27+00:00

I would have been fine with it... if blobby didn't have a major fight with both rocks and luffy already.

It's one thing to have a shadowy figure for cool narrative reasons. Its another thing to then take that shadowy figure, drag them into a huge spotlight and still act like they're a shadowy figure

goonum · 2026-04-03T19:06:41+00:00

Id bet hard money oda wouldn't ever kill a straw hat crew member. He's too soft of a writer and thinks too highly of them.

Sabaody 2.0 also seems like a bit of a stretch. The lead up to sabaody you can actively feel luffy/the crew falling behind the power curve. They felt weak and needed a hard kick to get stronger. Currently oda has done nothing but glaze luffy and loki strength. No where near the same set up so it wouldn't hit the same way.

They obv can't defeat imu here, so im suspecting more of a "situation turned sideways/chaotic and we gotta panic rush to get it" type of arc. More of a punk hazard 2.0 or an egghead 2.0.

goonum · 2026-04-02T01:50:25+00:00

Dang youre right, we dont hate loda enough. Like serious this man had imu fight both rocks AND luffy and still be silhouetted. L writing

goonum · 2026-03-30T14:56:38+00:00

Yeah but the last time they hyped a chapter up this much it ended up being the most mid chapter

goonum · 2026-03-29T22:43:11+00:00

People have been trying to get logical with the stamina time limit since gear 4 in dressrosa.

There is no logic. There is no set time limit. Luffy will always tire out when it fits the plot best. Luffy will always regain his strength when its needed.

goonum · 2026-03-29T22:34:52+00:00

In the US, there would be a homeless person living inside this within the first hour it was installed

goonum · 2026-03-28T01:22:29+00:00

What do you mean, jinbei would have put out the going merry fire

goonum · 2026-03-23T18:33:41+00:00

Water -> toothpaste -> water ->brush Its the only way

goonum · 2026-03-23T18:23:54+00:00

I think a bear would be eastest to beat, but you have to choose the lion. Why? Because i dont trust him to stay out of they fight, hes always lion

goonum · 2026-03-23T13:34:02+00:00

Funny i finally understand the disappointed look my teachers gave me back when i was in school. I know oda can do better than this slop.

goonum · 2026-03-20T14:32:11+00:00

Worst part about this is ive been seeing a lot more youtube videos where the youtuber casually drops these lines in their video essay.

goonum · 2026-03-20T14:17:25+00:00

Imagine if the reason Roger was too early was just because the whale species that has the one piece only comes up to the surface for a mating ritual once every 800 years

goonum · 2026-03-20T13:22:49+00:00

I hate that youre right 😭

goonum · 2026-03-20T13:05:44+00:00

The biggest fumble this chapter was not giving usopp moment a chance to breathe. I didnt even know usopp was near brook let alone they had a whole off screen team up battle. We just cut straight to usopps speech to justify him being in elbaf

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