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JKwaffle posted...

and they just continue to dig Sanji into a deeper and deeper hole of being awful. The rest of the crew is pretty great post-time skip. It's been fun seeing what they've learned over the past 2 years but everytime they focus on Sanji I just hate him more and more.

Honestly, this isn't even the worst he gets up to where I've seen in Dresrossa. Punk Hazzard is. And that's what you're going to see next. It's so fucking obnoxious and is almost painful to sit through. Literally painful. Like, it was the first time I felt embarrassed watching One Piece. It was already metaphorically painful.

Mad-Dogg posted...

Yeah, I agree on the view about fishman island overall. Its main reason for existing is to be that standard shonen "let me show the results of my training" arc.

That's fair. And if anyone is following where they're at currently in the Anime, I feel like Oda really threw it in and just pulled out a pair of really cliche Shonen Tropes when he wrote himself into a corner during Luffy's fight with Kaido. It was like Goku going Super Sayian for the first time. Except back when DBZ was first in the States, every Shonen didn't seem to inevitably do that.

Mad-Dogg posted...

n the manga proper when luffy is putting down his opponent with the final attack, well, they go the fuck down. There is no "beam struggle" or pushback, they get knocked the fuck out. The anime stretches out these final attacks a bit to make it appear more exciting or something).

I haven't looked closely at it, but I'd also say the Anime is trying to pad runtime, because the New World does end up getting more filler than the Pre-Time Skip stuff, I think they were trying to lessen the danger of catching up so they didn't have to go to super extremes with filler (see Bleach, aka, the one that actually threw a filler arc in the middle of a fight), and they were already doing a chapter an episode before that.