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Yeah, honestly the Syrup Village plot is kinda all over the place and needed a LOT of trimming down. I've never been a fan of the set up running all over the island and of the final showdown by the beach or whatever where they fight Kuro and his crew, it just seems like a mess and that Luffy should be more affected by getting cut up so much. The biggest thing I miss is the "he goes so fast he cuts up his own crew and doesnt even care" bit, but the Freddy Krueger mansion stalking was a wayyyyyyyyyyy better use of Kuro.

Jango is great, but it would be tough to include him without making him the star of episodes. Not really enough room to share the stage with Kuro, and would require a lot more screentime to split the pirates into a mansion group and an outside group, so they just kept the henchmen as helpers in the mansion.

I do wish Usopp had gotten a *bit* more of an opportunity to do something - stand up for himself or Kaya, and to actually do something useful fighting wise. His one little sling shot wasn't much. I almost don't even remember that it happened.