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It's like how they still wrote Naruto to be the dumb awkward goofball even after experiencing the deaths of his beloved friends

It is genuinely hard to write steady progression for a character across 2000 chapters/1000 episodes without "concluding" their arc and thus making them less interesting.
Although that's just more reason why One Piece should be shorter.

>>28774
I’m not that far into the series. Usopp does get multiple character arcs right? Those that deal with his parental abandonment issues, his overall weakness, his strengths with craftsmanship and weaponry, and his connection to shanks’ crew right?

>>28780
Usopp does not change. He gets more useful I guess, as an actual sniper. But his cowardly personality is still the same.
This is good though. Some characters changed for worse (Zoro, Sanji, Chopper etc).

>>28781
Somehow more useful but more cowardly… I’m not even going to ask how oda managed to pull off a blunder like that but whatever.

>>28780
he has an arc in Water 7, they honestly gave him a lot of attention that fell off after the timeskip. There's a fan theory that the current arc the manga is in is specifically going to deliver something for him though i'm only current with the anime.

Since this is a one piece thread, I’m going to state just how underrated the foxy arc was from a narrative standpoint. Despite being a gag arc, it’s one of the best ways oda could’ve foreshadowed the level of difficulty later arcs would bring to the strawhats. If even luffy is pushed to a near draw in a one on one against foxy and narrowly wins by pirate luck, it makes a lot of sense for future villains to be far more menacing and within the range of being able to take out both luffy and the rest of the crew. You don’t get that from dudes like crocodile (actually that was a bad example), Arlong, and the other pushover villains pre foxy

>>28814
Based. Davy Back is a great exercise in using light-hearted "filler" in a meaningful way. I also like the sudden introduction of one of the admirals right at the end of the desginated goof-off arc. I love when the story embraces that chaotic energy.

>>28824
Yeah I got to that point. That fight with ice bro actually had me legitimately questioning if luffy was going to be killed—as in straight up obliterated—on the spot that early in the series even though I already heard vaguely about what goes on with his adventures after the encounter.

Why is garp white in the one piece live action? He is visibly tan and hindutva Indian looking.

>the writers
One Piece is written by one guy lol

What the hell. So that’s what the grand elders are like? Oda needs to give Usopp a buff at this point. Give that boy his dials and his pre timeskip gadgets along with Armament haki plus some hand to hand combat skills. That boy is 100% deep fried with these villains if he’s still shooting green beans at all his enemies 😭

>>29095
They're literal monsters huh

>>29099
MAJOR SPOILER WARNJNG











apparently their devil fruit abilities aren’t charged by zoan types but by some weird magic Imu has themselves (idk imu’s sex). If you want to know what each grand elder is like, think of each like a miniature version of kaido in the direct sense. Each of them got weapon specialization, a near indestructible body at base that can only be harmed by either garp level strength or advanced use of armament haki, a beast form, a man-beast form, and full spectrum haki access along with the ability to infuse haki into all their attacks and defences. So yeah, each of them basically everything kaido had in WANO but none are as obscenely strong as kaido individually.