Breh. lol her whole body has scratches from zues lightning...I’m not saying she’s about to faint but she def took damage. I just think it’s funny. People thought big mom was all this and that and you got fatbei knocking her off the ship casually and brook sneak attacking zues without her being able to stop it... imagine if zoro and law were there.
Best part of the whole chapter was nami taking zues hostage. I hope she gets to keep him.
Arc has been very lackluster to me. To many things that don’t make any sense and/or forced. Not to mention sanji being ****ted on the whole arc and Oda making his feats so far kicking a cake LMAO.
Just ready for this whole thing to be over. I was watching YouTube reviews and they were doing best/worst chapter of the year and it really set in how unhype this whole year has been.
Chapter 731>>>>>> anything for the past two years or so. I won’t forget the hype of waking up reading that chapter in the morning. Joint was straight fire
She took a stronger lighting attack in the forest and was fine as well. At some point like I said a Yonko has to take some type of damage, otherwise the whole idea of anyone taking any of them down becomes ridiculous. If not one can even scratch Big Mom, how do you take down Kaido? One Piece has alway been a series where match ups are important. Jinbe used what he claims is an ultimate technique and it pushed a skinny Big Mom back. She's obviously no longer at full power as she is when she's fat.
Brook was already shown to be able to hurt the Homies. He cut Prometheus earlier in the treasure room, Big Mom mentions in the chapter he couldn't scratch her before. It makes sense for him to attack Zeus, as the only person who could do any real damage to him. You have Jinbe able to get to water to fight and as one of the stronger former warlords I would hope he'd not get treated like fodder. Last, you have Nami, who has been shown to be able to capitalize on this match up throughout the arc. You have a single focused Big Mom looking for the cake, it creates a favorable match up.
If Zoro and Law were there then what? The same thing happens to Zoro as Jinbe this chapter, he tries to stop her attack and gets knocked backwards. Who knows what Law does? His powers give him a lot of possibilities, but in the situation what really changes? They'e fighting on the Sunny, trying to keep Big Mom away and not have the ship be destroyed. There's Big Mom's advantage and the Straw Hat's disadvantage. Terrain matters in these fights. I could see Big Mom subduing the sunny crew then Sanji appearing with the cake to save them or even Germa showing up.
Sanji still has a chance to show battle feats if that's what you're hoping for. Perspero just said he can't trust the cake anymore and might try to mobilize them from stopping Sanji getting it to Big Mom, who knows. Or with Ichiji leading Germa with Judge gone, he might want to poison the cake before Mama eats it.
As for Sanji, in the whole first half of the arc, he felt powerless to do anything. It wasn't just the crew being threatened, it was Zeff and the Baratie crew as well. Then he gets the bomb handcuffs. So he starts going against logic and believing in a false hope that Big Mom will keep her word if he does what's asked of him and making the best of a terrible situation. He didn't stop thinking of the crew. When he made Pudding lunch when he was supposed to have fallen for her, he made all the crew's favorite foods. He then finds out the false hope he was believing in was false, so to that point everything he'd done so far was pointless.
At the wedding, you mentioned Sanji getting punked by Daifuku. Daifuku only got him once his back was turned and he was going to help his family. The aspect of Sanji's character is that he put others above himself, which shows the strength of his humanity contrasted against his brothers, but it can also be seen as a weakness.
For the most part I think the reception to this arc has been very positive. I've enjoyed it.
As for long fights, here's what Oda said: ONE PIECE has more characters than before. He has to cram much information into one chapter to move forward with the story. Oda says he would be able to draw really impressive fight scenes only if he could keep drawing the fight scene for 2 chapters in a row. He feels ONE PIECE can now spend only 1 chapter at most on a fight scene. This is from the One Piece magazine that came out in July.
http://forums.arlongpark.net/showthread.php?t=42229&page=42
You can have character development during a fight, as we've seen before throughout the series, but Idk if a fight would have been how Sanji needed to develop at the early part of the arc when he was confused and having his internal struggle. I could see it for him now closing out the arc, solidifying his return after his strong cooking display with the cake, getting both elements that people like about Sanji, the compassionate chef and the member of the monster trio.
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Your boy Jinbe shining in this chapter
