I think Luna really deserved more but I can understand where you’re coming from. Aki and her had some great moments, including Carly and Misty.
Sherry was good, if a little underused in the plot (given how important she initially seemed to be)
My favourite moment is when she tries to literally just grapple Jose's arm off him
I agree, just rewatched the anime scene, and its Mikasa who tells Onyankopon to be careful and dodge. In the scene too, they show Levi and Mikasa react to the Beast's throwing stones before Onyankopon realizes it. It makes sense given their ackersense history. I'm glad Mappa is picking up on these small details from the manga and introducing them to the Anime world.
I liked a similar moment earlier in the season, when Mikasa and Armin are leaving from Zackley's office, and you can see that she reacts like a second before everyone else to the explosion that's about to happen
Great long form episode that made me feel all the same Attack on Titan feelings I usually get. Another epic action sequence with Hange to see for years to come.
I'm not sure how to feel that MAPPA had to come in and clean up the dream sequence Eren had in the first episode/chapter. It's great that they showed it, but it also is a bit bittersweet because the stage was supposed to be set that long ago, and with fewer details.
I really liked that decision. It was an elegant solution to MAPPA's inherited problem of WIT not having shown the dream sequence before, and it was the right moment in the story to insert it.
MAPPA didn't have to do that, they could've ignored the dream sequence altogether, but I think it was a smart creative choice to handle it this way
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No, he only used it once.
Edit:I was wrong sorry
Twice
He uses it first against Mad Dog in season 2, then he uses it again in season 3 in his first duel with Johan (the one where they're dueling between dimensions to generate energy to bring Duel Academy home)
He uses it against Jaden as well
No I don't think so.
He doesn't have it yet in season 1, and then when they briefly duel in season 3 he only uses Cyber End.
Don't Look Up - I think especially because of the real-life analogues that's it's obviously riffing on. It feels just a bit too uncomfortably real
Great sense of mounting dread and anxiety over the course of its runtime
What an unnecessarily pissy press release.
Regardless of your opinion, the language used is just absolutely bizarre for a formal communication.
Let's see how how much good taking passive-aggressive swipes at your audience does for goodwill and selling tickets
Why is this revealed in SBS? Oda got so much time in Wano, he could have revealed it easily. Wasted opportunity
Re-posting what I said in response to the same question above;
it's because it's not really relevant to the story.
It's just some interesting world-building side-info about how Zoro has Wano swordsman ancestry - but it doesn't really impact on the story, nor does it need to. Oda has been writing for a long enough time that he understands that it's a bad idea to waste time (in an already over-stuffed arc) on plot cul-de-sacs that are cool details but don't really advance the story or go anywhere.
Meanwhile, the SBS is the perfect place to spend time revealing interesting side-details like that.
Zoro's lineage makes not one difference to the battle against Orochi and Kaido, nor would Zoro himself give a shit if you told him. Its's not really worth wasting a chapter on.
yeah, Zoro's history isn't relevant to the story, but taking 1/3 of the panels to make horny gags definitely is relevant! your argument falls flat. oda yes men are crazy
I'm not defending all of Oda's choices re; fanservice, but he clearly wants One Piece to retain a comedic tone, hence there are gags.
At the end of the day, the author has particular priorities of the kind of things he wants to feature in his story, and clearly spending half a chapter explaining a complicated and ultimately not-that-relevant samurai bloodline just isn't a priority for him.
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Wouldn't you have to hard draw into your one-of mirror force to summon it, along with the fusion spell?
Yes, it's not really good enough to be meta. Given it's a F2P reward, it's probably going to be all over the place in Gold and Silver ranks, though.
I mean I guess you could use the Mirror Force Launcher from Revolver's level-up rewards to get to the trap a little bit more consistently - but you've still gotta hard-draw the fusion spell, and it's not really good enough as a boss monster when this thing just immediately dies to any Dark Hole or Compulse or any other common removal in the game.
Although I don’t think it’s absolutely necessary that Oda did it in Wano, I mean there’s a million ways it could have been revealed. Oda’s supposed to be a world class writer for God’s sake, I am sure he could have figured out a non contrived way to incorporate Zoro’s lineage into Wano. Do I actually care? No. But the only reason you don’t think it could fit into the story is because Oda wrote it without trying to fit it into the story. I mean, hell he already did a Zoro flashback in Wano, it could have even been done there somehow. I am sure Kuina’s dad has some understanding of Zoro’s lineage.
But how would incorporating Zoro's lineage into Wano have made the any better?
In a story, you don't need to tie every little infinitesimally small piece of world-building into the main plot. Sometimes details are introduced simply because they give a bit of interesting context to the world or its history. That's what world-building is.
Zoro's lineage wasn't covered in Wano, because it matters not at all to the story that Oda wanted to tell. And that's fine. It's OK for things to just be an interesting piece of world-building without being something that impacts on the narrative.
It doesn't make any difference to the fight against Orochi and Kaido, nor would Zoro particularly care about it, because lineage isn't the reason why he's motivated toward his goal.
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