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One Piece is The McDonalds of manga and anime. It's really low quality but very popular.
The level of writing is terrible. 90% of the arcs follow the same formula, find island, liberate villagers of island, defeat bad guys, party, rinse and repeat. The character's never change, they maintain their 2 character's traits for over 1000 chapters (if they even have that many). The main character Luffy is the most unbelievable leader you will see in fiction. He just gets everything handed to him by the author, only because he's the protagonist. Very bad writing. Most of the offscreend suff in one piece is more interesting ... than Luffy's royalty people saving simulation. The problem with ongoing series is fandoms use headcanon and hype to prop up a shitty character. Before Kaido's backstory people were talking about how he's the most well written antagonist in shounen history. Then when it ended they finally accepted he was trash. And now they are propping up Blackbeard & Akainu as the next greatest antagonists in shounen. Notice how the characters praised in this manga, are characters that we know nothing about, that haven't done much of anything for over 10 years. It's pure headcanon that carries this story for the fanboys.

One Piece is like those shitty wrestling fights where they spent months hyping the event up like some titanic conflict between two monsters and the actual fight is two fat 40 year olds pretending to hit each other. Years and years of hype and no pay-off. There is no build up, just hype.
Hear me out: FAKE ASS HYPE This is Oda only style of writing when are you going to learn?

One Piece main characters are garbage. They’re poorly written, static, gag ridden trash that have barely any character development over 1000+ chapters, which is appalling for a series this long. I’ll go over each of my problems with them:

Luffy: Where do I start. Generic shounen MC with barely any originality. He’s the spitting image of Roger, has a similar personality to him and even wears his hat. He’s turning more into a Goku wannabe post TS e.g. haki “blooming in extreme situations” just like zenkai. He’s just your average shounen, happy go lucky, food loving idiot Luffy has no character development in terms of progression. He’s still recklessly impulsive and makes the same dumb decisions he did pre TS.

Luffy really should have matured more after Ace’s death. Luffy beating Crocodile, Lucci, Doffy, Cracker and Katakuri wasn't because he was necessarily stronger, but because the plot required him to do so. Oda had to either dumb down or nerf his opponents just to make his win more acceptable. Luffy Vs Katakuri was arguably the worst offender of this.

Luffy always gets a convenient new power up that just so happens to instantly counter his opponent.

Crocodile can absorb water = Luffy's bleeding somehow means he can beat Crocodile now. Despite the fact Crocodile can absorb large amounts of liquids as shown in the second round and blood doesn't solidify sand.

Lucci is faster than Luffy = Luffy randomly has 2nd gear which gives him speed equal to Lucci

Moria has the power to control shadows & Oars is massively stronger than Luffy's entire team = Luffy can now conveniently absorb shadows for this arc to beat Oars. Nightmare Luffy is never mentioned or seen again.Just a one time power up out of nowhere to beat the villain for plot convenience.

Doflamingo is much stronger and faster than Luffy = Luffy magically has a new transformation called gear fourth to beat Doflamingo. How convenient.

Katakuri is massively stronger than Luffy = Luffy now has Snakeman to beat Katakuri. How convenient.

Big Mom is on a rampage. Old man isn't moving = Luffy now has advanced haki to knock out Big Mom.

Kaido is far superior in every way and beats Luffy = Luffy’s Devil Fruit is Miraculously Retconned into being the Ultimate Devil Fruit. Luffy uses his new asspull “Gear 5” to defeat Kaido.

Kaido outright defeats Gear 4th Luffy. = Luffy’s devil fruit was a Mythical Zoan Fruit all along. Luffy now has Gear 5. Luffy is now the legendary "Sun God" Nika and gains his attributes, namely a body with the properties of rubber. Luffy is now Joyboy. Luffy is literally the ultimate Mary Sue. He gets the power of a god whenever he loses. The Plot of One Piece bends to his whims. And this is just one more example on the pile.

Luffy literally always gets bullshit convenient power ups. He is never shown training for. This isn't overtime. Luffy literally pulls power ups out of his ass whenever he needs them

Luffy only learned the basics of haki during the 2 year timeskip. There was no mention of any transformations or power ups. There was no foreshadowing or any hints. And Luffy admitted that he hasn't even mastered the basics of Haki during the Fishman Island Arc after the Timeskip.

Zoro: He’s just a bland, one dimensional, typical Gary Stu that turned into a poor man’s Guts over the timeskip. Better yet, a more accurate description is he’s become a try hard, Mihawk clone.

Nami: She’s rather static for the rest of the series. Most of the time she’s just an annoying, bossy, over emotional idiot that’s used as a “damsel in distress” like most female One Piece characters. Her boobs grew too much over the timeskip and she’s used as fanservice all the damn time. Nami post TS is basically Orihime 2.0.

Usopp: Poorly written, inconsistent character. Usopp has signs of bravery nearly every arc, only for him to regress back into a wimp the next arc. His character was ruined the most because of One Piece’s long term storytelling. I can already imagine Oda continuing this form of development until the final arc where he conveniently stops acting like a coward.

Most of his fights are won out of comedy e.g. Perona, Sugar. Usopp is not relatable nor is he the most human out of the crew, that ship sailed the minute Oda’s dumbass had him perform superhuman feats like tanking a 4 ton bat. He’s just a coward that hasn’t changed at all. Usopp leaving Robin to run away is still the lowest moment of his character.

Sanji: The perverted (borderline sexist) love cook. These days he’s become a giant meme in the fandom, which is understandable. Sanji’s so fodder and takes so much Ls that it’s even debatable if he’s still in the monster trio, that’s how low his character has fallen. His oversensitive fanboys overhype every little feat he shows e.g. Sanji cheap shotting Bobbin and Oven and the other half of the fandom just spend their time nitpicking on his character over every little thing.

Sanji has no character progression. WCI focused a lot on Sanji, but it felt like Oda was trying to recapture Robin's character arc but handled it poorly. Most of the arc shows him acting out of character e.g. moping around, crying and acting like a coward. You would think he would have learnt from the events with Robin to have more faith in his crew but nope. His “I want to return to the Sunny!” was the most bootleg Robin speech ever.

It lacked the same build up as hers’ and just fell flat, in fact it was hilarious if anything. Back to Sanji’s character arc, after everything Sanji experienced e.g. being confronted by his past and family, his character didn’t have any meaningful development. Sanji didn’t learn or grow in any real way, his personality and morals are exactly the same because they were never properly challenged. His character is basically the same it’s been since day 1.

It baffles me that most of the fanbase seem to care more about Sanji’s W/Ls and whether he’ll wear the raid suit than his lack of development, but whatever. Sanji’s character lost me when he put his own morals above saving Robin in Enies Lobby. He was cemented as trash when Oda decided to dial up his nosebleed gag to 100. His gags are by far the worst in the series. The fact it was used as an actual plot point in Fishman Island was a joke.

Chopper: Objectively worst straw hat. Chopper used to be the cute, useful doctor of the crew but then Oda flanderized him after the timeskip. Now he’s just the awful mascot of the crew used to sell merchandise. His design is lame. His forms are garbage. Chopper barely uses any of his other points besides Kung fu point (terrible design) and Monster point.

MP in his uncontrolled version used to be beastly, but ever since he did that stupid dance post TS it went downhill. Now it’s just laughably weak that even giant kids neg him. Also, the 3 mins time limit is a joke. What happened to arm point? Cloven style? Scanning for weaknesses with brain point? Why doesn’t he use heavy and horn points?

It’s as if Chopper had better control over his df pre TS. Not to mention, Chopper is criminally underutilised (along with Robin). The only noteworthy thing he did in WCI was capture Bruluee, but that wasn’t enough to redeem him. Chopper’s by far the biggest letdown post timeskip. His development is bare bones at best, just an offhand line of him not minding being a monster if it’s to help Luffy become PK.

Franky: He is a plot device like every other One Piece character. Right now all he serves is this soppy, cyborg who loves screaming “SUPERRR!!” while he does his stupid pose every 5 mins. All of his fights are boring & poorly written.

Robin: Bland and useless. Robin doesn’t talk, she doesn’t fight, she doesn’t have any real interesting character interactions with the rest of the crew, she doesn’t have that much screen time, she doesn’t have many memorable contributions each arc, Robin’s just there... Poor Robin’s only 1v1 fight is in Skypiea and besides that she’s stuck on fodder control. And now 1 more fight in wano.

Robin isn’t even a character anymore, just a plot device. All she’s good for is reading poneglyphs and giving expositions from time to time.

Brook: Probably the second worst of the bunch next to the walking stereotype Plotffy. because he never was a character, just a walking gag. 90% of his dialogue is skull/ panty jokes or “YOHOHOHO”. His jokes aren’t funny, they got old real quick. He doesn’t have as much interesting character interactions with the rest of the crew seeing as he joined so late.

He’s useless in fights and they’re boring as hell since it’s just him blitzing his opponent. Brook’s got no development and barely contributed to the series as a whole. Pointless character.

Ace: Ace's personality is whatever Oda needs it to be for the story at the time. Want a fun trickster? Read his cover story arc. Want a cool older bro? Alabasta. Want an angsty teen that just wants to be wanted? Marineford. Want a bratty kid with a kind heart under all that toughness? Flashback arc. Want Luffy? Wano flashback. Ace has no personality because he was never a character, he was a plot device

Truly, the Straw Hats' "limits" are at the complete whim of the plot. They can withstand anything short of being completely obliterated and any attack capable of doing that will simply not touch them for one reason or another. With the sole exception of Ace and Whitebeard. Two poorly written one dimensional characters with little screen time who had next to no effect on the overall plot of One Piece. Of course, the series is known for "No One Dies in One Piece" because every character outside of a Flashback showed this sort of durability, for the whole series.

Back to Luffy:
The Ultimate Gary Stu: Luffy

Character Development: Nonexistent.

Luffy is a completely one dimensional character He constantly recklessly puts his teammates in danger He is still challenging admirals and now even emperors recklessly He is still refusing to negotiate with others.

No signs of him sympathising or negotiating with enemies. Bellamy wasn't an enemy. He got one shot and was more of a minor annoyance same as Buggy. Bege and Law were just fellow pirate crews with different morals.

Smoker even helped Luffy a few times and Luffy liked Smoker from the beginning. Nothing new there.

The Ultimate Mary Sue Power Up: As shown in the War of Marineford, Luffy can make friends out of anyone.

Luffy's Power Ups: Make no sense.

Second Gear: He somehow learns an advanced version of Soru for Second Gear with no explanation of how, when or why. He just gets second Gear just because

Third Gear: He has Third Gear just because of plot convenience. No explanation how he learned it.

Nightmare Luffy : Luffy randomly gained the ability to absorb shadows and use another person’s devil fruit. An ability that comes out of nowhere at the last minute to defeat a previously invincible villain with no logical explanation. Then Nightmare Luffy is never used or mentioned again. Which completely breaks the lore of One Piece and because Luffy is a one dimensional gary stu. Only Moria could control and absorb shadows. No one else could absorb shadows. Otherwise someone would have tried or mentioned it before the Straw Hats fought Moria. Moria & Oars defeat the Straw Hats. Then magically Luffy can now absorb shadows. Which makes no sense. Its a blatant asspull.

Fourth Gear : Through infinite plot armor and just because. Gear 4th came out of nowhere. Gear 4th was never foreshadowed or hints whatsoever in the manga. Luffy was never shown training for a new transformation in the manga. Luffy was losing against Doflamingo. Then he pulled a new ability out of his ass. And no, the anime filler does not count. Gear 4th happened in the manga first. The anime filler came out afterwards. Its an asspull.

Snakeman : Through the power of friendship and just because. Snakeman has no foreshadowing or hints in the manga. Snakeman is an asspull that was never explained. Luffy beat Doflamingo through an asspull. Luffy beat Katakuri through an asspull

Advanced haki : Through shitty writing and because an old man said he had it all along.

New Conqueror’s Haki Ability : While Kaido was curb stomping Luffy. Luffy gained a new special ability through nakama power through yet another asspull.

Gear 5 : Kaido defeated Luffy. Luffy’s devil fruit Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Nika, is now a Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruit that gives Luffy the powers of the legendary "Sun God" Nika and gain his attributes. Luffy is now Joyboy. Luffy is literally the ultimate Gary Stu. He gets the power of a god whenever he loses. The Plot of One Piece bends to his whims. And this is just one more example on the pile. Luffy defeats Kaido using his new asspull ability.