>>18917663Like I said , it's a children's story. I don't even think Oda is really that hot shit, even though I enjoy the fact that a mildly enjoyable story has this kind of plot. But like, c'mon, who actually believes that full pacifism is even morally superior? Given the current world, Oda's extremely liberal views mean that the highest moral ground is to let yourself be annihilated if that means you will not commit a single war crime. I could also mention the use of pirates for the hero role, when irl most pirates were jewish privateers given license by a government to commit crimes against other nations without directly implicating yours. At least he does put maritime explorers as epic people in the story, meanwhile Hollywood has hundreds of works glorifying pirates and maybe a dozen (if you look hard enough) about the same 3 maritime explorers.
>Unless he pulls off the "Ancient Kingdom people were just as bad or worse" twist, the story is doomed to forever be shit.Hard disagree, just because the predictable Luffy story path is overused it doesn't make what you're proposing a saving grace. Same mentality with GoT turning Daenerys into the actually final boss, didn't save the story in the least, wasted all the great villains they had built up for 10 years and ended up with a character going completely off rails with all their backstory and development in order to sUbVeRt YoUr ExPeCtAtIoNs™. Building up the world government, with all the evidence that they erased history and consider the truth itself an existential danger, into an actually not the bad guys would be retarded. Sometimes a story has to remain predictable because you drop all these clues along the way. You're proposing that the guys whose supreme leader ordered a whole country to be vaporized to test a weapon and kill a single guy who obtained dangerous information be revealed as actually not the bad guys, and you say this would fix the story. I'm sorry but it wouldn't.
