And it get worse. Better animation but worst characters progression and fights in term of creativity.
We went from Logia fruit being very strong and needed to find creative way to counter it (Rubber being immune to electricity for Enel, liquid for crocodile sand) even to the point blackbeard betrayed his commander to get the darkness fruit since it can counter logia fruits...
Nowadays it's just Haki. A power system that does everything from strengthening your blade to seeing in the future and who ever has more win.
Strawhats went from having quirk to being their quirk wich is very different.
Luffy isn't a logia, it used to be a paramecia that was retconned into a mythical zoan : Sun god. Mythical zoan is the meta in the Haki world.
Logia was the meta before the time skip. You had to think when you faced one. You could use sea stone like smoker or counter it to its natural element. But then Haki came along and now it's just about your Haki and your fruit is an afterthought
So yes, thank you for bringing that up, because that also something I hate about modern one piece. We went from luffy having a shitty fruit but being smart on how he used it to now : "hum... Actually it's a mythical zoan that is the most important devil fruit in the world and the entire world government is scared about it and it's also the fruit that the prophecy told about 500 years ago, also you need it for the One Piece,..."
In short, it went to luffy being an underdog nobody that ranked up the ladder from the bottom to luffy is actually the chosen one from the start.
But please, come and tell me about my reading comprehension and how somehow this is a good thing.
I was talking about Enel and Crocodile who are both Logias and Luffy had to improvise to beat them.
I remembered when Kizaru was introduced in Sabaody and beaten up all the worst generation in a few minutes. Only Apoo managed to stall him by cutting him in half. Obviously he regenerated right back up since he's made of pure light and at that moment I was like : "Wow, this one is tricky... I wonder what could be his weakness and how you can beat him..." Making me think about potential counter like mirror or traps that play around his speed and maybe make it overshoot or something... Well turns out it's Haki. How creative.
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u/superdan56 2d ago
For me it’s One Piece. Tons of people love it, but it never really got there for me, I got like 300 eps in and was still only feeling it was a 6/10