People only say Kaido is mid because they want his story to have more ties to the longing history and lore of the One Piece world. and because people didn't get that deep lore connection kaido, they say he's mid. Instead of looking at him for the beast he is. and ALL his one-liners were BARS! The man fought for 60+ chapters STRAIGHT, NO BREAKS, while holding an island, and still only lost because he decided to take the Bajrang Gun head on instead of avoiding it.

I think Kaido will become more and more appreciated the longer time passes. Especially once we get the full Rocks and Joyboy stories to actually complete the full picture around Kaido

An A tier villain,can be S tier with a little back story

Kaido is simply a villain who has *no joy left*

Something what I found weird was that at the time of Wano, there were theories of why Kaido tried to get to Marineford during the Summit War. People were throwing around things like Kaido was coming to save Ace and Ace was actually on Kaidos crew. Since we got to truly know Kaido in Wano, I thought the reasons were pretty obvious. There are 2 main ones. 1. Kaido is opportunist. He sees that Marines are already weakened by fighting Whitebeards fleet. Making a move right there would have been like killing two birds with one stone. Taking down Marines and possibly a rival Yonko (if Whitebeard had not died). Doing this would have dropped the world out of ballance and into chaos, which is something Kaido relishes. A true war he yearned for. Shanks saw this coming and therefore stopped him. 2. Kaido dreams of glorious death. The kind that leaves your name permanently in history. And weaklings cant choose the place they die. The Summit War would have been great opportunity for it. He must be so jealous of Whitebeard.

kaidos introduction is the best in the series but oda never showed us any backstory on it however, the anime seems to be adding things and this would be the perfect way to show kaidos full backstory with great animation

I really love Kaido and he is a really good villain, its just that the expectations weren't properly met. But dang he is an SSS class villain when it comes to difficulty.

I think what’s also cool is the story of the Koi fish and how it relates to Kaido and Momnosuke

Man, honestly? I never understood why Kaidou backstory is so focused on. Kaidou and Big mom are basically the same in regards to backstory: Their short, but basic backstories are there to showcase us only the start of whom they are now. The difference with Big Mom is she's connected to Elbaf. Kaidou's a simple guy! He was strong, entered strong crews, everyone respected him and made him a legend cause he's strong, so he became who he is now. I honestly have no interest on who Kaidou was, cause I pretty much feel he was no one in the past. He was just a strong man doing strong man stuff and he only became "KAIDOU THE BEAST" as he became older and started conquering Wano, which we saw enough. We don't need deep characterization or deep backstories to every villain as long as we understand who they are, and their characterization is well done, which Kaidou checks perfectly

The only villain I'd put as definitively above Kaido is Doffy, he's somewhere between top 2 and top 5 for me. He does still have more to him that could be revealed in the future, which could put him even higher retrospectively. I think he became depressed wishing for death because of his stay in Wano. He grew complacent, slowly losing his ambitions to be Joyboy and change the world and Oden's death made him realise he couldn't really do it. Instead he decided to somehow chase that end for himself which he already saw as impossible for him

Great vid man keep it up!

"you couldnt be joyboy EITHER (key word) it seems" 13:37 feels like he fought countless individuals expecting some of them to be joyboy who was destined to beat him and kaido knew that and yet when joyboy finally appeared he wasnt strong enough to beat kaido by himself! truly the top 1 of the current timeline from known characters without a shadow of a doubt! most battle forged guy or should i say thing in the series 😈 btw amazing video dude!!!

Amazing analysis. I think he’s very under appreciated

I’m loving Kaido theme music

No need to defend Kidio he was a beast rip . Everyone else had to skeem and plot he was just going to take it .

7:10 you cannot empathize with kaido against oden because of his actions with orochi. Not only that he could’ve just tried to fight big mom after he had killed oden and realized that emptiness but he doesn’t.

Kaido just needed a bit more backstory than what the manga gave us. Aside from that, he's an okay (not great) villain. We got enough of Big Mom's backstory to completely understand her character. Why couldn't Oda have done the same for Kaido?

All hail emperor kaido 🔥🐉

Kaido deserve more being sas as good villain,he cause at least 80-70% of plot after time skip,Dressrosa,Punk hazard and zou,are arc important that connect Kaido and his control over years like Big Mom,plus he was defenetly hopeless or just didn't had joy in life,he wan't find somone to rival him.He like roger but born too late lol or born in wrong time.

If kaido doesnt appear in this last war to claim the one piece ima fucking flip

I may be reaching. But you can’t reveal kaidos full backstory without showing who rocks is and the God Valley Incident. I don’t know why ppl expected kaidos full flashback.I still feel like it’ll come eventually.

Kaido was better than Shanks, before Shanks met Luffy.

Kaido, for the entire Onigashima battle, was climbing up my ranks as the perfect villain. The only one who could surpass Doffy, Crocodile and Katakuri as the best One Piece villains in my list. But, damn, I really did need a good flashback for him. It's like this. If I've to piece together information spread across short flashbacks and dialogues by multiple characters across a 70 chapter battle, with a ton of speculation still, I really can't say the flashback delivered. Not saying every villain needs a flashback. Crocodile is a great example. But, Oda undeniably setup so much for him and yet, we didn't get anything. He's still top 5 One Piece villains tho. Just feels like Oda didn't do him justice in terms of delivery. Whatever information we have, feels like a setup, a half-written story. And, until I get the full story, he won't be in my personal top 3. But, even that isn't the main issue. My biggest issue is that we'll get everything after he's defeated. Sure, a retrospective look at him will be great then, but with how hyped and hugely important Wano was, I really think delivering a good, well fleshed out and fully explorex villain within the arc is my preference.

I think time will be more kind to Kaido and as the series is ending people will warm up to him. But I think the man may always stay relatively low in the fan bases eyes despite the wild stuff that went on during his fights due to the lack of a multi chapter backstory about his life. Part of me feels like the lack of a flashback for Kaido was a deliberate decision by Oda. Some of the one off comments Kaido has made about life and what we know about the world of One Piece had me believing that he would be a more tragic figure if we got more info on his background. So a flashback into that aspect would really just be here to evoke sympathy to the man which is something Oda might not have wanted as the guy is the evil ruler of Wano.

I felt for him when he morned big mom

I’m confused it seemed kaido thought he was ultimate duty was to enslave Wano. Like he saw a flaw in their culture that insulted him? Like they weren’t strong enough the samurai and them being this mockery of strength made the world less inconvenient to Kaido? What the hell was his motivation. Why did he ask Luffy if he could change the world?

i was ok with everything but sadly Oda didn't give me his back story

Kaido only won when the enemy is too weak to fight him or through the cheating of others to have him get a victory on a superior enemy- both times he got very angry. Whenever he fights a top-tier fighter, he gets stomped. He’s not happy he’s always going to be mid-tier in spite of being described as the strongest creature. And getting reminded that his own child wants to be like one of the guys that stomped him is just another stomping on the wound.

Kaido could have challeged to the gorosei, or admirals instead of drinking his life away. 🤷‍♂

This was a very good analysis. Too bad theres a chance Oda might never make a serious effort to explore his past outside of God valley. Should have happened sooner.

I'll put it this way. If Kaido came out the lava for one more quick round he would have met the expectations set up for him. If there were 3 more chapters for that then Kaido.would have been a 10/10

Kaido’s world view never changed though? He’s always believed men’s true worth can only be displayed in battle, strength is quite literally everything in his philosophy. And that’s adopted BECAUSE he was a child soldier. He currently believes that as well. Not really understanding where you think he might have lost himself over the years but even his current “onigashima plan” was the embodiment of that philosophy, a pirate stronghold where they’d go on numerous expeditions armed with ancient weapons to bring the world upside down. A “world of violence” he called it You mention that there was undeniable setup for a more fleshed out character, but never give any examples? I’m curious to know what was alluded to that mandated a in-wano conclusion or pay off Also I loathe crocodile and his role in the story. Awful villain

Interesting, but disappointing villain

10 hours of editing to defend a mid character

"kaido is the definition of built different" god that was cringe

"Saturday morning cartoon levels of villainy" Pretty ironic considering One Piece used to air on 4Kids