Whitebeard was indeed the strongest man in one piece world.... Dude grew a moustache and called it a beard... No one said a peep..😶😶

The fact that Gol D Roger was his dad and Ace's life was a living hell because of it. Edward Newgate was the father he wanted. I get Ace's actions.

I believe that choosing Duty over Family has left Garp a broken man. Sengoku knowing Garp's state of mind knew the whole time that Garp could end up turning on them which is why he kept looking at Garp and questioning him during the war. Garp betraying Marine would give * "EMOTIONAL DAMAGE" to all Marines. For Garp is the "Hero of the Marines". It'd cause chaos to those who idolize him as his "HERO". What even is Justice, if Garp saved Ace, A criminal, Big threat, to the World Government?

If katakuri had been at Marineford, would he have tried to eat an ace flavored donut?

I think the reason why Kiado was blown past is due to how much of his back story is tied to The Rocks pirates. There’s going to be some backstory about them, and oda didn’t want to give too much away. It’ll probably be right after egg head or during.

I actually like how Ace died, it is just so realistic and makes sense for his character and it also makes it more tragic because it could have been avoided. I mean how many people die in real life because they did some stupid shit or they made poor decision?

In my opinion I think Ace's death was beautiful because of what shanks said. He said Roger would have done the same thing for his crew but just that Ace was not strong enough. Some may think it is a dumb way to die but to me its beautiful how much ace loves and respects his crew.

Even though I don't like how Ace died, genuinely think less of him for it, and think he was an idiot because of it, I don't think it's bad writing. It feels pretty in character for him given how much he clearly cared for his family. Especially because of the irony that Whitebeard loving Ace like a son and him loving WB as a father in return is ultimately a LARGE part of what got him killed.

"What changed post-timeskip?": I think I'd say the story become less character-driven and became more plot-driven. We basically stopped getting new crewmates post-timeskip, so the focus was less on the characters and more on world-building. Pre-timeskip, each arc was basically driven by solving a problem for someone we got to know and care about over the course of the story. Post-timeskip, each arc is more about filling us in on the politics of the world and how everything connects together. Wholecake was kind of a exception, since we got to learn a lot more about Sanji, and I think it was a stronger arc for that. Post-timeskip, a lot more of the mysteries of the world came into focus. I think this is partially why everyone keeps expecting different characters to join the Strawhats, like Carrot and Yamato. We've been trained to think that every character we care about WILL join the Strawhats, because that's how the story worked Pre-timeskip. And it's no secret the other Strawhats, other than Luffy, just haven't gotten as much time to shine, Post-timeskip. They're almost background characters in the manga. We really haven't gotten as many heartfelt or emotional moments with them as we did Pre-timeskip. But, that's because they're NOT the focus, the world-building and politics and mysteries are. There's also the smaller power issue. Pre-timeskip, the Strawhats were basically the scrappy underdogs, having to try to be clever to get around the problems they came up against. Post-timeskip, they're all a lot stronger and more capable, which makes grunts and smaller enemies a non-issue. Pre-timeskip, there's NO WAY Usopp could handle a dozen grunts, but he can one-shot the group of them now. It changes how the fights work. There's also a bit of inconsistency, since characters like Nami and Usopp feel like they can vary in strength almost from scene to scene. There's also the panelling. Over the years Oda has just crammed more and more detail and panels into the page-space. Compare a page from the manga from the beginning to today. Where before, he might have a few pages that only had 3 larger panels on a page, nowadays almost every page is 6 or more panels PACKED with detail. It's impressive...but it can also feel a little claustrophic. It's all just a bit much, and it kind of messes with the flow a bit. And I think it's kind of hurt the appeal of Gear 5 a bit for me. It's a over-the-top cartoony form that FEELS like it should be breaking page-borders and be huge...but it's kind of constrained by the smaller, more numerous panels. Each arc has also gotten MUCH longer Post-timeskip. Where before we had a few smaller arcs, Post-timeskip has been made up almost exclusively of longer arcs. Maybe this is part of the world-building and how each arc feeds into one another, but it changes how the pacing works, too. Wano was the biggest offender by far. Wano was long. Maybe too long. But, like Skypeia, I'll bet there's a reason why we spent so long there.

I do understand why people feel like One Piece is going too slow especially if you're reading week-to-week. But honestly... I'm always amazed on how much Oda manage to cram up so much informations in so few pages, especially in the recent chapters. Please, go back and read the last 10 chapters or so, and you might realize how fast everything is moving in the story.

I agree with the you on the tension argument. I had to stop reading Dressrosa twice because I felt a slog. I thought I didn’t like one piece anymore, but I took a break and now I’m back reading weekly.

There will never be a time when EVERYONE who reads/watches any piece of media will all be happy about it. There will be things one group loves while the other hates it. As for new members to the crew, almost every arc has had that one or two pseudo members that will be kinda apart of the crew for that time. They won’t always fully join the crew but they’ll basically be an honorary member. While not official, Yamato and Carrot are Straw Hats, much like Vivi is basically apart of the crew Each crew member has their reasons for being on the crew. Vivi, for instance, is but has duties elsewhere so she can’t SAIL with the main body. One day, at the end of One Piece, the Straw Hats will have a MASSIVE party involving everyone they’ve made friends with and it will be the biggest event in history. P.S. I bet that’s how it’s gonna end.

Big Mom was terrifyingly brutal, the way she can change on a dime from a emperor to a child then murderous mindless child with strength and power beyond anyone else.

I still get hyped and feel the tension for One Piece when I read weekly! But I'm not thinking about if the straw hats will get through something. I only think about how they will. Because Oda always flips something on its head by the end of an arc!

This is what makes Sakazuki really dangerous , that he is almost as strong as a yonko and he also this much smart to play dirty and taunt Ace into his death ☠️☠️☠️🔥🔥🔥 No other strong characters would stoop so low ,except Blackbeard 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I love kaido backstory. He is a boy soldier that survive everything, he was supposed to die on the first day but he became the strongest beast and that's why he only respect power and expect other people to be powerful or be dominated. Hope that is expand in the anime

Fun reminder: During the Impel Down escape, there were three Yonko in the prison at the same time. That prison had zero chance to survive them. That and the monstrous dumb luck Buggy D. Clow and Luffy combined created

The best parts of one piece are the ends and beginnings of arcs because that's where Oda sets up all the great moments .

Let's be honest during the Marineford war,Blackbeard learned more than anyone why we call Whitebeard,daddy because he got a facial (quake on his face)on worldwide television.

Oda's foreshadowing bit is one of my fav parts about one piece, sometimes it really does feel like he planned out every step but looking at it further a younger Oda really set himself up for all of his future events whether he knew what he was doing at the time or not.

Explaining Ace's demise as a Shakespearean tragedy is a connection I wish I made myself. Thank you, Liam, fellow thespian.

Big Moms appreciation, lets go!

I can never get enough of one pieces world.On the contrary,oda is adding way more details these days and every chapter has me feeling like another citizen in the world reading the newspaper on the biggest happenings of the world

I think the reason people complain about post time skip is because it hasn't reach the highest of pre time skip yet so when you view both as one big blob of story then post time skip just feels lack luster despite them both having relatively the same quality overall.

I think pre timeskip had a more “Ok we have this big problem, how do the straw hats find a way out of this?” Vibe vs post timeskip having a “Ok what’s going to save the Strawhats this time?” Pre timeskip, with situations like Enel’s logia and observation haki, having Luffy shut off his brain and use his own devil fruit as a counter is interesting. Whereas in Wano Luffy gets knocked off and oh there’s the Heart Pirates to just fix him up

Also I think we need somebody to power scale the straw hats through the entire series and then after that redo the true bounty series

I think the manga moves quite fast right now the only moment when i really felt that the story just stopped moving foreward was when i was still watching the anime weekly because that was the time where queen was spreading this ice oni plague and it felt like they moved 3cm foreward every episode and not a single bit more

I also hope on the next anniversary of one piece they announce a series about gold d roger adventures so we can see the journey of roger

Oda's real superpower is the same as you want from a great GM imrpovising and connecting stories together.

I’d rather have oda move quickly now in the series before he ends up like tagashi, who’s gonna leave HxH unfinished before he dies.

OH MY GOD!!! 😂😂 Calling Ace's corpse a donut is the funniest thing I have heard in my life. I really mean that.

I feel like Oda hasn’t given franky a solid MVP moment since dressrosa when he wanted to help the tontas and his senior pink fight. Granted he wasn’t in whole cake but throughout wano, he was really meh including his fight with sasaki. I feel like egghead could’ve given him the much needed upgrade he needed before the whole sci fi horror fiasco.

Ace’s death was taken strait from the Back II The Future series. Calling Marty McFly a “yellow” or “chicken” or “a coward” would always bait him into a fight. You can’t change my mind.

Creating a Live action remake I agree no way it can live up to the anime we’re asking too much out of humans. Luffy is animated literally 😂🤣his facial reactions the goofyness

Everything in the story is amazing it is just that our expectations have grown far to high

That very last frame was sick liam

Regarding Thriller Bark, this is why I tell people all the time to consume each arc as a standalone anime/manga, and the next one is just the sequel. That way, you can look at each arc more standalone and appreciate it for what it is. I'm so glad to see someone else verbalized something similar.

I finished Thrillerbark in a day, so it was a blast for me! It has great comedic moments and some crazy cool action. Nightmare Luffy vs Oars & Zoro vs. Raiyuma are my favorite action scenes until Marineford.

4:38 I think thriller bark getting hated is a bit from a meme of people asking about thriller bark and the only response being "Nothing happened"..... the meme killed the hype for the arc lol

i think its better for oda to keep up the high pacing as it gives the anime more content to explore upon like oda can do a fight off screen and anime can show it its a win win.

7:41 my GOODNESS that is some spicy Robin art !!

Spot on. Fights are less interesting to me on a weekly basis. I just want more of the story! 😭

Thriller Bark is a fantastic arc, what are people smoking when they didn't like the arc? It had so much good in it. It was a fun adventure on a spooky island. It is, and will always be, one of my favorite arcs. "It doesn't feel One Piece" ??? What are people talking about!? I am so confused with the minds of the fan base. You guys make no sense.

8:05 “it’s…” *ad break* “ARBY’S ROAST BEEF”

To enjoy the rollercoaster I tend to read the manga every other month So I have a few chapters to go through each time Just like now, I’m finally trying to catch up on your video’s because I haven’t watched your channel since the end of Wano. So much fun and helps to put the whole egghead and stuff in between into perspective. (And there are a lot of videos, Yaay)

Yay I made it

I see he’s got a new beat up shanks drawing wonder what he’s saving that for👀 10:19

3:24 - I like to call this "backlighting". Since it's the opposite of foreshadowing.

The difference between pre timeskip and post timeskip is the hype;its like everything is for hype and not to make the characters better and enhance the story

6:32 wait hold on wtf why is Woop Slap above Rob Lucci and Garp are you kidding me

Love the video and keep up the great work liam

Regarding odas foreshadowing I’m pretty sure he’s said in an sbs is that he often gets side tracked when writing and so that has the added effect of stuff getting closure much later on than he originally wanted so it kinda looks like he plans this stuff way in advance

I caught up to the series by the time one piece was a week away from doing the first chapters after wano. The egghead stuff while cool wasn’t the same as reading it all together. I’m sure going back it will be great but that’s how I felt. I will say the recent chapter a are very entertaining and are a highlight of every week for me (sometimes biweekly). There’s so much more going on and I like how dynamic it is. This is a newcomers perspective so I’d like to hear any of your weekly reading transitions.

I agree with the last part of feeling like some characters get blown off. Like we are currently on egghead island, with Vegapunk, in his laboratory. And the spotlight should be on Franky. But instead he hasn’t wowed us or done anything interesting yet. Like I thought this would be Frankys time to shine and get development, but instead it feels like he got a fan boy moment and now we can move on. It’s just disappointing. Granted I’m a huge Franky Fan.

I felt that pacing issue with Whole Cake island. Felt way too long. To find out it was 1 night and the wedding was the next day

thriller bark was awesome. brooke's backstory, the change in scenery, the comedy, and really just everything about it besides gecko moria.

Yeah same thing happened with me i loved the pacing and hype when reading 10+ chapters at a time but mow 1 chapter per week amd now oda is on sugery its been weeks

I wonder what type of person big mom would have been if she got therapy for her emotionally stunned growth. Would she still be as evil as she is in canon or would she be more caring like whitebeard?

A note about the Shakespearean characterization about Ace: character flaws and traits are the same, just reversed Ace is loyal to a fault. Loyal to his crew and hunt down an ex brother? Positive loyalty. Unable to let someone who doesn’t matter bad mouth your father figure and letting said loyalty keep you from escaping? Negative loyalty. It’s not bad writing or out of nowhere. It’s just showing his character fault.

"You know the FDA calls us McDonald's now." "Isn't that your company name?" "No. It's Mc D. Onald's."

Relating to the last bit: What do you think about the idea of more detailed story parts in the anime? It struggles to keep a good pacing anyway and it would be a great way to expand Kaidos backstory and show offscreen fights

10:24 for the most part this is accurate. Shonen movies tend to re-introduce the main characters in some fashion or another. The recent Spider-Man skipped the Uncle Ben plot point. We’ve all know in some fashion or another

I for one absolutely love the fights and how they are somewhat predictable. If you pay attention to specific attacks you can see how it changes based on their growth. I enjoy small things like that too.

imo the only bad thing about Thriller Bark is that is little bit too long (clarification there are parts of arc especially in middle that could be done quicker or didnt even need to be done at all)

The vampire Luffy at the back is so cool..

Yamato was not a good one piece character and her purpose for existence seems to only be questioned more as time goes on. She felt like a very hastily put together last minute addition to the wano arc even if that wasnt the case.

The pacing issue after catching up has happened to me with chainsaw man too. Pre part 2 seemed more engaging, tense, and dramatic than part 2 but probably because its hard to keep tension with one chapter every 2 weeks

"Luffy got a donut" almost made me piss my pants l😂😂😂😂

for me the kaido is the best villan that one piece has because we all need villan so strong to point that they seem undefeatable and unbreakable and mysterious that any story like killing ,manipulation and fighting and war may seem easy for them this sets the narrative that some times people don't need backstory to say they how became evil like doflamingo or big mom some people are evil because they are insanely strong and let their gaurd down to let a a rubber boy gum gum on his face sorry for bad english english is not my first language

Very glad for the recent pacing. We're actually getting new information and development each week, back on Egghead each straw hat feels actually present and participating. I honestly haven't enjoyed One Piece this much since pre-timeskip.

Detective Conan got this far or further; but it's only problem is while it has a central mystery it needs to solve, it sort of just meanders and does everything but solve those mysteries. Thus...One Piece at least has more focus than some long-runners.

Everyone: Yes were almost home free!!! Lava man: your dad is garbage. Ace: What you say about my dad??? Everyone: oh no....

7:25 getting illustrators was the best thing to happen to this channel.

I feel way more tension now that I'm caught up and week to week

Perfect content to clean my room 💯💯

Thriller bark was fun for me. I started watching heavily during that arc.

I believe that the One Piece is actually Luffy’s Nika fruit, which gives him the power of laughter. The proof is in Shanks and his crew, who couldn’t stop laughing until Luffy ate the fruit. Roger must have discovered the same fruit on Laugh Tale, the island of joy, and that’s why he and his crew laughed so hard. The fruit was the source of their laughter, and Luffy inherited it. That also explains the X mark on his chest, which is a symbol of the fruit.

having a week long break between chapters is the thing that creates the tension, being able to read the series in one go makes it all smooth out without any tension, but thats just my experience

Thriller Bark can't be the worst arc when Long Ring Long Land and Syrup Village exist.

I definitely do feel tension reading weekly. It just doesnt last forever and disapates over time before next chapter is out.

Sanji beating queen was hype

8:05 Aperture Turret, C3p0, R2D2, Bearded nostalgia critic? Oda, Bender. And Red Among us Crewmate.

I feel like we haven't gotten a substantial Kaido flashback yet because it's tied up with Rocks'.

I totally agree with you about catching up to one piece and reading weekly. It was so much better reading 20 chapters a day

Liam is on the Admiral agenda with the last few seconds of this video. Respect.

If a flaming lava man insult my dad i would just silently nod and run away

Honestly idk why heated power scaling debates are looked down upon. We do it because it’s genuinely fun. It’s the same as debating if your favorite sports team will win their next upcoming match.

I love how GLR mentioned Shakespearean Tragedy

One Piece is the only manga that has gotten this far meanwhile Goku achieving his 10th form still not near the final saga

If Moria get luffys shadow right now and puts it in Oars. Moria will have a sun god Oars and would be the strongest captain

I agree with the foreshadowing one! I think what happened is he foreshadow few keys componenent, but retcons the lesser details

Just picture katakuri eating Ace infront of Luffy while Akainu is sitting on a chair and has this own certified navy bench with donuts on it

Where do you get these awesome posters.

Yes to Big Mom being better than Kaido

Since a Yonko has been defeated, powerscaling might seem like missing the point now. However Grade Swords, Sanji's chats and Koby's ambition need powerscaling.

Ace dying over a "Your daddy is a coward" joke is literally something Oda pulled out of his ass for Luffy's character development that's it

Thriller bark shouldve been the first post time skip arc right after fishman island, beating the shit out of a warlord that easily would make more sense then.

Buggy forever failing upwards is my favorite one piece concept.

I feel like the story is inky going slow with the recent chapters (1078-1082) while these are magnificent chapters, i cant wait to see what the egg head incident is and i hope we go back to it soon

How many chapters has it been since we last saw Luffy?