Crazy seeing how big Vegapunk's brain has gotten. It's honestly unnerving to look at, due to knowing that it's literally part of his head that was cut off from him.
Can't help but start to wonder what the endgame is for Sanji carrying Vegapunk's body for this long. I guess it wouldn't be right to just dump his corpse anywhere given they're about to leave Egghead for good, but I wonder if Oda is hinting that there's a way to bring him back somehow. Or it's just simply Oda waiting for the right moment for everyone to have a chance to mourn his death. Anyways, Sanji getting the first hit on Nusjuro is ironic given the anticipation of Zoro fighting him. Given the sound effects, it seems Nusjuro is strong enough to bypass Sanji's newfound durability, which makes sense given how strong the Gorosei have been portrayed as so far.
Don't think he get pass Sanji durability since it look like he was not using his germa powers .
Got look at eyebrows lol.
is there such a thing as group fatigue?
I started feeling it in Wano, and I'm definitely starting to feel it here too. There's just so much moving and running around from every member that it's starting to become hard to keep up with. I think Oda himself realized this in the latest chapters since he put up a small schema so we could remind ourselves what was going on and where. We also jump from situations so quickly that it feels like no one's really engaged with their enemies - someone throws a punch or a kick and then people start moving again.
This is something that Oda does even before he was taking break etc etc .
He be doing since it since AB so it really not about him thinking arc fatigue.
It's much easier to keep track of here since there's only four main groups to follow. Wano was a complete clusterfuck of hundreds of characters and dozens of groups. I think what you're describing is pretty much an "Oda Problem" and I don't see it going away. The final war is going to be like this X1000.
It something he been doing since we enter the grand line since he split up the SH so much so yeah it not going change and just part of his story telling .
I like how the Gorosei seem kinda bad at actually fighting, they're basically just coasting on being unkillable and having OP Devil Fruits. Pretty big difference between Sanji's encounter with Kizaru and Sanji just running in and kicking Nusjuro in the face
That's what they get for sitting on their asses in Marijoa for who knows how long with hardly ever seeing any action. I assume Imu will be better on that front just because he's probably the final boss
Sanji encounter was Kizaru was not that differnt sanji block 2 of his attack to save people.
Then while trying run with VP get speed blitz suprise hit from kizaru who is fastest person in the series .
This same thing here Nusjuro get his attack block and then get hit by sanji but then Sanji get bite .
That how it been most the arc which just like marineford where people get in hit or 2 and counter on each other and then that it .
I hope this is indeed what's going on and we don't get a "we were holding back" bullshit.
I'm still thinking they are literally demons in human form and not humans with devil fruits. And that they are related to the origins of the fruits themselves
I mean we already know that Saturn get nerf since he not eye frezzing Nami and the others .
We not see anything here showing they can't fight when all character no matter how strong can get in a fews hit or counter on top tier characters .
You had chopper , Nami and Brook hold off BM a yonko 2 arc ago and they only gotten stronger since then .
incompetence has nothing to do with power, the gorosei are competent given what we have seen.
and i didnt call them incomptent, i just said thier attack power isnt top tier(because if it were it would break the story, so its a good descion narative wise)
To me there attack power is top tier like the only people that can do shit we see them do are Yonko\admrial level type characters in terms of attack power .
Mars had his own version of bolo which he can spam to destroy whole island like Kaido and truth is we not even see Kizaru do something stronger and he in the manga much longer and this only attack we see from mars .
Saturn has poison balls that like nukes that he could destroy a island with and Ju Peter attack was so strong it was sucking ships and things from hundreds of miles away which fucking crazy and only reason it get stop is by G5 luffy .
It only Topman and Nusjuro who not do any crazy AoE attacks but they most likely have them but we might not see them this arc .
Still it took 2 giants that you know get huge power jump to block and hit back topman with name attacks and then we find out dude got tougher skin than Kaido .
The elders in small time they had have show they have attack power as strong as any of the Yonko \ Admrial level characters in these few chapters .
Now if they were just being extra sloppy in a 1v1, that'd be one thing, but in this whole chaotic situation where anyone can get jump on their large selves... meh
Really a lot of this arc has been that so it should not be issues when it happen to any one .
Like should i remind people that Kizaru a admrial jump franky and hit him in back while he now finish attacking Saturn .
Yeah one 3 strongest marine powers jump a mid tier SH and franky got up easy lol .
