[Manga] One Piece - Page 900

It was good overall as it showed what happened to luffy within the timeskip, or at least a portion of it.

It was weird though that World became an Admiral ranked fighter than needed a fleet of Marines and Pirates (pre-Shubukai timeperiod) to take him down supposedly. But when it was shown what was done to take him down, it only took actions from the Cipher Pol using the Marines as distraction to deal him almost a deathblow.

That's one of the things that bugged me. The threat directed towards his character seems to be greatly overestimated?? That's me.

But then going to the 2Y time skip, it is shown that he does know how to properly use Haki, even a full body Haki. So maybe admiral level along with his more more manipulation for both power, speed and mass and he is quite formidable when you look at how he is portayed even at "that age".

Yet, the last battle with Luffy just didn't make sense to me from a storytelling standpoint after it was shown he was capable of all those, he was beat by a pre-timeskip Luffy who just managed to use Red Hawk?

He had not only power and defence advantage as the character world, but he also had the speed advantage as well which beats 2nd gear any day of the week. So Luffy just didn't have a means to close that gap (yet) during this period.

I just wished for a more believable take with say a team up between Mihawk, Luffy and Boa to take him down at least easier from a narrative point of view to further expand on Luffy's need to improve further to make sure he does grow "more" in terms of power to protect his crew.

It doesn't need to be just Luffy winning in the end against the big bad of the show.

But that's me. I still liked it overall, but maybe Z was better for me.

I liked how Luffy grew in power against a really strong opponent as we know he usually does; culminating in the red hawk move. The cipher pol were awesomely cool as well in the flashback. I have to think that the crew used seastone bullets provided by cipher pol to down World; that would really make sense to surprise him and weaken him so much in one move. I thought Luffy wouldn't prevail in the end by himself, actually, but it kind of makes sense. I think the current generation is stronger than the one of World's time, so the power levels do match up. I had to lol at Mihawk totally chilling the whole ep and then busting his dreams easily. Heh. Hancock's power continues to be weird, either they can fall for her and gg stone or else she's pretty weak.