What you're forgetting in your argumentation is that you're criticizing something that has been going on for 17 years.
This matters less than 0%. DBZ has had weak plotlines for decades, that doesn't make it any less valid to say current DBZ has a weak storyline.
Naruto has been pumping out fillers for over 10 years, that doesn't make it any less valid to say that Naruto is pumping out a ridiculous amount of filler recently.
Just because a story has been doing a thing for a long time doesn't mean that that thing is no longer that thing. Oda can introduce ugly characters for 200 years, an ugly character in the 201st year is still gonna be an ugly character.
You draw a parallel to humor and cool designs, which also have been part of one piece since the start, but it doesn't work that way.
Yes it does. If you can't criticize something just because it's been happening for 17 years, then you also can't praise something because it too has been happening for 17 years. Praise and criticism are forever and will forever be two sides of the same coin. Nothing you say will ever change that.
No one would ever point out if a chapter was TOO funny
Probably because the concept of too funny doesn't exist for a manga that's partly comedic in genre, but sure, that makes sense. A+
But you were close because Oda also has a bit of a history of making sexist jokes that are criticized, and the common reaction is then most of the time, well this is a Japanese manga for the target audience for boys 16-25, you're bound to come across that stuff once in a while. Or the Sanji nosebleed jokes, you know it is a part of Sanji's gimmick and every time you read the new chapter and see 1 tiny panel of Sanji with a bloody nose, you know there is that 1 guy in the thread complaining about it.
Wow this is all so irrelevant. Except for the Sanji part, and that's only because the Sanji nosebleeds aren't funny anymore and have worn out their welcome, which is why people complain about it.
Bottom line, you know it's part of the story and the fact that you're salty because of a 17 year old running gag is really on you.
Once again, no one was salty that Raizou was ugly. People were calling an ugly character ugly. That's not saltiness, that's calling a white cloud a white cloud. People were saying they were disappointed in Raizou's design.
Which is the point.
Oda intentionally created a character with a lame, ugly design, and people were going "Yeah, he nailed it. It is indeed lame and ugly." And you and Caliburn have a problem with that because I guess negativity and complaining creates discussion?
Also you complain that he is too ugly
Again, where did I complain? Saying a character that was intentionally drawn to be ugly is ugly isn't complaining. I have no problem with Raizou being an ugly character. I said I was disappointed because Raizou's design was crafted to intentionally disappoint. Once again, the comments about Raizou being a letdown are people going "Oda succeeded in what he was going for."
and that is what Oda was ever, it was an inside joke pulled on Franky, Usopp and Luffy. So if you think he is ugly that means Oda did a good job, because that was the point.
Good job, your brain is working those pistons.
