I think you were right about One Piece begin that way. True...Luffy isn't up to the strongest characters yet, but in two short years(most of which were honing his skills) he mastered Haki which takes others decades of hard training. He faught CP9 once and developed his second gear. He is still a rookie and still took down a pastifista(sp?) with one hit. Luffy is still a teenager yet his fighting level is still up there...same with Zoro...but hey, at least it took them 2 years vs. Bleach's 3 months. I thought that was how all anime/manga were suppose to be.
nah luffy not yet mastered haki, he only manage to learn the basic since he was tutored by one of the greatest haki user while most of haki user train by them self,
remember that the 1st time luffy encountered pacifista it took 9 none of them to take down 1 pacifista, and then 2 years later he manage to one shot pacifista, thanks to his haki and his experience fighting them in the past,
luffy fighting level is mid tier compared to the Overpowered ranks, such as yonkou,the 3 admirals and the remaining shicibuckai(maybe he's on law level)
and by the way zoro has been training since he was a kid just like luffy and before the timeskip he had the best swordsman as his tutor so yeah he's strong but he's nowhere near mihawk level.
