Why One Piece’s Climaxes Are So INTENSE



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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
3:36 Alabasta
8:50 Enies Lobby
11:44 Skypiea, Dressrosa
12:18 Whole Cake Island
13:57 Wano
16:45 Egghead Island

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29 thoughts on “Why One Piece’s Climaxes Are So INTENSE”

  1. Your analysis has just confirmed for me what i had always believed about the Onigashima arc – that it is meant to be a stepping stone for the Straw Hats into the final arc. Oda couldnt let Onigashima go the way he's used to writing because the SHs losing now yakes away from the stakes of the final battle.

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  2. u are right morj, doomsday scenario simply works, i like time limits cuz it increases tension, rogersbase hates it tho 😂🤓

    final war doomsday scenario will be insanely epic, can't wait, and also… this is why enies lobby was so good, it's due to the doomsday scenario (makes it more epic and intense, it was already epic and intense before this tho with straw hats fighting the world government and luffy fighting lucci)

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  3. Repeat after me-

    Not all tropes are bad. Its how they're implemented that matters.

    If you kill all tropes, you've got nothing compelling left. Certain things just inherently resonate or unteract in certain ways you can't change.

    It's SO easy to pick stuff apart, much harder to create, and it's way too common of a problem today that people love picking stuff apart. If you pick apart something without a working solution to replace it, you're doing far more harm than good.

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  4. Wano and Whole Cake Island are connected.
    In Whole Cake Island Oda showed the Power of Big Mom and her Family. The Straw Hats where on the run.
    But in Wano we suddenly had an alliance between Kaido (allready pictured as impossible to beat) AND Big Mom. The stakes where beyond impossible.

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  5. As much as I love OP, I can't ignore its flaws. While there is an existential threat usually at the climax, Oda so seldom kills off meaningful characters (many of whom are shown to be fake outs) that we always know that no one of actual importance will die. TBH, I always read the final arc knowing that everyone that I am truly invested in will be perfectly fine, unlike other animes where the protagonists can actually lose someone that they love.

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  6. Nice suggestive title lol. One piece didn't invent the wheel, plenty of other stories do the countdown thing. I don't find them particularly intense, I'd say Oda is skillful at raising the stakes, not establishing countdowns as I've never cared about them in the least as most of them are fairly artificial with my least favorite being dressrosa's (although egghead is giving it a run for it's money) and my favorite being marine ford for Ace's execution

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  7. We’re all gonna be high for like the next 5 years cause this shit isn’t gonna stop building. Vegapunk’s reveal will be insane, Elbaf will be even crazier, Raftel better still, with Marie Geoise being an impossibly perfect ending

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  8. WCI was special because they were an incomplete crew, going in blind, into the enemy's base of operations, Sanji didn't want to go back until the last possible moment, and Luffy vs Katakuri was awesome, come on.

    In Wano, they were a complete crew, with a plan, with an army, at the peak of their power, and Luffy awakened his fruit.

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  10. It's been tough to put my finger on why the Onigashima raid was disappointing for me, but you pretty much nailed it. The stakes never felt serious so the victory didn't feel rewarding

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