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>Whole Cake continued: Oda seems to be setting Carrot up to be a Strawhat, but as we know, this doesn't go anywhere. I don't mind either way, she's a fun character, but it does feel like Oda weirdly just changed his mind later on, and the spotlight on Carrot in WCI just goes nowhere.
Wano: 7/10
>Wano is a giant of an arc that magaes to be an amalgamation of everything good and bad in post-ts One Piece. It's an incredible arc in many ways, but it's stretched to hell and back, there's insane character bloat and worst of all, unrealized potential. Oda doesn't expand on Zoro's background, we don't get a big Kaido flashback, the Kokeshi dolls go nowhere, some obvious matchups like Brook vs. Apoo don't happen, the Smile users were a dud etc. but we DO get pointless shit like the Ice Zombie plague, Yamato, and Tama's convenient Deus Ex Machina DF to nullify the Smile users Oda spent years building up. The worst thing though is Oda rushing, he clearly jammed Big Mom into the same arc just to get rid of both her and Kaido at once without having to write a separate arc to take her down. She got done dirty, which is ironic since her setup was better than Kaido's, but Kaido's actual takedown was better than what she got. Wano could've been a 10/10 arc, but Oda kinda dropped the ball here and mixed his priorities.
Egghead: 10/10
>We're in the endgame, now. This is the best Post-TS arc so far, and there's not much to add. While after Wano it felt like Luffy isn't REALLY a Yonko yet, this is exactly the kind of "incident" that feels proper for a Yonko. Taking down Kaido may have made Luffy a Yonko on paper, but this is what earned him the title.
>Elbaf: 8/10 (So far)
We're still pretty much in the setup phases and in the middle of a long Flashback, but Elbaf has all the ingredients to cook up an incredible arc and I'm hopeful. Would be 9/10 if not for Shamrock, the worst twist since Sabo's convenient "I forgor" amnesia.