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I realized a lot of One Piece works on "punch the annoying mean guy in the face" logic, & that kind of simplistic storytelling just doesn& #39;t have much pull on me, but to many people that counts as really cathartic emotional pay-off & justifies having one-note repetitive bad guys.
I think there& #39;s a moment for pure, raw emotion like that and One Piece captures that often in a great moment like punching the Celestial dragon, but then it just keeps trying to mimic that same emotional beat in a lesser way and it just doesn& #39;t hit.
The series does the same with those moments like "You& #39;ll make enemies of the entire world government" or "You& #39;ll make enemies of Kaido one of the Yonko" & youre supposed to go "YEAH LUFFY IS SO BADASS" but it feels shallow when it always has to fall back on samey things like that
Like this is what I& #39;m talking about
