Failure's of Wano: The Nine Red Scabbards
Nine Red Flavors of Disappointing One Piece is great, but is it perfect? No. I’ve been in love with One Piece since I first heard the 4Kids Dub Intro, and that affection only grew when I began reading it weekly. One Piece is something special to me and many others, but it’s still a story, and no story is above criticism. One Piece has had some exemplary storytelling highs, like Alabasta and Water 7, and some unfortunate lows, like Long Ring Long Island and Fishman Island. What’s the most recent low in One Piece’s two-decade-long storytelling career? WANO. The Wano arc, the culmination of half of the series’ lifespan, is imperfect. If I had to break it down, I would say it’s slightly good at the start, almost decent in the middle, and atrocious in the end, leveling out to a Barely Okay Arc. This rating of mine is also not an issue of “‘X’ was not as relevant as I wanted, so the ar...