User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 876: Weeeeeed...ing Cake/@comment-91.140.91.73-20170824154640/@comment-24850639-20170825005159

I can certainly see the legitimacy of the complaints that things have been rather.....fortuitous.....for the Straw Hats in this arc. A fucking Vivre Card turning out to be something that nullifies Big Mom's own influence over her homies when she isn't in close proximity, felt like it was done almost for the sole purpose of making Nami not be the weak tag-along character in this arc. Her somehow having a second half of it was definitely an asspull, and I've never used that word regarding Oda's work before. She still ultimately stepped up and pulled her weight this arc, and her using Zeus against Big Mom has been foreshadowed ever since she called that storm after Cracker's defeat. But WTF. I also agree, why Katakuri and Perospero are content to keep throwing fodder at Brook & Chopper rather than personally curbstomping them is beyond me. I refuse to accept Katakuri "watching and enjoying" when he has a much bigger problem on his hands with his mother rampaging and destroying everything in sight. Say he does know that Luffy & co aren't dead......ok? How does that justify him standing by with his thumb up his ass when he can literally destroy their ONLY means of escape? In fact, you could argue that him doing just that would trap the Straw Hats and thus buy more time for Pudding to do her thing and stop Big Mom. And Perospero.....gee whiz. If he TRULY believed that the Straw Hats got killed with all the shit he's talking, he should be freaking the fuck out because Big Mom threatened to kill him if the Straw Hats didn't have the cake.......RIGHT? What ever happened to the "Demons of Hell" that show up to the Tea Parties? Those underworld brokers that showed up looked like they came straight from an episode of Wacky Races! Not only did they not turn out to be all that scary compared to Big Mom's children, but they've literally added nothing to the plot of Whole Cake other than inadvertently blowing up the Tamatebako. There's still way more things about this arc that I loved than hated, but certain things about it are going to bother me unless it is addressed again.