User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 902: I Don't Wano More Cake/@comment-2600:8807:C00:AD40:F174:C5F5:8EAA:8DEA-20180420135806/@comment-73.209.228.172-20180421201435

Considering most of the other siblings in the family didn't have a lot of time to do things (there are over 80 of them, it's easy to see why) I don't get why people are so hung up about Smoothie in particular, I honestly think it's a bit ridiculous. Katakuri was given 99% of the spotlight during the tea party most likely to hype him up for when he eventually had his showdown with Luffy. Oda didn't have the time to give other Charlotte siblings a ton of panel time to be active because of that, which is too bad, but given what he wanted to do with the story it makes sense.

I think people also need to keep in mind that for most of the arc, she was commandeering a fleet in order to chase the Straw Hats down like everyone else. Aside from that projectile slash attack she was doing, who knows if she even has range beyond that. On top of that, I'd say she did way better off than someone like Daifuku, who literally made the situation worse by slicing up a lot of his fleet with his genie in an attempt to take Carrot down. The latter part of the arc wasnt like Dressrosa or Enies Lobby, the objective of the Charlottes was to corner the Straw Hats and bomb their ship down. There isn't a lot of ways to engage in a clash when there are a bunch of devil fruit users surrounded by ocean pursuing a ship that doesn't want to fight to begin with.

With Compote, honestly I question if she has any abilities to begin with. I think Oda just wanted to show off the eldest daughter, which I think people all wanted to know about to begin with. I don't have a problem with that, mainly from the standpoint that seeing stuff from her would mean Oda would have to dedicate even more time to showing off new powers from a character for a moment, which would make the arc go on even longer. I'd be okay with that if this was an arc about defeating the crew, but this was just an escape mission. Honeslty if we really are encountering the BMP later in the story again, I wish Oda would've cut back on the time he showed off most of them and ended the arc earlier, honeslty, because it's not going to be as interesting when we confront them again and we know what most of them can do.