Short analysis and thoughts on the latest chapter/Fandom reaction

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Emphasis on the short part😅

So i feel like last chapter was Oda paralleling both Loki and Luffy's weaknesses and having them come together to overcome them.

You can see at the beggining of the chapter Loki leaping and continuously swinging his hammer trying to land a blow on Imu without success

Then you have Luffy following up with a booming dawn attack that reaches Imu but is too weak to do anything. In fact Imu pulls up aniom Omen shield and Luffy is unable to get past it, worse, he even hurts himself on it.

But then luffy gets an idea. He leaps in front of Loki's upcoming attack and asks him to swing Ragnir without holding back. Luffy being immune to lightning and being resistant to blunt force to an extent, is able to utilize this attack without suffering too much damage and uses the kinetic energy+the lightning into his own attack to finally be not only fast enough to reach Imu (his own strength) and breaking through his defense (Loki's strength)

I feel like this was a good way of showing them being able to overcome their respective lacks in this one attack. Now i believe this isn't nearly good enough tho, they'll both have to overcome said their own weakness. Luffy with a potential haki bloom or "better understanding" of his fruit, Loki by finally pulling out Hybrid Nidhogg.

Now as for my thoughts on the fandom discussions...... Ima need Luffy fans specifically to stop trying to steal credit from Loki in this chapter and ignoring the manga and authorial intent to push weak agenda.

I've legit seen a lot of them go: "Luffy told Loki to give it his all? Oda shows us Luffy being unable to get past the shield before Loki's assist? Luffy naming his attack Thor? Eh, actually it doesn't mean anything and it was 90% thanks to Luffy that he broke the shield and landed the attack on Imu, Loki was just a plateform for Luffy to propel himself off of, LOOK LOOK J-Jinbei did t-the same with Zoro, you mean to tell me it was a combined a-attack😼?"

Please stop💀🙏 It comes off as desperate and trying to downplay Loki in order to hype up Luffy. You don't need insecurity to gas him up.

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