This is going to be about Oda’s hypocrisy and contradiction of having a monarchy in wano while trying to convey that discrimination is fucked up. This is something that has been irrirtating me since momo was revealed to be the “heir” to the throne. This could also be taken as constructive critisism of the kozukis, or just hate. Its gone be long sit tight booboo.
Oda portrays the kozuki’s as nice people but for me this is true apart from the fact that they are selfish and discriminatory people, let me explain. The very way they want to rule their country is discriminatory, “the only way you can get to the most powerful position and recieve massive riches is by who birthed you.” These motherfuckers decided to make the world even more unfair than it already is by saying, “aye nigga did you came from my tha God Oden balls?” If you answer no then youre told to fuck off and go resume cotton picking else where. But if you are by God you are worshiped, fed till you cant turn 90 degrees clockwise and given pussy as desert afterwards and various other pleasurable things for free. In short they’ve decided that luck is to choose wether you get to run a COUNTRY even if youre a piece of shit and aqcuire the bag with no effort. Or you get to be dismisses as one of the thrones suiters even if your more patriotic, smarter, knowkedgeable, competant, proficient than the shiguns kids. All they fucken need is a blood test to be qualified to rule an entire country.
Selfishness is shown in the way that the kozukis retain power without even second guessing how they got it in the first place, not even thinking about how unfair it is. They dont even acknowledge that there are plenty of people in wano that can run the country better than them which is extreenly ignorant which is another big blow to their reputation. To add to this shit they hold on to power for decades and selfishly pass it off to their offspring like the whole country and its people are a personal possession. This is implying that they know that the throne is untouchable to the commoners due to them lacking royal blood which is indeed… Discrimination YAY!
Self centered mentality is also within the kozukis which is shown in the kozukis plan, Which was to send Momo into the future and leave Hiyori so at least one kozuki can assume the throne which implies that they believe only the Kozukis themselves are the only ones good enough to rule not due to skill, competance or affection for the country but the blood (discrimination).that kappa guy (favorite character btw) said he wanted to die just cause he thought hiyori died, which means that maybe not just him but all of the red scabbards are more affectionate and loyal to the kozuki family than Wano itself, which if i do say so myself is all the way fucked up. And i swear in some chapter someone said that if hiyori and Momo die the rebelion would be futile. which suggests that if they did die because of their blood vanishing everybody is gonna pull out (a skill my dad would kill for) and leave wano to suffer in that state cause the kozukis arent there big WOW.
Blood relation is Oda’s big contradiction and one of my shortlist of least favorite things Oda has done. remember in Ace’s mini arc when he was a kid and he was running around asking people about roger and being told that roger was a piece of shit and whoever his kid was should die by castration. Yeah i think Garp told him that just because he was related by BLOOD he wasnt roger and could choose his own path. Which is correct but now Oda decides to change and say, “Nah g forget about all that bullshit” and move his own message out of the way for god knows what reason. The marines tried to murder Ace and his mom because they were related by Blood to roger, we the audience and Oda both knew that blood means nothing and that this deed was fucked up. For some odd reason when the marines say blood matters its wrong, but when its used by the kozukis “good people” its now somehow okay? Oda gives decides to make an important arc’s country run by discrimination ,one of the things he heavily disapproves of, and give them a pass for it. This just just doesent make sense to me.
I guess why im so irritated is due to Oda being hypocritical about one of the things his story has been persistantly talking about (Arlong, Pudding, Hordy Jones and all of the Fishmen and more) and making characters that wouldnt be important, critical not due to them having any merit or skills just blood placing them on a pedestal above all civilians, for something as stupid as blood.
I think you have noticed the theme of blood and discrimination this is one of one pieces largest talking points and Oda went back on his own sayings.What do you guys think. None of my friends like anime and i really wanna have a conversation about this.