Let’s start with the first one, Luffy’s first liberation in freeing Koby from his enslavement at the hands of Alvida and allowing him to join the Navy, even though his now friend would be becoming an enemy, Luffy chooses freedom over adversity.
There’s a couple in between then and now that I’ll skip over.
Nami gets the double whammy of liberations, Luffy frees Nami personally here and covers her with his hat, showing she is under his protection now.
He later frees Cocoyasi Village when he destroys Arlong Park.
So there’s quite often a lot of discourse around Yuta’s existence, you see a lot of people say he would have been a better MC than Yuji, that he’s more interesting, that sort of thing.
But today I’m gonna talk about the value that Yuta adds to Yuji’s character.
Gege has been quite specific in his handling of his prequel and current main characters and their positions in the Jujutsu world and in portraying them as almost complete opposites bound by one common theme: the care they have for others.
A core theme surrounding Kaido throughout his run as the primary antagonist of One Piece’s Yonko Saga has been his obsession with death. Kaido is introduced trying to kill himself and immediately ties himself to a core principal.
Kaido is shown to be too strong to die. However, his introductory chapter brings about somewhat of a controversy: at face value he wants to die so badly he is willing to kill himself but this is a falsehood.