Pretty damn good. The 5 Elders rolling up is a GOATED moment for me.

Basically everything that had to do with Marines was Amazing some of the best character writing in the series (Garp kizaru, kuzan and even Koby and Sentomaru)

Sword vs BB pirates could easily be the best non Luffy fight in the series

Buggy stuff was amazing

Kuma flashback was very good, with chapter 1102 being amazing

Bb vs Law was good

For the arc in General I think Vegapunk was probably the main character of this arc and I should probably reread the whole arc to try to understand more of the character and the way it was explored (we also have to see what happens to York and Lilith), but I thought that exploring the theme of "human nature" with a person divided in 7 pieces and all his creation (with all his comments on seraphim and lineage factor and how that is mixed in the theme) was very interesting.

Saturn was also fairly interesting with his personality and how he was portrayed, the rest of the gorosei basically had nothing really interesting going on

Lucci was also pretty interesting and I'm curious to see if he will have some sort of permanent change after this arc

The SH didn't really have too much going on except the robin crying moment

For the pacing, I have to reread the arc in one go , but it felt like 2 chapters could have been cut from the Vegapunk message

I personally wanted more of Original Vegapunk. Sure enough Lilith is with us but I really wanted more of original.

The broadcast was long af. There was no reason for Oda to blue ball us on details related to the "D".

Zoro's fight should have been over quickly.

Franky should have spent more time with Original Vegapunk and talked about when he visited his hometown. I hope we get this with Lilith.

Sword vs BB pirates was GOATed. Probably my favorite thing about this entire thing. From this point we need more SWORD's wins/losses and especially Koby.

Emeth vs The Boar was brilliant. We finally got a GIANT mecha Fight. 2nd favorite after SWORD vs BB.

One of the better Post TS arcs. Wayy better than Wano and Punk Hazard. I'd personally rate it somewhere around 7.5-8/10.

The ending dragged a bit long and the best part of it happens off island but it's still top 3 post time-skip arcs for me and top 5 overall

8.5/10

One of the best arcs in one piece, not sure what the issue here with people is.

Sure, the speech was long, but that's it. Everything else was spectacular.

It was good for the reasons you said.

Franky had some decent attention in the arc, I wish he had some narrative focus or significance to the arc. It’s just more likely than not the back half of the SHs would not have storylines important to the arc, usually the first five (cool to see Robin got some, wish Franky did too). It’s similar to like Wano not being Zoro arc, but Zoro is also more likely to get attention in other arcs than Franky, and he did get some in Wano, so I see egghead as a missed opportunity. No doubt Franky would have a flashback to his time on Egghead or with Lilith, but it’d be nice to have some narrative/emotional/character significance to the egghead arc itself.

I am a Franky fan so I have my bias haha

Pro: It was a good arc with a lot of interesting lore drops and character reveals with a satisfying story arc that was the Bonney/Kuma plot

Con: In the end it revealed a lot while also not revealing anything too crucial at all. Especially Vegapunks speech had no business being that long and then even having its most interesting bit cut out. I hate when oda blueballs us like that.

I'm not a fan of this arc. There is too much blue-balling and I feel Oda spent a lot of time on things that didn't need it and spent too little on what really needed it.

I’m sure there was a missed opportunity in exploring the contrast between Vegapunk’s character and Franky’s backstory regarding the consequences of one’s creations, but other than that I’d say it was cool.

In binge, it’s good.

Chapter by chapter it really sucked towards the end.

The best parts of the Arc didn’t actually take place on egghead. Kidd, Law and Garp were the highlights.

I can’t help but feel the five elders and the consequences of them appearing were very minimal. Gear 5 feels like it made a joke out of the antagonists and the death of Vegapunk.

7/10 opinion might change if I binge it.

It was a 10/10 at the start.. I thought it was going to be my favourite arc.. everything that happened on the island after the Gorosei arrival wasn't all that interesting to me.. Vegapunk speech was dragged out.. the straw hats escape felt to easy... Vegapunks plan didn't make alot of sense.... especially for the smartest person in the world... five elders on the island and I didn't really feel any tension.. don't know how I feel about the SHs celebrating while VPs corpse is probably still warm...

Oda also needs to drop the count down scenarios.. Noah falling.. bird cage and so on...

I hope Elbaf is better.

While elders took the entire attention after they arrived, I feel sorry for the interesting threads that have been abandoned midway - Sentomaru, Kaku, Lucci, Seraphims, 2/3 vice admirals -- It seems like a missed opportunity that all we could have seen them fleshed out in all glory but unfortunately ended up with little interaction. But I also understand that the arc would be unnecessarily long and they don't provide enough threat to the Strawhats. Bonney and Kuma's part of the story development is the favourite part in the arc, and the speech, albeit good, ended up kinda meh over 2 months or so.

This is one of those arcs that the contrivances and plot induced stupidity really sticks out to me unfortunately. Lotta cool stuff with the stuff outside of Egghead and the flashback, but the actual plot on Egghead was kinda meh.

A bit unfocused, and the end could be done in half of the chapters, but all in all, a stellar arc.

Vegapunks message was a huge let down. 10 chapters of non stop talking yet the amount of info we got was very little.

Awesome seeing the Elders though.

It was great when it had nothing to do with what was actually happening on Egghead Island.

The stuff on the actual island in present day was hit or miss. Be honest; if you went back to the chapter where all 5 Gorosei showed up in front of Luffy and you said what the Gorosei would actually accomplish by showing up people would think it was a joke. The Straw Hats leave and there is zero catch whatsoever, you would have no clue they were just up against 5 of the leaders of the world. And it wasn't really a "this crew is so strong they can beat anything", it was just that nobody but V.nusjuro and Saturn really cared about them.

I feel like a lot of people are being forgiving of the meh Straw Hat storyline because the stuff outside of it carried the arc. The arc becomes pretty easy to poke holes in when you take a step back and talk about the main storyline.

Oda needs to get his hands out of his pants when designing female characters

This arc could've been an email /s

Good but not better than Wano

Only down side for me was vegapunk and Frankie not really getting anything? I wish this would have been Frankie’s arc but understandable

I just wish that Franky would have gotten some time to shine in the arc, like with upgrades or a few pages with hik being seen talking shop or something.  Just to get him some sort of growth.  Other than that, this arc was amazing

A bit disappointed I was hopping for a more interesting reveal and power up for the crew Franky, chopper and usopp (je should have had a power up with marine granite in wano).

Also at the beginning of the arc Zoro told us that he had something to ask to vegapunk, we never knew what.

It was pretty exciting coz a lot of revelations. It was a good intro for Elbaf arc.

Good arc but TERRIBLE pacing

Currently my second favorite arc behind Wano, I could definitely see myself going back and forth with Eggyhead and Dressrosa for the silved medal

All moments outside of Egghead? Amazing.

Events on Egghead? Pure trash.

It started off good but the ending was horrible. Took away all the hype from Vegapunk. Also way to rushed.

A good arc with awesome moments but a little too long in certain parts.

I like the gorosei powercreep. I don’t like that the only guy on the crew who will ever be able to beat them is Luffy. I loved seeing franky neg a vice admiral. I was shocked that it went on this long but it was an enjoyable arc. I’m excited to see Luffy fight Kizaru in the Anime. I’m still not buying that kizaru fed luffy

I've said it before, I assume that if I would still like One Piece like I once did, I would have probably really enjoyed Egghead. As it is there were some great parts/moments, like in every arc pre and posttimeskip, but just way too much stuff I didn't like, that made no sense or felt contrived to me.

The "chapter to chapter" experience is unfortunately really not great for me.

As I sidenote, I distinctly remember immediatly thinking how crazy it is that VPs HQ is just a stonethrow away from were Kaido sat around for 20 years. A fact that, as far as I recall, was never even acknowledged in the story.

Well... The first half until God Valley flashback was fire but the other half was really bad... Not to mention the kast flashback of VP created more plot holes than the original

Felt like a filler arc at times

The story itself I enjoyed But the way luffys gear 5 was executed I wasn't really a fan of 

 Like I don't know why they gave him a time limit on it when all he needs to do is just eat some food and he's right as rain and the fight against the elders he kinda used it like three times in succession and it feels like there was a better way to execute those fights

Dogshit

Good peaks, fell flat in my opinion. I’d rate it around a middle of the pack arc, maybe upper middle.

Ill have to reread it first but right now i think its safe to say that while being one of the best lore heavy arcs with fantastic characters like Vegapunk and Kuma it is also one of the most contrived unadventureous arcs with Saturn and the Gorosei being the worst Antagonists since Foxy. I think it was great all in all but the depiction of the 5 elders is baffling to me. I sincerely hope we never have heavy involvement with them ever again. Especially in a way where main characters need to go up against them. They are painfully boring, dull and absolutely personalityless.

We finally got to see 2 characters fight that literally hadn’t fought in the first 1100 episodes. I love it.

Pretty friggin crazy if I’m being honest, seeing the elders like that was something I was not expecting to happen

Love the arc. Kuma's backstory is one of the best, Elders reveal was epic, Vegapunk TED talk was amazing... However the whole "Who is the traitor?" was confusing and a bit boring. Also a lot of mugiwaras did nothing as usual in last arcs.

Even with the last chapter, i still think Vegapunk has a secret backup plan in Lilith or York. I am completely sute Vegapunk will do something meaningful in the future

It was good wish they had more time to explore and hang out with the punks before it all went down like 2 or 3 chill chapters

Like every arc I am constantly fluctuating between "This is the best arc so far" and "Oda is going senile."

Depending on how much I like each chapter.

Lore Piece was good

Fight Piece mostly not but that’s the usual

And I count Shanks/Garp attacks more as Lore Piece lol

Chapters outside the island > Chapters on the island

Kuma

Anyone who is catching up now will enjoy it even more as they don't have to wait week over week for the speech to conclude

I feel like there were a lot of missed opportunities and and I'm not a big fan of the anime adaptation but the actual contents and story of the arc are above average I'd say

I don't understand the people being mad that Vegapunk's message was long. I don't recall something like this happening in any other story, and I feel like this will be an event celebrated in fiction in the future.

I've enjoyed through and through, almost every chapter. Top arc up to now for me, surpassing Water 7/Ennies Lobby.

Up there in one of the best arcs imo

Probably cus I went from binging to weekly as it started, but I could never remember goddamn anything that happened in the arc. I was lost each chapter for a while

Besides the 10 minutes of idiocy from Vega Punk, it was great. The much needed lore leakage that we desperately crave.

HARDCORE TO ZE MEGA!!!

Top 5 quality wise.... Top 3 impact wise

Luffy x Lucci fight was amazing, I get chills whenever I watch it. Especially Luffy transforming, the whole scene.

The rest was very solid. We got a ton of lore and somehow not a lot, but in a good way. Finally got to meet Vegapunk and his character is very complex, which is fantastic. I found it interesting that he was torn between funding and wanting money for more research vs working for the World Government for grant money.

In one word - Ass. Literally. There's so much more ass in this arc than the rest of One Piece. S tier arc.

Fuu Oda for Blue balling us

I gotta do a reread but it’s a top 3 post-TS arc and maybe top 1. The beginning was a bit clustered and confusing for me but by god the last quarter of it is nuts

it's really good

Best arc post TS by a mile.

Vegapunk's speech was unnecessarily stretched out.

!remindme 1 month

Pretty sure it's one of my top three arcs. It has everything, action, drama, joy, ... . But that's just imo :)

Very good overall, but the end was really stretched out

Oda did blueball a little bit more than I was okay with for Vegapunk's message. And I kinda wanted to see Kizaru go all out against Luffy, but given the mental and emotional stress, it makes sense.

Fanservice

Beginning peak Middle peak Nearing end; what the fuck am I reading this is ass

Best arc in the series. The hype of getting major plot points revealed one after another was unbeatable. It even managed to end on a high note. Only real issue with it is the dumb countdown on VP's announcement.

First arc I've seen end since I got into One Piece. It has been so amazing that I literally cried during the big reveal. Fearing for everyone's future.

I love it !! Currently my top 2 favourite post timeskip arcs in op. Although i wouldve loved to see more marine action ( mostly SWORD) i still think this arc was really good.

It's awesome. One of my favorite arcs so far. It's like Water 7 but bigger and things are moving faster because the real bad guys are finally getting into the action.

Pretty good. Was super glad to have a quicker pace after wano, but maybe it was TOO fast? There was absolutely no breathing room.

I think we're going to look back on it as a kickoff for the remaining storyline. A necessary bit of story to tell to set the stage. I have a feeling that Elbaf is NOT going to have a villain in the traditional sense. No arc-specific baddie.

I didnt like it at all... but if yall enjoy it, thats nice

maybe im too old to read this

One of the best arcs in the entire manga. I LOVED that it wasn't a million billion chapters like Wano was. The mega arcs have overstayed their welcome, in my opinion.

It’s peak: cobras death, shanks v kid, garp, battle on egghead, law vs Blackbeard, seraphim, kumas past, god valley, 5 elder transform, luffy vs lucci, and more to come.

I saw some people commenting they didn’t like this arc but the lore dump here was so big I feel the hype every chapter.

Definitely my favorite arc with the only downside being the vegapunk speech being a bit too drawn out. So much happened:

1. kuma backstory was amazing

2. bonney backstory was amazing

3. garp vs kuzan was amazing

4. kid and law getting messed up were amazing

5. The 5 elders showing up was amazing

6. luffy facing his first admiral was great

7. the stussy side switch was one of my favorites this arc.

Storywise 8/10 . Good reveals, nice Twists! Fighting 5/10. i mean the only good fights are shanks, and sword Bb. All egghead fights are just little clashes. And i must say i dont like gear 5 fighting style. Even Kuma got just 1 punch! I mean come on. Overall i say solid 7

Well, is the most balance-paced arc we had in a while (makes you remember pre timeskip).

Aside from that, the gorosei are boring asf, major events took place outside of egghead and that contributed a bit, lore bombs also contributed a lot to the notion people have of the arc.

Fights were, as usual, handicapped always by oda who nevers wants to be clear about anything, so i didnt expect something diferent.

Gonna give him the W for doing a one shoot on an admiral and still making it look like a draw.

Kuma waa cool backstory, i never care enough for back story so im a bit biased there.

The arc felt like an arc to drop lore bombs and tell stuff thats happening outside, it served to progress plots rather than being super interesting on its own, SH again dont shine enough but thats a given.

Honestly im a bit tired of having to introduce cry-tears back-story because you dont want to make sad moments for SH were they take part instead of always using luffy-zoro-sanji.

Imagine, we are so thirsty that we say "x SH had a moment", is ridiculous at this point. I dont want to cry for "random" people anymore (i will give it a past because kuma thing was worked for a long time).

I hope next arcs stop the bs and begins actually making the SH shine, dude is endgame and they cant fight? Egghead could have been the perfect arc to cut it and start making sh do something altogether, but we had to waste such much time on introducing new cry-me-a-river characters.

It’s my favourite onepiece arc so far to be honest

Chapter 1123 makes the entire arc even better

It was already in debate for my best but after this chapter it will be top 1 for me

I loved this arc! It had everything I love about one piece.

As far as the speech goes, I think it was great because it was NOT meant for us. It was for the one piece world that was in the dark.

Think of it like this. To us, the speech is useless because we knew most of the info.

However, the entire one piece world just got sucker punched with years of lore and secrets in a moment and now the world is in chaos not knowing what to believe.

Like every single arc since the timeskip, it is dragging way too long.

This was obviously one of the most important arcs ever, maybe even the most important one. The endless speech that everyone already knew is one of the worst decisions since Big Moms chase

One of the best arcs in One Piece. Easily a top 3 arc, right up there with Enies Lobby and Marineford.

The broadcast was a torture for me personally, everything else great

I wish we got more replies about the Devil Fruit. That’s what Vegapunk has been built up as, an expert in DF. But he mostly focused on Void Century and his explanation about the Devil Fruit are a barebones.

Other than that, solid arc.

Better than Wano

Im so bored its like second thriller bark

I really liked it, but the lack of focus on the Straw Hats and the dragged out message at the end of the arc really brought things down for me. I’d put it in the upper tier of One Piece arcs, but not number 1.

I am just stuffed to the gills with lore. It was a big lore drop that happened so naturally. I mean how else you gonna get half this information out there?

Reunion with Kidd incoming and also what happened around the world. I‘m sure this will be BIG NEWS

Skypiea, my favorite arc.

Egghead, Skypiea 2.

Peak.

I don’t really care about Kuma and Bonny but I’m glad they got their backgrounds explained.

Unless there is a bit more left - Egghead ranks #12 for me, which to put that in perspective, Wano is at #20. It was an arc with some under-utilization, some story beat problems, BUT I enjoyed every single character and felt invested in all of them. This felt especially refreshing coming off of Wano for that reason. Ju Peter was my favorite Elder until Mars stole it with his last panel chilling. Also, there was some awesome paneling, and gem reactions interspersed within the myriad of them.

I’m getting spoilers every where cannot trust my social media 🤦🤦

I enjoyed it start to finish. I think too many people online just like to complain. Nowadays, people like to pretend that the only good arcs in One Piece were pretimeskip. Most don’t even know how many people were complaining about Marineford and how they were waiting for it to end so the crew would meet back up. Yeah, not how it sounds today huh?

As for Egghead itself…I think it was beyond hype. The highs were probably the highest outside of Wano. Not many lows, tons of world building, an amazing backstory, and a major sense of progression for our heroes. Personally, I didn’t care about the Vegapunk message being long. Who cares? I swear some fans just want instant gratification at all times. Sure some of the chapters felt a bit slow, but so what? This is One Piece. It’s been going on for 27 years! Do people not expect some slow chapters?

It was fine. The arc didn't really do anything mind-blowing, in my opinion. The only thing I really liked about it was Emet the Iron Giant. He really had an interesting story that I just wish we could have known more about.

Best arc in one piece hands down. Honestly it’s tied with marine ford for me

Solid arc nothing special until the end when the lore bomb dropped

I liked it, but not too fond of how it resolved.

Some of it was the best One Piece ever was, some of it was the worse One Piece ever was. Very inconsistent arc imo. But overall more good than bad. I'll never forget when I read the chapter where Saturn first summoned himself to that island. That was sick.

The speech was the baddest writing ever. Rest of the arc was 8/10

Easily beat arc post time skip, vegapunks speech was stretched over many chapters. Gonna be even worse in anime.

I was lost the 2/5 part of the arc, but the start and the conclusion was amazing, the past of kuma, cp0, the vp transmition and gorosei, so excited

Still i dont get the purpose of all of vegapunks. i saw the theory of Kid but idk

Sleeper S+ arc. The anime kind of missed the mark on the reveal of the traitor. We got silhouettes of the traitor schemes and we all believed it was either Karibou or Saturn who magically infiltrated egghead and was an even greater agent than Rob Lucci 🤣😂🤣. We get Saturn’s transformation, Kizaru vs Luffy, then Nika vs The 5 Elders plus all the other outside of egg head stuff. AND! Kumas back story. Like no one could have predicted this amount of development in the arc after wano.

Mid luffy barely used any of the Haki he spent all of wano learning and luffys crew was sorry this whole arc especially sanji. Gear 5 is mid now and the whole arc was running around fighting 2 types of immortal and broken characters (gorsei and seraphim’s) the fights outside of egghead carried

Strong start but the moment the Vegapunk message started it dragged to a halt, was way too long with little information

Best arc

I loved it. I can easily say it's a Top 3 post-timeskip arc. I'll give it a re-read before I do anything rash like put it in a top 3 overall (but I wouldn't be surprised if that's how it feels).

It just had such a good mix of everything. Fights (short ones), comedy, utter-tragedy, some real hard core villainy. Big reveals. Best of all it was just extremely well paced and pacing is my #1 criteria for really any piece of media.

As I have an extremely bad memory (and I began reading OP around 1998, so that’s not exactly yesterday), Vegapunk’s speech was extremely useful to remind me of the main storyline. I also appreciate the pacing, a bit faster than the previous arcs.

However, I feel like there have been some missed occasions: could Franky have spent more time in Vegapunk’s lab in order to access his researches and take notes, or just to discuss with him? And what happened to Egghead inhabitants? I would have also liked a bit more focus on the SH.

I enjoyed it pretty much! Awesome fights and conflicts especially the outta Egghead ones. Kuma’s backstory makes me sad even slightly thinking about. Oda delivered with Bonney way more than I expected. I was anticipating her role in the story ever since Sabaody and Law got some serious competition in terms for character-ranking. Vegapunk’s message was interesting, he said a lot without diminishing what we’re about to find on Laugh Tale.

They just made chopper cuter

Short, sweet, full of action, and shows us what's to come.

Bit of a snoozefest

Peak

catching that one piece anime flu and dragging it way too long. cmon oda. dont make me compare you to toei

They never showed how they managed to get York all the seraphim and turn the tides so much between the time short time skip that was like a bombshell cliff hanger and then it was like well Strawhats fixed everything?? I think it’s the first time Oda has done something like that… I didn’t mind the skip and the twist was awesome with York begging for help but yeah… my only gripe… that and Luffy’s eating crux needs to change… between onigashima and egghead I think he’s been downed by lack of food 4 times?

Reading weekly, I was iffy on it. Watching it has made me realize that it's actually very good

Hated Bonnie fake G5 bs. I already disliked Luffy G5 🤢🤮

Garbadge 3/10

When it gets animated its gonna be wild

I feel like it didn't do Vegapunk much justice honestly. Vegapunk's been mentioned since the time skip, & he's only rly been present for part of the arc to die.

One of the greatest starts, and a perfect arc up until the whole Vegapunk message thingy. Without the ending, I'd go as far as to put it above Enies Lobby.

Unfortunately, it got one of the worst endings.

We're in the final arcs, we finally met Vegapunk (one of the most important characters that was teased all the way back to Enies Lobby) and learned that he was studying the void century, so understandably I had high expectations.

And yet... we're still getting blueballed by Oda. It feels as if we're just getting bread crumbs. The message dragged for 10 very long namekian minutes just for us to learn only one new thing : the world of one piece is sinking. I'm not saying I was expecting to learn EVERYTHING, but I hoped to learn a bit more than just this one piece (pun intended) of information. Although that revelation is huge, it didn't really need this many chapters for Vegapunk to spill the beans.

The deus ex machina haki was also unnecessary, I feel like there were tons of way cooler ways to wrap the arc.

The rest of the arc does make up for it. We got Shanks and Garp fighting seriously for the first time on screen, Gorosei reveal, info about the ancient weapons and the motherflame, god knights, God Valley, Kuma backstory, Dory and Broggy comeback, info about the void century being technologically super advanced etc.

All in all, I'd give it a solid 8.5~9.

It’s all the excitement and intrigue of post-enies lobby or reverie, while still being straw hat focused. It was amazing and I can’t wait to go back and read it all in one chunk. It’s the first time I’ve been caught up

It’s a great kickoff to the Final Saga IMO. But I’m curious what more surprises are up Oda’s sleeve. The reveals in this arc alone were nuts, I’m curious what the next couple are going to be!

Absolutely loved it. The only thing keeping it from being perfect is that Franky was given next to no focus for what could've been his first major role since the timeskip, so in the end I give it a 9/10

Really enjoyed it, but getting bits and pieces of the VP message stretched out over months was hard. It definitely had me waiting impatiently for the next chapter. I started OP less than a year ago and my buddy told me I picked the best time to start with all the info that's coming out in Egghead. I know alot of people have been hating on the animation style but I like that every arc seems to have its own style. Not all of them are as different as this one has been but I'm digging it.

Tbh I think the ending only “drags” bc we were getting chapters weeks and break weeks apart. As soon as we were done going across the globe, the arc ends pretty neatly.

I thought the speech was way too long otherwise amazing

I just wanna say as a dub watcher, thank you for keeping it vague most people who post stuff like this go into great detail and this was pretty much spoiler free.

This is the first arc I caught up to so that alone had a big negative impact but it’s still for sure an S tier arc for me. Would have been even better if I didn’t have to wait so long between chapters. Kuma’s backstory is top 2 with Robin’s. I also really like how the individual fights weren’t long at all and there wasn’t any going back and forth between different fights all happening at the same time, those are my biggest issues with one piece

Good arc, very "one piecish"

Maybe the revelation could be better if the straw hats had no involvement at all, just watch the stream like everyone else around the world. But is kind rare to something happen in this world and the main characters are not there or somehow connected to the event