Kaido: One Piece's Greatest Villain

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His crew did in fact get treated well. Jack loses constantly and Kaido is all like ‘don’t beat yourself up over it, you are strong’. He literally took Ulti and Page One in because their dad died.

He sunk into despair, but there can never be true despair without hope. What he truly wanted was to be wrong. In his defeat, he has finally won.

It feels so good to see more and more people talking about Kaido !

the best kaido explanation i've seen

Brilliant. The kaido hate is so undeserved and shallow, I'm glad people see the complex insecurity and self-imprisonment buried within Kaido's character. He became an ultimate powerhouse, a villain, because he never believed anything else was possible. But he found solace in his doubt of that worldview, acting as the gateway for Joyboy.

Its insane to me that Gear 5 Luffy paradoxically brought hope to Kaido. He finally got the big fight he wanted, right? But then its such a crushing blow. This whole time Kaido decided that the world is beyond change and to plunge everyone (including himself) into a hellish war, but then he suddenly got a glance at the fact that- theres IS hope. Its been there the whole time. But now he doesn't get to partake in it. He cemented his fate.

I think Kaido was a good villain and I know people wanted an extensive back story but I feel like you can insinuate a lot from the things he says and does, and imagining the life he had was a lot better than the snippet of back story we got

I typically hate saying anything along the lines of “if you didn’t like it, you didn’t get it,” but the horrible reaction Kaido’s received could only be explained this way. Animated media has a bad habit of spelling out themes and motivations, and the moment Oda dips his toes into some more complex, subtle writing, it explodes in his face thanks to a fanbase which can’t appreciate his evolving style, so used to typical anime writing tropes.

The stealth Doffy analysis as intro was great, never thought about him that way!

My headcanon is Kaido was a completely different dude before Oden, you can see him be much more lighthearted and kind when he met King but Oden ultimately broke him. After Odens death he lost all interest in life and became a tyrant

since ive discovered the op community online recently ive noticed that op fans are weird in that they overanalyze things that are presented clearly but then skip over things that are subtle and should be analyzed, they are so quick to judge character, arc moment by moment and cant let the story reveal itself and come to them, ive noticed that honestly it seems sometimes that Oda has to spoon feed them as they cant read between the lines and things have to go they way they think it should go or expect it to go or they get all disappointed and shit, i feel for a lot of the fans it became less about experiencing the story being told and more about what they want or think should happen, theories and headcannons. just my opinion doe.

I think I might be reaching but I always thought of that Kaido's flashback was more like his life flashing in his eyes before death( if he is truly dead). If my memory serves me right, I don't think we've ever seen a flashback of The Antagonist/Deuteragonists before the final punch/blow lands until kaido and whitebeard Great analysis by the way.

This video was pure poetry. The script, the narration, the background clips/panels as well as the choice of osts. An amazing analysis of Kaido as well as Joyboy Luffy.

I’ve never really gotten why people think Kaido needs some big flashback to explain why he is the way he is. His character makes perfect sense based on what Oda’s given us already.

One thing I loved about his fight with Luffy, especially during his transformation in gear 5, is the fact that he give to him the joy to fight, to feel something, after so many years. He was surely bored and depressed and an alcohol addicted before his fight for Rufy, and you can see it by the fact that he didn't even bothered anymore to resolve Wano internal conflicts and he preferred remain to Onigashima to do nothing. Luffy gave him joy and fun to fight again, becoming an actual threat for him, and giving to Kaido the honorable warrior defeat he always wanted. Luffy give joy even to his greatest opponent until now and that's simply incredible.

I just realized something. Eren and Kaido are pretty similar. Both had visions of freedom, but both had that vision crushed by reality. For Eren it was the realization that more enemies lurked past beyond the ocean, despite achieving a childhood dream of seeing the sea, he only saw the pain to come from beyond those waters. Kaido's spirit was crushed from his epiphany that the world cannot change, that history has been the same, and that hope for a better one was lost. So what did these two end up doing? Working towards the demise of their world. One in absolute rage, rancor, and fury at the injustices of the world that aimed to end those he loves and rob their freedom, whilst the other sought to bring this miserable world and himself to an end, to strive for the consolation prize of being someone remembered as the strongest. Armin could still find joy in seeing the ocean, Eren could no longer after seeing the epiphany when he kissed Historia's hand. Luffy still had his bright optimism and romantic dreams for the world despite the pain and sorrow he has witnessed and has experienced himself. Kaido couldn't dream anymore, the harsh realities stifling his ability to see beyond what could be.

Greatest thing about Kaido is he did nothing to Wano. He just guarded Orochi while Orochi did all of it. And he did that because he wanted someone to take him down. Kaido treated everyone exactly like they wanted to be treated and got pissed when they complained and yet did nothing about it.

You never miss with these op vids. Kaido is so underrated

Compared to other villains, Kaido is one you really need to dig deeper. Just as how deep he was drilled by luffy under Wana