The fandom's desire for bounty inflation (Chapter 1052+)

I agree with your point, but the logic has never been coherent.

Oda is IMO very good with keeping a somewhat coherent, logical bounty system. It is not like DBZ or some other mangas where you have a power level (I KNOW bounty is more than power) that just keeps escalating in a ridiculous way.

Originally bounties were in the 15 million range and with Buggy, Kuro and Krieg it increased by a whole million. Arlong got us to 20 million, though that is only a 3 million increase. After that Luffy skyrocketed to 30 million and we were now fighting people in the 80 million range. After defeating Crocodile and hitting 100 million and it just skyrocketed from there. Even Oda acknowledges these issues, which can be seen in so many different ways, like putting Izo in line with Ace, what he gave Marco and even increasing later Shichibukai members. Heck, Katakuri's is really bad, since he is closer to bounty to Jack than he is to Queen.

It gets even worse if you look at things like threat. Robin originally had a high bounty, whereas now she is lower than every bounty we know of in Big Mom, Kaido, Whitebeard and Shanks crew besides Bobbin and Rockstar (who has the unfortunate problem of having his bounty revealed around the time 100 million was supposed to be a big deal, but is now the lowest non-Blackbeard Yonko crew member bounty) and even on the lower end of the Strawhat crew. The marines were willing to go to war with Whitebeard to kill Ace, yet his bounty is less than half of Marcos.

Blackbeard with 2 powerful DFs and a whole fleet had a bounty of 2 billion, yet every random Strawhat should have bounties of at or near 2 billion?

I mean, heck, Blackbeard was with Whitebeard for decades, killed Thatch, assembled a crew and was powerful enough to beat Ace and held a bounty of zero with no reputation (this is why he originally got declined for Shichibukai status).

It has never made sense, just Oda picked a number and either placed people in a similar range (Izo), somewhere higher (Katakuri followed by King/Maro) and made the best with whatever the numbers are.

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