u/Pleasant-Scar-2542

I was so intrigued by the setting and story that I simply didn't want to drop it so I watched 25 episodes in succession (With only small breaks for drinking water).

The rest of One Piece may be better but the novelty wore off so I wasn't able to replicate this again.

If Oda ever writes a romance between Nami and a man, he has to build up an emotional bond between them stronger than Luffy and Nami which is really hard especially when Luffy is the protagonist of the show.

Rukia and Renji's romance was built up in their childhood flashback so it made sense. But Nami currently only has a strong emotional bond with Luffy and then the rest of the crew are her good friends.

The only way for her to end up in a romance would be to introduce a new flashback character who was kind to Nami and understood her struggles when she was 12 and Nami developed a childish crush on him

I thought it was something only possible in fiction because how could they erase entire islands and have people think the island never existed but it happened in real life a lot.

Joseph Stalin was notorious for this. He would have his enemies or political opponents killed and wipe them out from every photo of him with them and through a process of mass information control, people started believing that the person never existed in the first place. When I read about it, my mind immediately went to the World Government.

I couldn't really understand this part well. How is the WG able to erase the existence of islands like God Valley? Don't the neighbouring islands know that an island like that exists? Or people who have been to that island?

I have never met someone in real life who thinks post timeskip was a big drop off in quality. It's mostly an internet opinion.