I’m pretty sure I read a tweet, basically saying that oda is genuinely trolling from here on out. He wants to make the most wackiest shit he possible can and go against the grain
He honestly is and it would make sense, I swear hes had a
"Mid"life crisis recently and this is him lashing out, as the realisation of spending over half of his life working on a single series that was meant to be only 5 years long is really taking its toll on him now. He wanted to end it by next year at the latest so he could travel the world when hes 50, which is on new years day next year too....so whoops!
Im certain Shuiesha is still forcing him to do all this nonsense of baiting and dragging out the story with tons of offscreens, new plotlines/mysteries, stalling, distractions and w/e else. Oda said some very interesting things before the final saga started, which were:
1. The real story begins now, you can start reading One Piece from now instead, which implied the whole journey so far has been "filler" and given the story was meant to be only 5 years long, that would explain a LOT too!
2. He also said he doesnt enjoy drawing fights anymore and doesnt want them to be more than a chapter long. He just wants to draw whatever entertains him, whatever makes him happy even if his audience, his readers don't like it, its all about what he wants now. I can't blame him in some ways but it fucking sucks for us too ofc.
This really make me think Oda is fed up, burnt out and just wants to get this shit over and done with, I mean can he really still be passionate and thus energised towards a series hes been killing himself over for almost 30 years now? That he ended up in hospital due to overworking on it and having to take mandatory scheduled breaks for and having to oversee so many other major projects like the games, movies and now the live action series and novels too?
How much of his own life has he missed out on? His marriage? Seeing his daughters growing up and being a father to them? No wonder deadbeat fathers are such a common occurence and topic in One Piece too lmao. Although he wrote such an amazing storyline of Senor Pink and Kyros as fathers, even Kinemon (fuck Oden though lmao), Oda really makes adoptive fathers look so much better than biological fathers too, Zeff vs Judge for Sanji too for example especially ofc.
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