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Bruh, regardless, even if he's doubling down and focusing, can't you see that its still taking him LONGER to get certain points of the story? Lol. Between Jaya-Post-Enies Lobby is <200 chapters. From Punk Hazard to current Wano is over 300. Include FI then its nearly 400. When Wano finishes it will be over 400 chapters. I'm confused what hard to get about this.
It doesn't matter if he's "diverging" or not. Its still shows when nearly all of your new world arcs are larger than Skypiea or Water 7
Stop using the word "coherent". Coherency means if something makes sense or not (as in a sentence being spoken in proper english). You mean to say we should be taking the comment "seriously". I don't. That's really it.
....and my whole point is that he is physically spending more time and arcs and villains now than he has ever done. My question to you is, even if arcs now bear significance to the overall story, you think he's going to address Blackbeard, Im, Akainu, Shanks, Dragon, and a hundred other characters, locations, and plot threads in less than 150 chapters? Which mind you, that's the amount of chapters we get every 4 years, 152 chapters on average from 38 chapters per year.
Okay, we'll see in 38-40 chapters if that is true, even though Act 3 hasn't finished and Act 4 will probably be as long as Act 3, not including Act 5.
Sure, that's fine. You are entitled to your opinion. But remember that all big stories usually end in 1 of 4 ways:
- You rush and waste the time allotted to you (Bleach, Yu Yu Hakusho, Toriko are some examples that come to mind. Game of Thrones is a TV show in the same vein)
- You force your series to a conclusion by throwing insane McGuffin's 90% into the plot with no prior history (Naruto, Fairy Tail, etc)
- You give the necessary time allotted, no matter how long it takes, answering every question and covering every plotline established (I have yet to see a manga truly end this way, granted the manga I read is limited so you could have your own examples. GRRM is struggling to end A Song of Ice and Fire this way with his 2000+ page manuscripts per the last 2 books)
- You somehow end the story swiftly but satisfyingly, such as achieving all of option 3. (I have yet to see anything remotely resemble this in manga. Breaking Bad is a TV show that comes into mind where the 2nd half of season 5 is pretty much just 8 episodes of chaos, but the show realistically had like 5 main characters. Again the plot wasn't horribly complicated).
Option 4 is quite possibly the hardest thing to achieve, and with Oda's pacing and OP's complexity, which has been consistent for years (in the "dragging" direction), I highly doubt we'll see something like this. IMO, thats why we are likely to see Option 3 as the only positive outcome, unless people are expecting a plot McGuffin to ruin the ending or the manga just rushes to the conclusion. Because Oda has planned out his ending, I'm confident he can do it, but it will take significant time to do so.
Aka, my point on this matter. If you expect the series to end in 5 years (not saying you do), you expect it to end in 180 chapters, including the chapters required to finish Wano, after Wano had 300+ chapters of story setup.
It doesn't matter if he's "diverging" or not. Its still shows when nearly all of your new world arcs are larger than Skypiea or Water 7
Stop using the word "coherent". Coherency means if something makes sense or not (as in a sentence being spoken in proper english). You mean to say we should be taking the comment "seriously". I don't. That's really it.
....and my whole point is that he is physically spending more time and arcs and villains now than he has ever done. My question to you is, even if arcs now bear significance to the overall story, you think he's going to address Blackbeard, Im, Akainu, Shanks, Dragon, and a hundred other characters, locations, and plot threads in less than 150 chapters? Which mind you, that's the amount of chapters we get every 4 years, 152 chapters on average from 38 chapters per year.
Okay, we'll see in 38-40 chapters if that is true, even though Act 3 hasn't finished and Act 4 will probably be as long as Act 3, not including Act 5.
Sure, that's fine. You are entitled to your opinion. But remember that all big stories usually end in 1 of 4 ways:
- You rush and waste the time allotted to you (Bleach, Yu Yu Hakusho, Toriko are some examples that come to mind. Game of Thrones is a TV show in the same vein)
- You force your series to a conclusion by throwing insane McGuffin's 90% into the plot with no prior history (Naruto, Fairy Tail, etc)
- You give the necessary time allotted, no matter how long it takes, answering every question and covering every plotline established (I have yet to see a manga truly end this way, granted the manga I read is limited so you could have your own examples. GRRM is struggling to end A Song of Ice and Fire this way with his 2000+ page manuscripts per the last 2 books)
- You somehow end the story swiftly but satisfyingly, such as achieving all of option 3. (I have yet to see anything remotely resemble this in manga. Breaking Bad is a TV show that comes into mind where the 2nd half of season 5 is pretty much just 8 episodes of chaos, but the show realistically had like 5 main characters. Again the plot wasn't horribly complicated).
Option 4 is quite possibly the hardest thing to achieve, and with Oda's pacing and OP's complexity, which has been consistent for years (in the "dragging" direction), I highly doubt we'll see something like this. IMO, thats why we are likely to see Option 3 as the only positive outcome, unless people are expecting a plot McGuffin to ruin the ending or the manga just rushes to the conclusion. Because Oda has planned out his ending, I'm confident he can do it, but it will take significant time to do so.
Aka, my point on this matter. If you expect the series to end in 5 years (not saying you do), you expect it to end in 180 chapters, including the chapters required to finish Wano, after Wano had 300+ chapters of story setup.
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Pretty much this.
Right now we get around 35-38 chapters per year. Oda's comment, that he would like to finish OP in five years, was made a year ago.
That would mean that we have ~140 chapters left.
Totally unrealistic imho.
Wano alone will last at least 50 more chapters (we're still only in act 3 and the countless fights haven't even begun yet, fellas).
That means in this scenario there would only be ~90 chapters left for:
1) Elbaf (we are definitely going there, make no mistake)
2) finding Laugh Tale
3) final standoff against the BB pirates on Laugh Tale
4) learning the secrets of the world at Laugh Tale and Luffy becoming PK
5) leadup to the final war against the WG/Im-sama
6) the biggest war the world has ever seen against WG/Im-sama
7) conclusion of the story and epilogue
No way Oda manages to do all this in only 90 chapters. It would be devestating, considering that ordinary arcs like Dressrosa or WCI alone lasted 90+ chapters.
Right now we get around 35-38 chapters per year. Oda's comment, that he would like to finish OP in five years, was made a year ago.
That would mean that we have ~140 chapters left.
Totally unrealistic imho.
Wano alone will last at least 50 more chapters (we're still only in act 3 and the countless fights haven't even begun yet, fellas).
That means in this scenario there would only be ~90 chapters left for:
1) Elbaf (we are definitely going there, make no mistake)
2) finding Laugh Tale
3) final standoff against the BB pirates on Laugh Tale
4) learning the secrets of the world at Laugh Tale and Luffy becoming PK
5) leadup to the final war against the WG/Im-sama
6) the biggest war the world has ever seen against WG/Im-sama
7) conclusion of the story and epilogue
No way Oda manages to do all this in only 90 chapters. It would be devestating, considering that ordinary arcs like Dressrosa or WCI alone lasted 90+ chapters.
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