Recent content by moreha9685

Rather: will One Piece end? If it does, I don't expect it to end under Oda's penmanship.

You're saying this in hindsight, once the series has wrapped and we know how things go. But as each arc was unfolding, Toriyama knew how to inject tension into almost every chapter. The Dragon Balls aren't omnipotent. We already saw with Piccolo Daimao in DB that Shenron could be killed. We...

Of course. Naruto was a masterpiece of stakes arc after arc, until Nagato shat the bed. DBZ is even better at it because Toriyama can generate tension despite having an actual deus ex in the dragon balls. Bleach kinda works off of manufactured tension with the whole "oh, no, the enemy was ahead...

For all the genre savvy you pretend to have, you can't see that, while life threatening situations aren't the only way to generate tension, an adventure battle manga needs constant obstacles to function by design, and if those obstacle become push-overs, mere boxes to tick on the arc formula...

He sailed the seven seas teaching people how to make black blades. That's why they called him All Blue Romeo.

"Save the cheerleader, save the world!" Guess not :(

I don't think even actual shounen-aged boys (10-12) could've believed that half page of setup. "Oh, no, Zoro will kill himself because this no-name rando we've never seen before told him to. Who will save him?" Like, there was no fake tension there. That wasn't the premise of that short...

These posts are the reason why I wanna commit seppuku.