General & Others The Yamato Cover Story
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Oda honestly wanted to do a lot more with Wano that he ended up doing.
You could even defend him to some extent and say that outside pressures had him make certain choices rather than others.
That Naito editor's obsession with Carrot had the bunny get more panel-time than needed; as soon as Naito left, so was Carrot dropped. So, without her, maybe Oda would've had, what, half an extra chapter to show more barren wasteland?
And then there was the marketing campaign for Film Red, which Oda chose to support over his own hand-drawn story, shortcutting Greenbull's introduction by feeding him to Shanks' hype.
Say that those two major events were forced upon Oda (and I'm using that word with a lot of leeway), but that only removes about 2 to 3 chapters from Wano's overall bloat of 149 chapters!
How does a worldbuilding master storyteller not find in 149 chapters room to show the aspects of the island he had been dying to show for over 20 IRL years?
You could even defend him to some extent and say that outside pressures had him make certain choices rather than others.
That Naito editor's obsession with Carrot had the bunny get more panel-time than needed; as soon as Naito left, so was Carrot dropped. So, without her, maybe Oda would've had, what, half an extra chapter to show more barren wasteland?
And then there was the marketing campaign for Film Red, which Oda chose to support over his own hand-drawn story, shortcutting Greenbull's introduction by feeding him to Shanks' hype.
Say that those two major events were forced upon Oda (and I'm using that word with a lot of leeway), but that only removes about 2 to 3 chapters from Wano's overall bloat of 149 chapters!
How does a worldbuilding master storyteller not find in 149 chapters room to show the aspects of the island he had been dying to show for over 20 IRL years?
What are you talking about i am talking about the cover story not the arc. Ofc most people on here hates Wano but this isnt what i wrote about. I dont hate wano and i disagree with most people write about the arcs problem but thats for another time. Oda usually does cover stories on the islands we are before just to show us what characters are doing.
One of the reasons why this arc annoyed me so much, Oda didn't stop trying to tie almost everything back to Wano with it not only having a Road Poneglyph but being the birthplace of the poneglyphs, of seastone and only place where it can be mined and carved, Kaido's HQ, Oden and his ties with Whitebeard and Roger, and being Pluton's hidden place.
This cover story showed Oda couldn't stop himself, with Moria being made a Kozuki even if it adds nothing to his character, and that he's more interesting as independent from Wano and this shitty clan.
This cover story showed Oda couldn't stop himself, with Moria being made a Kozuki even if it adds nothing to his character, and that he's more interesting as independent from Wano and this shitty clan.
More respect to Moria than Oden.
Pure conjecture, you really think he had any push on Oda when at this time his editors became a lot more obedient of him? Carrot's sidelining was a bloat issue, but still had some set up for her story later down the line, this was Momo's mainly. I used to have gripes to how she was done, but if it leads to more (which I believe will) then there's nothing to really complain here; her defeat was symbolic because she went backwards instead of onwards yet it wasn't fruitless either since it saved Marco.
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Pure conjecture, you really think he had any push on Oda when at this time his editors became a lot more obedient of him? Carrot's sidelining was a bloat issue, but still had some set up for her story later down the line, this was Momo's mainly. I used to have gripes to how she was done, but if it leads to more (which I believe will) then there's nothing to really complain here; her defeat was symbolic because she went backwards instead of onwards yet it wasn't fruitless either since it saved Marco.
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