Multiverse General If Oda and Kishimoto Switched Series , Who Would Write The Better Series ?

[ShinichiMugi]

Lets see,its interesting to imagine it:

-Kishimoto's One Piece would be very different. Less goofy designs,and a more serious tone in some scenes. There would be less worldbuilding. There would not be the same formula of "Luffy goes to an island and save it" every arc. Blackbeard would look cooler,similar to Sasuke,and his parallels with Luffy that already exist in the original story,would be emphasized even more. There would be more deaths,but not too many. There would be more romance. The fights would probably be a little better,and there would be a better pacing

-Oda's Naruto would be with Naruto being more like a troublemaker who challenges every authority,instead of the more mature Naruto we see in Shippuden. There would be more worlbuilding,and more travels. The Akatuski would have probably been beaten one member at time,in different villages. In those different villages we would have some village characters who run in many places during the final parts of the fights. Neji,Kiba,etc. and the others would get more fights,but with less quality. Way less romance. More goofy designs

In the end i think i would prefer Kishimoto's One Piece!

 

[moreha9685]

Gear 5 is the Worst Transformation in Shonen History

I don't disagree with that.
Post-Wano, Kishi washes Oda.
Pre-G5, OP is the better story.

 

[Dettles]

Gear 5 is the Worst Transformation in Shonen History

Six Path Mode was a bigger Ass-Pull.

 

[Rumble]

They're both immensely flawed storytellers, but Oda is far ahead of Kishimoto.

The only thing Kishimoto has going for him is superior drawing.

 

[HerreraIsBack]

Oda writting Naruto would make Naruto have a more natural progression to Hokage instead of making him the strongest ninja on Earth while still being a Genin or Chunin I'm not sure. But the story would be much bigger, and so the world. But also we would have Naruto defeating Gods with jokes, not much different from what we had. So I'd say it would be potentially better.

Kishimoto writting One Piece we would already have Luffy as Pirate King. World a lot smaller without a bunch of unnecessary characters. We would still have unnecessary gags but not as much as we have today and potentially have the Moon arc bringing Enel back. So it would potentially be a better story as well.

Conclusion, both wrote the wrong story.

 

[HerreraIsBack]

Naruto had gone downhill before Black Zetsu.
Pre-G5 OP is still pretty good, even with the quality writing decline.

Nah. G5 was just the bottom but Wano as a whole, except Oden flashback, was lame.

 

[moreha9685]

Nah. G5 was just the bottom but Wano as a whole, except Oden flashback, was lame.

Sure, pre-rooftop Wano wasn't that good, but with a proper ending it could have been salvaged.
G5 was the worst route it could've gone.

 

[BoaHancocksHusband]

You wouldn’t get anything resembling either series.

Kishimoto was much more involved with interpersonal relationships, particularly with his main character. There’s significantly more time spent on Naruto coming to terms with himself and the world in Shippuden than him fighting. Likewise you have more weight to the focused friendships for the protagonists.

Naturally you’d have much better fights, you’d probably have more streamlined antagonists & Blackbeard wouldn’t be the big bad. I’m not sure if he’d be a Sasuke analogous character but I can see Kishimoto writing him as someone straddling the line who dips his toes into either end of the moral spectrum, but ultimately helps against the world government.

We would get significantly less world building and adventure. Due to the nature of the story, we’d see more than in Naruto but we wouldn’t be getting so many islands and fantastical ideas. There would be a lot of Oda’s creativity lacking in a Kishimoto written One Piece.

I think haki would exist, but it’s either a day 1 concept or something that is exclusive to the very strongest characters, like the doujutsu were in Naruto (sans the byakugan).

If Oda wrote Naruto?

we are getting a much more drawn out story, exploring different locations—hidden villages and otherwise—guaranteed. Each village will have a distinct, if not shallow, identity we can easily associate with them. There will be more mysteries in the plot & the plot itself will be denser in the earlier arcs though gradually thin out.

we are guaranteed to get more hype moments for Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, maybe Rock Lee or Neji too. Oda has a checklist for his important characters and that usually lends to giving them something exciting to accomplish.

The Akatsuki would be a major threat but likely also pawns—or hired professionals—from a hidden village or other shady group. They’d be a cross between Cipher Pol & Shichibukai imo.dealt with earlier but becoming recurring later in the story.

villains wouldn’t die as quickly—good and bad—becoming returning allies. I can see Orochimaru & Kimimaro becoming a stand in for Crocodile and Daz Bones for example.

Lore like Kaguya would be hinted at around the Pain arc, Kaguya would be shown or more strongly foreshadowed by the start of the war arc, making her eventual emergence way way less grating.

We’d likely get more Hashirama lore, if he’s our Garp/Whitebeard/Xebec stand in.

The negatives? Fights are not gonna be good. They can be emotional and cinematic but no one would be talking about Rock Lee & Gaara for the choreography, we wouldn’t see intelligent fights like Sasuke vs Deidara. They’d be fine and good but it would be more about style than the actual physical conflict.

Oda does do deaths but they are almost always flashback deaths. So I think we’d get Jiraiya’s death, a few minor side characters (Darui, Ao, Kankuro) instead of anyone Major.

chakra is not explained in depth but there would be many more variations of it and it would be an evolving system. I can see senjutsu, yin-yang release, even doujutsu getting more build up and shared more as a Conqueors haki substitute or equivalent in his writing.

It would be interesting to read both stories written by the other for the novelty but they’d be lacking what made each story shine.

Both authors could borrow heavily from the other to improve their own stories though, in my opinion;

Naruto desperately needed more world building pre-4th great Shinobi world war, which Oda would give it in spades.

One Piece is in dire need of emotional weight and significant relationship overhauls between the main cast.

Nah KishiGOATo mogs. Also not a misogynist cuz Kaguya is a female and strongest female character out of the Big 3

 

[MagellanHydra]

Pain>Every OP Villain.Only Doffy can sniff his sandales

 

[MagellanHydra]

and strongest character out of the Big 3

fixed for ya

 

[BoaHancocksHusband]

fixed for ya

Sadly that senile old man from Bleaxh exists. Yuh Bah

 

[BoaHancocksHusband]

They're both immensely flawed storytellers, but Oda is far ahead of Kishimoto.

The only thing Kishimoto has going for him is superior drawing.

Superior drawing.
superior emotion.
superior pacing.
superior villains.
superior OSTs.
superior fame (OP is still not as famous as prime Naruto was)

Because, originally, it followed to basic western hero's journey. We, at the time, believed he was at such a disadvantage vesus his peers, yet he dreamed way above his station and worked for everything he has. Also helps that Naruto follows our Muslim values and philosophy to the letter. He even converts others too especially his enemies, and yes, sometimes through violence.
P.S. You don't need to be a Muslim to be indoctrinated into our value system.

PS. This was originally Christian I just copy pasted and changed it to Muslim. lol looks All sorts of wrong connotations

 

[Topi Jerami]

Sasuke: Huh?? I have Sharingan???

 

[MagellanHydra]

Sadly that senile old man from Bleaxh exists. Yuh Bah

The bum who lost to Ichigo who is an overrated Brick and a arrow?MT still fucks up Yeewank because Bleach has abysl resistence to mindfuck

Rest of the cast are mostly Orange Mask Obito victims.Their showing in the Anime was pathetic

 

[pg13]

Lets see,its interesting to imagine it:

-Kishimoto's One Piece would be very different. Less goofy designs,and a more serious tone in some scenes. There would be less worldbuilding. There would not be the same formula of "Luffy goes to an island and save it" every arc. Blackbeard would look cooler,similar to Sasuke,and his parallels with Luffy that already exist in the original story,would be emphasized even more. There would be more deaths,but not too many. There would be more romance. The fights would probably be a little better,and there would be a better pacing

-Oda's Naruto would be with Naruto being more like a troublemaker who challenges every authority,instead of the more mature Naruto we see in Shippuden. There would be more worlbuilding,and more travels. The Akatuski would have probably been beaten one member at time,in different villages. In those different villages we would have some village characters who run in many places during the final parts of the fights. Neji,Kiba,etc. and the others would get more fights,but with less quality. Way less romance. More goofy designs

In the end i think i would prefer Kishimoto's One Piece!

With Kishimoto He knows who the important characters are and will highlight them , but Oda views everyone as important. So he will try to flesh everyone out and arcs will take decades to finish.it would be interesting to see someone like Ten Ten get a backstory and a dedicated fight. Rock Lee would probably stay relevant too but idk if his fights would be done the same way.

 

[ShinichiMugi]

With Kishimoto He knows who the important characters are and will highlight them , but Oda views everyone as important. So he will try to flesh everyone out and arcs will take decades to finish.it would be interesting to see someone like Ten Ten get a backstory and a dedicated fight. Rock Lee would probably stay relevant too but idk if his fights would be done the same way.

Rock Lee would be his Usopp probably