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    ONE PIECE CHAPTER 1011: RED BEAN CODE OF HONOR

    Eh 50/50 what you're saying is not wrong but not entirely true either. For example back in EL Oda could have easily given sanji a guy with 1500 doriki, the dynamic would have remained but he chose to give him a guy 20 doriki away from zoro. The actual trio dynamic is not just about sanji being...
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    ONE PIECE CHAPTER 1011: RED BEAN CODE OF HONOR

    I don't think you understood my comment at all.
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    ONE PIECE CHAPTER 1011: RED BEAN CODE OF HONOR

    I truly think Oda thinks we care about everything he writes, I mean what do you expect when everyone around you has been blowing smoke up you're ass for god knows how many years. It's the Kanye effect where a guy has been so successful he thinks anything his mind concocts is somehow "Genius."
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    General & Others Oda's Obsession With Originality and Shockvalue And Why The Story Suffers

    Question: Who have more highlight scenes than you imagined? Eiichiro Oda: “I have to mention Trafalgar Law. Actually it’s not too much to say that all Supernovas have more highlight scenes than I imagined. I created Supernovas right before the chapter where they got introduced. None of them...
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    General & Others Oda's Obsession With Originality and Shockvalue And Why The Story Suffers

    That's why I said that I don't expect him to have every detail planned, but it's clear to anyone who is paying attention to how Wano is unfolding that there is a lot of off the cuff writing going on or at least that's what it seems like but that would just make Oda a poor writer which I don't...
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    General & Others Oda's Obsession With Originality and Shockvalue And Why The Story Suffers

    I never said the supernovas came after Kaido at all I said the concept was not something Oda had pre-planned rather it was conjured up in the midst of publishing because of an editors request and now that same concept is so important to current events. The whole rooftop fight is the worst gen vs...
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    General & Others Oda's Obsession With Originality and Shockvalue And Why The Story Suffers

    I am telling you that Oda while yes has planned many things in the story he still has been influenced to change and add things in the story because of his editors and other reasons which we may never know. Yes Oda has the checkpoints of the story planned but not the steps to getting to those...
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    General & Others Oda's Obsession With Originality and Shockvalue And Why The Story Suffers

    Oda stated that he didn't know how Kaido would be defeated in the middle of writing Wano and the entire concept of the supernovas was something Oda never had planned until an editor told him. Now this is a problem since defeating Kaido is a pretty big god damn deal and the concept of the...
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    General & Others Oda's Obsession With Originality and Shockvalue And Why The Story Suffers

    Exactly, Oda should have established clear rules and limitations for haki. Look at stands or nen, you have range as a factor, environment, conditions, equal cost to reward etc. I think haki should have also been uniquely integrated to ones own devil fruit ability rather than be used the exact...
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    General & Others Oda's Obsession With Originality and Shockvalue And Why The Story Suffers

    Yes I share a lot of you're same ideas and to add to what you said, I think Oda is a creative CONCEPT writer but isn't a creative EXECUTER of said concepts thus he relies on cheap tactics like hype and shockvalue to inject interest. The fact is alot of what Oda writes is more decorative than...
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    General & Others Oda's Obsession With Originality and Shockvalue And Why The Story Suffers

    Agreed, just felt like Oda could have someway included the strawhats into the plot but its is what it is. I hope that not only in this arc but after as well Oda can shift the focus back on the strawhats because everything from punk hazard to WCI felt like a big race to Wano almost like they...
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    General & Others Oda's Obsession With Originality and Shockvalue And Why The Story Suffers

    The heart of one piece was always the straw hats, take that away and the series doesn't feel the same anymore. Oda should have always stuck to the SHs and dealt with side characters like pre time skip because the change he has made to the way he treats theses characters has clearly effected the...
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    General & Others Oda's Obsession With Originality and Shockvalue And Why The Story Suffers

    No I agree that you have to be born with it, but its also something that if you have it you can improve on it by training which luffy didn't seem to do. The problem here is that we spent 2 weeks in udon prison for luffy to learn adv armament because it was supposedly the only way for luffy to...
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    Character Discussion Evil Shanks doesn’t make sense

    Go read about the trickster archetype that's what he is essentially describing. Like a Jack sparrow, Hisoka, Joker, Loki etc.
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    General & Others Oda's Obsession With Originality and Shockvalue And Why The Story Suffers

    Exactly, one of my favorite characters is ussop but like he is practically non-existent, every member of the scabbards has had more focus and importance than ussop had in the past couple arcs and its terrible. If i were to ask the one piece fandom to give me their top 3 favorite moments of every...
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    Character Discussion Evil Shanks doesn’t make sense

    The trickster archetype is what shanks NEEDS to be, the only way to truly make him interesting and not just another good guy or bad guy but more in the grey. Think of like a Hisoka where you're kind of like........wait is he actually a bad dude or? then he does something insane and you're like...
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    General & Others Oda's Obsession With Originality and Shockvalue And Why The Story Suffers

    Those are checkpoints not good writing the good writing is the actual execution and that is our issue with it. It's funny you say that about the marry, if that was not a conflict we would not have the iconic fight between the best friends, the great zoro moment where he showed his extreme...
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    General & Others Oda's Obsession With Originality and Shockvalue And Why The Story Suffers

    What's also really funny to add to your point is, the most rich story in wano is that of the scabbards and those are the exact characters everyone wants to be a sacrifice for the sake of "tension" shows you how little Oda made us care about them. What do you expect when we spent countless...
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    General & Others Oda's Obsession With Originality and Shockvalue And Why The Story Suffers

    This author is trying to run a 4 hour marathon in 5 minutes, to do so you have to take short cuts and progress in unnatural ways. Oda simply added too many characters and storylines, now he has no idea how to maneuver through this mess and often just leaps past all of it in attempts to just make...
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