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    General & Others Why has One Piece failed so miserably in the West?

    Depends on whether you define world-building as quantity or quality. OP wins on quantity but quality is similar. I could nitpick all sorts of issues but instead I'll focus on my top 2 or 3. 1. Revolutionary Army is completely incompatible with JoyJoy. The idea underneath a revolution is that...
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    General & Others Why has One Piece failed so miserably in the West?

    People dislike One Piece because it's "cringe" or childish. Number 1 reason. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/2000121-anime-and-manga-other-titles/78721948?page=4 That's pretty bad given that Naruto Anime ended 7 years ago and manga ended almost 10 years ago I disagree. I think the peak...
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    General & Others Why has One Piece failed so miserably in the West?

    The biggest issue with One Piece is that it's too childish for adults but too adult for children. Oda claims he writes the story for 15 year olds but I think the content is closer to middle school territory. If Oda removed all the cringe stuff like Sanji's noosebleeds, Brook asking to see...
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    Questions & Mysteries So.. What will it be about?

    You should watch the ending of Esteban, Child of the Sun since Oda is copying his lore from his favorite childhood show.
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    General & Others Unpopular Opinions?

    Folks on piratefolk were complaining about Oda not combining characters. Oda makes too many similar characters because he isn't good at reusing existing characters.
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    General & Others Unpopular Opinions?

    How are any of these different from Luffy? You know Kaido's friends. You know Buggy's friends. You know Luffy's friends.
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    Controversial Top 5 power systems

    Best is JoJo. Stands are a better version of Devil Fruits.
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    Anime Discussion Best Anime Era ?

    Does this look correct? What are BC and BnHA based on? Hokuto no Ken = Mad Max + Chinese Martial Arts Saint Seiya = Fuma no Kojiro + Greek Mythology Dragonball = Dr. Slump? + Hokuto no Ken (in DB) + Saint Seiya (in DBZ) One Piece = Hokuto no Ken + Esteban, Child of the Sun, + Goku from DB...
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    Questions & Mysteries Most wasted character potential?

    imagine if all one piece characters were drawn as normal people like these two rather than freaks.
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    Questions & Mysteries Most wasted character potential?

    Blackbeard. He is supposed to be Luffy's Sasuke but they've only fought once iirc and as a result their final fight will lack buildup. https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_447#:~:text=to%20a%20pulp.-,Long%20Summary,to%20the%20surprise%20of%20Crocodile.
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    Controversial The importance of Egghead Island Arc

    Disagree. Egghead is PTSD: Seraphim (Ninpo Kuchiyose Edo Tensei), Green Blood (Hashirama cells). Plus Imu (Kaguya), Joyboy (reincarnation of Ashura and Indra), Nika (Nine-Tails Chakra Mode). We're hitting Naruto Shippuden levels of convoluted and retarded. Oda is throwing the most crazy ideas...
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    General & Others Not looking forward to strawhats fights anymore

    Better tension and choreography than anything in One Piece. That would be like a Shichibukai or Yonko killing Dragon or Grap and we know Oda would never write something so epic and that's why Naruto is the best of the Big 3. Notice how Orochimaru uses a Chinese Jian rather than a Japanese...
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    Future Events Will Oda ruin Dragon next?

    But it's pretty obvious at this point that Oda can't write good payoffs. Ironically the story structure of One Piece: new island, new villain masks Oda's inability at creating a coherent long term plot. Oda's payoffs are limited lore drops and Luffy punches bad guy that made someone cry (in the...
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    General & Others Not looking forward to strawhats fights anymore

    One Piece will never have hokage level fights.
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    Powers & Abilities How will Luffy grow stronger?

    "well actually what you think is G5 isn't the true nika form. to access full power nika you must train in the land of the frogs." -Rayleigh
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    General & Others One piece will never have

    I like CSM too and I like OPM but they're for an older demographic compared to MHA and JJK. One issue with "shonen" is that this demographic is too broad. CSM is borderline or arguably a seinen while MHA is borderline Kodomomuke and JJK is in between. The innovation in MHA is about what you'd...
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    General & Others One piece will never have

    OP isn't original. Oda copied the story structure of Esteban, Child of the Sun. I agree that JJK is a copycat show and that's why I don't watch it but it's expected that every 5-10 years you'll see a new copycat show that becomes the new big battle shonen because this genre is popular.
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    General & Others One piece will never have

    No. One Piece is popular because of mysteries/lore, sob stories and world-building. One Piece has many faults but people keep coming back because they want to know what the One Piece is or what the void century is. In the meantime, every arc is an new place to explore (world-building) with...
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