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It is the kind of pretentious plot that isn't an example of anything good for any mature people but for the kind of person who would use this as music for an AMV. The moment you are over fifteen and have read literature of actual quality about such political and warlike conflicts, the moment you...

Why doesn't surprise me that you went for the typical over-the-top, edgy melodrama that any mature reader would cringe at.

To be fair, assuring that Oda is the best Japanese writer is something that someone can't even begin to evaluate without speaking fluent Japanese, so indeed is quite an egocentric statement. And as you said, you can take inspiration from other stories, from popular culture, from historical...

I'm sorry, but I'm one of those who don't buy the whole "everything is done already" idea just because of how paradoxical it is. Anyways, I am not really treating Oda as a fraud or something like that because he took tons of inspiration for many things from Terry Gilliam's filmography, for...

Unless you watched Bergman's movies and read García Márquez as a little kid, then yes, I watched good ol' Maya when I was little.

No, Pica's gag is an example of how sometimes Oda doesn't even make the effort to come up with a creative gag but takes an already existing one from a kids show. One Piece is more of a Frankenstein monster than an original story.

Indeed, the more cultivated you are, the more you see how much Oda simply took from somewhere else and put it in his own universe. Which sometimes is interesting as he gives his own twist to it, but others it is pretty much a copy even in the most simple things (I mean, even Pica's gag, as small...

Without even addressing whether this thread is referring to best shonen writer, best manga writer or best overall writer, who here is fluent in Japanese, to begin with, plus has deep knowledge on storytelling, plus knows his stuff in terms of visual design, and so on in order to properly assess...