Break Week If you were Oda, how would you distribute screen time between one piece characters?

#1
If I answered honestly without caring who I offend, I'd say take screentime away from Sanji and distribute it among Brook, Franky, and Usopp in Wano.

Sanji got a 78 chapter arc dedicated to him in WCI, usually after a straw hat gets that much attention they get sidelined in the next arc ex: Usopp after Dressrosa, Brook after WCI, but Sanji got all that attention and still got more than almost all the straw hats in Wano as well
 

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#5
First of all, make less characters, second, make the Strawhats and the main enemies of the arc central. Two to three allied local characters is, for the most part, enough, the rest of the locals should be fun ancillary characters.

And for Wano in particular he should have spread out the main Beast Pirates way more. Instead of a throwaway fight against a random goon like Holdem in Act One, make WW the leader of Bakura Town and have him and Luffy have an interrupted fight. Make Black Maria Kaido’s spymaster/ head of the geisha in the FC and set her up with Robin in Act Two. Make Ulti come to the FC in a rage over Page One being beaten and interact with Nami at Orochi’s party/the execution. Make Sasaki work alongside Denjiro as Orochi’s two main bodyguards so he can interact with Franky before Act Three. And find a way to fit way more King in prior to being beaten, and actually let Jack be a meaningful presence again.
 
#6
I’d take it from side characters.

Focus on the core cast:
Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Usopp

Take screentime from arc side characters like Kyros, scabbards, Momo, etc. and give that to the main support cast:
Chopper, Robin, Franky, Brook, Jinbe

After that I’d treat the villains same way as their counterparts.

Give the enemies of the East blue 5 the most time to showcase themselves and take it from more pointless villains (like the Tobi Roppo$
 
#8
Trying to make it logical with the setup.

For Wano before Luffy arrives:
Zoro is leading the ronin of Wano along with one of the scabbards
Franky is in the capital, discovers through carpentry a secret access to onigashima, or manages to build boats to reach it. Onigashima doesn't need to be an island for the first part, it can be a fortress.
Usop really find hard to find him something useful to do, maybe he tags along with zoro and leads brigands.
Robin discovers the existance of the bombs and other crucial prisoners in the jail Possibly Yamato. It's key because Luffy is eventually gonna become prisoner here.

Arrival of Thousand Sunny:
Carrot drowns.
The arrival is fine as it is, Luffy finds that Zoro brigands are being under siege, during that battle he gets captured and brought to the fortress.
In the fortress Luffy learns to use the Ryou as he had, but in my opinion Luffy should have learnt this before being trapped, maybe he sees the fighters in wano using it, motivating also the SAMURAI ARE SO STRONG thing that has been built up for so long.

The more screen time comes from Freeing Luffy, the battle for onigashima is to free Luffy (Franky, Robin) to do, Sanji and Nami and Chopper to attack the second door of the fortress to avoid reinforcement to come in through the access, Queen fight ensues and virus shenanigans. Nami deals with fodder, maybe a tobiroppo. The virus is based on the Virus Virus fruit and chopper defeat the appropriate tobiroppo.

Jimbe, Brook and Usopp are to destroy the main gate, Usopp from the top of the gate has view of the whole inside mansion and snipes, a flying tobiroppo is his enemy. Jimbe can have normal fight, possibly Jack, so is Brook.

Zoro along with the scabbards goes to fight Kaido.

Supernovas are in an open field battle with big mom pirates.

Luffy is freed along with Yamato, scabbard are defeated but manage to take down Orochi, the second in command is a super samurai against Zoro. Luffy doesn't need to lose a thousand times against Kaido. Yamato role is expanded in the jail along with Luffy, where he things that she really is Oden along with the reader, only to be revealed at the end she is not. The role of yamato is weird and cannot fit here. The fortress start flying, momo becomes dragon to save it, Luffy defeats Kaido as the fortress becomes secure and momo drops it where the old castle was, to make it the new castle.

The end
 

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#11
Put all the Strawhats equally. Meaning no excessive Luffy/Zoro panels or less Usopp/Robin/Franky/Nami etc. Everybody should have equal distributed amount of panels.

Then the major players/antagonists, let's say Kidd, Law, Big Mom, Kaido, etc.

Then you got the core allies, example would be the Scabbards.

Then fodders should stay in the background where they should belong.
Actually, he doesnt
Correct me if im wrong but he is 5th in entire series behind luffy nami sanji and usopp
He deserves top 3 and maybe 2 behind luffy only.
Zoro is 4th in panels time after Sanji, Nami and Luffy.
 
#12
Actually, he doesnt
Correct me if im wrong but he is 5th in entire series behind luffy nami sanji and usopp
He deserves top 3 and maybe 2 behind luffy only.
No idea where you got him being 5th from, I really doubt you counted every panel in the manga for every SH and compared them

Regardless, Zoro was absent from WCI entirely unlike Luffy, Nami and Sanji, in the arcs he does appear in he gets way too much screentime relative to the other SH's like Robin, Brook, Chopper, Franky etc
 
#13
First of all, make less characters, second, make the Strawhats and the main enemies of the arc central. Two to three allied local characters is, for the most part, enough, the rest of the locals should be fun ancillary characters.

And for Wano in particular he should have spread out the main Beast Pirates way more. Instead of a throwaway fight against a random goon like Holdem in Act One, make WW the leader of Bakura Town and have him and Luffy have an interrupted fight. Make Black Maria Kaido’s spymaster/ head of the geisha in the FC and set her up with Robin in Act Two. Make Ulti come to the FC in a rage over Page One being beaten and interact with Nami at Orochi’s party/the execution. Make Sasaki work alongside Denjiro as Orochi’s two main bodyguards so he can interact with Franky before Act Three. And find a way to fit way more King in prior to being beaten, and actually let Jack be a meaningful presence again.
Too simple for Oda, he is creative, so he need to something extra crazy.

Why is it hard for Oda to be normal?
Why "normal" story writing, like the one you wrote, is missing in OP?

This is something so simple that it makes me mad, most of the people here who rant about OP, all they talk about is this or want OP to be like this "simple".

This point needs to be highlighted more, but will Oda and his editors ever listen to fans? why would they? They know what they are doing; milking the series (this is the only way I can conclude this situation).
 
#14
Too simple for Oda, he is creative, so he need to something extra crazy.

Why is it hard for Oda to be normal?
Why "normal" story writing, like the one you wrote, is missing in OP?

This is something so simple that it makes me mad, most of the people here who rant about OP, all they talk about is this or want OP to be like this "simple".

This point needs to be highlighted more, but will Oda and his editors ever listen to fans? why would they? They know what they are doing; milking the series (this is the only way I can conclude this situation).
Oda laughs his behind to the bank everytime he says one piece is ending in 5 years or his editors say : We are reaching the ending faster than expected and most of them were under 7 when one piece came out.

Defending Oda is idiotic at this point. Oda sold out a long time ago
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For all the low iq people who think oda is not stalling or enlongating the series you can clearly see in Wano and Totto Land that ODA DRAWS THE EXACT SAME PANELS. I WONDER IF HE COPY PASTED SOME OF THEM. Sanji saying lets make the cake at least 3 times. It is laughable at this point how bad it is.
 
#20

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Either Oda's editors are bad at their job which i do not think this is the case because this does not take much skill to realise or they are milking it as much as they can.
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There is no real reason why pacing has to be this freaking slow and the panels the freaking same. Enough is enough
 
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