I just watched a few theories on One Piece, including this and this and the amount of hints and foreshadowing Oda created throughout decades is actually astonishing. Pieces of several hundreds, up to 700, 800 chapters are fitting together to form a bigger picture, he gives us hints a decade in advance (like Sabo's existence and Sabo being even alive) and makes use of a lot of mythology and plays excellently with numbers. Many of those things so subtle most of the people won't even notice.
As far as I know @Salah WG has a whole list of interesting theories and hints waiting to be explored.
So I think people are too harsh over minuscule things related to power levels/power ups or certain fights. I hardly believe Oda "writes himself into a corner" given how much he plans and foreshadows. I don't think he does things on a whim. Mostly at least. If he does, it's related to fights, not to the story itself.
Plus, I'm not a heavy Manga reader, but how does One Piece compare to other big Shounen who have many hundreds of chapters, close to a 1000? I know Naruto, I know Bleach partly. And I know that sooner or later, the Mangaka fucks up, since it's too hard to put such a vast amount of chapters together perfectly. It's the same with series that have many seasons (Game of Thrones, Supernatural, etc.). Some of it is fan service too I think. Name me one Manga you would consider master piece that has nearly as many chapters. Of course it's hard to compare a 1000+ Manga like One Piece with finished Mangas that might have 100, 200, 300 chapters, since it's much easier to make a consistent story with such little chapters.
So I think that overall, no need to be too harsh on Oda.
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As far as I know @Salah WG has a whole list of interesting theories and hints waiting to be explored.
So I think people are too harsh over minuscule things related to power levels/power ups or certain fights. I hardly believe Oda "writes himself into a corner" given how much he plans and foreshadows. I don't think he does things on a whim. Mostly at least. If he does, it's related to fights, not to the story itself.
Plus, I'm not a heavy Manga reader, but how does One Piece compare to other big Shounen who have many hundreds of chapters, close to a 1000? I know Naruto, I know Bleach partly. And I know that sooner or later, the Mangaka fucks up, since it's too hard to put such a vast amount of chapters together perfectly. It's the same with series that have many seasons (Game of Thrones, Supernatural, etc.). Some of it is fan service too I think. Name me one Manga you would consider master piece that has nearly as many chapters. Of course it's hard to compare a 1000+ Manga like One Piece with finished Mangas that might have 100, 200, 300 chapters, since it's much easier to make a consistent story with such little chapters.
So I think that overall, no need to be too harsh on Oda.
@Sentinel @playa4321 @Finalbeta @Fleet Admiral Lee Hung @Bogard @Red Admiral @MarineHQ62 etc
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