General & Others |Poll| - Why do you read One Piece?
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The series has it's flaws, plenty of them but I enjoy some of the characters (like my favourite Sanji) and the fights can be pretty good as well at times. I wouldn't say I read for the mysteries but I enjoy those as well and anticipate the reveals. Ships? Nah, I try not to get invested in stuff that either won't happen or seems pretty likely to me. One Piece is apparently ending soon so I don't really push myself to read it, I just do even when I'm bored with it cause I might as well
It is the best written shonen I've seen, with only a few to rival it. The attention to detail of Oda, the world building, the way in which he makes his work come to life. I can buy the premise of the One Piece world and say: Yes, this could happen if real life people had superpowers.
Oda is very intelligent and has a deep understanding on how the real world works. That allows him to portray controversial topics in a compelling way
But the thing that impresses me the most is his ability to portray a World of Grey in such a colorful way. No one is a saint, even Luffy's allies are criminals or hot blooded killers and yet you feel passionate about them. See people defending genocidal maniacs like Blackbeard or Kaido.
Of course, there are many things I don't like as well. For example, I do not think it is as funny as most praise it to be, and despite having such an amazing cast it still has annoying characters like Brook or Usopp
Oda is very intelligent and has a deep understanding on how the real world works. That allows him to portray controversial topics in a compelling way
But the thing that impresses me the most is his ability to portray a World of Grey in such a colorful way. No one is a saint, even Luffy's allies are criminals or hot blooded killers and yet you feel passionate about them. See people defending genocidal maniacs like Blackbeard or Kaido.
Of course, there are many things I don't like as well. For example, I do not think it is as funny as most praise it to be, and despite having such an amazing cast it still has annoying characters like Brook or Usopp
One Piece is my favorite work of fiction since I've started reading it 14 years ago.
IT PAINS me to my core see such a marvelous story, filled with these amazing characters and locations, become completely stale.
IT PAINS me to see a man that CLEARLY has no physical conditions to carry with this load of work be so stubborn and not hire more people to help him with it, with both story writing, and drawing.
I understand his sentiment of this work being like a child for him. And he wants to be responsible for it. I get it.
But he doesn't acknowledges his own limitations and the story itself suffers for it.
It will leave a giant hole in my heart when it ends, but sometimes I WISH it would end sooner, just so it doesn't get worse and worse as time goes on.
I'm not a huge fan of Dressrosa, but even that arc didn't give me such a bad taste in my mouth than Wano is doing.
Despite some minor good things here and there, in general, I legit DISLIKE Wano. That's THE ONLY arc of One Piece that I say that I DISLIKE.
I dont care about this people. I dont care about most of its characters. I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE Oden. It's by far the WORST character written in this story.
Kaido is the most ATROCIOUS major villain Oda has ever created. He has NOTHING interesting going for him, aside the fact he is "strong".
His PTSD from Oden is garbage, his motivations are completely bland, his plan is a shit show. Despite all the memes, Big Mom is a much more interesting villain and I wish she was the main villain of this arc, not Kaido.
Who the fuck is Sanji fighting? Dude clashes with King, Queen mentions Judge, Jack and Sanji were going for the scabbards, now he is running somewhere and both Kanjuro and Orochi are also running around.
I dont understand why is it so hard to set this mf up with a fight already.
I love Sanji, but half my love for the character comes from his rivalry and interactions with Zoro. I just find it too funny and cool.
If Sanji doesn't 1v1 a Calamity, dude legit kills the M3 vibe, which was ALWAYS something I've loved. Killing this interaction for zero reason is just a kick in the nuts and I would legit consider dropping the series after that.
I love Luffy, but Luffy never carried this story alone. His crew always had an enormous weight at making me fall in love with the series.
During Luffy's solo adventure after Sabaody, it was really bad not see the SH's, but we still got excellent side characters in Buggy, mr3, mr2, Ivankov, Jinbei, etc. The vast and charismatic roster of One Piece always has been one of its major strenghts, but Luffy has been stealing the spotlight waaaaaaaaay too much.
I'm still going to love seeing Robin smacking Black Maria's ass, or Franky slicing Sasaki, but aside from some cool fights, this arc is dead to me.
IT PAINS me to my core see such a marvelous story, filled with these amazing characters and locations, become completely stale.
IT PAINS me to see a man that CLEARLY has no physical conditions to carry with this load of work be so stubborn and not hire more people to help him with it, with both story writing, and drawing.
I understand his sentiment of this work being like a child for him. And he wants to be responsible for it. I get it.
But he doesn't acknowledges his own limitations and the story itself suffers for it.
It will leave a giant hole in my heart when it ends, but sometimes I WISH it would end sooner, just so it doesn't get worse and worse as time goes on.
I'm not a huge fan of Dressrosa, but even that arc didn't give me such a bad taste in my mouth than Wano is doing.
Despite some minor good things here and there, in general, I legit DISLIKE Wano. That's THE ONLY arc of One Piece that I say that I DISLIKE.
I dont care about this people. I dont care about most of its characters. I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE Oden. It's by far the WORST character written in this story.
Kaido is the most ATROCIOUS major villain Oda has ever created. He has NOTHING interesting going for him, aside the fact he is "strong".
His PTSD from Oden is garbage, his motivations are completely bland, his plan is a shit show. Despite all the memes, Big Mom is a much more interesting villain and I wish she was the main villain of this arc, not Kaido.
Who the fuck is Sanji fighting? Dude clashes with King, Queen mentions Judge, Jack and Sanji were going for the scabbards, now he is running somewhere and both Kanjuro and Orochi are also running around.
I dont understand why is it so hard to set this mf up with a fight already.
I love Sanji, but half my love for the character comes from his rivalry and interactions with Zoro. I just find it too funny and cool.
If Sanji doesn't 1v1 a Calamity, dude legit kills the M3 vibe, which was ALWAYS something I've loved. Killing this interaction for zero reason is just a kick in the nuts and I would legit consider dropping the series after that.
I love Luffy, but Luffy never carried this story alone. His crew always had an enormous weight at making me fall in love with the series.
During Luffy's solo adventure after Sabaody, it was really bad not see the SH's, but we still got excellent side characters in Buggy, mr3, mr2, Ivankov, Jinbei, etc. The vast and charismatic roster of One Piece always has been one of its major strenghts, but Luffy has been stealing the spotlight waaaaaaaaay too much.
I'm still going to love seeing Robin smacking Black Maria's ass, or Franky slicing Sasaki, but aside from some cool fights, this arc is dead to me.
Way too deep to stop now. I stopped reading then started again just cause I was curious but I don't genuinely feel excited about new chapters anymore. One Piece is one of those shows that dropped in quality after a long period of time. I found it funny when people were like Luffy vs Katakuri is Luffy vs Lucci 2. The fact that people even have to say that shows how bad the series is compared to how it was before. The series as a whole is still good but anyone who says they dont see the difference lying. The fans put the yonko on a pedestal and Oda completely screwed himself over by writing them that badly. The hype actually exceeds their power level so his fans instantly get upset when they are injured. This is what Kubo did to villains when Ichigo kept getting stronger.
Also Wano introduce some of the most generic elements in Shounen history such as time travel. That was cringe. WCI was a complete waste of time and could have been 50 chapters and so far Wano looking like its prepping up to be an overhyped Marineford war.
Also Wano introduce some of the most generic elements in Shounen history such as time travel. That was cringe. WCI was a complete waste of time and could have been 50 chapters and so far Wano looking like its prepping up to be an overhyped Marineford war.
I've stopped paying attention since WCI. I've been disappointed in Oda's writing since Fishman island arc, but I was a big Oda believer back then. I had been resisting for quite some time until I finally gave in, I was defending Oda in every forum or social media I could... my best excuses were this: "Oda is building up a bigger and better arc than arcs we had in post-timskip, just wait for Wano; FIA wasn't important som Oda didn't really pay attention to some of the details; WCI arc is just a bad turn, just wait for Wano it'll be great etc" but close to the end of WCI I just gave up. Of course even after that I had hopes about Wano, but the first 10 chapters of Wano arc killed even that.
I was never a big fan boy to any of the characters, never have been and never will. It's just who I am, I don't go crazy about real humans middles to say about fictional 2D characters. The only thing I was interested is the quality of the storytelling and the journey itself. So when quality got down I had nothing that could keep me in, but I'm still interested how it'll end, after all I've been with one piece for so long.
I was never a big fan boy to any of the characters, never have been and never will. It's just who I am, I don't go crazy about real humans middles to say about fictional 2D characters. The only thing I was interested is the quality of the storytelling and the journey itself. So when quality got down I had nothing that could keep me in, but I'm still interested how it'll end, after all I've been with one piece for so long.