General & Others STORYTELLING - Gear 5 is amazing

Not a retcon


incompentent as they took no action of preventing the one person that destined to bring their demise from gaining so much influence and power
I understand this point but you also need to understand that those type of centralized gouvernment are usually not very efficient and the fruit was non awakened for 800 years. So they just did like the other previous them, they just look at it on a side eye.

We need to understand that in good story, people make mistakes.


The same Dictators who are Paranoid Maniacs that often get rid even of some of their most trusted subordinate for the slightest hint of dissent?
Yes, them. Those type of gouvernment are highgly ineficient. Them getting rid of precise target doesn mean that they don't make huge mistake and have huge blind spot.


That’s clumsy amateurish level of of writing which would be a potential career ender for any author who’s not as established as Oda is, leave alone it being anything remotely close to Homer, Dante or Dostoevsky.
No

Good storyteller knows that characters and strong instances make mistakes.


No, wrong. Saying the same thing again and again wont change the facts.
Wano is great? One Piece stan spotted
Of course I'm a One Piece stan, that's not an insult lmao And I also know when to criticize Oda, and yes, Wano was amazing. :)


Yup


"Nika" isn't only the NAME but an important folkloric figure among the oppressed and enslaved (who pretty much are the focus of the story) and also a reference to a Japanese smiling onomatopoeia; it's not the kind of name you just ignore and introduce less than thirty chapters before the most significant revelation made about your main character. Oda had lots of opportunities to use it way before than Onigashima in order to plant actual seeds (I repeat: just have important characters who are connected to the core themes of One Piece —Roger, Hiruluk, Noland...— smirk a "nika" in their most transcendental moments, for example), but he didn't; hence why you need to cling to a vague reference to a "sun god" (in spite of such figure being revered by pretty much every ancient people). Hell, even working a bit more deeply with the connection between the sun as a symbol shared by the oppressed (which is indeed something Oda has been doing) and the "nika" smirk would have worked.
This wouldn't have been too much. Nika is indeed more than a name, but its only the SURFACE of the revelation. Revealing clues or putting more plantings than there is wouldn't lead to readers understanding very well what the nature of the fruit is. Oda didn't take that risk, that's why he put so little time between Nika's planting and the revelation.


Because again, the reveal of the name and what it symbolically entails is just the surface of the revelation, Oda already did enough plantings to create a good revelation like I showed with the transformations and the actions of Luffy.

Author must be really careful not to give to much. Especially when you want people to be incredibly surprised.


He says Oda's comments about his own story dont matter when it comes to my analysis.
Indeed, only when he adds things to his lore Oda must be taken seriously. Comments like "this is just a simple story" shouldn't be taken seriously looking at the reality of the story itself.


Oda is just being humble when he says he created/thought of xyz character 10 chapters ago (like Super novas, roof top fight, Shanks coming to Wano for film red promotion, mismatch of Tama and Ace time line, etc).
We should not care when Oda has an idea, unless you want to create an analysis about his writing process.


Thing is it's not foreshadowing but oda retroactively going back to connect things with Luffy's df.
The job of an author is to link his future work with his past work and his past work with his future work. Connecting thing retroactively (even tho its most likely not true in that case) is not something that is bad, its something that is recommended.


Another thing is I remember that it was mentioned Gomu Gomu no mi is ordinary fruit and no hint whatsoever was dropped regarding it being special.
You didn't watch close enough




However, he dropped it without explaining how he came back to life and how awakening works. ..
Oda is not taking you for a moron, he is thinking that you are able to decifer that by yourself.

We know what this awakening does because of the gourosai, the awekening seems to be something that can happen unconsciously and we already know that Luffy can do thing unconciously (Luffy being dead or alive is still not sure)

Oda planted that in the beginning of the arc



This guy puts the anal in analyst
Charming
 

Reborn

Throughout Heaven & Earth,I alone am d Honored One
Not a retcon



I understand this point but you also need to understand that those type of centralized gouvernment are usually not very efficient and the fruit was non awakened for 800 years. So they just did like the other previous them, they just look at it on a side eye.

We need to understand that in good story, people make mistakes.



Yes, them. Those type of gouvernment are highgly ineficient. Them getting rid of precise target doesn mean that they don't make huge mistake and have huge blind spot.



No

Good storyteller knows that characters and strong instances make mistakes.



Of course I'm a One Piece stan, that's not an insult lmao And I also know when to criticize Oda, and yes, Wano was amazing. :)



Yup



This wouldn't have been too much. Nika is indeed more than a name, but its only the SURFACE of the revelation. Revealing clues or putting more plantings than there is wouldn't lead to readers understanding very well what the nature of the fruit is. Oda didn't take that risk, that's why he put so little time between Nika's planting and the revelation.


Because again, the reveal of the name and what it symbolically entails is just the surface of the revelation, Oda already did enough plantings to create a good revelation like I showed with the transformations and the actions of Luffy.

Author must be really careful not to give to much. Especially when you want people to be incredibly surprised.



Indeed, only when he adds things to his lore Oda must be taken seriously. Comments like "this is just a simple story" shouldn't be taken seriously looking at the reality of the story itself.



We should not care when Oda has an idea, unless you want to create an analysis about his writing process.



The job of an author is to link his future work with his past work and his past work with his future work. Connecting thing retroactively (even tho its most likely not true in that case) is not something that is bad, its something that is recommended.



You didn't watch close enough





Oda is not taking you for a moron, he is thinking that you are able to decifer that by yourself.

We know what this awakening does because of the gourosai, the awekening seems to be something that can happen unconsciously and we already know that Luffy can do thing unconciously (Luffy being dead or alive is still not sure)

Oda planted that in the beginning of the arc




Charming
Nop
 
Not a retcon



I understand this point but you also need to understand that those type of centralized gouvernment are usually not very efficient and the fruit was non awakened for 800 years. So they just did like the other previous them, they just look at it on a side eye.

We need to understand that in good story, people make mistakes.



Yes, them. Those type of gouvernment are highgly ineficient. Them getting rid of precise target doesn mean that they don't make huge mistake and have huge blind spot.



No

Good storyteller knows that characters and strong instances make mistakes.



Of course I'm a One Piece stan, that's not an insult lmao And I also know when to criticize Oda, and yes, Wano was amazing. :)



Yup



This wouldn't have been too much. Nika is indeed more than a name, but its only the SURFACE of the revelation. Revealing clues or putting more plantings than there is wouldn't lead to readers understanding very well what the nature of the fruit is. Oda didn't take that risk, that's why he put so little time between Nika's planting and the revelation.


Because again, the reveal of the name and what it symbolically entails is just the surface of the revelation, Oda already did enough plantings to create a good revelation like I showed with the transformations and the actions of Luffy.

Author must be really careful not to give to much. Especially when you want people to be incredibly surprised.



Indeed, only when he adds things to his lore Oda must be taken seriously. Comments like "this is just a simple story" shouldn't be taken seriously looking at the reality of the story itself.



We should not care when Oda has an idea, unless you want to create an analysis about his writing process.



The job of an author is to link his future work with his past work and his past work with his future work. Connecting thing retroactively (even tho its most likely not true in that case) is not something that is bad, its something that is recommended.



You didn't watch close enough





Oda is not taking you for a moron, he is thinking that you are able to decifer that by yourself.

We know what this awakening does because of the gourosai, the awekening seems to be something that can happen unconsciously and we already know that Luffy can do thing unconciously (Luffy being dead or alive is still not sure)

Oda planted that in the beginning of the arc




Charming
Nop
 
Well, toonforce is not part of rubber powers. He can create goggles out of nothing and turns his surroundings into Looney Tunes.

Also, I think the rubber power of G5 is not really rubbery, it is way too familiar with the way how Looney Tunes characters behave. It's not that he turns the surroundings elastic and flexible but that he bends reality to his imagination.

That's why Luffy has no issues suddenly turning into a giant without blowing air into his bones. He just naturally does and that's not how rubber behaves.
It started getting odd when Kaido mentioned how Snake Man doesn't actually behave like rubber. That was the moment when Luffy's reality bending power started to kick in.

Shanks told Luffy he ate the Gomu Gomu no Mi - I think that was the moment when Luffy instinctively formed his reality warping fruit to be rubber, thus having properties of rubber. The more Luffy started to be creative with his abilities, the less his DF started to behave like rubber.

That's my take about that.
You mean after timeskip that Oda started trying to make gomu gomu not rubber paramecia anymore or that it was some special paramecia?

Oh Kaido...who was in Wano where Oda retconned manga stuff :
  • BOaT being Ryuo...thus creating many questions like " why prets zoro couldn't cut other stuff or hurt logias then"
  • Tekkai being CoA
  • Oden forced into the story (like really forced into the plots)
  • Kaido main reason of invading wano seemed to be getting infod about laughable and poneglyphs 20 years ago but then what we got is him being in wabo 28 years ago
  • Gomu Gomu being Nika Nika all of a sudden
  • Etc...
Gomu gomu becoming something about " imagitions " is just absurd
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I cant wait till years from now where Oda reveals he came up with G5 last minute :risitavirus:
Lol
You know how he rolls
  • Regretting making WCI last longer than planned
  • Admitting he came up with warlords and SNs to make OP longer,
  • Admitting that he addds or modify plots and plans when fans predict them
He will soon state how he made Wano longer, how Carrot was supposed to join, how G5 being Nika was something he came up only during Wano
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Don't lie to yourself.

Wano is Oda's biggest flop
 
Leave to One Piece fanboys giving excuses to a 1000+ chapter manga saying "it needs time, so set up is necessary". As if 25 years isn't enough time. One Piece is literally 90% set up. Oda doesn't know how to write anything outside of set up. Compare it to any other manga e.g Kingdom. Kingdom already concluded a major subplot in 5 chapters, whereas in One Piece we have been waiting in Egghead for 30 chapters now.
Imagine 26 years and over 1000 chapters yet people think those weren't enough to give us clear hints and infos of Gomu being Nika since pre ts
Or at least give us better conclusive plots & fights

"Wait ...Oda is gonna explain it fully" in another 10 years
 

Reborn

Throughout Heaven & Earth,I alone am d Honored One
Imagine 26 years and over 1000 chapters yet people think those weren't enough to give us clear hints and infos of Gomu being Nika since pre ts
Or at least give us better conclusive plots & fights

"Wait ...Oda is gonna explain it fully" in another 10 years
Imagine reading 1000 chapters and still believing Mihawk isn't top tier

That is far worse than whatever oda pulled :milaugh:
 
Frankly it does as this revelation (retcon) makes the World Government (antagonists of the whole story) incompentent as they took no action of preventing the one person that destined to bring their demise from gaining so much influence and power, which puts into question how much of a threat they really are and belittles Luffy's entire journey. I understand that Luffy needs to be the victor when all said and done, but it shouldn't be at the cost of the World Government's intelligence, and the Suspense of Disbelief being utterly destroyed.
It's funny how they couldn't tell Luffy had nika nika until only wano raud lol

:gokulaugh:how convenient that WG and people only realised this now when Luffy loses to Kaido and needs a new power up to win

"Wait isn't that Nika Nika?
 
  • BOaT being Ryuo...thus creating many questions like " why prets zoro couldn't cut other stuff or hurt logias then"
  • Tekkai being CoA
  • Oden forced into the story (like really forced into the plots)
  • Kaido main reason of invading wano seemed to be getting infod about laughable and poneglyphs 20 years ago but then what we got is him being in wabo 28 years ago
  • Gomu Gomu being Nika Nika all of a sudden
  • Etc...
What the f are those BS affirmations ? There is no retcon here.


Gomu gomu becoming something about " imagitions " is just absurd
No, its the pinnacle of One Piece.


Regretting making WCI last longer than planne
Still not deminishing the greatness of the arc.


Admitting he came up with warlords and SNs to make OP longer,
Making One Piece a lot better because of that.


Admitting that he addds or modify plots and plans when fans predict them
Making One Piece even less predictible than it is.. good stuff then.


He will soon state how he made Wano longer, how Carrot was supposed to join, how G5 being Nika was something he came up only during Wano
Highly unlikely, everything in Luffy's transformations and the way Luffy act during his fight lead to the potential reveal of Nika.


Wano is Oda's biggest flop
Nop, its an amazing arc.


Wedding cake is his biggest flop
Nop again Whole cake is one of the best written arc in One Piece.



Imagine 26 years and over 1000 chapters yet people think those weren't enough to give us clear hints and infos of Gomu being Nika since pre ts
Or at least give us better conclusive plots & fights
They were hint, you are just denying their existence mate. (Hints about the capacity of the fruit, the fruit being Nika wasn't needed to be hint, if it was there would not have be a revelation)


"Wait ...Oda is gonna explain it fully" in another 10 years
He already did, just read


how convenient that WG and people only realised this now when Luffy loses to Kaido and needs a new power up to win

"Wait isn't that Nika Nika
A good theorized should be able to predict gear 5 on Enies Lobby.
 
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