General & Others The story of one piece wouldn’t take a competent storyteller and writer more than 1000 chapters to tell

[Jailer]

its called an epic

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dressrosa is one of the best arcs in all of manga

Stop

 

[Logiko]

Stop

Dressrosa has a lot of qualities. Not my favorite arc, but its still great

 

[SDfear]

You should just said, you don't like long stories with drag out plots

 

[S.W317]

Depends on what you mean by competent. Do you really think there are many authors that can do what Oda has done and not only that but do it better?

I think in hindsight there is ways to take the fluff out of an arc like Dressrosa or Egghead easily enough without sacrificing anything important which includes build up. But that's once you have the whole story out already and can work with it.
Writing and drawing a 2 year story(Dressrosa for example) weekly and releasing it as you go with very specific deadlines is much different than releasing a story after its completely finished. (In an ideal world that would be the One Piece anime.)
Just the need to have chapters end a certain way forces a lot of unnecessary fluff within a chapter. Do the same for however many chapters there are in an arc and that factor alone adds up to a lot of unnecessary shit.

I will say that imo the fighting aspect is a big part of what messes up his storytelling. For example - needing Luffy to finish his fight last and adding a lot of unnecessary stuff to make that happen ruins the pacing a lot. That's probably were his story telling is weakest. He doesn't really know how to do it organically but forces it anyway.
Imo Zou was paced well enough mainly due to a lack of fight setups.

Shakespeare

 

[RYNO]

I would say you could 100ish chapters if some of the arcs got better pacing but I would like to use those 100 chapters on better screen time for the straw hats like better fights and character moments but you can't fully say this because one piece hasn't ended we will only fully know if this story it was worth being 1000+ chapter until we get all the answers.

 

[OliveShark]

I know how to answer this question.

Star Trek writers could do the entire show in one episode lol... and they would do it better, too.

 

[Buggy D Clown]

Shakespeare

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[BlackLegFring]

As with all things it comes down to balance. Whether a story is short or long has nothing to do with competence in and of itself.

In One Piece’s case, Oda tends to overindulge. That’s where the issue lies.