- Different themes between arcs. Treasure heist, detective story, horror story, kingdom politics, adventure to find artifact, monster hunting, war, espionage, etc. Not always a war / battle for SHs to free nations from evil big guy.
- maintain Pre-TS storytelling and paneling
- Betrayals and consequences to the story, like HxH or Vagabond or Game of Thrones Season 1 -4 . Both victory and defeat are consequences to characters' effort and mistake, not depending on luck.
- Paid off build-ups, no blueballing.
- characters develop and fluctuates emotionally and interaction-wise instead of going through retardation or stagnant.
- Quality over quantity. For example, better to reserve Luffy's scenes just for important scenes / battles / powers / ideological / character-developing scenes, rather than 10 chapters of him fighting fodders.
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- Kaidou is a titan instead of a dragon. He can increase his body's hardness and density indefinitely. Kaidou oneshot Zunisha as a flex.
- Big Mom is a human-sized grandma full of wisdom.
- Shanks can control feelings, will and mind of others using his unique CoC.
- Zoro becomes calm hermit-like, precise and technical swordsman after timeskip (instead of muh stronger haki style), get CoO to cut enemies' weak points, cut mountains due to technique first and hardest CoA (in the SHs) second. Apparently Asura is advanced Hardening CoA application. He learns to cut all elements as final stage of a master swordsman.
- Sanji get the best Observation Haki instead of Luffy, able to track the smallest details of enemies' future movement, and treat battles as chess games.
- Luffy gets faster-than-light speed (authority over his own kinetic energy), due to him able to create his own Awakening methods to formulate his own power, but erasing Gomu2 no Mi in return, opening the possibility of getting new fruit.
- Imu is an eldritch god.
- In Laugh Tale, there is that ultimate mystical tree where people's wish are transformed into Devil Fruit. And also that place is able to transform Devil Fruits into creatures, destroy Devil Fruits etc etc. That place is called One Piece, a pocket reality that is freely controlled by the one who is able to claim it.