General & Others Why is Oda taking so much break especially considering what he produces on average?
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Why are people still discussing this?
Oda has been sick multiple times due to his lack of sport and overall daily/weekly working schedule. Because of his health his got set breaks every 3-4 chapters. He also have to walk 30min a day outside I heard?
Additionally to that, there are WSJ breaks for holidays, and those aren't counted into his own breaks but separately.
Furthermore this year there have been additional breaks because of Covid-19 and the safety of Oda and his assistants.
If you compare it to other artists, doesn't matter if manga/webcomic. Barely anyone is drawing any amount of panels alone. Oda has his assistants, and webcomic artists are just the same. They got assistants doing the lineart, the coloring, the effects.
Not even going to mention the difference between traditional art (Oda) and digital art (most of webcomics, and even magakas nowadays, I think also Horikoshi with MHA). Digital art has a lot of pros in terms of sketching, lineart, coloring, etc etc. It is way faster. Traditional art with ink is difficult. If you fuck up a few lines, you can basically start from anew. The sketch, the lineart, etc. Do everything again from the start. The paper can rip from erasing. What if you spill ink? Fucked up the screen tones? There's so much to take into account.
You can dislike all the reasons I have counted but these are solid reasons. Not to mention, everyone got their own pace while working. Some are faster than others. I also got to add as last point that he isn't just drawinf 24/7. Working with his editors is essential, talking about the manuscripts, the storyboards, plans, and then just drawing the whole thing. It's a solid rhythm of working steps and they take a lot of time. Believe me.
I won't ever argue against Odas pacing because I am a (comic) creator myself and I know how much work it is to do everything alone and even with help. It's not that simple.
Oda has been sick multiple times due to his lack of sport and overall daily/weekly working schedule. Because of his health his got set breaks every 3-4 chapters. He also have to walk 30min a day outside I heard?
Additionally to that, there are WSJ breaks for holidays, and those aren't counted into his own breaks but separately.
Furthermore this year there have been additional breaks because of Covid-19 and the safety of Oda and his assistants.
If you compare it to other artists, doesn't matter if manga/webcomic. Barely anyone is drawing any amount of panels alone. Oda has his assistants, and webcomic artists are just the same. They got assistants doing the lineart, the coloring, the effects.
Not even going to mention the difference between traditional art (Oda) and digital art (most of webcomics, and even magakas nowadays, I think also Horikoshi with MHA). Digital art has a lot of pros in terms of sketching, lineart, coloring, etc etc. It is way faster. Traditional art with ink is difficult. If you fuck up a few lines, you can basically start from anew. The sketch, the lineart, etc. Do everything again from the start. The paper can rip from erasing. What if you spill ink? Fucked up the screen tones? There's so much to take into account.
You can dislike all the reasons I have counted but these are solid reasons. Not to mention, everyone got their own pace while working. Some are faster than others. I also got to add as last point that he isn't just drawinf 24/7. Working with his editors is essential, talking about the manuscripts, the storyboards, plans, and then just drawing the whole thing. It's a solid rhythm of working steps and they take a lot of time. Believe me.
I won't ever argue against Odas pacing because I am a (comic) creator myself and I know how much work it is to do everything alone and even with help. It's not that simple.
Lol you people think 45 is old?
In a year or 2 when Wano is finished and we move on to the next arc or in 5 years when we are the midst of the final arc, I think people will come to appreciate the work that Oda has put into this series leading up to what is being called the final plotline.
Recall that some of the most exciting/well received/biggest chapters are the ones that revolve around mysteries and characters who are essentially the focal point of the final arc. Let Oda finish these plotlines involving Wano. Let him finish the Scabbard stories, the Wano inhabitants, these 2 Yonko ect. Enjoy the fact that he focuses on smaller characters sometimes. It all tells a complete story culminating to something we truly don't know about yet.
SOMETHING about Wano is going to structure us to some form of an end, whether that be a final stretch of multi-arc plotlines or just the "next arc". We ALL know what follows is what most of us are here for.
Though I personally love Wano and what its doing.
Recall that some of the most exciting/well received/biggest chapters are the ones that revolve around mysteries and characters who are essentially the focal point of the final arc. Let Oda finish these plotlines involving Wano. Let him finish the Scabbard stories, the Wano inhabitants, these 2 Yonko ect. Enjoy the fact that he focuses on smaller characters sometimes. It all tells a complete story culminating to something we truly don't know about yet.
SOMETHING about Wano is going to structure us to some form of an end, whether that be a final stretch of multi-arc plotlines or just the "next arc". We ALL know what follows is what most of us are here for.
Though I personally love Wano and what its doing.
The breaks wouldn't be as bad for me if the arcs didn't keep on getting longer and longer and more dragged out....
It has taken forever to go from punk hazard to wano, then from entering wano to the final battle, and even now the main fights still haven't started.
Sometimes it feels like time is slowing down and less is happening every chapter.
As for Oda's breaks, he can take as much as he wants, i don't care. Even if its not for his health, or if he isn't tired, i still think he can take more small breaks more frequently if it means he gets more time to properly plan the story arcs and get more time to look at it from a greater perspective view.
Anybody miss how when One Piece first started, the plot moved with every new chapter, every new chapter there was something new happening? A time when Oda didn't keep moving the goal post, resulting in 100 chapter and never-ending arcs?
I think one reason that has caused this problem is the fact that too many new characters are being introduced with each new arc, oda then gives every new character multiple panels times through out the arc, taking up page and chapter space, and before you know it a chapter is already finished when two characters have a conversation at the start of the chapter and still don't finish it by the end of it.
This is probably why some people are tired of Oda's breaks, already waited 10 chapters for something to happen, now gotta wait an extra week that is the break for the arc's story to reach a certain milestone ( whether its villian introduction, final fights starts or endgame arc victory).
It has taken forever to go from punk hazard to wano, then from entering wano to the final battle, and even now the main fights still haven't started.
Sometimes it feels like time is slowing down and less is happening every chapter.
As for Oda's breaks, he can take as much as he wants, i don't care. Even if its not for his health, or if he isn't tired, i still think he can take more small breaks more frequently if it means he gets more time to properly plan the story arcs and get more time to look at it from a greater perspective view.
Anybody miss how when One Piece first started, the plot moved with every new chapter, every new chapter there was something new happening? A time when Oda didn't keep moving the goal post, resulting in 100 chapter and never-ending arcs?
I think one reason that has caused this problem is the fact that too many new characters are being introduced with each new arc, oda then gives every new character multiple panels times through out the arc, taking up page and chapter space, and before you know it a chapter is already finished when two characters have a conversation at the start of the chapter and still don't finish it by the end of it.
This is probably why some people are tired of Oda's breaks, already waited 10 chapters for something to happen, now gotta wait an extra week that is the break for the arc's story to reach a certain milestone ( whether its villian introduction, final fights starts or endgame arc victory).
