2014-03-20, 11:37 AM
-cracks knuckles- WELL, LOOKIE AT THIS PRETTY LADY THAT WANDERED INTO THIS ALLEY BOYS.
The only example I can think of is the current arc in comparison to Alabasta, in terms of a schichibukai taking over a kingdom, although crocodile was trying while donflamingo was successful.
Actually most characters if not all have had their own short cover stories on where they are at as luffy makes his journey. The underlining point of one piece I've come to find is that Luffy makes friends with half a dozen characters per island, who will help him in the final battle for true freedom. So I completely disagree that characters developed in short term goals (islands) aren't revisited, they are constantly brought back into the story. The long term story is Luffy reaching the goal of pirate king, where all the other crew members have their own personal goals, but they are no longer for themselves, but to help the captain.
In fact the greatest recognized power that luffy has is the army that's constantly being foreshadowed for the final battle.
One piece is not being drawn out like what DBZ gone through (where the creator was harassed to the point where he was forced too). One piece has an end, and I'm hoping a satisfactory ending much like full metal alchemist brotherhood managed, but we're about 60-65% done, we passed the half way point the moment punk hazard started, unfortunately the last two arcs have been slow but my god, the current arc just is just full of sh`it you as a reader would have never guessed would have happened
but that's like, my opinion man
Sardines Wrote:But really, I can't engage myself in One Piece anymore. Oda has repeated his method of story telling in order to extend his story to meet popularity. However, this has resulted in him showing the same hook too many times.
The only example I can think of is the current arc in comparison to Alabasta, in terms of a schichibukai taking over a kingdom, although crocodile was trying while donflamingo was successful.
Sardines Wrote:Oda's formula is basically to make the pirate team focus on short term goals by traveling to one island at a time where a different short story is to be told concerning racism, friendship, corruption, and justice. This runs parallel to him running the long term story that begins to intersect with the short term as the world government, special nobles, the sichibukai, and the great pirate kings play out and have plans that overlap the crews journey from island to island lending Oda the ability the time to work on the long term. The long term story is the true story. The true story in the sense that it is the story with the most relevance after one hundred chapters have passed.
It doesn't take long for people to realize that residents of island X, Y, or Z are not important beyond being used as points to progress the plot. Luffy is always moving on to the next island in order to meet reader's expectations and hasn't really backtracked to any of the islands he has previously visited because that's not his goal.
Actually most characters if not all have had their own short cover stories on where they are at as luffy makes his journey. The underlining point of one piece I've come to find is that Luffy makes friends with half a dozen characters per island, who will help him in the final battle for true freedom. So I completely disagree that characters developed in short term goals (islands) aren't revisited, they are constantly brought back into the story. The long term story is Luffy reaching the goal of pirate king, where all the other crew members have their own personal goals, but they are no longer for themselves, but to help the captain.
In fact the greatest recognized power that luffy has is the army that's constantly being foreshadowed for the final battle.
Sardines Wrote:However, One Piece has so many pieces of true story in play that it could last another 1,000 chapters if they continue with their current plot pacing. I believe that its popularity is its own demise because if a story is that popular, then the editors will pressure the mangaka to continue. The story must go on.
One piece is not being drawn out like what DBZ gone through (where the creator was harassed to the point where he was forced too). One piece has an end, and I'm hoping a satisfactory ending much like full metal alchemist brotherhood managed, but we're about 60-65% done, we passed the half way point the moment punk hazard started, unfortunately the last two arcs have been slow but my god, the current arc just is just full of sh`it you as a reader would have never guessed would have happened
but that's like, my opinion man