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One Piece foreshadowing is unmatched by any series (spoilers)
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This one isn't fully confirmed yet but...
People theorize that the ship in the first pic is a giant straw hat.
This is on top of the countless moon symbology littered through the series. A recent one in Wano with the Daimyo families all being named after the moon (except for the Kurozumi clan)
People theorize that the ship in the first pic is a giant straw hat.
This is on top of the countless moon symbology littered through the series. A recent one in Wano with the Daimyo families all being named after the moon (except for the Kurozumi clan)
No Zoro, Robin and Usop for almost 2 years in the Big Mom arc though in the manga. Those are supposed to be main characters. Yet the anime has them in the intro during that arc.
One Piece changed though. First half had much more emotional investment and was more dramatic, eg the chapters involving the gathering of the crew and their backstories, even their new ship or the story with Ace, Trafalgar Law as kid, Don Flamingo's brother and background etc
Now manga became much more light hearted and comedic in tone and is focusing more on the minor details and countless characters (over 600 already). One reason I preferred the first half.
One Piece changed though. First half had much more emotional investment and was more dramatic, eg the chapters involving the gathering of the crew and their backstories, even their new ship or the story with Ace, Trafalgar Law as kid, Don Flamingo's brother and background etc
Now manga became much more light hearted and comedic in tone and is focusing more on the minor details and countless characters (over 600 already). One reason I preferred the first half.
The beginning of One Piece was way more comedic. How can you possibly believe otherwise??
I wouldn't really call the recent arcs light hearted compared to what came before.
One Piece has always had its light hearted elements. That hasn't changed since day one, especially not of as late.
One Piece has always been a balance of comedy and drama.
Wano may have goofy moments like Zoro befriending a smiling goofball, Sanji donning a Sentai costume, or an amnesiac Big Mom asking if her title is a treat.
But at the same time, 75% of the country is starving to death, people speaking against the corrupt Shogun are sent to a prison camp, a good chunk of the population has had their emotions shut off thanks to artificial Devil Fruits, that same goofball is publicly executed and all the people can do is laugh as they're incapable of anything else, and next chapter we're probably going to see Kozuki "Chad as Hell" Oden getting boiled alive.
Wano may have goofy moments like Zoro befriending a smiling goofball, Sanji donning a Sentai costume, or an amnesiac Big Mom asking if her title is a treat.
But at the same time, 75% of the country is starving to death, people speaking against the corrupt Shogun are sent to a prison camp, a good chunk of the population has had their emotions shut off thanks to artificial Devil Fruits, that same goofball is publicly executed and all the people can do is laugh as they're incapable of anything else, and next chapter we're probably going to see Kozuki "Chad as Hell" Oden getting boiled alive.
this is the same skill Toriyama used while writing Dragon Ball but Oda had more planning on his side to make things fit a lot better.
remember how in Dragon Ball a lot of things ended up fitting well despite being zero planning and making up everything as he went along? that was his skill as a writer. Oda has this too but backed with a lot more planning. there's a bunch of stuff he didn't plan out but he wrote in such a way it was easy to retrofit things. also, the series is written in a way to allow tons of expansion and additions without breaking the original main plot and endgame.
remember how in Dragon Ball a lot of things ended up fitting well despite being zero planning and making up everything as he went along? that was his skill as a writer. Oda has this too but backed with a lot more planning. there's a bunch of stuff he didn't plan out but he wrote in such a way it was easy to retrofit things. also, the series is written in a way to allow tons of expansion and additions without breaking the original main plot and endgame.
Do we know of any fruit users on Rodgers crew? Shanks crew is also the same, they talked down devil fruit in the first chapter and seemingly don't use any.
Edit, I'm also not counting buggy since he was a cabin boy at the time. Buggy is also the opposite to Rodger and Luffy adventure for the experience mentality.
Oh fuck silver and gold how did I never seen this?! Wtf this is some Brad Phoenix Down shit.
Didn't get my edit in time. I mean full acting crew members, each time we see or learn of a new one they seen to not have a fruit as far as I can remember.
Iirc luffy's actual diolige is "about 9 or 10" so that would take into account things like do you count Luffy or Vivi though I guess Vivi fits into the princess brigade now.
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This one isn't fully confirmed yet but...
People theorize that the ship in the first pic is a giant straw hat.
This is on top of the countless moon symbology littered through the series. A recent one in Wano with the Daimyo families all being named after the moon (except for the Kurozumi clan)
That's a great detail, thanks
I think it's the complete opposite lol
The first half of OP didn't had anything like cannibal Big Mom or Smile fruits
This one isn't fully confirmed yet but...
Enel comeback is going to be amazing. That mini arc is crazy for the implications.
It's nothing like Dragonball. Oda very intentionally plans things and has said he has extensive notes to keep things consistent. Toriyama has literally said he makes things up as he goes
One Piece truly is a master class in foreshadowing.
I actually screamed at the whole Laboon thing. Unreal.
I actually screamed at the whole Laboon thing. Unreal.
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Yeah, this. There is some legitimate planned foreshadowing that you can see (Fishman Island and Jinbei's mentions) but a lot of it is Oda tying in his new ideas with his old material really, really well.
I think my absolute favorite example is haki being shown way earlier than it became a real thing in Skypiea, under a different name as Mantra. At the time it was just a new power people separated from the Blue Seas had, and it's likely Oda thought of it that way, too - but he was able to snowball it into something real when he decided to roll with the haki concept later on.
Oda is a master at making everything fit together. One Piece gets this praise so much it's almost tiresome to hear people say it over and over again these days, but it's because it's true. It has the ultimate payoff for long-time readers.
Wow, this is actually insaneYou can see from Prototype sketches that Oda did before the series started that have a lot planned out before the series started, including the general concept behind all the crew members
Here's a prototype of the crew from 2 years before the series started
and that in the corner is a later prototype that also includes numbers for when they'd join
Like clearly a few things changed in terms of the actual designs, and certain details were shuffled like apparently Brook was at one point going to join the crew before Franky based on the second image, but it's clear he had a lot planned out (and that white space in the top left seems super suspicious so I'm willing to bet they whited out planned crewmembers who hadn't joined yet to avoid spoiling the story)
This is from Databook Green by the way
Considering the series was supposed to be 5 years in total, it's the latter. He's one of the most meticulous writers around.
Need to hop back into the series.
Stopped watching the anime after Dressrosa.
How is the anime these days? There was a lot of hype for it on twitter a while back.
Stopped watching the anime after Dressrosa.
How is the anime these days? There was a lot of hype for it on twitter a while back.
It's improved a bunch with the WCI once they got a new series director, and then underwent a complete visual overhaul (and got another series director) for the currently ongoing Wano arc. It looks really good now.
Pacing issues still persist unfortunately, but they have gotten better about how they pad out episodes for the most part.
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I still need to watch AoT, I'm really curious with so many mentions
This.
What is "One Piece" in Oda mind right now will be not same on his mind in 20 years ago.
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Not always.
What is the treasure "One Piece" (basically confirmed a few chapters ago) was mentioned years before
It was left by Joy Boy, from the Void Century mentioned in Robin's flashback
that was what i said.
i meant their skills at writing and making things fit well together are what they have in common. they both have good skills at writing their stuff, otherwise things would be a mess like with Kishimoto, etc. who aren't very good at adding new elements to their work (and i did say Oda's results are a lot better since he does plan ahead)
The series was supposed to 5 years long (23-25 volumes)
The One Piece Treasure original probably
not relate with joy boy
I'm still not convinced that One Piece wasn't originally "The nakama we made along the way" and Oda changed it when he realized it was stupid.
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He's the master of this, people keep finding new stuff that connects to the current events even after all these years.
Oda has said numerous times that the ending of the series is literally one of the first things he came up with so I doubt this could be the case
Someone ate the planet-planet fruit and everyone's been living on their body the whole time