It is almost as if the One Piece fandom overreacts on everything or something. Oh wait, they do. One Piece has a nearly three decades long history of being balanced as a story and as a world and they still are REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-ing at the slightest things. You cannot build suspense, create mystery or hype because they will tear everything down unless all their questions are answered within the same chapter, not realising how horrible the story would become. They do not want a better One Piece, they want their One Piece even if it is objectively worse.
The minute this type of people realize that they aren’t the target audience Oda is trying to entertain, then their experience will become much more enjoyable.
If that was the case, why even publish in something like Weekly Shonen Jump? Why not just a personal webpage like One Punch Man? Did Japan not have those in 1997?
No, not in a way where he could earn a living from it. what kind of retard question is this?
The online self-hosting path would've been less obvious to him if he was a fan of the magazines first. They had frequent calls for fan submissions (pipeline for new talent) and it would've seemed natural to him as a creatively-inclined fan to send something in. Uploading it to his own page may have been possible for a skilled and invested user in 97 but I don't think Oda specifically was that guy.
Well, it’s in a shonen magazine, and I’d say it fits the shonen demographic. IIRC, Oda mentioned that Dragon Ball is his biggest influence, and the structure of Dragon Ball in terms of the world, characters, and action would make about 75% of how One Piece is set up. The only difference would be that the worldbuilding is on a much grander scale. The only thing I’d say about Oda is that he’s really deadset (maybe you can say “obsessed”) with the audience learning about things when the characters do, which led to Vegapunk’s broadcast going off the rails these last few chapters.
Let me put in another way: If Oda’s true target audience was himself and himself alone, why publish it in a way where he’d have to answer to editors or have it be judged by professional critics or have it be read by an audience bigger than him and his friends/family?
I'm pretty sure he's specifically stated that he didn't want to work a day job. He wanted to make manga full time for a living, the magazine was offering such an arrangement, there was never a temptation to do anything else.
You make it sound like it's bad that Oda's making a story that he wants and not what the big suits want. Content creators should always strive to make something they want for themselves instead of trying to appeal to some demographic. While there's nothing wrong with painting-by-the-numbers, as an artist, you have to ask yourself at some point "Is this really what I want?"
It won't happen, but Oda going full "It wasn't real but they deserved it" would be the funniest thing that could happen. Maybe null would get into anime for that one.
The Five Elders DO all look suspicious, especially Saturn (and Jew Peter)
4Chan has an anime board, don’t they? Sounds like they’re gonna love One Piece and piracy even more than they already do.
/a/ is super mixed on One Piece. Most of the discussion there is how it doesn't live up to the hype and Oda's art has become terrible. You should take any opinion from 4chan and throw it directly in the trash, because only the biggest of stockholm syndrome retards still post there.
