One Piece - I'm Gonna Be the Pirate King!

[Lone Star]

You can look back at Egghead and go, "well, obviously, Kizaru will be the main antagonist." Then the five elders show up and its an absolute fucking shitshow.

My wildest speculation is that Elbaph will end up like Zou. No huge antagonist, but rather a brief skirmish between Luffy, Loki and one of the God Knights. The God Knights will be like, "we only came we to recruit Loki. We failed." and leave. Loki gives the last ponyglyph to Luffy. Luffy & crew sail off to Lodestar. Seeing the threat of the God Knights, the giants decide to prepare for war.

With how much Loki has been built up, I can't imagine he won't be akin to a force of nature once released.

 

[Random Internet Person]

With how much Loki has been built up, I can't imagine he won't be akin to a force of nature once released.

Here’s hoping we get a moment of “Luffy, you idiot! What have you done?!” being said by somebody.

 

[Cryogonal2]

(I have the hot take that it always fucking was)

not surprising, you've always had stupid shit to say

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

My guess is that Loki will unironically be a good guy in that he aligns with Luffy more than is generally good. He wants to be more like a pirate captain than what his father wanted.

Waiting for Nami to ask why he was in love with Lola.

My bet is that Loki is actually a girl and asked Lola to be her friend. The marriage thing is some DB joke. Every One Piece arc has a woman that Luffy helps in some way.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

not surprising, you've always had stupid shit to say

LOL sure the Manga that gets 50 chapters and then gets distracted from the retard main plot with game of thrones but worse is supposed to be good.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

My bet is that Loki is actually a girl

Computer, enhance!

 

[McMitch]

We have a whole thread for about how Attack on Titan went to shit (I have the hot take that it always fucking was)

It gets carried hard by the setting, but really should have been a ~45 chapter limited run, maybe have up through training and their first outing as scouts and have the reveal in the basement and that the walls are made of titans be part of a finale.

 

[Incecticyder]

It gets carried hard by the setting, but really should have been a ~45 chapter limited run, maybe have up through training and their first outing as scouts and have the reveal in the basement and that the walls are made of titans be part of a finale.

And then there would be demand to see the rest of the world which would lead to a sequel manga that would hit the same notes. The fact that quality fell does not mean that ending things prematurely would be better. I just wish that the GoT elements were more reined in like they were in One Piece.

 

[Random Internet Person]

It gets carried hard by the setting, but really should have been a ~45 chapter limited run, maybe have up through training and their first outing as scouts and have the reveal in the basement and that the walls are made of titans be part of a finale.

I'd end by the tie they reach the ocean. If anything, it's a good point to just leave what happens next to the imgination.

There's no way Oda's gonna fuck up on a scale of Attack on Titan did. Right?

 

[Incecticyder]

I'd end by the tie they reach the ocean. If anything, it's a good point to just leave what happens next to the imgination.

There's no way Oda's gonna fuck up on a scale of Attack on Titan did. Right?

Oda knows how to rein in his imagination and inspiration.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

I'm just sorta wondering how much longer Elbaph can be.

Egghead had the same amount. Then dropped hell on us and a stupid amount of backstory. An Arc that has been built up for 20 years is not going to be short. Especially when it is the one concreate and understandable thing one of the main cast wants to do.

We are going to be here for ages.

 

[McMitch]

And then there would be demand to see the rest of the world which would lead to a sequel manga that would hit the same notes. The fact that quality fell does not mean that ending things prematurely would be better. I just wish that the GoT elements were more reined in like they were in One Piece.

It’s not cutting it short, but giving good end points to work towards. Unfortunately, AoT operated under a mystery box formula, so there was no ending planned.

There's no way Oda's gonna fuck up on a scale of Attack on Titan did. Right?

Oda knows how to rein in his imagination and inspiration.

Oda’s had an ending planned from the start, the lack thereof being the downfall for a good deal of serialized media.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Egghead had the same amount. Then dropped hell on us and a stupid amount of backstory. An Arc that has been built up for 20 years is not going to be short. Especially when it is the one concreate and understandable thing one of the main cast wants to do.

We are going to be here for ages.

You think it’s gonna be a massive joke how long it goes on for like what happened at Dressrosa?

Oda’s had an ending planned from the start, the lack thereof being the downfall for a good deal of serialized media.

that’s good to hear, but the chance of a fuckup, however small it is, is always gonna be there, especially since the ending relies

on 1. Nobody predicting said ending before Oda draws it, or else it’ll change and 2. Oda not dying or being left unable to draw for whatever reason. Even if there’s contingencies, I assume Oda wants his grand finale last chapter to be something monumental as a mic drop, and something would be lost if he’s not the one who reveals it.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

My bet is that Loki is actually a girl and asked Lola to be her friend

Considering how much Elbaf feels like a flipped Wano you might be very, very right.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Considering how much Elbaf feels like a flipped Wano you might be very, very right.

Every arc has a girl who Luffy ensures does not cry. It could be the snail phone person, but Loki most likely might have a good reason for regicide, if he actually did it.

Also, fake Shanks isn’t leaving him and Medusa from Soul Eater are going to kidnap giants for Garp and the Navy.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Every arc has a girl who Luffy ensures does not cry. It could be the snail phone person, but Loki most likely might have a good reason for regicide, if he actually did it.

Luffy usually meets the girl in question in the first couple of chapters. If Oda sticks to the pattern he has only really met Loki and Colon and it’s not going to be Colon.

 

[ShitLurker]

Luffy ain't here to save nobody! He's here to inspire the giants to get their BALLS back! No need for any crying waifu!

 

[Stab You in the Back]

Oda’s had an ending planned from the start, the lack thereof being the downfall for a good deal of serialized media.

Having the ending planned out in advance really worked well for How I Met Your Mother.

 

[McMitch]

Oda not dying or being left unable to draw for whatever reason.

I know this is a big worry, especially after what happened to Miura, but Miura’s death was a definite outlier. The age mangaka tend to die at is 60. It’s when Tezuka went, it’s when Kazuki Takahashi went, and Oda is only 50 and taking regular breaks to maintain his health and I doubt that One Piece will make it into the 2030’s.

Having the ending planned out in advance really worked well for How I Met Your Mother.

Didn’t they have to rush it because the story essentially ran real-time, and someone did the math and figured out that if they didn’t move forward soon there wouldn’t even be enough time to gestate the framing-device-kids?

That being said, having an ending planned is not the end-all-be-all, you still have to actually write the story like a story; which Oda does very well.

 

[Incecticyder]

It’s not cutting it short, but giving good end points to work towards. Unfortunately, AoT operated under a mystery box formula, so there was no ending planned.

Many things would remain unanswered though.

Oda’s had an ending planned from the start, the lack thereof being the downfall for a good deal of serialized media.

That is not necessarily a good thing. Kishimoto planned the ending of Naruto from the start. He retconned so much by the end that it made no sense. Feeling safe because you planned the ending means jackshit when the story has deviated so much that things have a different meaning.

Didn’t they have to rush it because the story essentially ran real-time, and someone did the math and figured out that if they didn’t move forward soon there wouldn’t even be enough time to gestate the framing-device-kids?

That being said, having an ending planned is not the end-all-be-all, you still have to actually write the story like a story; which Oda does very well.

But you still have to plan for whatever changes. HIMYM did not account for the fact that Robin had a happy ending with Barney that had to be broken up in order to return to the pre-planned stuff. You have to adjust the ending.