does anyone think there could, or should be a timeskip in this series? i was thinking about it and i'm sure the strawhats won't find one piece now as teens. i mean, look at how long whitebeard has been sailing (well i'm asuming he's been on the grandline for a while, since he fought gold roger when he was around) and he hasn't found it yet. i think a 2-4 year timeskip could happen. then maybe usopp will get a real gun like his pappy and stop playing with slingshots. maybe a timeskip can happen after luffy has found his ideal crew. like i said, i can't imagine luffy being the pirate king at such a young age. so what do you guys think?
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I don't think that there would be one, You'd miss out on some silly plots which make the essence of the story itself.
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Yeah, but we don't know if Whitebeard had passed the Red Line. The Straw Hats will be having big trouble while passing the Red Line and the rest of the Grand Line. You really wanna miss all that fun?
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I don't want a timeskip… :( Timeskips are never good.
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well i figured it worked for naruto and some other good series, why not one piece :D. anyway i thought about the stuff that we'd miss out on and i didn't really have an answer. i guess that's just something oda will have to sacrifice. i mean how long do you think it takes to find one piece? i really don't think the strawhats will find it anytime soon. luffy will have to fight whitebeard to get one piece and if he fights him anytime soon he'd lose big time. whitebeard is the most powerful pirate in the op world. luffy's strong but come on, will he have enough power to beat whitebeard in the near future? yea you can say whitebeard is sick but he's still the most powerful. and pirates have been sailing for over 20 years trying to find one piece. it'll be a little unrealistic if a 17 year old boy and his crew of 10 people or so find it in less than a year (yea it hasn't even been a year since luffy became a pirate). i think it'll take some time before they find one piece and what not so a time skip would be necessary imo cuz oda can't just keep writing this making the characters grow chapter by chapter/episode by episode, that'll take forever.
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Originally posted by Mafioso11@Jun 19 2005, 01:54 PM
well i figured it worked for naruto and some other good series, why not one piece :D. anyway i thought about the stuff that we'd miss out on and i didn't really have an answer. i guess that's just something oda will have to sacrifice. i mean how long do you think it takes to find one piece? i really don't think the strawhats will find it anytime soon. luffy will have to fight whitebeard to get one piece and if he fights him anytime soon he'd lose big time. whitebeard is the most powerful pirate in the op world. luffy's strong but come on, will he have enough power to beat whitebeard in the near future? yea you can say whitebeard is sick but he's still the most powerful. and pirates have been sailing for over 20 years trying to find one piece. it'll be a little unrealistic if a 17 year old boy and his crew of 10 people or so find it in less than a year (yea it hasn't even been a year since luffy became a pirate). i think it'll take some time before they find one piece and what not so a time skip would be necessary imo cuz oda can't just keep writing this making the characters grow chapter by chapter/episode by episode, that'll take forever.
[snapback]72851[/snapback]No it didnt work for Naruto… >_< I dont like the Naruto series after becasue it was too much rush after the time skip..
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i guess it's just you then, i loved it. same with the db/dbz skip and other skips within db/z. but if you read my other points on why it may be needed, you'll know what i mean and why i think this.
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I'd hate it if OP did a time skip. Isn't one of the points of the series to be just how FAST Luffy and co. have been rising to fame ? I dunno, I think of a timeskip and it just doesn't fit.
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Same here I wouldnt think an time skip wouldnt work in One Piece, One Piece isnt the kind of story that needs a time skip.
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Originally posted by Carly@Jun 19 2005, 04:16 PM
I'd hate it if OP did a time skip. Isn't one of the points of the series to be just how FAST Luffy and co. have been rising to fame ? I dunno, I think of a timeskip and it just doesn't fit.
[snapback]72867[/snapback]tru, i guess i feel it's going a littl too fast. plus i wanna see what they would be like as grown adults :).
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Well… They're pretty much already as grown up as they could be (Physically, at least), considering they're mostly at the very end of their teens. Nami's chest not taken into account, there would be very little growth to add, character wise, except perhaps clothing and hairgrow or something.
Other than that, I believe it's already been mentioned One Piece is simply not the type of story to skirt around the details. I could see a very little flash-forward or something at the very end, but I couldn't imagine any serious time skips.
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I also hate time skips. Like I remember someone once saying, it just shows that the creator's run out of ideas for that time. But, can Luffy really make it like this? He's been getting his ass kicked in every big fight since coming to the Grandline. He's survived because of pure luck in many cases. I figure it'd have to at least be a year before Zoro can think about challenging Mihawk, as well.
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A time skip wouldn't really work for this series. sure they could get more skilled, but how many other young few-crew pirates do you see on the grand line, plus the fact they had to get there. It worked for Naruto because in that series you can just make stuff out of nowhere without any hints, it'd be really wierd if we saw zoro from the morgon arc, and all of a sudden the train cutt'n fool that he is now.
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I would hate for One Piece to have a time skip. It just isn't really necessary since there is still alot of stuff that can be shown and done in One Piece without the need for a timeskip. The characters are pretty much in their later teens or higher when it comes to age along with their still being plenty of adventures and islands among other things to be experienced. One Piece has a storyline that encompasses traveling a largre world while Naruto is just severely limited since the Naruto world just doesn't seem to be as expansive much diverse since it is composed of a bunch of hidden villages rather than a mix of different cultures.
The only reason why the Naruto manga had a time skip is simply that of the story for the skipped over 2 years would primarily consist of training after training arcs. Kishimoto is just simply incapable of continuing the storyline without the timeskip.
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Well… I think One Piece goes at it's own pace and I love it the way it is. Though if the series ended (hate to think that >.<) and Oda for some reason made a sequal, then a time skip would be alright I guess...
ps. I have no intention for Oda to make a sequel. Unless he really, really wants to.
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Maybe One Piece already has timeskips small one but never the less timeskip, since we don't see everything that the characters do
Like the orange trees in Going Merry we didn't see them being moved to the Hotel
And how can you determine how much time has passed since Luffy departed from his home town to be the pirate king ?
A big timeskip like 1 or 2 year would take some off the fun of the story
I think the reason WhiteBeard didn't find One Piece is because he became sick and can't sail until he recovers
Why else would he send Ace to kill BlackBeard if he could do it himself ?
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Well, Ace was the commander of blackbeard, and it would look bad if he needed Whitebeard to handle the problem.
I think that a timeskip would be an extraordinarily bad idea as it takes away from us watching the characters grow as people.
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i cant really stress enough how incredibly lame it would be if they did a time skip in onepiece <_<
i dont wanna miss a single fun filled adventure that the strawhats have :) ,BTW it didnt work for naruto i like solid hate it nowdays :(
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I don't think Oda would allow a timeskip, as obviously he hasn't failed to impress us so far, and he has been continuously supplying OP with fresh ideas, so I'm not sure why he would stop now.
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No it didnt work for Naruto… >_< I dont like the Naruto series after becasue it was too much rush after the time skip..
I agree with this. I read Naruto until the time skip.
Two chapters later I lost interest.I don't want OP to do a TS.
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A time skip in One Piece wouldn't really make much sense. I mean, it could happen, but I just don't see the crew all saying, "ok, let's go train for a couple years then meet up again and we'll finally be strong enough to find One Piece!" I guess a time skip could be acceptable at the very end of the series where maybe we get to see what everyone is up to after their dreams are accomplished, but that's the only point I could see it happening at.
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Mugiwara: Ten years on, ten nakama, ten suicides.
I almost can't imagine the psychological toll it would take on a single-dream character to find his dream realised.
Zoro: So I'm finally the greatest swordsman in the world. My sole reason to exist now is to strike down those silly enough to think themselves worthy competition. Great. What a life. :stab:
If the series were to end with many characters' dreams realised, it would have to start winding up very quickly afterwards just to avoid them "crashing and burning" as I'm suggesting.
Or maybe I assume the worst of people.
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I thougth Dragon Ball was good with TS, I thougth if there was a TS the character would have more growth or have children but since One Piece is straight forward and not taking place in the same area like Dragon Ball or Naruto. I feel TS can create more of the timeline devlopment.
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I could see a timeskip happening. Realistically, it may have to - otherwise, One Piece will be around for longer than Oda is. And I realize he's young, it's just with the Strawhats at their current strength, and so many dreams to accomplish, so much Grand Line to cover, and so many crewmates to join, this could take a loooooong time.
Not that I want a timeskip. I think timeskips are lazy and confusing - I loved Dragonball until the last timeskip when Goku got married and stuff like that. However, I'm just saying it may have to happen, unfortunately.
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If Oda put in a time skip longer then them that have been, like a week or two, then I'll stop read One Piece. The whole serie will be fucked up, just like Naruto. Luffy has already got so far that a lot of people tried their whole lifes to reach, so why can't he find One Piece when he is 17? This is just stupid!
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I don't like the idea of timeskips because it normally leaves several unanswered questions. The only time in the series that MIGHT be good for one is at the very end as an epilogue.
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Originally posted by Robin Stjernberg@Jun 20 2005, 05:02 PM
If Oda put in a time skip longer then them that have been, like a week or two, then I'll stop read One Piece. The whole serie will be fucked up, just like Naruto. Luffy has already got so far that a lot of people tried their whole lifes to reach, so why can't he find One Piece when he is 17? This is just stupid!
[snapback]73578[/snapback]12 days from Drum to Alabasta
A week form Longring Longland island to Water 7…....
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ive always wondered how your able to tell ?
i cant really tell exactly how much time has passed and i dont remeber Oda saying that it passed for example a week for them to get to alabasta, -
i don't even want a timeskip, i just want to see the crew when they're older :P. and the only way to see them then is through a timeskip. it'll take forver otherwise. that's the only reason i'd ever WANT a timeskip. but the reason it may be NEEDED is if they travel on the grandline for years. because it hasn't even been a year yet since luffy left and look at how long the series is and how long it's been producing. how long do you actually think it'll take before luffy becomes pirate king, or zoro becomes the best swordsmen? some people think it'll take years before zoro can beat mihawk and that's probobly true. so if that's the case how is oda gonna make years pass? if he continues like this, the series will go on forever. he started this in 1997 (i think) and it's been about 8 years since and it still hasn't passed a year yet. you see what i mean? but a timeskip would only be necessary only IF they sail for years. but who knows, maybe luffy will find one piece next month and zoro will be the best in a couple months. you get my point?
i'm not 100% sure it hasn't passed a year yet but it sure seems like it hasn't to me, and some others think the same.
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I don't know about a time skip but i'd like to see some aging i think that's not to much to ask for
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Is it really necessary though? It took only like two years for Magellan to circle the world; I tend to think the OP story plays out in a small section of the world.
I think any aging you'd see would have to be pretty gradual, or you'd have issues with the world around them aging too– bits of the ships would wear down, technology would advance, and politics would shift around them.
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Originally posted by joekido the Second+Jun 21 2005, 01:04 AM–>QUOTE(joekido the Second @ Jun 21 2005, 01:04 AM)
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XD!! Take it easy Robin, or else, the mods will eat ya.
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Originally posted by Mafioso11@Jun 19 2005, 01:54 PM
it'll be a little unrealistic if a 17 year old boy and his crew of 10 people or so find it in less than a year [snapback]72851[/snapback]if anyone can do it, then luffy and his crew can! :D
Zoro: So I'm finally the greatest swordsman in the world. My sole reason to exist now is to strike down those silly enough to think themselves worthy competition. Great. What a life. :stab:
rofl :lol:
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i would hate a major time skip just so they can reach their goals since i think one piece is more about how the characters are getting to those goals and how they develop more then whether or not they get to one piece. so i think a time skip would be a bad idea except as some people have said after everything is done to skip ahead to show how the characters are doing.
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well, a possible time skip is if they have to wait on some abandoned island (like little garden) for the log pose. this would be very lame though, or if the WG calls a buster call or something even worse, that they can't fight against, and then they hide somewhere, and wait for things to calm down. but that's not luffy like.
But I do think he's a bit too young to be pirate king, he can't even drink yet, and I can't imagine a pirate king drinking milk:) this sounds like some 4kids dub to me
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Well, Luffy, and all of the other guys and girls drink too, and none of them besides Nico is allowed to. And why can't a young guy like him be the pirate king?
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He's kind of a pipsqueak. Drinking alcohol is something a 2 year old can do, being the best pirate in the world is an actual challenge.
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But then again, Luffy has already done a lot of things other dudes have tried their whole lifes to make. And Luffy is probably the first in the history of time to make such a mess and gets aso high bounty and still be so young. So I can't see why he can't be the king of pirates too.
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Originally posted by Robin Stjernberg@Jun 21 2005, 05:04 PM
But then again, Luffy has already done a lot of things other dudes have tried their whole lifes to make. And Luffy is probably the first in the history of time to make such a mess and gets aso high bounty and still be so young. So I can't see why he can't be the king of pirates too.
[snapback]74153[/snapback]… When Robin was 8 she got a 79 million bounty and since she could read the poneglyphs and was missing, then that probably was mess too..
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We do not know what Nico did in her past, so that can't be too deeply discussed. I doubt though that her will is to oppose the Marine and the Gouverment. And I doubt Nico did the same mess as Luffy has.
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Well, Luffy's a prodigy, but still a rookie. He's going really fast, but he may not be able to catch up.
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A rookie?! Do you mean a guy with 100 million is a rookie? Wasn't it you that said a bounty over 500 is probably higher then what even WB got?
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Yeah, I did. And yes, he's a rookie. He's been sailing for less than a year, and isn't even 18 yet. No matter how fast he's rising, like I said, he's new to the game. Smoker was suprised that he was even worth 30 million.
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Yeah, he was probably surprised because he is so young, and with that I can agree with you that he is a rookie. But he is not a rookie if you see to all the pirates in the world, because there is much likely more pirates worth less then 100millions then more and Luffy strength is worth his 100, it's not like he got them by just luck.
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Well, he lived to see his worth by luck. :P
He almost died in the hands of Buggy, got beaten down by Smoker in the same night (Smoker questioned his worth during the fight, so I doubt he thought about Luffy's age), almost killed twice by Croc, and lived through the Kiji incident only because of what was probably pity. Not to mention Lucci got him pretty good.
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i don't know where, but i thought i had heard something from Oda about the series being about halfway over.
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I actually liked the time skip in Naruto. See, a big theme in Naruto is coming of age and heritage, so it makes sense to show them grown up. Besides, Kishimoto spent how many volumes training Naruto to learn rasengan. Would you guys really want that again when there is so much plot that needs to unfold?
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Originally posted by Soupster@Jun 21 2005, 07:36 PM
i don't know where, but i thought i had heard something from Oda about the series being about halfway over.
[snapback]74210[/snapback]The series is a little more than halfway done, but I think that's been mentioned somewhere.
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Buccaner, yeah, but all of those incidents is based on that the enemies has really good strong points. Buggy is Buggy, and a hell of e guy. :P Smoker has the moku moku fruit and I have a hard time seeing how he can judge Luffys strenght based on his own fruit powers. Croc is one of SBs, and Aokiji is the strongest fighter in the Marine. :P Well I agree with you that he is a rookie to the really strong ones but I also think he has gone so far in his powers that if he is going tp keep gaining so much strenght in so little time there will be no problem for him to become the king of pirates in like a year or two.