The pace at which OP progresses is simply amazing. Oda has about 19 pages to tell his story each week. I was cleaning up my room and sorting JUMPs I came across Sanji's fight with Jerry. I didn't think it was all that long ago but when I flipped the pages I saw THEY WERE STILL LOOKING FOR LUFFY AND ZORO. That was in JUMP 19 this week's (368) was JUMP 25. Isn't that incredible? In what has seemed like such a short time we've gotten all through Aqua Laguna and have even seen the story progress into a whole new gear. I am amazed at the pace which OP takes.
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For a while, I thought it was going slow (when Luffy was still stuck), but we've gotten far.
It seems like a real task to fit what you want into a few Jump pages. Without it becoming really simple or anything, anyway.
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after every new op chapter i ask myself how its possible that a single human can make something beautiful and near perfect like oda do week for week.
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For a while, I thought it was going slow (when Luffy was still stuck), but we've gotten far.
Exactly! I was pissed for a while at how slow I thought things were going but in retrospect, okay, it took some time to set up, but look at how far they've come. Wow, I'm still kinda shocked.
Remember Gunther: "God has three letters, Oda has three letters. Coincidence? I think not."
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Originally posted by Günther@Jun 1 2005, 11:46 PM
after every new op chapter i ask myself how its possible that a single human can make something beautiful and near perfect like oda do week for week.
i mean serious isnt it impossible that oda a normal human is?
[snapback]60804[/snapback]My thoughts exactly. First I was like that with the arcs. After Alabasta I thought I´ve already seen the core of One Piece. Then came Jaya/Skypiea and I tought pretty good but nothing that can compare to what I´ve seen so far, and then came that darn Viper flashback with Noland and Kargara. And I was like this is the ultimate One Piece. I was like it doesn´t get better then this. This is the climax from now on it will be good but it won´t get higher then this.
Then came the Foxy arc which again proved how great Oda is because it was a sports arc, something that I completely didn´t expect. And there was so much heart in it again.
And then came the darn Water 7 arc. Which I really liked but thought the same way about it like I thought about Skypiea while looking back at Alabasta. And then came that Franky flashback with the all so awesome Tom-san and I`m again like wow.
I mean everytime I think, it doesn´t get any better a new arc appears that changes my complete opinion about what is the best part of One Piece.
And now since I´m up to date with the chapters it is actually the same story. Instead of having a little hand over somewhere week after week I must stop myself to bang my head against the wall because I wonder how ingenius one single human being can be. Oda is just awesome! I really hope that he keeps this pace of One Piece and that he doesn´t go any rash on it in order to finish it quickly. I would really hate to see that towards the end of the series he decides to skip something that he planned to show actually. :(
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yea this is one hell of a series :).
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Well, everyone can be a great storyteller, Oda is an good example to become a great storyteller. Oda got guts to add more details to every arc and make fine plot twist. He thinks deeply and patiantly when he works, unlike Toriyama who works to fast and impatiant.
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Oda is my favorite Storyteller, He's an master of keeping you insyhe(SP) with the story and to able to pack so many stuff for 19 pages evey week is amazeing.
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Originally posted by joekido the Second@Jun 1 2005, 06:42 PM
Well, everyone can be a great storyteller, Oda is an good example to become a great storyteller. Oda got guts to add more details to every arc and make fine plot twist. He thinks deeply and patiantly when he works, unlike Toriyama who works to fast and impatiant.
[snapback]60847[/snapback]He was forced to continue his series. I wish Kishimoto would learn a few things from him. Naruto has just recently become really good again but at the price of a long streak of boringness.
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Originally posted by MB.@Jun 1 2005, 07:42 PM
He was forced to continue his series. I wish Kishimoto would learn a few things from him. Naruto has just recently become really good again but at the price of a long streak of boringness.
[snapback]60897[/snapback]Eh, I don't think Naruto ever really had a particularly long streak of boringness. The last arc was actually pretty good, and there were only one or two times I thought it dragged.
However, Oda does manage to pack in so much in such little space. I hadn't even realized just how much had happened until it just got pointed out.
All Hail Oda!
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Oda sits in a room and draws all week. he has no life. that's how he does it.
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"God has three letters, Oda has three letters. Coincidence? I think not."
Originally posted by Right Click@Jun 1 2005, 08:21 PM
Oda sits in a room and draws all week. he has no life. that's how he does it.
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Do mangaka actually have time during the week for anything else? I know they have breaks avery now and again, but doing a 19 page comic each week is unbelieveable.
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I know what you mean Dude. I tried to make an OP doujin a few months back and just making two pages a week was a hassle (well, for me anyway with school and all).
I think I read somewhere that he spends 3 days writing the story, and 2-3 days drawing it.
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Well doesnt he have a staff helping him? He was an assistant to Watsuki when he was working on Kenshin,.
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Probably. It's not like he draws it one week and comes out the next. Some comic artists have their work finished months in advance. (I suppose this really helps when it comes to the anime) I belive Oda does all the drawings and perhaps the inking (not sure). Everybody else does the rest like lettering and stuff… Unless Oda does it all by himself (which has been done before)~
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Eh, I don't think Naruto ever really had a particularly long streak of boringness.
IMHO, running through the forest for a year was not exactly enthralling. I think in the end he wanted to express a feeling of defeat and lower the level of his characters to show they had more growth. And yet, after all of that, I still didn't feel that bad for any of them.
Oda on the other hand, in literally a matter of weeks, managed to destroy the crew. skillz
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Originally posted by Brave Warrior@ Captain Usopp,Jun 2 2005, 03:14 AM
Eh, I don't think Naruto ever really had a particularly long streak of boringness.The paper test and the stuff around it. It has been corroded into my mind fovever. I won't go in depth but that was just bad - the series was actually somewhat good before it.
Naw, I don't want to be a party breaker but I do sometimes wish that Oda would be more efficient, it drags but I guess it's a part of the heritaged curse of this type of comics. Nobody's perfect but Oda can be pretty amazing too, much more lovely than the authors of OP's sister series. He hasn't lost the touch yet, although I was a bit afraid of it while the end of Skypiea and Long Ring Long island but he has proven I was totally wrong.
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I don´t think that he is "fast" with his storytelling…just the opposite, he works in it pretty well. I mean, he can make a good amount of chapters that doesn´t have not even a fight on it(and, you now, in a shonen magazine :P ), and still get you "stuck" on it. Just using humor, good plots or drama...Naruto, for example, can´t compare that. :blink: It has fights at least once in 3-4 chapters, and I mean long fights.
But I got what you meant. Yeah, Oda can work in his plots in a way that it doesn´t get boring. He´s incredible. B)
 