It's amazing how many characters are in One Piece, and Oda is able to make them stand out individually. But, I am starting to lost track of them all. Don't you think there are just too many characters? Also, how big is the Straw Hats crew going to be? I am fine with not recruiting anymore. I personally like it when they had only 7 members, smaller crew has better chemistry and everyone gets enough airtime.
Do you think One Piece has too many characters?
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Luffy said he wanted around 10 people. And I don't think there's too many characters. I can generally keep track of them all and Oda does a good job of keeping track of them too.
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Not at all. I've questioned this before, but many characters are arc specific characters. At least a good majority of the characters stand out personality and look wise.
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still most characters here are memorable: there's so many other manga series out there where even the main characters are forgettable enough to forget all about
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It's amazing how many characters are in One Piece, and Oda is able to make them stand out individually. But, I am starting to lost track of them all.
Then your amazingly incompetent.
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Uh, no? If anything, it's the fact that it has so many characters worth developing that makes the series so appealing. The sense of scale is ridiculous, and it just seems that every character gets (or is in line to get) the attention they deserve. "Too many characters" isn't that far off from "Mexican zoan" when I think of crazy things said about the series.
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I love the fact that there's so many different characters getting a good amount of focus regularly. Plus with lots of characters you're pretty much guaranteed to love at least a few a whole hell of a lot. <3
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The characters make up the world of OP, so there's never too much. Even background characters make consistent appearances, and they get no sceentime(yeah, I pay attention to that).
If you want say a manga has too many chracters(that aren't arc driven either), read Bleach or Fairy Tail.
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No. You have too many posts. Limit yourself to -1 posts a year and never start threads.
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still most characters here are memorable: there's so many other manga series out there where even the main characters are forgettable enough to forget all about
agreed.. One Piece is the only manga I still follow with enthusiasm. The other ones I lost interest.
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@Zik:
No. You have too many posts. Limit yourself to -1 posts a year and never start threads.
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Yes, One Piece shouldn't bother having so many characters. It makes the story too interesting.
Also, nice triple post. Well done, indeed.
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The more characters there is, the deeper I get into One Piece. It would be boring if no new characters were added. It would have a Love Hina feeling to it..
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No, personally I think it's got a good amount of characters, and they're all unique, so as long as characters don't start overlapping personalities I couldn't care less about the amount of characters in One Piece.
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The more characters and external factors, the more vast becomes the world. If One Piece had half of it's characters, this war would be half as interesting.
Also, there's the difference between comics and novels. If One Piece had been a novel, then I could see why it'd be hard to remember all the characters, because there they'd only be names. However, as a comic, the characters can be recognized by appearance and you don't have to know their name to be able to make them out in a crowd.
As such, in a comic as One Piece, the number of characters shouldn't be an issue, given that most of them have diverse personalities and variated character designs of course. (Here's looking at you, Bleach!)
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No, personally I think it's got a good amount of characters, and they're all unique, so as long as characters don't start overlapping personalities I couldn't care less about the amount of characters in One Piece.
Good point. In Naruto, the characters changed in a bad way. Naruto actually seems pretty gay now. I found Naruto amusing in the first part but…now it's like he has a crush on Sasuke worse than Sakura did.
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Not at all.
I really love how Oda keeps great track of his characters. Not a single one's forgotten. Unlike Naruto, Bleach, or even Dragonball (like Pilaf or Launch :()
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I think that Zolo has a good point though. Maybe it could affect the author trying to get in as much as possible in a short time frame, but as long as the pacing continues as it is, it should be fine. The end result would be that the story has to be longer for all the necessary characters to be developed properly. That's okay too, because it's a good story. :P
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Not at all.
I really love how Oda keeps great track of his characters. Not a single one's forgotten. Unlike Naruto, Bleach, or even Dragonball (like Pilaf or Launch :()
How exactly would Pilaf appear in DragonballZ? He would be murdered 10 seconds within the battles.
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How exactly would Pilaf appear in DragonballZ? He would be murdered 10 seconds within the battles.
Oolong, Puar, Turtle, and all those useless-ass guys stayed during the whole duration of Dragonball :P
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Oolong, Puar, Turtle, and all those useless-ass guys stayed during the whole duration of Dragonball :P
The villians in Dragonball weren't exactly super strong. The moment Piccolo showed up, Roshi,Chaotzu,Kuriren,and nearly Tien was killed. Why make Puar and the Turtle fight the Saiyans,Freeza,or Cell?
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The villians in Dragonball weren't exactly super strong. The moment Piccolo showed up, Roshi,Chaotzu,Kuriren,and nearly Tien was killed. Why make Puar and the Turtle fight the Saiyans,Freeza,or Cell?
I never said anything about fighting. Oda brings back non-fighting/minor characters as a way to show that he never forgot them. Toriyama just abandons his characters sometimes.
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I agree the characters are too many. But that's the thrill right there. We can speculate what the future brings any way we like it. It gives us a lot of options.
As for the SH, add a mermaid/fishman and they're complete.
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terrible thread.
No theres not too many characters and thats cos it's a big story set in a big world. I could elaborate but I'm not gonna cos the username of the thread starter onearmZollo speaks for itself.
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I never said anything about fighting. Oda brings back non-fighting/minor characters as a way to show that he never forgot them. Toriyama just abandons his characters sometimes.
We see Turtle and Puar in the Saiyan and Cell games saga.
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Bleach has like 2x more characters than One Piece, and some people still think it's great.
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It's amazing how many characters are in One Piece, and Oda is able to make them stand out individually. But, I am starting to lost track of them all. Don't you think there are just too many characters? Also, how big is the Straw Hats crew going to be? I am fine with not recruiting anymore. I personally like it when they had only 7 members, smaller crew has better chemistry and everyone gets enough airtime.
I request you to read Mahou Sensei Negima… The best example of how a lot of main characters can be handled in a good (even fantanstic imo) story... The amount of characters that matter in One Piece is nothing!
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It's usually stupid to have too many characters… but Oda has pulled it off by making them all unique and interesting. That's what makes One Piece so good. However I just hope that he'll be able to continue making the new world characters as unique, as he might run out of ideas because of his large amount of characters already. The most difficult bit comes after the war.
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oda likes his characters, not sure about other authors.
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Whenever luffy is around you don't really need to worry about forgetting characters from past arcs. He won't remember them too anyways so they'll get widely explained again. :p
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to answer your thread title, no.
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I'll think that One Piece has too many characters when they start to suck. It's been over 12 years, and that still hasn't happened, so no.
@Hiroy:If you want say a manga has too many chracters(that aren't arc driven either), read Bleach or Fairy Tail.
Greaaaaaat… I just started reading it last night...
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I think the second half of the manga is gonna make your head hurt.
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Riddle me this and riddle me that, does this deserve its own thread?
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Bleach has like 2x more characters than One Piece, and some people still think it's great.
No it doesn't One Piece has far far far more characters.
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The characters make up the world of OP, so there's never too much. Even background characters make consistent appearances, and they get no sceentime(yeah, I pay attention to that).
Has anyone notice that every so often there's some guy with a hitle mustache? It's probably them just recycling generic extras but still…
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Naw, I think Oda's doing it right. His villains stay out of the story for the most part after they're defeated, only appearing in cover arcs really. Like the female baroque works agents, the entire CP9, don kreig and his crew, etc.
The ones that DO come back in are usually the most memorable, like Moria, Crocodile, Hachi, etc.
and then the supporting cast just gets left behind on the island when the strawhats leave. for example: conis, kaya, Lola, montblanc cricket, etc.
So the cast of "active" characters really isn't overly large.
This is opposed to Bleach, where every single division captain and lietenent, plus Urahara's group, plus Ichigo's group, plus the vizards, ALL have to come back up and get another fight. The man doesn't know when to let a character fade into obscurity…
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Well theres over 200 females…
...And 400 males at least.
Thats including filler though.
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Naw, I think Oda's doing it right. His villains stay out of the story for the most part after they're defeated, only appearing in cover arcs really. Like the female baroque works agents, the entire CP9, don kreig and his crew, etc.
The ones that DO come back in are usually the most memorable, like Moria, Crocodile, Hachi, etc.
and then the supporting cast just gets left behind on the island when the strawhats leave. for example: conis, kaya, Lola, montblanc cricket, etc.
So the cast of "active" characters really isn't overly large.
This is opposed to Bleach, where every single division captain and lietenent, plus Urahara's group, plus Ichigo's group, plus the vizards, ALL have to come back up and get another fight. The man doesn't know when to let a character fade into obscurity…
True enough. Let's give it some couting. 25 from de 13 divisions Not counting Ukitake's followers, Ichigo, Rukia, Sado, Ishida, Inoue. That's already 30. Some 5 Espadas still alive We could count their Fráccion, but let's leave them be. Yoruichi, Urahara, Kurosaki Isshin, Ishida Ryuuken They might do something. Or not. And 9 Vaizards, if I'm not wrong. I may have forgotten some, so let's just say it's about FIFTY characters that have their spotlight at the moment. Ok, not all of them, but you understood me.
Meanwhile, most of One Piece characters only show up during one arc and that's that.
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Back in Water 7 I thought there might be too many characters because the story kept bringing up new ones who the Strawhats haven't met yet… then lately they've introduced so many prowerful guys like the Yonkou, 11 supernovas, 6th level prisoners etc I really did start wondering. But, with the White Beard war and so on, I've seen that all characters have their places, not everybody has to fight or even meet the strawhats. It was a dumb assumption brought on by how other shonen manga operated. One Piece handles characters differently.
There's only too many characters when the author doesn't know what to do with them.
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No, and the reason I don't think so is because Oda knows when (and when not) to use those characters. In Water 7 you might have thought there were too many people being added to the story at once, but towards the climax you saw each and every one of those "minor" characters, get a moment in the sunlight in their own way. It all came together brilliantly.
I have absolute faith that Oda knows what he's doing with the characters he has. He hasn't disappointed me yet.
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I just want to know what will Oda do with the Supernovas. I hope they will be SHs rivals at New World.
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I personally love all the characters (Except Usopp). He does a great job of keeping up with all of them, and the story would be a lot worse IMO if they weren't all in it (Except Usopp).
Also, I doubt all the supernovas will meet up. I'm guessing that law, Kid, and maybe 2 or 3 more captains will play an important role in it.
Edit: I don't like Usopp..
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Hm, yeah, hm i guess things get tough, when there are more characters than brain cells … :P
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No, I dont think that their are too many characters in OP. What is your definition of too many? For the love of God pirates have crews you know and each and every single member has their unique individual personalities. Stated within the forum, it is mentioned that you dont forget all the sideline characters, most are quite memorable. If you have a hard time keeping up with the characters in OP start reading Naruto.
