So Oda recently said he planned on OP being a 5 year story. That would have placed it ending somewhere around Volume 25 (my favorite tank btw). Without getting in fan fiction, what do you think Oda originally had planned for the tale and how did he attempt to wrap it up in what is now almost close to being merely half of the story thus far?
OP in 5 Years
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I have a feeling Oda is absolutley terrible at making estimates involving time.(like me). And as a fellow timeestimatorsuckerater….it basically means that Skypiea and everything could have been planned into 25 volumes.
If thats sound incredibly impossible...thats because it is....and folks like Oda and I just have no sense of that during planning.I'm willing to bet though, that the Poneglyph stuff was an afterthought.
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Well, if Oda ended the manga in 2002 then We will not see Water 7/Enies Lobby.
This is interesting, frist Oda wanted to create a robot series but since his manga has not ended as planned, he had to create Franky. Oda stated he'll ende the manga at 70+ volumes but due to his bad planning diversion, he may expand the series more then 70 volumes.
Since he says he has no idea how long his series will be, that's because he's really enjoying One Piece and he drags his story to much which would be impossible to finish in five years, in fact he keeps adding new situations and plot elements. I'm sure he was not planning to introduce the CP9 so I'm betting he's going to add more story elements that can span over 100 volumes. This guy won't stop
I'm glad Oda did not yet ended the manga, I like to see him make One Piece big as Star Wars.
Currently writing a book
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I'm guessing he was expecting to do everything at a way faster pace: get to GL faster, defeating BW faster and everything that comes after it faster. But this doesn't entirely agree with his statement he wanted chapter 100 to be "The Legend has Begun" - although it could be he only thought that up as he was drawing closer to it.
I also think he'd have left a lot of stuff out. Arlong was a great arc, but Nami was already in the crew, so he could have thought up giving her a backstory later on. Loguetown was all in all not really necessary if he didn't want to seal the East Blue saga and introduce Smoker. Nami could not have gotten sick and they'd never had to need a medic. BW could have been smaller, making it unnecessary to have the Mugiware go to Little Garden before going to Alabasta. The entire Skypeia saga could have been skipped, as could the WG saga - the repercussions of their actions there could have been relayed to repercussions after defeating one of the Shichibukai. All in all, the situation of the Straw Hats after this arc could originally have been planned to be somewhere in Volume 16-17.
And it is of course very plausable Oda sucks at planning ^^ -
Somehow, I wouldn't be suprised if Oda's just making it up as he goes.
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@joekido:
Well, if Oda ended the manga in 2002 then We will not see Water 7/Enies Lobby.
This is interesting, frist Oda wanted to create a robot series but since his manga has not ended as planned, he had to create Franky. Oda stated he'll ende the manga at 70+ volumes but due to his bad planning diversion, he may expand the series more then 70 volumes.
Since he says he has no idea how long his series will be, that's because he's really enjoying One Piece and he drags his story to much which would be impossible to finish in five years, in fact he keeps adding new situations and plot elements. I'm sure he was not planning to introduce the CP9 so I'm betting he's going to add more story elements that can span over 100 volumes. This guy won't stop
I'm glad Oda did not yet ended the manga, I like to see him make One Piece big as Star Wars.
Your point about Franky is a very interesting one. Makes me wonder, perhaps in the back of his mind he's been planning out a robot manga this whole time? And maybe Franky would have been the main character?
Anyway, if OP was to be done in 5 years, I'm guessing Oda either A) didn't plan correctly and is insane or B) was going to time-skip like CRAZY. I'm very happy it seems as though it was the former and not the latter.
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@joekido:
Well, if Oda ended the manga in 2002 then We will not see Water 7/Enies Lobby.
This is interesting, frist Oda wanted to create a robot series but since his manga has not ended as planned, he had to create Franky. Oda stated he'll ende the manga at 70+ volumes but due to his bad planning diversion, he may expand the series more then 70 volumes.
Since he says he has no idea how long his series will be, that's because he's really enjoying One Piece and he drags his story to much which would be impossible to finish in five years, in fact he keeps adding new situations and plot elements. I'm sure he was not planning to introduce the CP9 so I'm betting he's going to add more story elements that can span over 100 volumes. This guy won't stop
I'm glad Oda did not yet ended the manga, I like to see him make One Piece big as Star Wars.
Your point about Franky is a very interesting one. Makes me wonder, perhaps in the back of his mind he's been planning out a robot manga this whole time? And maybe Franky would have been the main character?
Anyway, if OP was to be done in 5 years, I'm guessing Oda either A) didn't plan correctly and is insane or B) was going to time-skip like CRAZY. I'm very happy it seems as though it was the former and not the latter.
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I think he probably had a rough plan for what he wanted to do in One Piece; the general plot elements and arcs of how he wanted the story to progress from A to B. But as with any creative work, he ended up developing his ideas, adding things in, creating more complex plots and fleshing out One Piece as a whole.
Sometimes you think, "Oh, I can fit this all in one chapter or one volume", and it turns out being several chapters or several volumes. Or perhaps you think of a new plot thread and a story ends up branching out in a new direction.
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Wait, I'm unclear on the five year thing. Did he mean it was going to go for 5 more years, he wanted it from the start to go five years, or in-story it was going to take the Straw-hats 5 years to do whatever?
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Originally, he was going to work on it for roughly five years, after which the series would have completed, so he's already working on it for 4 more years than planned.
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Hopefully he'll do better than JK Rowling.
/writes little story about a boy fighting against evil!
/makes up a bunch of stuff when her book sells.
No way she had that all down.. She didn't expect to be a world-famous writer. Who would buy an 700 page book children's book that is something you have never heard of?
Oda probably could've been done by now, but the nature of Manga is slow.. so..
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Wait, I'm unclear the five year thing. Did he mean it was going to go for 5 more years, he wanted it from the start to go five years, or in-story it was going to take the Straw-hats 5 years to do whatever?
No, back in 1997, he planned to work on OP for 5 years which means he would have ended it in 2002 but he kept going after 2002, so the series went on for 9 years. He stated in the Volume 42 SBS that he has no idea how many years will he countiue which means that his series is going to be long as 100 Volumes or more.
BUT don't get overhyped, it may be sooner to end then expected.
Since Oda ends up dragging the East Blue Saga over 101 chapters, thus putting too much effort in it. He would had made East Blue last over 50 chapters, he would have skipped most arcs just to reach Raftel faster then normal which means we would not have seen Little Garden arc, Drum arc Jaya arc, Skypiea arc, DBF arc, Water 7 arc and Enies Lobby arc at all. That would make OP look bad if Oda had it rushed up.
But because of his creative mind, he ends up expanding the series over 420+ chapters onward and One Piece became a masterpiece like Fone Bone series, Star Wars and LOTR. He puts so much ideas, inspirations and stories in OP, he enjoyed it too much to end it withen 5 years, which proves he is not going to end the series anytime soon and he may changed his mind about making a Robot manga or not wanting to make it as long as Kochi Kame manga.
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You know. I'm sure the fact that it became uber popular had some role in terms of his pacing. But honestly, I hope for his sake he stops it before it stops before it becomes more of a chore then a labor of love. I mean, assuming that's not the case now…you know what I mean.
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So it seems Oda is very bad at judging time. My opinion is, when Oda gets the SH's to the Red Line again, then the series will be half-way. As of now… It's probably barely at the half-way point. He may have said half-way sometime in Skypiea, but he was probably underestimating again.
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I sincerely think that Oda, right as he started the story, thought to himself, "This is a good, small project. Get me ready for my next series, and I'll have fun doing it! I'll just have this and this and this in before ending it."
-timeskip to Arlong Arc-
"…..No way this'll end in 3 years or so. OH WELL! :D"I think that the Elbaf idea was in there since the beginning, obviously. Oda mentioned his love of Vikings and that they were his favorite "type" of pirates. He might have had characters from W7 arc in his head, but never found a good use for them until recently. I also think that all the characters in the mini stories are the characters that he wanted to see more action because he couldn't find a way to bring them back into the main story (Exception being Buggy and possibly Ace and BW members, who were characters I think he felt deserved more spotlight)
All in all, none of us really have a clue. We might be able to find out what he had planned when we reach the end, but that might not be for awhile yet. I do hope that it runs as long as 11 years at least, but it's up to Oda to decide what happens to One Piece and to the characters we all love.
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Somehow, I wouldn't be suprised if Oda's just making it up as he goes.
I second that.
What really confused me was the revelation of Ms. Wednesday being Princess Vivi. She started out as a really cheesy and shallow villain, but then suddenly became a Mother Teresa totally devoted to her people, an unlikely personality shift. It seemed rather forced to me.
My guess is that Oda realizes that adventures like Whiskey Peak all the way through the Grand Line would give One Piece a really crappy overall plot. So he decides to revamp it with some drama, and make Vivi a temporary Strawhat.
The Poneglyph concept seemed to be made up after Oda started the manga as well. It brings a whole new dimension of intrigue and wonder to the plot, and really fills up One Piece's previous overall lack of depth. I don't think Oda planned to make Robin a Strawhat at all until this point. Enies Lobby wouldn't even exist. CP9 isn't needed at all. However, I think he still had planned the Strawhats going against the World Government.
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I second that.
What really confused me was the revelation of Ms. Wednesday being Princess Vivi. She started out as a really cheesy and shallow villain, but then suddenly became a Mother Teresa totally devoted to her people, an unlikely personality shift. It seemed rather forced to me.
.I disagree…that's too short of a time period for him to have a sudden shift in ideas. I would be more inclined to bet that he had Vivi's character thought out beforehand.
Some people think the Poneglyphs were an afterthought? Maybe...but considering that I am getting the impression that they are closely tied in with One Piece itself, I don't think so, seems he at least had some idea of what One Piece is and how it relates to history and Gol D. Roger. If he really is still making that up as he goes, it's both amazing and kind of scary.Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. - Frank Zappa
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One thing for sure, I am relatively confident that the concept of shichibukais were concieved before their actual designs. Likewise the concept of the admiral heirarchy was probably concieved but not as the "top 3" (Ao Kiji, Akainu, etc…). Though...I am curious if he knew all the strawhat pirates (design and backstorywise) before going with the serie...I would have thought that to be important.
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I read in one of the SBSs that according to him, the biggest secret in the story is One Piece itself. This was in one of the older SBSs i think, so it clearly shows that he knows exactly what he wants it to be. I'd even go so far as to say, that he has built up his entire story around One Piece.
As for him wanting to finish the story in around 25 chapters, it is possible that he had originally planned on completing the story with the initial 5 characters themselves. Which means no Chopper/Robin/Franky etc…But getting into the Alabasta storyline was probably far too exciting. The buildup of this huge conspiracy, Crocodile etc... would have definately pushed him to move forward and lengthen it. Skypiea by all accounts didn't add much to the story itself, but the poneglyph at the end probably did far more than we know. The history of the Cyandians could also be very closely linked to the True history.
Whatever it is that he had planned, i'm sure, he is very pleased with his story right now and might lengthen it a bit more as well. Maybe add a few fun arcs like the DBF, or even mega pointless arcs like Sky piea.
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Here's one idea. Although this probably dawned on him much earlier than Arlong, if you look at how many stories he told during East Blue and then after he gets into GL, there's no question his tales in EB are far more condensed. When you total up the pages, all of Arlong Park transpired in roughly two tanks.
TWO!
Oda has been setting up the Enies Lobby showdown for…..8 tanks. Granted we had all sorts of side-stories etc. running parallel to the progression but Oda's EB tales where of epic proportions on an EB scale. Technically if Oda felt he wanted to wrap up the story in 15 volumes from that point........eeeeeh he might have done it if he handled it like EB and went from crew member to crew member. But by the time Arlong had begun, I think that's when he started to realize, "That ain't gonna happen." Hence his introduction of an element like the Shichibukai, a mystery that in and of itself begs a grand stage.
I think he was also being realistic. Sure he was a hot-shot newbie to the world but I don't know if he ever imagined OP would take off like it has. Glad he was wrong about that, eh?
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The only way that the series could have lasted five years is if the SH just went from adventure to adventure to adventure without stop. Note how within a bit over four volumes, we've already met four crewmembers and defeated at least four villains. While some think that the story started to slow and develop around Arlong, I personally think it started to slow at Baratie, when we both get Mihawk appearing to drive Zoro further as well as the beginning of the "lengthened flashback" with Sanji. For all we know, things could have turned out differently there that would have keep the story going at the pace it was on: Mihawk could have been held off until much later, Nami could have remained behind or at least not go back to pay her debts to Arlong (though something tells me her "tangerines" line back when first introduced could have been either spontaneous or a bit of foreshadowing for the massive arcs he would begin later) and we could of had a much shorter flashback for Sanji. Perhaps one of the keys behind the slowing of the plot exactly there is possibly because it had lasted a year and mostly "out of danger from Jump editors" at this point. Remember: the first year of any manga in Jump is the hardest, since the mangaka has to prove they can keep an audience with their story. The moment the popularity plummets, which is typical for many first-years, the story gets the axe and something new is put in the next week. So perhaps that with One Piece's initial runaway success in Jump and being out of danger by the one-year mark, Oda found time to relax, look over what he have, expand and develop his characters and his world and make his way to becoming the long, multi-layered saga we've come to today. Personally, I say that Oda should continue doing One Piece as long as it takes to get him to the end. But if it was five years, it would be something like this:
1. Luffy, Zoro, Nami and Usopp's stories
2. Sanji joins, enter Grand Line, possibly one or two early islands directly to Alabasta
3. SH get in trouble with WG, become ultimate enemies
4. Mad dash through second half of GL
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wow, already 5 years …
i realy hope that oda will have a long life and healthy ...
and stay out of drugs, and be healthy, so we can read this manga till the end.
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Did Oda specify which version of OP he meant (with regards to the two Romance Dawn One shots or to One Piece in it's current incarnation).
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Did Oda specify which version of OP he meant (with regards to the two Romance Dawn One shots or to One Piece in it's current incarnation).
Since exhibition pieces are never meant to go anywhere it would be highly unlikely that he was referring to those specifically.
However, that was prolly around the same time he figured the whole real story would be 5 years.
wow, already 5 years …
The story has been around for 9 years.
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Oh wow. After hearing about the whole "half-way" mark, and the fact it's been going for nine years, I would have expected it to end in another nine years (at Volume 80-90). But if this is true, it's possible he has much more in store and doesn't realize how long it may truly take.
And no, people. There's no way he's "making this up as he goes." It's extremely likely he already had everything planned and may have added a few details when he actually got there, and also likely he had EVERYTHING planned and didn't realize it would take this long (as Zephos put). But to say he doesn't know where he's going… no way, and if he IS, then like Cosmic pointed out, that'd be pretty freakin' amazing... and quite scary. o.O
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I hope the Manga goes on for many years to come. The longer it takes to finish the better. Which would also mean, plenty of the anime to come.
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If Oda wanted to make a five years work, he should have done this:
! 1. Romance Dawn - The Dawn of the Adventure
2. Introducing Pirate Hunter Zoro
3. The First Person
4. Introducing Nami
5. Versus!! The Buggy Pirate Crew
6. The Pirate, "Buggy the Clown"
7. You're a Freak
8. Introducing Captain Usopp
9. Captain Kuro's Plan
10. Crescent Moon
11. Kurahadol the Butler
12. Follow Them!!
13. The Pirate, "Kuro of All Means"
14. Yosaku and Johnny
15. Introducing Sanji
16. The Oath
17. Old Fart
18. I Ain't Gonna Die
19. The Fourth Person
20. Arlong Park
21. Tears
22. OK, Let's STAND UP!
23. Three-Sword School Vs. Six-Sword School
24. Chivalry Vs. Merman Karate
25. It's Over!!
26. Going Down
27. The Second Person
28. Greatest Evil of the East
29. The Legend Has Begun
30. Now, the Grand Line
31. The Town of Celebration
32. 100 Bounty Hunters
33. Secret Criminal Syndicate
34. Luffy Vs. Zoro
35. Route
36. Adventure in Little Garden
37. Dorry and Brogy
38. Luffy Vs. Mr. 3
39. Straight Ahead!!!
40. Adventure in the Country Without a Name
41. Introducing Tony-Tony Chopper
42. Inherited Will
43. The Battle of National Defense
44. Hiruluk's Sakura
45. Introducing Ace
46. Plan: Utopia
47. Rainbase, Town of Dreams
48. Rush!!
49. The End Will Be in Alubarna
50. 4
51. 2
52. Whirlwind Warning
53. 1
54. Water Luffy
55. The Suna Suna Clan's Secret Base
56. 0
57. Plan to Escape From the Kingdom of Sand
58. Stowaway
59. Masira, the Salvaging King
60. Big Time Rookies
61. Shojo, King of Ocean Floor Searches
62. Montblanc Cricket
63. Bellamy the Hyena
64. The Hundred Million Man
65. The Ship Goes Into the Sky
66. Angel Beach
67. Class 2 Criminals
68. Adventure on God's Island
69. The Anaconda and the Search Team
70. Wiper the Berserker
71. Chopper vs. Gedatsu
72. Chopper vs. Aum
73. Zoro vs. Aum
74. Luffy vs. Enel
75. Capriccio
76. The Monster of Shandora
77. I'm Right Here
78. Raigoh
79. Symphony
80. Finale
81. Adventure on Long Island
82. Donut Race!!
83. Groggy Monsters
84. Combat!!!
85. Marine Headquarters Admiral, Aokiji
86. Adventure in the City on the Water
87. Shipyard Island First Construction Dock
88. Pirate Abduction
89. A Big Quarrel
90. Luffy vs. Franky
91. The Woman Who Brings Darkness
92. The 9th Justice
93. One Citizen
94. Warehouse Under the Bridge
95. The Legendary Shipwright
96. Revival
97. Leaving Shortly
98. Rocketman!!
99. Sea Train Battle Game
100. Ramen Kenpo
101. The Admirable Captain T-bone
102. The Superhumans of Enies Lobby
103. Great Judiciary Battle!!
104. Express to Enies Lobby, Main Island
105. Luffy vs. Blueno
106. Raise the Counterattack Signal
107. Gear
108. Respond
109. The Girl Called a Devil
110. Demons of Ohara
111. Declaration of War
112. Jump into the Falls!!
113. Pirates vs. CP9
114. Franky vs. Fukuro
115. Monster Vs. Kumadori
116. Emergency Bad News Broadcast
117. Nami Vs. Califa
118. Sanji Vs. Jabura
119. Zoro VS Kaku
120. Luffy Vs. Rob Lucci -
That seems about right joekido.
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I think there would be a chapter Luffy vs. Usopp, but other than that… Could be ^^
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And no, people. There's no way he's "making this up as he goes." It's extremely likely he already had everything planned and may have added a few details when he actually got there, and also likely he had EVERYTHING planned and didn't realize it would take this long (as Zephos put).
Well, just glancing at the sketches he has from Color Walk, that doesn't seem to be the case. Plus there's that famous sketch of his where Blueno is in Cocoro's role.
I guess it depends how big we consider the BIG details. Did he have an idea that they would go to a Govt. Island and have a battle. Yeah, prolly. Did he have the idea of CP9, Spandam, the Buster Call, the betrayal at W7, etc?
Mmmmmm doesn't seem that way. Just looking at some of his rough sketches you'll see that some of his early ideas were ENTIRELY different and would have thrown the story in a very (but not entirely) different direction.
I mean that landmine from CW3 where Vivi says she wants to go to sea too. That in and of itself is a massively different idea.
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It seems like Oda does think of differant ideas and throws in something that he has not thought before.
I mean, Oda was going to have Zoro a one-sword wilder in Buggy's crew as a role of an bodyguard where he's suppose to meet Luffy at Buggy's ship but changed his mind. If you don't believe me, check out Volume 4.
That proves that he changes his mind many times and he may not have everything planned already.
That's part of human nature, sometimes a new idea pops up in an writer's head and uses them, the writer don't have to have everything planned so Oda may had decided to throw in a phonglyph and the ancient kingdom deep in the series. Remamber in chapter 22, Nami says something about a town in the middle of the Red Line but Oda keeps changing his mind.
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Ah, true. I may have been thinking of the "big" details in a different way (and I haven't seen those later Color Walk's so "whoops" for me ^_^; ).
So then, I suppose Cosmic Debris is right: he really is INSANE and unbelievably good at storytelling. XD
Kinda makes me think of what this guy said on another forum (let's see if I can get it right): "Good stories never die. They simply get better with age, like wine," (or something like that >.>; ).
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So then, I suppose Cosmic Debris is right: he really is INSANE and unbelievably good at storytelling. XD
They say a reasonable man goes about with accepting the world. The unreasonable man tries to change the world to his liking. I think Oda here is the unreasonable man.
After all, the world needs an unreasonable man like that to keep it going around.
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and I haven't seen those later Color Walk's so "whoops" for me
Boy I'll tell ya. More than the color images and even more than the interviews in the back, I buy the CW's just for the 4 pages of sketches in the center. Those things are amazing. Just to see his ideas and how grossly different (or similar) they can be to the final product. I love that kinda stuff which is why I flipped a gasket when Vol. 42 had the evolution of Wanze.
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Oda-sensei said it himself 'Sypea was the halfway point of the series. I don't intend to do OP for the rest of my life.' In 5 years, OP will have ended.
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The unreasonable man tries to change the world to his liking. I think Oda here is the unreasonable man.
It's always more fun to be a nonconformist. Makes me think of those people that always whine about everything, and all I can think is "then shut up and DO something about it." XD
Boy I'll tell ya. More than the color images and even more than the interviews in the back, I buy the CW's just for the 4 pages of sketches in the center. Those things are amazing. Just to see his ideas and how grossly different (or similar) they can be to the final product. I love that kinda stuff which is why I flipped a gasket when Vol. 42 had the evolution of Wanze.
I've seen the English version of the first one, but after hearing that, I think I'll be hunting them down now.
Oda-sensei said it himself 'Sypea was the halfway point of the series. I don't intend to do OP for the rest of my life.' In 5 years, OP will have ended.
He also said he thought the series would be done in 5 years (as Greg stated). It's now nine years in and hasn't ended. I think we've got quite awhile to go. =p
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He also said he thought the series would be done in 5 years (as Greg stated). It's now nine years in and hasn't ended. I think we've got quite awhile to go. =p
Yeah, while what you say is true to some degree Ao Kiji, Oda's comments from Vol. 42 are remarkably ambiguous and give fans hope for a long (but not drawn out) retirement for OP. Instead of the half-way point being 24, his latest comment is: "I don't know how many more years it will go on for." While one could read that as the glass being half empty, I tend to think Oda wouldn't say something like that with a negative connotation. Prior to this it appeared that although his prediction of 48 volumes was way off, it seemed reasonable the story could conclude in the late 50's.
Now I wouldn't be at all surprised if we reach well into the 60's and perhaps beyond…
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Yeah, while what you say is true to some degree Ao Kiji, Oda's comments from Vol. 42 are remarkably ambiguous and give fans hope for a long (but not drawn out) retirement for OP. Instead of the half-way point being 24, his latest comment is: "I don't know how many more years it will go on for." While one could read that as the glass being half empty, I tend to think Oda wouldn't say something like that with a negative connotation. Prior to this it appeared that although his prediction of 48 volumes was way off, it seemed reasonable the story could conclude in the late 50's.
Now I wouldn't be at all surprised if we reach well into the 60's and perhaps beyond…
Story to conclude in late 50's? You mean his age or the volume? The story would be longer then late 50 volumes
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Story to conclude in late 50's? You mean his age or the volume? The story would be longer then late 50 volumes
Erm…not if we were to go by his previous claim -_-;
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The story could end in less than 60 chapters, if after EL there is only one big arc left in which the World Government is completely devoured in some grand finale. A lot of the expected future events could never take place, because the Mugiwara change the entire world like this. GL could become just another sea, revealing All Blue to be the resulting sea of all Blue's and GL, the One Piece could rise far above sea level, …
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I certainly am happy that One Piece has lasted more than five years. When I thought about the way Oda writes his manga, I always thought he planned the story loosely, and then added things as he was inspired. In fact, a friend of mine had a little scenario we thought of involving Oda and his assistants. The assistant shows Oda a preliminary drawing of Kaku in monkey form, and Oda grabs it and tells him that he didn't do it right. He then does a quick sketch of Kakuraffe, and there we go.
Highly unlikely, but still funny as hell (at least to us). I'm fairly sure that he has One Piece planned pretty well, he has to have quite a good idea what's gonna happen, as he's evenually going to have to explain poneglyphs and Roger, etc.
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Erm…not if we were to go by his previous claim -_-;
Okay, now I'm more confused.
Anyway, after Enies Lobby I like to see Oda contiuing to throw in many kinds of adventure untie volume 100.
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Meh, I'm hoping it goes over at least 60 or so (hopefully more). When you've got something this good that can STAY good, you want it last (though at the same time want some sort of conclusion, just not… soon).
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The story could end in less than 60 chapters, if after EL there is only one big arc left in which the World Government is completely devoured in some grand finale.
Exactly ^_~ It COULD realistically have done so. But given his most recent statements that doesn't seem likely.
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And being the epic this is, there just seems to be too much to wrap up in that many volumes (could be done, sure, but hopefully not gonna happen). I can see things coming together after this, yes (fights with Doflamingo, Blackbeard, mysteries revealed, etc.) but I just can't see it ending by just Vol. 60 or 70 (okay, MAYBE 70, but more could be good ^_^ ).
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i don't think one piece will end anytime soon. Since there still things like the pirate summit. Witch could open up the strawhat crew to whole load of adventures. Plus the 6 maybe 7 now shibuiku (bad spelling) and theres still black beard and finding op and the polygraphs if im correct pluto is only one of the weapons. so really theres alot to go.
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The pirate's sumit is a myth created by misguiding translations, get over it! If such a thing existed, Shanks wouldn't have to go through some troubles to meet with Whitebeard, but would just do it there. And if such a thing would really exist - which it doesn't - it wouldn't have to lead to more adventures, but instead could answer a few questions at once - no seperate "what about Shanks", "what about Whitey", "what about Blacky" and "what about Buggy", but one big "what about the pirates". But it doesn't exist. So the first three can join each other, but not in one instant.
And I don't think it is necessary for the Straw Hats to meet with each of the Shichibukai. I know everybody is hoping to see Jinbei some day, but if he's doing some stuff on another route of the GL, and doesn't care about the Mugiwara enough to halt his business, why should we see him? Same goes for the 2 Shichibukai which are yet unknown. Or they could just be dealing with other pirates, as Luffy's crew obviously isn't considered the most powerful one out there.
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And I don't think it is necessary for the Straw Hats to meet with each of the Shichibukai. I know everybody is hoping to see Jinbei some day, but if he's doing some stuff on another route of the GL, and doesn't care about the Mugiwara enough to halt his business, why should we see him? Same goes for the 2 Shichibukai which are yet unknown. Or they could just be dealing with other pirates, as Luffy's crew obviously isn't considered the most powerful one out there.
Um, have you been reading the Enies Lobby arc? Although they might not be the most power powerful I think the WG is going to be a little bit ROYALLY PISSED OFF at the end of this arc regardless of how many pirates may or may not be more powerful than the Straw Hats. They'll be meeting more Shichibukai.
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Here's what Stephen translated to.
@Stephen's:
D: Hi, Oda-sensei! I have a serious question. One Piece has been going on for quite some time,
hasn't it? Have you thought of the ending already? Though personally, I wouldn't mind
if it continued on forever. One Piece is the BEST!!! from Mac
O: I've answered this in some magazines and interviews. Originally, my plan was that One Piece
would continue for five years. I've always had the climax in my head from the start,
I've just been working toward it since. But my original estimates were a bit short, and
I was unable to finish up my story within five years (ROFL). And now our pirates have
been adventuring for nine years, and I have no idea how much longer they will be at it
(hey!).Might be differant then we thought
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@Dixxy:
Um, have you been reading the Enies Lobby arc? Although they might not be the most power powerful I think the WG is going to be a little bit ROYALLY PISSED OFF at the end of this arc regardless of how many pirates may or may not be more powerful than the Straw Hats. They'll be meeting more Shichibukai.
Just because the WG is pissed off, doesn't mean the Shichibukai will listen to them any more than they did previously. At the previous meeting, only 2 Shichibukai came to hear out what the WG had to say, and even they came mostly out of boredom. I think the Shichibukai will only bother about the Mugiwara if they feel like it, not because the WG tells them to.
Edit: as for Stephen's translation, I guess that means Oda just is really, really terrible at planning. Really.
