Newb questions!

PseudoKirby

lol I think this may be a newb question but I dont know where to find the answer

does oda work with toei when they do the episodes to make sure everything is how he wants it/imagines it?

I mean everybody is coming up with theory's about gear and stuff, even to the point of if its a projectile, we see that in the anime, but does that mean its right?

and does oda create the chapters weekly? or does he pile them up then slowly release them

also, why arent they longer? I have heard that an anime eps of one piece is like 1 - 3 chapters of the manga, couldnt this solve the filler problems if they just make the chapters a bit longer so that they even out?

sabret00the

In regards to the anime, i think he does liase with them regarding how to animate certain things but he doesn't storyboard or anything like that.

As for Second Gear, given the explaination, it's no projectile, just insanely fast.

Oda creates Chapters as the whim suits him, however given the time it takes and that he has no assistants, he's ever only 3-5 chapters in front of us.

Chapters aren't longer because they're part of the WSJ, Mangaka's are limited to a certain amount of pages given there's so many manga's packed into a single edition.

The anime is there to serve the manga not the other way round, but some fillers are good, i.e. Sanji's chef episode's are always fun for me to watch, to the extent that his G8 episode is probably in my top two episodes ever.

smurfx

they probably have meeting with oda discussing certain parts of the manga and what exactly was in his mind so they can give it a proper treatment in the anime.

PseudoKirby

@sabret00the:

In regards to the anime, i think he does liase with them regarding how to animate certain things but he doesn't storyboard or anything like that.

lol if anything he does create the storyboards, lol the manga being the story board

Dixxy Mouri

@PseudoKirby:

does oda work with toei when they do the episodes to make sure everything is how he wants it/imagines it?

According to one of the SBS questions (SBS being a sort of question and answer thing Oda does in each tankoban volume of the manga with fan letters), Oda has to approve filler and movie plotlines on the chance that someone Toei wants to do would reflect something he's going to do later on in the manga. True, some of the stuff is silly (such as Oda having Sanji guess Robin and Nami's measurements) as well as serious answers (such as the physics behind why Zeff can't fight even though he still has one leg). None the less, Oda has a say in what goes and what doesn't go in the anime.

For example, let's say that when Toei was drafting the G8 arc, they wanted to give Jonathan ("Fortress Ossan" - for some reason that always cracks me up) a DF that would allow him to turn into a giraffe. But Oda already planned on Kaku eating that fruit, so he would have told Toei "no, I want to use that later on in the series".

Specifically he said this about the Devil Fruits, but I would immagine that this might apply to some plot elements as well. SOMETIMES minor details slip through the cracks (such as Zoro cutting steel during the Apis arc), but he probably wouldn't let something really big happen (such as Toei playing with what One Piece is, the Will of D., Dragon, ect., though I think Toei knows that stuff like that is off-limits to them until the manga addresses those issues).

SaiyaJedi

@PseudoKirby:

and does oda create the chapters weekly? or does he pile them up then slowly release them

With regards to this, Oda does work at the pace of approximately one chapter per week. It's not exactly clear how far ahead of the magazine he actually is, but I would imagine that it's no more than a couple of weeks at best. Oda seems to be good at keeping to his deadlines, whenever they are, so it's harder to judge compared to if he wasn't. (Take, for example, Naoko Takeuchi, who was always working past deadlines with Sailor Moon, or Yoshihiro Togashi, who actually had to turn in draft versions of some Hunter x Hunter chapters: for them, it's obvious that they were behind; it's harder to tell just how far along the manga is when the artist is ahead.)

also, why arent they longer? I have heard that an anime eps of one piece is like 1 - 3 chapters of the manga, couldnt this solve the filler problems if they just make the chapters a bit longer so that they even out?

Aside from the obvious amount of work that goes into any single chapter of a weekly manga, such as the need for storyboarding, scripting, sketching, etc. well before the final draft, inking, tone, and lettering… there's a generally accepted length of a Weekly Jump chapter that seems to fall somewhere between 15 and 20 pages per issue (One Piece is 19 pages per chapter, including the title page). Special chapters (including first chapters) can be longer, but these are exceptions rather than the rule.