https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-03-10/toei-animation-hack-affects-one-piece-dragon-quest-adventure-of-dai-delicious-party-precure-digimon-/.183439

God please I hope they didn't loose Roof Piece episodes :(

So what Oda is basically saying is we already have all necessery clues to figure out what One Piece is. I think with that we can assume that at least one of many fandom theories is correct and there will be no totally unexpected twist regarding what the treasure it.

Great episode and the preview for next one looks even better. Roof Piece is almost upon us and honestly im more hyped about the anime at this moment than the manga.

Question. Which arcs are you planning to eventually re-do?

Am I the only one annoyed by the fact that background colours do not transistion smoothly into each other from one volume to the other? I hope it's just a matter of image quality and the actual volumes match each other.

Dressrosa is a mess because it's basically three arcs combined into one. Doflamingo-Riku Family-Law arc, Colliseum-Grand Fleet arc and Green Bit-Dwarves arc (and Green Bit was confirmed to be a separate arc in early plans). Truth be told separate those three into arcs and different islands and people would enjoy each of them much more than when combined into one. Sure, oda saved probably like a year of publishing by doing it all at once, but at what cost? Biggest mistake he made. Thankfully it got a little better in WCI and Wano, though it's nowhere near pre-skip level.

Pre skip arcs never felt that way, which is why pre skip is considered better. Oda wasn't trying to squeeze as much stuff as he can into single arc, so storylines in the arcs had more breathing room and hit better. Arcs felt more concise, structurally better and thematically consistent. Now it's basically a big fight for panel time that in the ends most characters lose. It's just a big mess with cool moments and cool revalations instead of good, smooth, satysfying storytelling.

Coloring is straight garbage. It's like Oda doesn't even care and just slaps random colors becuase he wants it to be colorful.

@sandman:

Editor Onishi: ONE PIECE is 60-70% done and it will probably finish within 10 years.
Interview with editor Onishi at ONE PIECE exhibition in Taiwan (2014)
http://forums.arlongpark.net/showthread.php?t=35030&page=27&p=3224194&viewfull=1#post3224194

Well, say what you want, they are at least consistent when it comes to number of years.

@Gia:

! - How does he fit Vegapunk himself, his devilfruit explanations, weapons, Kuma, Bonney, Germa, Caesar, into Wano, Elbaf or the Final War? I personally cant see it, which is why I think its a separate arc entirely.

• Where does Enel and his moon plot fit into the remainder of the story? Additionally, every other old villain set up for more story, namely Buggy, Crocodile, Moria and Lucci
• What was the point in letting us know 2 people know BMs secret if it doesnt pay off in the future?
• What was the point in the 3 additional underworld emeperors that have yet to get exposure? The hints that Kaido still gets stuff via Underworld trading after Joker?
• There are Impel Down escapees still roaming about, what are they doing?
• Marco and Weevil? Will be tied to Wano? Former WB pirates?
• The ancient weapons
• The National Treasure
• Fishman Islands destruction/Noah
• The Marines and WG as a whole. They have hierarchies that need to be taken down.
• The last 2 Yonko
• Urogue and the Supernova as a whole
• SHF
• DREAMS

! And a ton fuck more.

That's a lot of stuff to be sure, but let me ask you one question. What makes the big arcs so freaking long and time-consuming?

The anwser is - internal storylines and abundance of new side characters.

The Final War and most of the things you have mentioned will have the benefit of not having this. All of the characters will be already established, as there are no more groups or big crews to introduce, aside from Giants (which I think will be handled similiary to Zou and Minks, meaning Elbaf will be a short arc, and Giants internal conflict/storyline will be tied to final war and resolved then, the same way how Minks storyline is tied to Wano and Kaido). Without the need to introduce and build up shitton of stuff, Oda will be able to focus on just resolving and providing closure to past plotlines and characters, which will make the pacing much better than what we have usual. I don't think 5 years is enough, but I can totally see him ending everything in 7. Just look at the WB war saga. The whole thing was as long as Dressrosa, yet managad to achieve so much more becuase it didn't have that "classic adventure" storytelling with lots on focus put on the locals, island's history and goofing around.

@Sengokusgoat:

This is completely random, but I expect the Strawhats to fight the red-hair pirates at some point, and maybe Nami could get a mini-arc at that point? I think Mihawk would get wrapped up in this and be Zoro's opponent, so maybe Nami gets some kind of intelligence duel against Ben Beckman. Perhaps they'll be the strategists for whatever they do or something, since I doubt it'd be just a normal fight

Devy Back Fight seems like the perfect solution for RHs vs SHs. This way then can have a friendly fight and focus not solely on fighting itself, but utilizing other strenghts.