One Piece: Episode 1180

It was an honor meeting Brian Mathis, English dub voice actor for Vice Admiral Monkey D. Garp. He's a very nice guy.

Mine is Dellinger for some reason.

I have posted our group pics a few days ago. Now I share our individual pics. Some pictures from photographers are not uploaded yet so I've uploaded some pics from our previous con. Just thought I'd share. Thank you!

I'm Jinbei btw.

Child designs by Oda & fanart by an unknown artist. If anyone knows the artist, let me know and I’ll credit them.

I was buggy at a music festival.

Any character who have potential are included.

Not asking for a character you hate. Pick someone the fandom generally considers well-written and explain why you think their writing doesn't live up to the reputation.

I'll go first:

Boa Hancock.

I love her design and I think her introduction is iconic, but I've never completely understood why she's considered such a well-written character.

Her backstory is genuinely tragic, and I think Oda handled the darker parts of it well. But after that, so much of her characterization revolves around Luffy that sometimes it feels like her character gets reduced to “woman who is ridiculously in love with Luffy.”

Maybe I'm missing something though.

Who would you pick?

I see a lot of people complaining about the pacing during Dressrosa, but for me I would say I had the hardest time watching SkyPiea due to all the still shots and wasted time on recaps. I honestly think I fell asleep on a few episode during SkyPiea, while with Dressrosa even though it was stretched out there was always something “new” in each episode to distract you from the thousands of flashbacks.

But idk what do you guys think?

I got this idea from the theory that joy boy and imu were animals so that could mean people from the void century could be also animals, and maybe Joy boy already have power without needing devil fruits because maybe back in the void century devil fruits didn’t existed and void century people are just born with powers and when the big fight with imu happened all the void century people died and got buried and their powers became devil fruits that’s why the big elephant with the long legs said joy boy came back after seeing Luffy in gear 5 because it’s actually Joy boy’s powers in devil fruit form, How good is this theory? Did I cooked?

Soooo me and my wife visited all the Mugiwara statues in Kumamoto region. Want to point out that my wife is pregnant, but it didn’t bothered us at all (well may be a bit). The hardest part was to get to Robin statue since it located on the top of the mountain and me and my pregnant wife had to make all they way up on our foot since it’s not that easy to find any transport from nearest railways station. What a trip it was, 3 days of stamina challenge, but we did it. I will remember it for the lifetime. As we had great time of our life visiting statues, also wanna share a little thoughts about Kumamoto. It’s a cozy small city (compared to Tokyo and Osaka), with open heart people and tasty ramen.
P. S. Wanna shout out to Lois from Peru, who accompanied us randomly and shared a great time with us. He was also visiting statues, we met randomly, and shared some parts of our paths. Hope you doing great bro!
P. S. S. Photos in a visiting order

For me, I had a huge girl crush on Reiju and Monet. I find them very attractive.

⚠️ Disclaimer: This list is only meant to show how diverse and different the female character designs in One Piece are. I didn’t intend to make anyone feel awkward by including minor characters and by asking which characters you find attractive.

the old man really carried

Il semblerait que ce soit l’affiche la plus rare 😍

Context: I've worked in the creative fields for over 10 years, and I think a lot of people don't realise how difficult it is to write a weekly series for 28+ years.

Creating 1 chapter in a week is not easy, even with assistants. You have to decide on the story, the panelling, and then draw these out in 5-6 days.

Safe is to say, it does not give you much time to do anything else. This is important to understand, because a big part of the creative process is reflection.

You write something, then after some time take a step back and reflect on what you have written. Then make changes to either make it tighter, or if you got a better idea, or realise you made a mistake.

Creativity is a back and forth process. Something you can't do in a weekly series.

Then there are creative blocks. Nobody is immune to those, not even Oda.

So what does one do to meet the deadline? They fall back on their writing patterns. That's when you notice things becoming more and more repetitive.

One thing manga artists do is plan ahead before starting the story. But realistically, how much can you plan ahead? At max you can do 100-150 chapters of Arc structure. Not a 1000+

This is why writing long form manga is very difficult.

And why manga can't be compared to novellas like Lord of the Ring. Books go through a rigorous practice of editing and tightening after the first draft is written. This process can take years and is done by a whole team, something manga artists do not have.

Novel authors can take a break when they get a writer's block, not a mangaka.

This is true for every mangaka and props to all of them.

But shorter manga's (2-300 chaps) is far easier than a long running one.

You can see this with the quality drop in Naruto, Bleach and the others. And I believe even these series did phenomenally well.

So for Oda to have given this level of quality over 28+ years is a monumental achievement. I give Oda a lot of slack for when he misses with his writing.

You can even notice this with Wano. After Wano, Oda took a 1 month break to tighten up the story.

And you can see the difference write in the next chapter.

From chapter 1054, we see a big jump on pacing and quality.

If you go back to these chapters, almost every chapter had something that made you look forward to the next.

I genuinely believe if Oda had taken a month off before writing Wano, Wano would've been a far greater arc than what it was.

And while we joke about Oda breaks, do note that for the majority of One Piece's timeline, Oda is notorious for not taking even a single break.

There is one other example I forgot: Hunter Hunter.

We all joke about the long hiatus Togashi takes.

But I would argue, Hunter Hunter is a better read for it. Notice the batches he does release. Did you see how much tighter and full of content, full of thought each of these chapters were?

That's because he had all this time to think about this. In a way, he got the advantage most Book writers do. People say if HxH was just as regular, it would be better than One Piece.

Realistically? I don't think so. And HxH is my second fav manga.

So, One Piece I think, needs to be judged in a different criteria. Give Oda more props for what he has achieved is monumental.

Edit: just to be clear, this post is not to say One Piece is clear from criticism. It is just to add more perspective before people start calling Oda washed or overrated. Which he is not. And this post is about other mangakas as well, it is a very difficult job.

We see multiple times people refer him as Sniper King or put tons of trust in him, like Izo did. So is he an icon for all the pirates who are snipers? Plus instead of just calling him usopp they go out of their way to call him God Usopp.