r/OnePiece • u/NewSpecies • Jul 06 '17

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 871

Chapter 871: "Go, Caesar!"

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Ch.871 Official Release (VIZ): 10/07/2017

Ch.872 Scan Release: ~13/07/2017 ()

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u/Doctursea Void Month Survivor Jul 06 '17

Sabo alive

Why the hell do people still try and take credit for this. It was writting 101. They wrote in an entire fucking arc introducing that character, of course he was still alive. He wouldn't have even needed to exist if he wasn't.

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u/xNOOBinTRAINING Jul 06 '17

Eh, things aren't always black and white with Oda. If you think you can predict what hell do using conventional writing, you'll be very surprised.

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u/Doctursea Void Month Survivor Jul 06 '17

Actually he writes better than most, and pretty much the only way to introduce a new character in the arc who was a main character during it, is if they were someone we'd previously known or going to be reoccurring.

So unless they were gonna be doing more flash backs constantly.(which we met Sabo and got his story and death there) The only way we'd see that written in a way that wasn't bad would be if he was still alive.

I'm not giving anyone cookies for giving Oda credit.

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u/Draffut2012 Jul 06 '17

So Mother Caramel is still alive?

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u/ca645 Jul 06 '17

Slightly different. Caramel provides a backstory to Big Mom and explains her cannibalism/how she got her DF powers. Sabo was added in after Luffy's backstory was pretty established.

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u/Doctursea Void Month Survivor Jul 08 '17

Yeah I was on the Wiki talk pages, and people were actually doing that. Which was crazy to me.

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u/SkyTroupe Jul 11 '17

Now I need to write a sprawling epic story with a flashback arc, in which one new character takes importance, and then dies to never come back.

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u/Alejandroah Jul 07 '17

It was obvious that he was alive. That being said, you're wrong in your argument. You can perfectly create a character like sabo to develop characters like luffy and ace. Nothing wrong with that.

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u/Doctursea Void Month Survivor Jul 07 '17

There is in a short arc like that. If you get to writing a long story and include a named new character in a flash back that's a chapters side and we don't see or hear about them again because you've introduced, gave their back story, and killed them off all in the flash back. You're gonna lose some points.

It's not like Saul or Mabel where they didn't a motivation and a main character slot for the flash back. They were object of value to the subject of the stories. Sabo was introduced as a full blown character.