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One Piece Manga Takes 1-Week Break [2015-06-04]

Zagnaphein wrote:

Anyone else worry about the anime adaption and the fact it might catch up to the Manga?

Never going to happen

they do 1 chapter per episode at most these days, sometimes even less

plus they're like 50 or so behind i think.

I've never wanted a show to have fillers more than one piece.

Anyone else worry about the anime adaption and the fact it might catch up to the Manga?

I really doubt OP would take a one year break, as Toei tends to keep its more popular series going no matter what, stopping only when the manga ends (and often not even then, as we saw with Dragon Ball and the various Saint Seyia follow-ups which are still being made.) The most likely course of action is a long filler arc.

It feels like Oda is dragging Dressrosa out with no idea how to end the arc so he's just inserting panel after panel of what feels like gunk filler into each chapter, so when the anime starts getting closer to this point there's no way one episode is going to be able to stretch one chapter to fit, because the chapters are already stretched to the max. Worse, because the current arc is nowhere near finished in the anime, there's no chance of a filler arc any time soon.

The time skip would have been an ideal place to take a break, but it's too late for that now.

The cool thing is that June 18 will also be my birthday, and since I'm loving Dressorosa to bits it would be a great "present" for me if that really happened!

Anyway, I can clearly see where Oda is going with the current story arc, and I don't think he's stretching it because he doesn't know how to end it (and he also proved to be too good a writer for that to happen).
Dressrosa is long, but for at least a couple of good of reasons: one of them could be the fact that before this point in the story we never had such a multi-layered character as main arc antagonist--so much that sometimes I think Doflamingo is one of the protagonists of this saga, too, and not just its villain.

Thanks and early happy birthday to you too, SamuraiNinjaDragon! ^^

Actually, I read around half of the pre time-skip One Piece manga all at once (I wasn't a fan before), up to Alabasta or even more... I don't remember anymore! I didn't really "marathon" it though, but just read it continuously at my own pace.
In the end, I only needed a couple of months to read all of that, though, since after a slow start (for me at least) I really loved it (and I still do, even more than before I would say).

I like Doflamingo as a character a lot, instead, which is strange since I don't usually like villains (he's the first one I really like in One Piece).
I do think he needs to be stopped (and soon too), of course, but I've liked him since he was introduced for his realistic (albeit cynic) views on how the world works (his quote about justice from the Marineford arc is one of the best in the whole manga, imho), and for his character design.

That said, Luffy is my favourite character in the manga, I ended up liking Law a lot too (his tsundere behaviour is just too funny and, well, if you read spoiler[his flashback] you just can't not like him I guess... the poor boy needs rest for sure after this arc ), and, just to make things even more complicated for me, I also absolutely love spoiler[Corazon.]
You can see that reading the ending won't be easy for me, since even all that considered (and I do care about the Dressrosa characters too), I still can't hate Doflamingo. Blame Oda for that (spoiler[I can't forget his child self in that infamous hanging scene in the flashback, and he clearly suffers from PTSD]! At this point, I'm wondering if he'll die or if he'll be redeemed (even then, he would need to do something really, really big to make up for all the harm he did so far). I can't imagine any other satisfying ending for him, since I can't see him simply in prison or something similar, honestly. I wonder if spoiler[he will be turned into a toy], though... that would be interesting.

Ops, I wrote a wall of text... ^^'
Well, another reason I believe this arc has the right length is the fact that Oda probably wanted us readers to feel what it was like for the people of Dressrosa to spoiler[forget about their loved ones for a long time], and even more to feel how much Law misses spoiler[Corazon].


P.S. I put under the spoiler tags some key elements from this arc, so don't read them if you still have to read Dressrosa, and even if you're reading it but aren't up to volume 77 yet.

Honestly, if you have some free time, marathoning the anime isn't that bad. Once you get to Enie's Lobby and beyond, there's only about 15-17 minutes of new content per episode for the most part, so if you skip the OP, recap, and "here's where everyone that's split up is located" parts, you can get through four episodes in a little over an hour, once you get to that point.

Even if you just wanted to put two hours a week into it, like on weekends or something, you could catch up in a reasonable amount of time, and if you ended up liking it you'd likely watch more than that when you had the time (and if you didn't like it, you'd drop it way before you got to that point). I'm actually a little behind in the anime (haven't started the manga yet, just the anime).

As far as the manga goes, you can totally slam through it in less than a week. It depends on how fast you read, how much you care about picking out details in the panels, and again, how much time you want to put into it. Personally, I don't care to sit and pick out tiny details in the panels, because I find Oda's drawing style to be unnecessarily crowded, and I have really poor vision, so I'd rather just come to the forums and see if there's anything I missed that people are talking about.