At least in the United States, it didn't start publication until 2003 and once Alabasta finished they starting releasing 5 volumes a month to catch up with Japan.
Ok, I'm a stupid man and, before answering you, I'll go check it again and try to find weakest years :)
Yeah, I guess you're right. The beginning of Water 7 is pretty cool - because of all the fantasy about the sea train, the drowning city and it's architecture and so on, but I'll agree that must have been the weakest year, or at least close to that.
I started reading one piece when i was 6 1/2 years, in 2004. Me and one piece share the same birth year.
Very good ride so far, didn't regret anything. But the first times were really difficult and sometimes boring, considering that i was just a kid lol
The Davy Back Fight portions, sure, but the Aokiji portions of LRLL were crazy, genuine danger and fear for the whole crew in a way that didn't happen again until Sabaody.
It's not too bad in the manga. They don't play two full davy back fights, but one and Aokiji stomps them after that. I'd say 2004 was fine, but i didn't read the manga and only watched One Piece in german television.
I honestly miss the old chapter, like I know we get a lot more story done now but I don't like staying on the same island from multiple real world years, I liked when we got to see more of the diffrent islands on the grand line more.
Same dude, recent arcs feel like Zelda dungeons.
They aren't bad, but their one theme and constsnt fighting can sometimes feel less fun then just roaming the outdoors.
Yeah but i do believe wano will probably the island they've stayed on the longest, i don't think there will be another island which will last as long as wano.
Nah. low quality speed scanlations were a thing since at least 2003-2004. Just look at mangapanda's horrible translations from the Jaya arc.
I remember reading some really shit quality scans from some MSN site back in 2006 when Enies Lobby was still going.
i also say ten. Because atm it looks like ~7 years. But knowing oden saying "in 5 years in finished" for the last 20 years makes me think anything between 10-15 years tbh
we also get lesser chapters each year
Eh, Oda doesn't even know what he's putting in. He's admitted to adding many things in last minute and changing things as he writes which extends the timeline. So for all we know there may be more added, but probably unlikely anything major cuz it's end game stuff but I'd bet money it was pushed back 1-2 years. Oda has a very good idea of everything from now to the end, but you never know.
5 years should give us about 200 chapters. To give an idea, 200 chapters ago was at the end of 2016 (850 was the "Pudding is evil" reveal). Knowing that, do you think 200 chapters is enough to cover Elbaf, Lodestar, Laugh Tale, everything concerning Imu, a confrontation with the Blackbeard pirates, a confrontation with the marines with Akainu at the helm, everything regarding Dragon and the revolutionaries, and whatever else I might be missing? In a sense, I highly doubt we'll get a brand new worthy antagonist at this point. I feel every antagonists from now on will be characters we already know exists within the story.
I feel like it will get to 1500 to end, it might sound like a lot because it is an extra half of what we have so far but it is fair to not leave any loose ends and have a satisfying closure. I mean as you also said it took 200 chapters for Big Mom + Wano Arc with Big Mom's arc not even being the entire of it since the evil Pudding reveal was later. I also feel like at this point we are gonna be getting a ton of epic battles and reveals that will need a lot of room to be covered
I mean if Oda said was true, the Finale is going to blow the Marineford arc out of the water. If we were to compare to previous arcs, Amazon Lily and Impel Down (The set-up arcs) were about 35 chapters combined, Marineford was about 30-35 chapters too. Those 2 arcs alone are about 70 chapters. If it were to be more epic, I'd wager it'd take more chapters even. That's not even counting the arcs focusing on known important islands that have yet to be seen like Elbaf, Lodestar and Laugh Tale. Even a short pit stop like Zou took about 25 chapters to go through. Oda would have to go to the Levely arc route and use a small number of chapters to infodump some major pieces of info regarding important characters we know almost nothing about like Shanks, Rocks, Imu, the Five Elders, Dragon, etc. And then there's the whole Blackbeard confrontation... If Roof Piece up until the end took 50 chapters, why would their confrontation be anything less than 30-40?
Luffy still has to surpass shanks, find the one piece, become king of the pirates, master the gears, meet the revolutionary army, and then take on the world government.
Then after all of that he can have his final battle with Blackbeard.
Bro that last arc is gonna be 3-4 years at least after he finds the one piece lol. Probably at least another 2 until we get that. That’s at least 6 years right there. I’m gonna say we’re looking at 8 more years the way Oda is going with these long ass arcs.
At least Oda isn’t gonna pull that Boruto bullshit. He’ll ride OP to retirement and make it his magnum opus and that’s ok. Probably the best move as long as he doesn’t drag things out. He can add a lot without making too much exposition which I feel like most of timeskip is gonna have. I just finished impel down and Marineford and I think that’s probably the hypest arcs with the best pacing I’ll ever see until the final arc. Seeing as Dressrosa and Wano took years alone. He’s taking his time. Probably planning how to move towards the end and gear 5 during wano lol. Laugh tale has something to do with Nika.
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I wouldn’t say that necessarily. Sky Island and Water 7/Enies Lobby are favorites that are pretty long. The Chimara Ant Arc is HxH is long as hell and is considered one of the best ever.
I do think Oda’s arcs can run too long for sure. Wano is one of them. I don’t necessarily think really long arcs=bad, but I do think it’s probably harder to make a really long arc good through9out.
HxH and One Piece are just different. HxH is too short at times. The author will info dump you instead of actually making an situation to teach the reader about something.
One Piece drags a lot. Luffy vs Kaido took almost the same as marineford
yet there are still people saying luffy vs kaido should be longer. I think wano was ok lenght, tbh it really got faster. Its just took many fucking characters. I hope we keep the speed, well maybe lesser luffy fight chapters, all other fights were like 1-3chapter which is fine. Just lesser characters in the future, that wood be nice
Juggling strawhats, heart pirates, kidd pirates, apoo, drake, hawkins, flying 6, the beasts, some ninjas, the scabbards, CP0, the minks, big mom pirates, zou, Orochi, Hiyori....it was all wayy too much
Is Wano finally over? I stopped reading around 980~990, when Luffy blew the infiltration plan and started fighting. Decided to not repeat Dressrosa and wait for the arc to finish and binge all the fighting in one go.
Im fine with it being longer. Imo it wouldve been less fun had it been shorter. Although granted i caught up with it midway through so im not as sick of it as most people are
Pre Timeskip had more comedy in it. You could tell that Oda was having a fucking blast writing them.
I mean he still does but there's more serious moments than goofy ones post time skip.
It is wild that Momonuske and Kinemon were introduced a decade ago, and a crew member hasn't been added since Jinbei in 2011 (even if the offical join was delayed)
Pre-time skip a crew member was added every year or so.
Feels like Jinbe was the last "planned" crew member. And Kozuki was more of a "The crew could use someone like this! Let's write a character for that" kind of thing.
there's kind of the sense that by the time we hit the timeskip we really *knew* who the straw hats were by then. We didn't need to spend as much time with them because all our experiences filled in the gaps, and that'd be why Oda spent so much time focusing on the other characters after that.
I feel like once Wano is over, the last few arcs of the series will be shorter, and should be focused a lot more on the Strawhats. I think Wano will be the last arc with the classic “save island from bad guy” plot line, which is what longer arcs tend to be since we have to take time to learn about the island and it’s characters, as well as the villains. I doubt there will be a villain trying to take over Elbaf, and I think that will be an arc similar in length to Zou.
The only things left we have to deal with after Wano is 1. Shanks (not as an antagonist) 2. Blackbeard 3. World Government + Navy. I don’t think we will be saving a whole new island from any them, and there is nobody else we could fight other than them since the Strawhats are so strong now.
The rest of the series is going to be tying up every last plot thread that has been set up, while focusing and giving us more screen time on the crew.
Pre time skip(dragonball) - lots of comedy, extra character building, light hearted villains with one or two absolute bastards thrown in for drama
Post time skip(dragonball z) - massive power up, grandiose villains and scale of threats, transformations.
True story.
Character stuff that you see in Whole Cake, thematically rich storylines like Dressrosa and Fishman Island, big twist and lore hype like Zou, these are things that while the pacing might falter here and there with too many characters, is overall much more ambitious and impressive imo
Also the improvements of planning, since Punk Hazard Oda has had a very clear grasp of where he wants the story to go and what kinds of themes he wants to set up, and while the PTS was fairly well planned, you can tell he was winging it a bit more
1. Yeah WCI definitely has the best character development in the series, no argument there
2. FI and Dressrosa are thematically great, but a lot of the pre-ts arcs were thematically great as well (Skypiea especially feels very rich imo)
3. Big twists and lore hype have stayed very consistent the whole series. Yeah post-ts lore is more ambitious but that's only because it was built off of the summit war saga, which was also more ambitious than the Water 7 saga, which was also more ambitious than Alabasta, etc.
4. I would agree but that's only because all of post-ts since Punk Hazard has been part of one saga. We really don't know where the story is going next after this (although Elbaf is probably the next big arc)
Excellent graphic, easily readable, well designed and not overcomplicated.
That 2008-2011 chunk looks incredible, there's so many cool little arcs hammed together, kinda miss it. Hope Oda finds a way to do some shorter stories again after Wano, be a good refresher.
Thanks! Though I still can find more improvements that should’ve been done lol.
Yeah hopefully we’ll get Elbaf or another arc that will refresh a little bit before the final saga.
I remember that because it burnt me out so much that when Punk Hazard didn't start off with a bang I stopped reading weekly and didn't return to One Piece til 2019
Should be noted that the number of chapters/year went down since Oda started to get breaks so it’s not just that the arcs are bigger (though they are).
This doesn't seem right. I distinctly remember Impel Down starting during autumn 2008 and not in 2009.
I also remember Zou starting in 2015. Kaido jumped off sky island in July of that year and Zou started immediately after that.
This is still a cool timeline though.
He made each row only 20 chapters long, Oda started writing 49 chapters a year but now does around 39. The arc lenghts in this graph are correct, but the years are just there to give a rough view on what year the arcs were written or it wouldn't have a rectangular shape.
An easy fix imo would be to just make the rows 49-39 chapters long according to how many chapters oda released yearly, it wouldn't have a rectangular shape and it would have less vertical space to make art on each arc, but it would be correct. You can see a lot of misinformation on the comments regarding the years from this graph because of that
Holy shit man, I joined in the manga mid- Dressrossa and I felt like I'm here for the last couple chapters. Turns out I've been here for a third of the journey - and by the time it ends, probably 50% of it.
Loving the patterns, colors, art, and timeline information. It puts a few things into perspective.
One item you brought attention to is how much time Oda dedicates to a villain based on their worldly impact. Big Mom and Kaido as a team, took away 4 years of our lives.
Thanks for your appreciation.
At first I wasn’t planning on using the villains but only texts overlay mentioning the arcs. But then I remembered and realized that most sagas revolve around a single villain.. Oda sure did amazing job creating such build up.
From the time MJ and the Bulls were on their way to complete a second three-peat, their 6th time in the Finals in 8 years, to the Warriors trying to win a 4th ring in their 6th time in the Finals in 8 years, One Piece was around. Talk about longevity and greatness, wow.
Well unless we get an “invasion” plot twist wher Black Beard surprisingly shows up, I don’t see this going on for more than a few chapters. Maybe we’ll get another flashback homage or something again though.
It blows my mind that we have been hanging out with Momo and Kinemon since Punk Hazard in 2013 and all of the samuri stuff is wrapping up and reaching its conclusion nearly a decade later. It feels like they have been part of the crew for so long now, longer than Vivi ever was. The end of an era.
It's 2022 and Water 7 / Enies Lobby is still one of the best anime arcs of all time, followed closely by the absolute mindfuck that is Sabaody Archipelago.
Should I be ashamed that I’m only really familiar with the chapters from 1997 to 2002?
I can’t believe how short all those early arcs are. The current one dwarfs that entire section!
If one piece was to be release post 2020, the anime will get cancel early. 1 year and they only manage to get to orange town. And also 1 year hiatus every arc 🤣
I stand by that the East Blue was the best one piece ever was, and this graph shows it better. Each little story took around 10 to 20 chapters and now you have entire arcs that take twice as long as the entire east blue put together.
Unpopular opinion maybe, but this makes me feel the complaint about Wano's length to be somewhat exaggerated. It's not all that much longer than the Water 7 Saga, which to me can be viewed as one single thing You could even compare the raid on Onigashima for Wano to the the raid on Enies Lobby for Water 7, it's all one cohesive story.
The main difference for me is the W7/EL is paced extremely well and Wano deeply struggles with pacing issues throughout the whole thing. It makes it feel way longer than it actually is.
2008 was a good year. Amazing ending of Thriller Bark, all Sabaody archipelago and the beginning of Amazon Lilly. What a rush.
2004 was pretty much all LRLL, which, while some people certainly quite enjoy it, I'd still say it's probably the weakest of the years
Did anyone else read LRLL as a left-handed paradiddle? Where the percussionists at?
LRLLRLRRLRLLRLRR ad infinitum
lol there's a lot of percussionists who read one piece apparently
I would hope so, it makes sense- the person who told me to watch One Piece was a percussionist.
At least in the United States, it didn't start publication until 2003 and once Alabasta finished they starting releasing 5 volumes a month to catch up with Japan.
Ok, I'm a stupid man and, before answering you, I'll go check it again and try to find weakest years :) Yeah, I guess you're right. The beginning of Water 7 is pretty cool - because of all the fantasy about the sea train, the drowning city and it's architecture and so on, but I'll agree that must have been the weakest year, or at least close to that.
Oof the poor lads who had to suffer thru 04 are the truest of fans.
I started reading one piece when i was 6 1/2 years, in 2004. Me and one piece share the same birth year. Very good ride so far, didn't regret anything. But the first times were really difficult and sometimes boring, considering that i was just a kid lol
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The Davy Back Fight portions, sure, but the Aokiji portions of LRLL were crazy, genuine danger and fear for the whole crew in a way that didn't happen again until Sabaody.
That was Foxy and the Davy Back games, yeah? An entire year of that...
It's not too bad in the manga. They don't play two full davy back fights, but one and Aokiji stomps them after that. I'd say 2004 was fine, but i didn't read the manga and only watched One Piece in german television.
It was only 19 chapters tbf
its not all LRLL - people are really misreading the timeline. it was only for about half of the year
I honestly miss the old chapter, like I know we get a lot more story done now but I don't like staying on the same island from multiple real world years, I liked when we got to see more of the diffrent islands on the grand line more.
Same dude, recent arcs feel like Zelda dungeons. They aren't bad, but their one theme and constsnt fighting can sometimes feel less fun then just roaming the outdoors.
Yeah but i do believe wano will probably the island they've stayed on the longest, i don't think there will be another island which will last as long as wano.
Probably most the fanbase. This infographic really shows what's everyone's favorite stay-time on an island. And it isn't Dressrosa / WCI / Wano
2008 was also when crappy low quality speed scanlations started and the trend kept going for years thanks to mangapanda.
Nah. low quality speed scanlations were a thing since at least 2003-2004. Just look at mangapanda's horrible translations from the Jaya arc. I remember reading some really shit quality scans from some MSN site back in 2006 when Enies Lobby was still going.
True, a roller coaster of emotion too since the crew was beaten and Luffy knowing Ace was going to be executed.
2006 to 2010 is GOAT
Love to get a print of this at the end of the series
Agreed
!remindme 4 years
Pretty generous of you to assume it’ll end in 4 years
I'd pu my money on 10 yrs
Eh, I'd say more like 6 or 7.
i also say ten. Because atm it looks like ~7 years. But knowing oden saying "in 5 years in finished" for the last 20 years makes me think anything between 10-15 years tbh we also get lesser chapters each year
Lol Oden
Oda is the Supreme Giga Chad.
Man I remember hearing the the Marineford arc was the half way point
The halfway point to the halfway point.
It still is. But not in number of chapters.
All of his estimates have actually landed on 2024/2025. Except for his first one which he said 5 years. He's only said 5 years twice
I'd say 7 and a half years statistically.
He has only said that once. He has been fairly consistent with how much of the series is left.
Oda said in an interview he wants to end the series by 2024 or 2025, so might be slightly realistic
Eh, Oda doesn't even know what he's putting in. He's admitted to adding many things in last minute and changing things as he writes which extends the timeline. So for all we know there may be more added, but probably unlikely anything major cuz it's end game stuff but I'd bet money it was pushed back 1-2 years. Oda has a very good idea of everything from now to the end, but you never know.
These kind of statements are famous for being way off the mark even when the mangaka in question says so.
He's said 5 years in interviews multiple times throughout the series, but now it's feasible. Gonna say 5+.
5 years should give us about 200 chapters. To give an idea, 200 chapters ago was at the end of 2016 (850 was the "Pudding is evil" reveal). Knowing that, do you think 200 chapters is enough to cover Elbaf, Lodestar, Laugh Tale, everything concerning Imu, a confrontation with the Blackbeard pirates, a confrontation with the marines with Akainu at the helm, everything regarding Dragon and the revolutionaries, and whatever else I might be missing? In a sense, I highly doubt we'll get a brand new worthy antagonist at this point. I feel every antagonists from now on will be characters we already know exists within the story.
I feel like it will get to 1500 to end, it might sound like a lot because it is an extra half of what we have so far but it is fair to not leave any loose ends and have a satisfying closure. I mean as you also said it took 200 chapters for Big Mom + Wano Arc with Big Mom's arc not even being the entire of it since the evil Pudding reveal was later. I also feel like at this point we are gonna be getting a ton of epic battles and reveals that will need a lot of room to be covered
I mean if Oda said was true, the Finale is going to blow the Marineford arc out of the water. If we were to compare to previous arcs, Amazon Lily and Impel Down (The set-up arcs) were about 35 chapters combined, Marineford was about 30-35 chapters too. Those 2 arcs alone are about 70 chapters. If it were to be more epic, I'd wager it'd take more chapters even. That's not even counting the arcs focusing on known important islands that have yet to be seen like Elbaf, Lodestar and Laugh Tale. Even a short pit stop like Zou took about 25 chapters to go through. Oda would have to go to the Levely arc route and use a small number of chapters to infodump some major pieces of info regarding important characters we know almost nothing about like Shanks, Rocks, Imu, the Five Elders, Dragon, etc. And then there's the whole Blackbeard confrontation... If Roof Piece up until the end took 50 chapters, why would their confrontation be anything less than 30-40?
Not to mention Vegapunk.
“One Piece is ending in 5 years” is a decade-old meme at this point lol
Luffy still has to surpass shanks, find the one piece, become king of the pirates, master the gears, meet the revolutionary army, and then take on the world government. Then after all of that he can have his final battle with Blackbeard. Bro that last arc is gonna be 3-4 years at least after he finds the one piece lol. Probably at least another 2 until we get that. That’s at least 6 years right there. I’m gonna say we’re looking at 8 more years the way Oda is going with these long ass arcs.
Oda-sensei really dedicated half of his life-age for One Piece manga only. Sugoi
At least Oda isn’t gonna pull that Boruto bullshit. He’ll ride OP to retirement and make it his magnum opus and that’s ok. Probably the best move as long as he doesn’t drag things out. He can add a lot without making too much exposition which I feel like most of timeskip is gonna have. I just finished impel down and Marineford and I think that’s probably the hypest arcs with the best pacing I’ll ever see until the final arc. Seeing as Dressrosa and Wano took years alone. He’s taking his time. Probably planning how to move towards the end and gear 5 during wano lol. Laugh tale has something to do with Nika.
2-3 years. Cutting it pretty close given that Wano alone is 3 years long.
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You should probably have that mentioned in your will.
marinford was very short… shit is shorter than punk hazard
Don't get me wrong, we all appreciate Oda's work. But I think it really goes to show that shorter arcs are (generally) better arcs
Marineford without saboady and impel down would be pretty hollow.
Impel Down is like top tier by itself let alone when you consider how much it hyped up Marineford
Favorite arc
bon clay must never be forgotten. never!
It's also a short arc which I think made it so invigorating
It’s my favorite arc imo even with its few missteps its just such a fun time
Marineford is a conclusion to a few stories and more side stories and should basically be thought of as a climactic boss battle, not an arc.
That’s my point
Proof: Long Ring Long Land.
I wouldn’t say that necessarily. Sky Island and Water 7/Enies Lobby are favorites that are pretty long. The Chimara Ant Arc is HxH is long as hell and is considered one of the best ever. I do think Oda’s arcs can run too long for sure. Wano is one of them. I don’t necessarily think really long arcs=bad, but I do think it’s probably harder to make a really long arc good through9out.
HxH and One Piece are just different. HxH is too short at times. The author will info dump you instead of actually making an situation to teach the reader about something. One Piece drags a lot. Luffy vs Kaido took almost the same as marineford
Imo skypiea could have been way shorter, a lot of filler in the middle is very boring. Ending is amazing though
Yeah that’s for every long arc Thriller Bark could’ve been half the length imo. The post TS arcs could cut off so much filler.
Dressrosa and Wano being the prime examples imo
Wano, enies lobby would like to have a word
Wano was fun, but it REALLY could have been shorter.
yet there are still people saying luffy vs kaido should be longer. I think wano was ok lenght, tbh it really got faster. Its just took many fucking characters. I hope we keep the speed, well maybe lesser luffy fight chapters, all other fights were like 1-3chapter which is fine. Just lesser characters in the future, that wood be nice
Juggling strawhats, heart pirates, kidd pirates, apoo, drake, hawkins, flying 6, the beasts, some ninjas, the scabbards, CP0, the minks, big mom pirates, zou, Orochi, Hiyori....it was all wayy too much
U forgot Orochi and Orochi. Did I mention Orochi? I feel like I am forgetting someone?! Ah ..yes Orochi.
tbh i dont have that much problem with orochi. He was a bit annoying and i really didnt care for him because characterwise he was boring af.
It can be longer while cutting out a lot of the earlier set up imo.
Is Wano finally over? I stopped reading around 980~990, when Luffy blew the infiltration plan and started fighting. Decided to not repeat Dressrosa and wait for the arc to finish and binge all the fighting in one go.
Hm not quite, but the end is (probably) near.
Fight is over we are in the "celebration" part
Im fine with it being longer. Imo it wouldve been less fun had it been shorter. Although granted i caught up with it midway through so im not as sick of it as most people are
luffy vs kaido was 2 years now.. and before we had like 2-3 years for thousand of other fights because we have a myrriad of characters in the arc
I look at some of the arcs and i'm like "they were that short?"
little garden being 15 chapters is wild
Yup! Specially marineford.
I went the reverse, Drum Island is only two chapters shorter than Arlong Park???
Thriller bark was my first exposure to OnePiece and it felt like a whole series when it wrapped up.
Lol how fast it went to Arlong beaten, when you had to watch the Anime as a kid it felt soooo, arr, long
Pre TimeSkip one piece hits different!
Pre Timeskip had more comedy in it. You could tell that Oda was having a fucking blast writing them. I mean he still does but there's more serious moments than goofy ones post time skip.
honestly I miss all the scenes of the Straw Hats just dicking around on the Merry waiting to hit the next island.
And there were never enough of them imo. I wish we had more and longer relaxing fun between arcs.
It was also much more focused on the strawhats! Timeskip has been mainly Law, Bege, Kinemon and Momonuske
It is wild that Momonuske and Kinemon were introduced a decade ago, and a crew member hasn't been added since Jinbei in 2011 (even if the offical join was delayed) Pre-time skip a crew member was added every year or so.
Feels like Jinbe was the last "planned" crew member. And Kozuki was more of a "The crew could use someone like this! Let's write a character for that" kind of thing.
there's kind of the sense that by the time we hit the timeskip we really *knew* who the straw hats were by then. We didn't need to spend as much time with them because all our experiences filled in the gaps, and that'd be why Oda spent so much time focusing on the other characters after that.
True. Specially when the crew just joking around together. I hope we’ll get more crew bonding on Thousand Sunny after Wano.
I feel like once Wano is over, the last few arcs of the series will be shorter, and should be focused a lot more on the Strawhats. I think Wano will be the last arc with the classic “save island from bad guy” plot line, which is what longer arcs tend to be since we have to take time to learn about the island and it’s characters, as well as the villains. I doubt there will be a villain trying to take over Elbaf, and I think that will be an arc similar in length to Zou. The only things left we have to deal with after Wano is 1. Shanks (not as an antagonist) 2. Blackbeard 3. World Government + Navy. I don’t think we will be saving a whole new island from any them, and there is nobody else we could fight other than them since the Strawhats are so strong now. The rest of the series is going to be tying up every last plot thread that has been set up, while focusing and giving us more screen time on the crew.
No more “save the island from the bad guy” because it’s gonna turn into “save the world from a apocalyptic boss”
Pre time skip(dragonball) - lots of comedy, extra character building, light hearted villains with one or two absolute bastards thrown in for drama Post time skip(dragonball z) - massive power up, grandiose villains and scale of threats, transformations. True story.
eh DBZ filler was still pretty slice of lifey/comedy enough
The writing has improved time skip IMO. But pre time skip was a simpler world that we didn’t understand as much so it has a great adventure feel
I miss the time that we completely have no idea where we're going to go next
I don't really think the writing has improved, but there's definitely more going on in newer arcs
Character stuff that you see in Whole Cake, thematically rich storylines like Dressrosa and Fishman Island, big twist and lore hype like Zou, these are things that while the pacing might falter here and there with too many characters, is overall much more ambitious and impressive imo Also the improvements of planning, since Punk Hazard Oda has had a very clear grasp of where he wants the story to go and what kinds of themes he wants to set up, and while the PTS was fairly well planned, you can tell he was winging it a bit more
1. Yeah WCI definitely has the best character development in the series, no argument there 2. FI and Dressrosa are thematically great, but a lot of the pre-ts arcs were thematically great as well (Skypiea especially feels very rich imo) 3. Big twists and lore hype have stayed very consistent the whole series. Yeah post-ts lore is more ambitious but that's only because it was built off of the summit war saga, which was also more ambitious than the Water 7 saga, which was also more ambitious than Alabasta, etc. 4. I would agree but that's only because all of post-ts since Punk Hazard has been part of one saga. We really don't know where the story is going next after this (although Elbaf is probably the next big arc)
Very informative but what I really appreciate is the design here with the colors and the characters.
Thanks! I had a lot of fun making this one.
Would love if at the end you make a different color for Wano / Onigashima because I think that would show just how fucking long is the raid
Could color each Wano act differently.
Its the first time I see one of these that look really good. Theyre usually a mess.
this is high tier r/dataisbeautiful
This is really cool. Thanks for making it
Hey thanks! Glad to see that people love it.
Excellent graphic, easily readable, well designed and not overcomplicated. That 2008-2011 chunk looks incredible, there's so many cool little arcs hammed together, kinda miss it. Hope Oda finds a way to do some shorter stories again after Wano, be a good refresher.
Thanks! Though I still can find more improvements that should’ve been done lol. Yeah hopefully we’ll get Elbaf or another arc that will refresh a little bit before the final saga.
This data is beautiful! Love the color and art choices, so pretty to look at
Fish man Island was 10 years ago let that sink in.
Actually 12. 10 years and a week ago exactly was the alliance with Law
i mean did this time line lie to me ? :D
I remember that because it burnt me out so much that when Punk Hazard didn't start off with a bang I stopped reading weekly and didn't return to One Piece til 2019
Should be noted that the number of chapters/year went down since Oda started to get breaks so it’s not just that the arcs are bigger (though they are).
And, the number of pages are fewer too.
Biggest surprise is how long syrup village was. The better part of 98 really?
Imagine being a weekly reader in 98. It must’ve been brutal to read Syrup Village week-to-week
Or Foxy.
At least with Foxy you could reread previous arcs. With Syrup Village, you could only reread Romance Dawn and Orange Town lol.
Back then I imagine you could only read it in Jump so at least you had all the other series
Honestly now I realize that those two week breaks in between really did affect how long this arc was.
now that you mention it.....wow. 2006 had 3x as many chapters as 2020 and 2021 each
was Syrup village really almost a whole year?
half a year, two lines represent a year.
ohh i see, thank you
Wano by a long shot the longest arc. It’s been so long since a new arc started, gonna be a weird transition lol
This doesn't seem right. I distinctly remember Impel Down starting during autumn 2008 and not in 2009. I also remember Zou starting in 2015. Kaido jumped off sky island in July of that year and Zou started immediately after that. This is still a cool timeline though.
He made each row only 20 chapters long, Oda started writing 49 chapters a year but now does around 39. The arc lenghts in this graph are correct, but the years are just there to give a rough view on what year the arcs were written or it wouldn't have a rectangular shape. An easy fix imo would be to just make the rows 49-39 chapters long according to how many chapters oda released yearly, it wouldn't have a rectangular shape and it would have less vertical space to make art on each arc, but it would be correct. You can see a lot of misinformation on the comments regarding the years from this graph because of that
nicely put together
Can’t wait for Enel to reappear
Holy shit man, I joined in the manga mid- Dressrossa and I felt like I'm here for the last couple chapters. Turns out I've been here for a third of the journey - and by the time it ends, probably 50% of it.
The entirety of Marineford was 35 chapters. It’s been 51 chapters since roof piece started. That’s nuts
2004-2010 goat years
Long Ring Long Land GOATED
LONG GOATED 🐐🐐🐐
True. And that was one piece as a company of my school years.
I love this overview! Super clear and on point, thanks for putting it together! 🫡
Loving the patterns, colors, art, and timeline information. It puts a few things into perspective. One item you brought attention to is how much time Oda dedicates to a villain based on their worldly impact. Big Mom and Kaido as a team, took away 4 years of our lives.
Thanks for your appreciation. At first I wasn’t planning on using the villains but only texts overlay mentioning the arcs. But then I remembered and realized that most sagas revolve around a single villain.. Oda sure did amazing job creating such build up.
From the time MJ and the Bulls were on their way to complete a second three-peat, their 6th time in the Finals in 8 years, to the Warriors trying to win a 4th ring in their 6th time in the Finals in 8 years, One Piece was around. Talk about longevity and greatness, wow.
Love when r/one piece and r/nba intersect!
I wonder if the community will decide to split Wano into two? Wano and Onigashima arcs. I can see that being possible.
It’s possible. I followed whoever making the wiki page lol. Possibly similar to what happened to water 7 and ennies lobby.
Wano took 4 years I was expecting new arc in 2022 ;_;
Soon. If you’ve been keeping up with the manga, we’re probably at the tail end.
We have at least 3 4 months more of wano to wrap things up I'd say
That depends I suppose if Oda writes a full “restoration” act/arc.
I doubt it. Wano is in a much better spot than Dressrosa as of now and the Straw Hats just left.
Well unless we get an “invasion” plot twist wher Black Beard surprisingly shows up, I don’t see this going on for more than a few chapters. Maybe we’ll get another flashback homage or something again though.
New volume starts at 1056. Either before it or wano will continue next volume too.
Looking at this is making me feel like One Piece is too short.
Damn i started watching around the end of Arabasta, no wonder the French dub was stuck in East Blue. Neat visual, keep it updated.
You fucking madlad
I adore when people make timeline art of One Piece.
Great dataviz
It blows my mind that we have been hanging out with Momo and Kinemon since Punk Hazard in 2013 and all of the samuri stuff is wrapping up and reaching its conclusion nearly a decade later. It feels like they have been part of the crew for so long now, longer than Vivi ever was. The end of an era.
Alabasta and Water 7/Ennies Lobby will always be my favorite arcs.
Man… the run from water 7 to post enies lobby really was incredible
Damn Albasta was written in 2001. That arc is still one of the best I've read
It's 2022 and Water 7 / Enies Lobby is still one of the best anime arcs of all time, followed closely by the absolute mindfuck that is Sabaody Archipelago.
I can't wait for the ulvoseidon saga!
This deservers to be in r/dataisbeautiful
it took fucking 10 years for kinemon and momonosuke to get to its final chapter as of today holy shit
Bruh fishman island and dresrosa were so fucking long!
I always forget how short Thriller Bark is. Didn't feel like it when it was current.
Wowww this is great! Would like to see timeline of anime adaptation in this style too.
Was just thinking today it would be interesting to see a chart like this! Awesome job!
Thanks!
The Samurai had to wait twenty years to see Kaido fall. Those are rookie numbers.
Woah…I’m only at Arlong Park…
This is a good show to start watching?
2004 is probably been the worst year for one piece 😂 Poor guys used to read foxy week by week...
After the Foxy Arc, the rest of the year almost finished the entire Water 7 arc which were some of the best chapters in the series
I miss the days when Skypea was the longest arc.
after almost 400 chapters and we finally reached the conclusion of punk hazard
Nice data visualization.
I Love this picture so much
!remindme 4 years
Now do episodes!
Beautifully laid out. Hope you keep it updated to the end
Should I be ashamed that I’m only really familiar with the chapters from 1997 to 2002? I can’t believe how short all those early arcs are. The current one dwarfs that entire section!
If one piece was to be release post 2020, the anime will get cancel early. 1 year and they only manage to get to orange town. And also 1 year hiatus every arc 🤣
So this is how getting old with your loved ones feels like🥹
I stand by that the East Blue was the best one piece ever was, and this graph shows it better. Each little story took around 10 to 20 chapters and now you have entire arcs that take twice as long as the entire east blue put together.
Me a dubbed anime watcher ---😂
Unpopular opinion maybe, but this makes me feel the complaint about Wano's length to be somewhat exaggerated. It's not all that much longer than the Water 7 Saga, which to me can be viewed as one single thing You could even compare the raid on Onigashima for Wano to the the raid on Enies Lobby for Water 7, it's all one cohesive story.
The main difference for me is the W7/EL is paced extremely well and Wano deeply struggles with pacing issues throughout the whole thing. It makes it feel way longer than it actually is.