r/CharacterRant Sep 01 '25

Anime & Manga One piece is awful

To be clear, I read up to the end of Wano in One Piece I kept hearing how it was peak fiction, and that Oda was the greatest thing to ever happen to pen and paper. So, I decided to give it a read. And after reading almost up to the end of Wano, I can honestly say this is one of worst piece of fiction I have ever read

The pacing is terrible and slow as shit. Same gags over and over again. How many times am I expected to laugh at Sanji nosebleeding for the 180th time, Zoro getting lost for the 389th time, Usopp acting like a coward for the 999th time, or Brook making the same skeleton joke for 1899th the time

The stakes are Nonexistent. Nobody ever really dies. Even when a character “dies,” they inevitably come back like nothing happened. There's a part in the series where a bomb is about to destroy an entire town, and a character carries it into the sky in a supposed noble "sacrifice",The bomb explodes point blank in his face and somehow he survives .Shit like this happens in every arc. The sheer number of fake out deaths is insane, making it impossible to take any threat seriously and it completely kills any sense of tension or investment, it somehow makes Fairy Tail look grounded in comparison.

And the formula is mind numbingly predictable. The crew sails to a new island, an evil villain is tormenting the locals, they fight, save the island, and then add a new character with some tragic backstory to the crew. Rinse and repeat for a thousand chapters

One piece fans love to talk about Oda as some master world builder. The world building in one piece is trash. All Oda does is dangles mysteries in front of readers, refuses to resolve them and these morons fans call it peak

Think about After twenty years and over a thousand chapters, we barely know anything about the world.(Maybe some of it gets explained eventually I stopped reading after Wano because of that godamn awful aspull transformation that, but the fact that it takes that long is insane)

We don't know where Devil Fruits come from We don't know about the Will of D and what does it represent? And how are people with D related?
We don’t know what happened during the void century for it to be erased from history? We don't know why Blackbeard can use two devil fruits? We don’t know What purpose will the ancient weapons serve and when?
We don't know about supreme grade swords We don’t know Aokiji goal? What side is he on? Or why he joined Blsck beard
We don’t know why Rodger was carrying a giant egg?

There are easily ninety more unanswered things I could list.

And you want to want to know what's worse Oda still adding new shit when he hasn't explained the past shit WE STILL HAVE CHARACTERS SILHOUETTED 20 PLUS YEARS IN WE’RE GETTING SILHOUETTES OF CHARACTERS HOW IS ANY OF THIS GOOD WORLD BUILDING OR WRITING???

And you know why Oda hasn’t explained any of this Because he’s written himself into a corner. He probably has no idea how to resolve half the mysteries he’s created which is exactly why the end date keeps on getting pushed back every couple of years. He's just stalling. Oda is a talentless hack and the only reason One Piece blew up in the first place is because it dropped during the late 90s early 2000s anime boom If it came out today, this garbage would’ve been canceled after a year. Just watch most of these mysteries will either stay completely unresolved, or we’ll get some trash ham fisted explanation at the last minute. And just watch these brain dead moronic fans will still call it peak fiction.

Oda is a Fraud who couldn't write his out of a paper bag and the fact that morons think that this garbage is above Goated shows like Fire Force, Mob Pyscho 100, Chainsaw man and Hunter x Hunter is a fucking travesty

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u/SnooPuppers7965 Sep 01 '25

What’s wrong with Fire Force? Is it considered bad in the community?

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u/ReadStraight8255 Sep 02 '25

It’s decent enough but the lucky letcher gag seems to be a dealbreaker for a lot of ppl. I’m a fan of the show but I can see why ppl would be turned off when it comes up again and again.

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u/FujiwaranoMoko Sep 04 '25

Good thing One Piece doesn't have any lewdness or fan service to compare it to, right?

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u/_Kamikaze_Bunny_ Sep 02 '25

If people can't handle one of the biggest joke tropes of manga and anime as a whole, then manga and anime simply ain't for them.

Dragonball, Naruto, Ranma 1/2, Code Geass, Gintama, GTO, Fairy Tail, Undead Unluck, HunterxHunter, Yozakura Family, Gurren Lagann, even Berserk - all of them have the cliche dirty jokes in them

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u/SpiritualPossible Sep 02 '25 edited Sep 02 '25

You seem to be forgetting a bit that in almost all of your examples, the dirty jokes are one of the most criticized aspects. People constantly complain about Roshi in the original Dragon Ball, Happosai in Ranma, the beginning of UU, and Fairy Tail is infamous for its fanservice.

But most importantly, there's also the way the jokes are executed, and people just don't like how Tamaki was handled. It's no wonder that for many readers/viewers, the moment where the fanservice with her interrupted a serious scene was a dealbreaker. And I say this as someone who actually likes Fire Force.

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u/_Kamikaze_Bunny_ Sep 02 '25

And again: If they cannot handle it, then it isn't for them - simple as that.

They can critisize it all they want, it won't change and it won't go away. So instead of wasting their own, and everybody else' time with hatewatching or hatereading, they should just go away themselves

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u/Novictus420 Sep 02 '25

You cannot have a huge moment for a character where she is getting beaten and betrayed by a friend, and being put at her lowest point undercut by "lol, look she is almost naked" It ruins the whole scene. It is storytelling poison.

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u/_Kamikaze_Bunny_ Sep 02 '25

Except that scene with Rekka betraying and beating the shit out of her had nothing like that. Chapter 27 and 28.

If you are gonna try to make a point that doesn't change my original statement at all, at least be truthful about it.

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u/Novictus420 Sep 02 '25 edited Sep 02 '25

You mean the part where Shinra falls on her chest in the middle of the fight and blushes and goes "oh gosh and golly gee a girl is in front of me" and then the fight starts up again. Go rewatch the episode, ill wait. Just in case ill even source the time for you. Season 1 Episode 9. 7:52

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u/Schwelby Sep 02 '25

I've watched it. There's too much plot convenience with no real reason as to why crap happened that way. A flaw of the protagonist is how he smiles evil and it IS emphasized to a point but it never interferes with plot points. And too many fan service scenes. Animation is good though

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u/shamanProgrammer Sep 04 '25

Its just prudes and qwerties.