"The synopsis of One Piece is really too long!"
I believe that this is the deep impression of many audiences who have chased all the way to the "One Piece" animation, after the routine opening, op and pre-plot summary, you can basically see that the progress bar has gone to five or six or seven minutes, and then counting the time of ed, the main film of each episode can be described as very few.
Eiichiro Oda has been updating manga for twenty years, and Toei Animation has been pulling the plot for twenty years, and now it is finally the twentieth year of animation.
This story tells us that even if the labor model is like Oda Sensei, it is impossible to let the speed of the manga update support an anime that makes the audience happy.
Among the old three migrant workers, Naruto and One Piece are notorious animation efforts, but one is so much reminiscence, one is that a sentence is so long, and their common feature is tv's original plot.
In an era when everyone was not very familiar with ACG culture, there were often viewers who were confused, how did this episode of "One Piece" seem to have a sudden change in style? Is this what strange tradition of Japanese animation? It wasn't until a few years later that viewers finally mastered a way to discern tv's original plot — this episode is so boring, it must have been original to the production team.
Next door, Naruto is even more crisp, from the end of the Naka Ninja Exam in more than a hundred episodes to the beginning of more than two hundred episodes of "Shippuden", the production team has almost done two full years of original plot. Thinking back to the Starry Sky and China Entertainment TV of that year, the unsolved mystery that has been hovering between moonlight Moriah in "One Piece" and the Naka ninja exam in "Naruto" seems to be the truth suddenly revealed.
The industry environment at that time made the production team believe that even if the plot was dragged out and the original plot was done, it was necessary to maintain the weekly broadcast of the animated version in order to maintain the popularity of the work. This situation did not begin to gradually change until a few years later, such as the animated feature-length manga Gintama, which was animated in 2006, in the form of seasons, and more "modern" to say, and now the household name "Attack on Titan".
One Piece and Naruto were feature-length manga that began to be animated after two years of the series, with the former's production team adding a longer synopsis from the beginning to slow down the pace of the original, while the latter was halfway through frantically producing original plots to wait for manga updates.
But this pair of "difficult brothers" love is far more than that, at the end of "Naruto", Eiichiro Oda painted various elements of Kiba Village in the title page of "One Piece" episode 766, and the Naruto rock of the final episode of "Naruto" also added the pirate mark of "One Piece" with the setting of "child graffiti".
If the tribute to the title page of One Piece is just one of many manga artists, the response from Naruto as the protagonist of the event is quite intriguing. This was, of course, the result of the two manga artists already informing each other, and Eiichiro Oda was also worried about Kishimoto's decision at the time, after all, it was the final word of Naruto, and the one Piece mark could cause fans to be dissatisfied.
It can be seen that these two opponents, who seem to have been competing for more than ten years, are actually very good in their personal relationship. Eiichiro Oda once mentioned in an interview that at first he did meet Kishimoto Kishimoto with the mentality of seeing him as an opponent, but it turned out that the other party was a very good character and that they were both loyal fans of Dragon Ball, and the two "disciples" of Kamesen Ryu talked happily.
The "linkage" between the two works at the end of the Naruto manga
In a personal interview, Eiichiro Oda made no secret of his love for Dragon Ball and his reverence for Akira Toriyama, but one piece is indeed an inspirational story that carries the banner of Shueisha after the end of Dragon Ball, and is also an inspirational story that "eventually lived to the appearance of an idol".
This story is based on twenty years of creation.
Eiichiro Oda first submitted his work "Wanted!" to Weekly Shonen Jump in 1992. (Hope!) At that time, the pen name he used at that time, "Moonfire Mizuki Jintu", is the best portrayal of his later career as a manga artist. In Japan, "Obsidian Day" represents the week, and "Moonfire Mizuki Kaneto" corresponds to Monday to Saturday, and Eiichiro Oda has been working for a long time since the official serialization of "One Piece" has been working at the intensity of sleeping only three hours a day, six days a week.
Over the past two decades, One Piece has maintained an average annual update rate of more than four volumes, and by the end of 2014 alone, the global circulation of One Piece comics exceeded 320 million copies, and as a result, it was officially certified by Guinness World Records as "the world's most distributed series of comics by a single author". As for Eiichiro Oda's favorite Dragon Ball series, it is also on the list, with the title of "the manga that has been adapted into the most games".
One Piece character prototype speculation that has not been confirmed by Eiichiro Oda
As the story of "One Piece" progresses, readers are more and more impressed by the countless foreshadowings laid by Eiichiro Oda for the entire work, admired his care in various details, and impressed by his meticulous consideration of this huge structural work.
Such as Usopp who met the death of the walking bear, the collection of young looks drawn for each navy character, Ace who planted the foreshadowing on the hat pattern from the first appearance, the third and seventh people who were finally recognized by the title "boarding" in the 439th episode, the wanted order for Yamaji to change from "only alive" to "dead or alive", and so on.
These details, which may not be noticed by many readers, are not direct elements of making One Piece a classic, but they are an indispensable intention of a comic book master when creating a generation of classics.
Super long works always have a unique charm, in addition to being a novel or a comic, they also carry the youth of many people and the persistence of the original author, which are qualities that can only be accumulated after a long time.
Time will not only precipitate many unseen lights, but also change many external things, but just like InuYasha and Naruto, even if the reader's youth has passed, even if you have long stopped paying attention to this work, when it finally comes to the end of the journey, everyone will temporarily return to the blood-boiling youth of their own time, and offer praise and blessings that are no different from that year.
Hopefully, Full Time Hunter will have one day.