Why does one piece

In certain places, the clan of D. Marshall D. Trafalgar D. Water Law. Rouge Father of Portgas D. Joined forces with Monkey D. Garp to defeat Rocks D. Xebec during the God Valley Incident. Only known carrier of the "D. Died 24 years ago at age 53 when he turned himself in to the Marines , 4 years after being diagnosed with a fatal illness. Monkey D.

Dragon Grandson of Monkey D. Garp Adoptive younger brother of Portgas D. At age 19, he is currently the youngest known carrier of the "D. Inherited Gol D. Roger 's Straw Hat through his mentor, Shanks. Part of the Worst Generation along with Trafalgar D.

Water Law and Marshall D. Portgas D. Son of Gol D. Roger and Portgas D. Rouge Adoptive grandson of Monkey D. Garp Adoptive older brother to Monkey D. Born as "Gol D. Ace", but took his mother's surname out of respect. Was defeated by Marshall D. Teach during the Duel on Banaro Island. Died 2 years ago at age 20, killed by Admiral Akainu while protecting his adoptive brother from a fatal strike.

Currently the only "D. Defeated Portgas D. Luffy and Trafalgar D. Landed the final blows on Whitebeard along with his crew during the Summit War of Marineford. The first "D. Former Marine Vice Admiral. He is the only known giant who carries the initial "D.

Died 22 years ago at age , he was formerly the oldest known carrier of the "D. Dragon Grandfather of Monkey D. Luffy Adoptive grandfather of Portgas D. At 78 years old, he is currently the oldest known carrier of the "D. Joined forces with Gol D. Roger to defeat Rocks D. Luffy Son of Monkey D. Directly opposes the Celestial Dragons and the World Government. Lover of Gol D. Roger Mother of Portgas D. The first and only known female carrier of the "D. Died 22 years ago from childbirth after carrying her son, Ace , in her womb for 20 months.

The only known survivor of Flevance. Part of the Worst Generation along with Monkey D. Luffy and Marshall D. Shows interest in the meaning of the Will of D. Rocks D. A lot of the time, this just means that there's a lot of padding and filler keeping the story from truly progressing.

However, there's an even harsher thing to be said about the actual development of the characters and story as a whole. There have been a ton of cooky reveals in the series, but the story has always been fundamentally the same: find the One Piece, be friends, and don't drown in the sea. Other series with shorter lengths have managed to be much more dynamic than this and would have had their characters and perspective change dramatically by this point.

Familiarity is fine, but there's only so much about going to a castle and fighting the main bad guy that fans can handle. With that being said, Eiichiro Oda has done a good job of making those same adventures and fights very compelling.

One Piece has been able to retain and even grow its audience for a reason. The story itself manages to stay fresh with every new plot development, and there's little twists in every arc that help create some variety. The Alabasta and Dressrosa Arc are both essentially about tyrants conspiring against a kingdom, but Alabasta portrays the beginnings of a coup whereas Dressrosa shows its aftermath.

Slight changes like this help keep the perspective fresh and the conversation ongoing. If Oda can still make these stories interesting to this day, why should he stop now? As compelling as some of One Piece 's story beats have been, a fan just sometimes has to step back and take some stock.

Oda has made changes to keep his story relevant; but twenty years after Luffy popping out of the barrel, the story has become a stranger of its former itself. What was initially a traditional pirate adventure with some magic elements has now become a grand government conspiracy involving robots, samurai, and time travel.

There's always a risk of coming off as contrived when trying to keep a prolonged story relevant, and Oda may have breached that threshold long ago. Also why if you keep up with the series you'll usually see "sorry next week One piece is on a BREAK" because it's nice to have a week off from writing once in a while. The man is human, not a superhuman anime character though superhuman is a decent description of the man.

Exposition is too much? You want less explanation of characters and why they are the way they are. So you want a villain to show up and be BAD just because they're bad? Who cares what makes them tick? That's so boring. What purpose is there to care about a character if even the author makes you not care about them. Also the reason Oda explains or does a lot of background of characters is to give you history, sometimes hidden mechanics of the "world history" are in some of the flashbacks.

There is a lot of depth, and a lot of history and LOTS of pieces to one piece, that I feel gets lost. A tale pulled out, long, and full of whimsy and wonder, and has a lot to it that you have to pull apart bit by bit to see the whole. Sorry you don't enjoy it I'm honestly impressed this anime had me graduate highschool, college, and go through multiple jobs as an adult, and still going strong and just as interesting as it was from the day I started reading it.

Sadly I must disagree with the Joker bit. His lack of a backstory does not take away from his appeal. I mean, look at The Dark Knight. He gave one reason for his scars then later gave another reason for them. One might think that he is dropping clues to his origin, but he is just displaying his ambiguity. TDK joker is one of the best jokers despite not having a backstory. Bruh, the female characters are much more alike than male ones but they're far from all the same, there are several female characters with faces just as strange as the ones from the weirdest men in one piece.

Most of them will have quite different eyes, complete circles, almost closed, lengthy like robin's, somewhat open both closed and open on the sides, noses round and sharp Pretty much the only thing nearly all characters have in common is that they're slim, and if that's your problem complain about that, not the whole design, female characters in one piece are more different between eachother than male and female in other anime, this is ridiculous.

I guess you didn't major in any English field, because if you had, you wouldn't be writing essays that look like they came from a 5 year old. I agree that the anime often drags on, but thats never been a problem with the manga, and doesn't actually make that much sense. If you've ever watched any fight scene from Dragon Ball, you'd know that anime fights drag out, even 1v1.

You add a whole crew that you have to show off to prevent irrelevant characters, plus enough people for them to constantly be showing signs of development, you have a lot to draw and write. Some fights will take multiple chapters to fully complete, and chapters only come out once a week.

Combine that with the fact that this is an ongoing manga starting in first published that is approx weeks of this mans life going into drawing. Plus the fact he needs breaks. He currently has about chapters out, and there's still new stories being told. The whole point about the fact its got too much exposition just doesn't make sense.

If every single villain and character were a throwaway in a story where they travel the world meeting people and face people who have been doing the exact same thing, it would be ridiculous if there weren't connections. Take Crocodile, he was a Shichibukai for years, he was a pirate before that so you can assume he's well traveled, his whole thing was trying to take over a monarchy while running an underground crime syndicate.

A man with that many fingers in that many pies is going to have connections. It would have been crazy to never bring that up again. And they did. When Luffy was going to rescue Ace, Crocodile returned! And so did several other connections to the story. Luci Christian Nami as Nami …. Sonny Strait Usopp as Usopp ….

Eric Vale Sanji as Sanji …. Eiichiro Oda comics. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. There once lived a pirate named Gol D. He obtained wealth, fame, and power to earn the title of Pirate King. When he was captured and about to be executed, he revealed that his treasure called One Piece was hidden somewhere at the Grand Line.

This made all people set out to search and uncover the One Piece treasure, but no one ever found the location of Gol D. Roger's treasure, and the Grand Line was too dangerous a place to overcome. Twenty-two years after Gol D. Roger's death, a boy named Monkey D. Luffy decided to become a pirate and search for Gol D. Roger's treasure to become the next Pirate King.

Set sail for One Piece! Did you know Edit. Trivia In a Manga collaboration with Dragon ball, Luffy was able to ride Goku's cloud which means Luffy had a pure heart. Goofs Leo shows an eager reaction when Sugar picks the poisoned grape out of her grape bowl. All the grapes look identical so from the spot where he and Robin are hiding it would be impossible to see which grape was the spiked one.

Quotes Monkey D. Alternate versions The US version from is heavily edited over the Japanese version. All blood is removed, all guns are changed to non-lethal weapons pop guns, squirt guns, etc. When Funimation took over the dub production in , it was a lot more faithful to the original. Soundtracks Memories First ending theme, episodes User reviews Review.