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Actually, Enel's df and mantra was already well explained though.
Observation Haki/Mantra has few uses....
1) it can help one predict a near future event going by the present situations....Luffy seeing his hands cut off, people being able to predict opponents next move, Fujitora seeing events moving to Dressrosa....
2) it can help one to 'hear' voices that aren't heard or 'see' beyond the human vision...Aisa could hear Skypiea, Coby hearing throughout marineford, Sanji seeing inside the river while on the ground, queen Otohime hearing people's feelings etc.
3) sensing of other presence within ones range and being able to read their strength...Mihawk could spot Luffy in the midst of the chaos without looking, Rayleigh could spot the presence of all the animals in Ruskiana and know which were stronger than Luffy, BB could also size up Liffy's presence so he's apparently a haki user too.

These are what have been shown, but Fujitora could also read people's particular movements from a distance that's why he just flew in and stopped Zoro's sword attack even while he's blind....Enel can also do that but he said its not his mantra ability, he can read people through the small changes in the natural electric field due to his lightening df.

Talk about being disillusioned....1st says OP has no story, now haven't criticized the story.
Well dude, you complain of pacing because 1) you don't understand the concepts(because you only saw a small part of it) and 2) you judge with the anime.....so you still can't.
Uninteresting fight scenes after 300 episodes.....sorry bro, you didn't see Sabondy fights nor did you see Marineford arc not to talk of Luffy x Law vs Doffy......once again, you can't.
Character arts, that's the authors choice though, even if its poor, it helps him represent the characters in his fictional world the way he wants.

Checking a story from the authors view doesnt give it absolute perfection, OP has a few mistakes which the author humbly accepted and vowed to make better with time.
Since you dont know much on OP, I'll give an example with Naruto....
Hashirama, 2nd God of Shinobi, 1st Hokage, founder of Konoha, strongest ever in history after the SO6P, has soo many jutsu and can even self heal during battles, wow, and then, Tobirama became the 2nd Hokage.....something is missing...how did Hashirama die.

The pirate world is just a means to reveal the central theme. I once said the story behind OP started more than 900 years ago, the current pirate era started 22years ago when Roger died. Before then, it was a vast world filled with sea explorers, various kingdoms, nobles, soldiers and a few pirates.....

The serious guys are boring? Lol. Last I checked, Whitebeard was epic. Zoro and Law who are always serious has the next fanbases after Luffy. Dude, everyone knows the goofy guys are always very serious and takes them as that when its time to switch moods.

Once again, until you've checked up the whole story, at least up to date, you shouldn't talk on what you know so little about.

Btw Kimco, I just remembered that you watched about 300 episodes, which as I said is less than a quarter of One Piece, and you probably were skipping some parts too.....just know that the anime contains some filler scenes some even inbetween the canon story...for example, the long roundabout journey through Alabaster deserts in the anime, was very short and direct in the manga. Sorry if you took some 'sweeping scenes' too seriously...So you still can't make a reasonable judgement till you see the manga from 1 till date.
I'm not expecting you to do that anyway, just trying to tell you that your talks are all the more very useless. Your earlier decision to be quiet about what you know very little on is the wisest thing you'll have to do here.

ctuagent007:
I didn't feel anything tense from him.....his hype was too much only for Saito to disgrace am like say na small pikin hin be.
The way Cho hyped him, you would think that he is a bad.ass mercenary

I'm still waiting on Oda to explain that "mystery with Mihawk" & now with Zoro.
Remember in Marineford where Luffy saw a "vision sha" of his hand cut & he refused to near Mihaw who acknowledged that "he never knew that Luffy was smart even though Luffy is always reckless"...just like Zoro inherited it against Monet.
Oda is a storyteller I tell you.

Concerning that blind dude, all I meant was his eye of the heart talks. He sees through everything and Fujitora's sense too looks that way. Everyone may call it observation haki, but it kinda seems like Fujitora's own is way better than the rest. Even Enel can't use his mantra to read normal movements or stuff, he uses the electric waves in his df, but Fuji can do that though he's blind.
For Mihawk and Zoro, that is simply swordsman spirit. I've watched 2 other Japanese tales where swordsmen, as a result of their harsh training, can project fear to their opponents.
Luffy unconsciously used observation and saw his future there.
Yeah I know of the Meiji era, a lot of movies have been made surrounding it and their aftermath, even if predictions may not be as accurate, I think there'll be some influence from there.
Am seriously hyped for Wano arc...I could bet there's a poneglyph there.

Lol, Kimco, like I said, you know nothing about literature..... Before you can have a slight right to make remarks on a story,
you must have finished the storyline at least once, missing no action, no word and not a single scene.
You must understand the concept of the story at the back of your hand almost as well as the author.
You must also understand the author's view and what he's trying to pass across.
And your critics must look through that authors point of view.

From all you've been saying once again you have not a single right to criticize OP. Oda is not writing a story that cuts a race to finding a treasure (which is your idea), One Piece world isn't even about pirates in the 1st place, so if your mind is fixed there, you're bound to make nonsense complaints.
I won't go into talking about FMA and DN much because I haven't taken time on them, but as I said, there concepts are way smaller compared to OP concept. Anyway there's no way someone like you will understand it though.
Don't bother about taking the goofy kid serious.... Funny enough, Luffy has the biggest fan base in OP as a result of that his goofiness. So don't say people won't take him serious...and that's same with many other characters like Garp who's most people's favorite Navy.......well you said yourself that its silly.
And if you can't make it through the funny eating scenes and maybe some other comedy, just know that's why a 7 year old can also comfortably watch it with another 50 year old and both will be laughing to their heart content.....try raising valid curtains please....

ctuagent007:
I have read his story of being a "boy-boy" to the mangaka of Samurai X just as you read, but the "similarism" you were claiming, I think I need more clarification to better grasp what you were trying to point out---the bolded

Okay....
Sanosuke, has a bad sense of direction...Zoro.
There's this blind dude that worked under Shishio who gave me feels like Fujitora.
The top notch swordsmen have an aura they can give out to paralyze their opponents...sounds like Mihawk gaze and also what Zoro did to Monet.
There are also few other similarities, OP may have done it at a grandeur scale though.

ctuagent007:
Zehahaha.....if that is the case, then I see Ceasar as the next mugiwara

Lol, Ceaser doesn't have such loyalty if that's what you mean. If Doffy turns on him, he'll definitely wanna stab him. But Ceaser has a dream, and is already acting as a Straw Hat though. I'll welcome anyone as far as Oda makes him/her acceptable.
Can't wait for Jimbe to meet up.

Wow, some nice development it is. And if Toei really wishes to sell the DVDs well, they should really improve the animation quality. If its done, the anime will really out sell the manga series.

Btw, Oda was an assistant editor to Watsuki, author of Rorouni Kenshin (Samurai X). For the past week, I decided to watch this anime from the beginning and follow its tale, noticed that there were many influences on OP from there. Zoro's lack of direction, the grade swords, conqueror haki, Mihawk's paralyzing gaze, Fujitora's blindness and a few others.

Well, maybe his dream has not yet been defined but I just like his sense of loyalty. I know it already! The fact that I chose the wrong person to look up to...! And how pitful I'm being right now! However... just because I didn't get the answer I wanted, that doesn't mean that I want to do something as shameful as turning my back on the man I decided to respect on my own! Losers still have their own principles to follow!....This was his statement even after all Doffy did to him and he also proved it with actions.

kraftykc:
Luffy and Fujitora?? Lol that's overkill dude. Fuji will go caveman apeshit on Luffy, only Zorro can stand that magnificent tiger in the Straw Hat crew. I'm not saying Zorro can take the Admiral but Luffy will certainly be fodderized.


Also I'm dead set on Bellamy as the new Nakama, he has been the only true option for the longest time since the last arc was introduced. But truly I would kill to see Sabo join the crew even for a short while (though that Naruto voice... Very off putting).

Lol. I bet Luffy can struggle out like Zoro did. Well, I dunno tho, we'll see but Zoro really did well and would love to fight Fujitora again.
Sabo's voice actor isn't the Naruto girl again. (A woman voiced both Naruto and young Sabo). When Sabo reappeared in Dressrosa, Oda said he needed a mature masculine voice (Sabo is to be badass)...so a male now voices his character. Forgotten his name though, check him up in Sabo's wikia page.
I won't like Bellamy, but if he joins, I'll still welcome him though. He has the Straw Hat traits.

landinfo:
Episodez of Onepiece aka Rosinante'z flashback haz bin splendid so far (aldough I've not downloaded 2day'z epi)....Toei is doing well with them flashback & it'z ending nex week dough



I'm tellin u that guy'z Obesvation waz too Op dough I xpect Odachi-sensei to @least show us how Sanji would use hiz.....u know Oda said he waz inclined to Observation as Zoro waz to Armament while Luffy specialises in Conqueror.
It'z a fiti dat pple are not giving Odachi hiz time to broad the haki abiltiez but truss Odachi-sensei, as tym goez on, he xplain better

Yeah the animation has better detail during this flashback. I wonder if its because the background colour is a bit dark compared to the very colourful theme of Dressrosa city.
Sanji has used good CoO so far, and he's still got time to develop it more.

So OP manga resumes this week. I wonder if we should expect a skirmish between Luffy and Fujitora. We might also get to see Coby's abilities, his current rank is unknown though. Last we knew of him, he was a marine captain with good observation haki and soru.
Will their be a new nakama and who's it gonna be.

jamilkb:
You don finish Naruto oo.. Lol I just finished watching the new episode of naruto S, Madara don remove kakashi's eye(sharingan) install am for his eyes.

Lol. The change change eye wey dem do for that place too much sote person need calm down and start racking brain like say na masters exams to know which eye person dey carry and whose eye person dey use.....
Na why Naruto fans Wey come One Piece start to dey say Mihawk don give Zoro im eye, Zoro go soon awake am........nonsense.
Abeg no crossover jare.

Ultimatesammie:
Theres nothing superb abt d fight so many of d fights in my view are appaling nd nothing dat spectacular nd by d way like kimco said he doesn't fear wen dey (Mugiwaras) go into battle becos we already know wat wud eventually happen except in sabody where dey Mugiwaras faced a tough test nd dere was no way out.
By d way some1 was talking abt hidan not attacking Shikamaru well enough to defeat him or something like instead of attacking a vital point he didn't do dat Now I wanna aak in sabody wen kizaru was abt to finish off zorro how many yrs wud he take him his ability is arguably d fastest nd yet he took him a long time to attack some1 he was literally stepping on nd dont tell me he has a slow personality cos weve seen him attack other guys in ample time its like he was waiting 4 zorro to be saved.

By you already know what will happen when they go to fight, what do you actually mean....
You already know they are going to win? Tell me which shonen series doesn't do that...
Or could it be that when Luffy challenged Crocodile, you already knew Luffy will be impaled and buried, then Robin will save him...and he'll get dried up and get lucky, before beating Crocodile. You already knew that Luffy will be able to touch Enel, then get attached to a mountain of gold and thrown from the sky and will need Nami to drive him all up the way. Or you already knew that Luffy will take 100 shadows just to match up with Odz. Or you already knew that Sanji will lose to Califa then go and beat Jyabura.....you must be quite a prophet then.

Concerning Kizaru, you're obviously judging from the anime though. From the manga, Rayleigh appeared and stopped Kizaru's light kick the instant it was raised up.......argument invalid.

ctuagent007:
Respect to @zuko, boy you just showed me that not only are you a patient guy (true traits of sensible Onepiece fans), but that you can confortably live with a nagging wife for 50 years no shaking......
Twale...

Lol. No mind me jare. I'm enjoying myself. Its very funny when I see people judging a book by its cover. People who know nothing about literature trying to judge a book by their own expectations...especially this kimco dude who just started a little part of the part and thinks he knows the whole.

kimco:
Errrm in less than 70 episodes death note and fma managed to have the "perfect" mix of plot, engaging characters and consistent logic. You don't need a 1000 episodes to do that. Sorry try again.

But yes! Kishi is now a joker.

Lol, before you check on number of episodes they need, DN and FMA obviously had a bunch of characters, a few places and a short time span within its story, so it can make do with a few episodes compared to OP that explores a vast world, different varieties of personalities, and a story that spans from 900years ago. So yes, it needs that 1000+ episodes.
If you still find it confusing, try writing a well structured story with 10 characters then try another with 100characters and see which will take you more time and pages.

Tosyn007:
Sorry to barge in on you guys, I just wanna inquire whether someone could help with a link for Attack on Titan movie. And what's up with the Boruto Movie?

Boruto movie is still in Japanese. English subs will come in October.

tegak10:
all the one piece adventures are linked to each other..... Alabsta skypiea fishman island- ancient weapons

N to those of u saying better sales dosent translate to quality, which manga that sold much was poor.. Even bleach n fairy tail started well.. But their writers lost their way.... Naruto was nice... I remember those days when taijutsu n brains where used to fight... Kakashi is even d best character to me because he had d least amt of powerups... N not forgetting his chakra problems.. Then the second half that only rasenshuriken is enough to destroy not to talk about d odama rasenshuriken.... or the overpowered mangekyo sharingan..... Or konohamaru beating a path of pain... The last straw was after naruto got 9 tails mode... He did shadow clone n went to all d battle fields(unlimited chakre)

Kakashi and Itachi were my favorites and had good developments too. But Kakashi's war arc deeds were just much. The Last Straw was when Dude got Mangekyo and instantly did the perfect susano'o.. Lol. As for Itachi, after all his sufferings, he died of an unknown ailment and still Kishi wouldn't let him Rest in Peace.

kimco:
If naruto's daughter suddenly got the byakugan (my spelling oo) then surely kishi must explain to us how that happened since from the info given us before the eyes should have already been there...unlike the sharingan. Is kishi forgetting his own story? Man.

Lol, Kishi ain't telling no story, he's randomly setting up fights and powers. So don't ask for explanations.
When another wants to properly set up his story and break down his explanations, you'll still complain of pacing tho so no need. Just relax and smoke Kishi's weed with him.

kimco:
Ermmm I jux checked the 2014 sales chat and fma wasn'tin first 30 even, ie going by your for the past 3 yrs comment. But I do get your point...so I'll render that eg moot. Sales is not always reflective of quality man...when people use sales in their arguments it renders their points useless since a lot of things factor into sales. As a whole manga, fma is surely better than OP,however it's short, doesn't preach friendship, has a dark tone to it and doesn't have enough chapters to make it a sales king. Another eg. During the release of fifa 05 and pes 5, pes 5 destroyed fifa as a game but fifa thwarted pes 5 in sales. Sales doesn't determine quality, Marketing and hype helps a bunch you see. Another point is pc gaming vs console gaming. Games sellmore on consoles but perform better on pcs.

Also dude at the time I watched it, there was a little over 600 episodes or even less. 300+ episodes of 600+ (atmost) is not less than quarter. It's actually -/+ half of it. So yeah...I had enough to critique the show. Even 300+ of 700+ is not less than quarter it's actually almost half. I believe I'm still good. And knowing OP's bad pacing issues, I'm sure not enough happened to warrant 400+ episodes that couldn't happen in atmost 150+ episodes.

I guess I typed too fast for FMA, I meant that FT hasnt been in top 10 for the last 3 years, but FMA was consistently there for its last 3 years. When FMA was on, it sold better than FT. You can't expect a series that stopped serialization some years back to still be in competition to an ongoing series.

Watching 300 episodes of a series that was still less than half way as at 600 is less than quarter....so you have next to nothing to give its critics. Just like someone who watched Naruto till chunin arc and say, Naruto is rubbish, small kids jumping around, blahblahblah. So I won't waste time on your pacing talks. Your expectations were rightly trampled on though. You actually failed to realise that those arcs you call side adventures would all lead to the one piece eventually. Your imaginations cant grasp the concept behind the Pluton of Alabaster, Water7 importance and Skypiea Poneglyph....OP is a story too far fetched for your type that just wants to know the end already. That's its unpredictability for you.
Call the pride nonsense, but fact is, there are times a man has to stand up for himself no matter what. Zoro wants to be the best, meets the best in a duel and you want someone to interfere. Same Zoro knocked out Sanji once when he came to help him in between fights. Just like Naruto said, 'if I don't win my battles alone, I may never grow up'. When Zoro got taken down by Mihawk, Luffy jumped into the fight and was told Zoro got spared. Funny enough, Zoro's last minute act served as a basis for Mihawk to later personally train him in swordsmanship, which wouldn't have happened if Luffy, Usopp came charging in mid fight as you expect. Mention a reasonable battle.

Like I said, OP has its story faults, but you're far away from mentioning them. What you're mentioning is your personal sentiments and it largely doesn't count even a bit.

kimco:
OP scenerio of teamwork:

Zorro: hey nami, fight this woman here for me since I can't fight women.

Nami: okay zorro no problem. Even though it's obvious I'm not even in her league I'll try jux for you and hope plot armour helps me through.

Zorro: yh nami, I'm such a friend, I'm going let u handle someone who (realistically) should maul you to bits, just because I can't fight women. What a considerate guy I am. And oh, if I happen to be done with my fight I'll trust you to finish yours victorious too. If by the time I'm done and you aren't, I'll simply stay back and watch you get beaten over and over (with no serious injuries or fear of death ofcos) because I have faith in you.

Nami: you are the best zorro

With such good friends, who needs bloodthirsty villains.

Okay, tell me 1 fight anyone finished, and stayed back watching the other being beaten, and didn't step up to help without a reason.....I'm so gonna prove ya wrong now.

kimco:
What? That made no sense man. I watched 300+ episodes of onepiece and still didn't get enough info on the one piece treasure. 300+ episodes...and not enough info on the whereabouts of the onepiece treasure, the reason he set off to be a pirate in the first place, only obstacles on the way. At this point it's obvious the manga has bad pacing. Impatient after watching 300+ episodes? Wow. Maybe you are looking for something different in the manga and most def you are getting it. I'm not getting what I'm looking for at all. 300+ is very generous any how you try to spin it.

Very funny are you implying the story of OP isn't predicatable? Are you serious? Stop trying to make the story sound like a masterpiece. It's average at best.

Also don't compare game of thrones to OP at all. They are not comparable In anyway possible in this context. It also has it's faults but we won't go there.

Also sales doesn't equal quality. Eg fairy tales selling better than fma:brotherhood or lil wayne more popular that some dope underground rappers like immortal technique. Like I said it does adventure quite well...and people seem to like the adventure it provides. but to actually try to put down other mangas by saying the story is better is the biggest joke. It has no story to praise .

Dude, fairy tales doesn't sell more than FMA or the FMA brotherhood, It only has more chapters so better overall sales. But for the past 3 years now, FT hasn't been in top10 while FMA has been there and was even 2nd for about two years before AOT and Basket took it. OP has been number1 for 7years now. Sales largely determines quality especially when its same type of products at same price and place.
Like I said, all you're doing is personal critics simply because you didn't get what you are looking for. Going less than one quarter of a story doesn't give you enough grounds to raise the critics though. OP has a great story to tell and not just looking for One Piece.

kimco:
I agree there is better character dev to OP characters ( and why not, you have more manga chapters after all) however to completely miss the reason for the manga and stray to develop every character we meet is trully boring and very unecessary, hence, bad pacing. Good story telling doesn't mean every character must have a story. See fma and death note for instance. The one thing that killed naruto was the overreliance on huge justu instead of intelligence like it was before shippuden. Also naruto's friends were kids just like him. Most had parents (sakura's case was stupid though) and the ones that had a bizzare childhood had their story told. This is unlike OP which has characters that actually require character building otherwise it would be an obvious sh!t manga.

The world's in naruto were described well enough. Not as vivid as OP, but what did you expect, luffy was involved in almost every where that was described. It was required. In naruto, the other villages were described even though they were not necessary to the plot bulding (infact if it were me, I'd rather they concentrate on konoha only and develop the different mystery found within and amongst the clans)

So according to you, OP is above critique and any faults found is simply manufactured? Don't be a fanboy man, enjoy your OP even with it faults and accept it as it is. I can get behind that instead of saying people jux manufacture faults.

Lol....like I said, you only think its boring and unnecessary, but they are very very necessary. And it didn't in anyway miss the main point of the story, Oda never told you that his story is concentrated on finding some treasure, and that's where you're missing it. OP explores a way more broader sense of story than just finding some hidden treasure somewhere. Sorry if you're disappointed but its pacing is good you're just not patient enough.

I never said its perfect, it has story faults within but no one here is pointing at them. All I've seen here is personal criticisms which are just biased views anyway.

For those beating down on OP sales superiority... Let's say Mr Biggs sells its rice and chicken beside your house at #200.... And there's a mama put selling rice and chicken at same #200 also beside your house. Which 1 will sell more? Why will it? Answer is obvious.... Mr Biggs, cos of quality and comfort in the house and packaged service.
The record OP has as at chapter 576, wasn't even met with Naruto's 700 chapters. Right now OP at 796 chapters have triple overall that of Naruto, and is the largest grossing series, manga, anime and anime movies.
Walk into a standard manga store in US or Japan OP has its own special section while others are on a shelf.
Reasons are obvious.
Just Keep Calm and Watch One Piece....its awesome. Respect Oda, his epic level could blind even a blind man. Akira(DBZ) is still a legend though cos he set the pace for the current generation.

kimco:
All u have done is resort to insults to make u look cool. Yes this was depicted in naruto.honourable mention is the get sassuke back arc. Only difference, it forms part of naruto's (manga) fighting style not totally make up all of it. In OP, that's all there is. Not saying there shouldn't be one on one fights but if that is all there is, surely any talks on teamwork is lost there. Especially when after their fights none of them tries to help help the other still fighting because......reasons.

Let's stop here. I don't need more insults from you. If you cannot make a post without insult. The other person then you are not worth my time.

Sorry if you felt insulted. I'm just trying to show you that your concept of teamwork was narrow. As I pointed out earlier, most times in Naruto they have 1 or 2 bad guys for the whole of Konoha ninjas, so some can just gang up on those guys. But in OP their own is many villains vs the good guys. And the teamwork in the crew is that of, do the best you can and I do mine, all to achieve 1 thing.
That's why Nami, being the only 1 that can ride a waver, will ride Luffy all the way to Enel's ship, and drop down then Luffy, being the only 1 that can touch Enel, will beat him out of the sky. Sanji will leave Califa for Nami, since he can't beat a woman, then he'll go and face Jyabura, and Usopp will leave Jyabura for Sanji and go shooting down Spandam from the height and meters away because only he can do it. That's why Zoro will defend Usopp from the marines, but when a rust man comes to beat Zoro, Usopp will beat him from his place.
Saying they don't help each other in battles because you don't see them ganging up with strategy is really shallow.

kimco:
And how can you accuse naruto of concentrating on just fight and praise OP for story? They both have rubbish stories. Naruto has better fights and OP has a larger world to explorer and new people to see and fight. Travel travel travel.

I didn't accuse Naruto of fights, its just the fact.
Naruto comes out, announces he's gonna be homage, his contemporaries are introduced, little or no background is given to them, his enemies are called out, little or no background too...just fix them all up and get a series of links then..Round 1, Fight.
No real development, what much can we say about the other nations, bijuu, Jinchuriki, some Akatsuki members, other kages etc....but the battles and their powers are well organized and detailed..hec, some powers even were stupid...characters, very poorly outlined. Throw them in randomly, set up a fight and arc ends.
One Piece....Luffy announces he's going to be the Pirate King, ruler of the seas....we have a detailed explanation of the seas, the islands too, the kingdoms revealed have a development, major and semi major characters have their story and are well structured, the powers are well detailed, Luffy's contemporaries are given necessary and good screentime, and from time to time, character links are established, even subtle talks comes out big much later in the story. Oda even includes real world realities, and people can easily bring out what he used and he'll confirm it. Every reader understands what happens without much questions. This is Story telling.
Now because doing these things takes time and carefulness, some will always complain of pacing...and those who just wanna complain will always manufacture a complaint....

kimco:
The adventure I'm talking about is not necessarily stories but new people and characters. No body cares for the averages stories the worlds have to tell, because they aren't engaging enough. The new people to meet, the new world to see, the new villains to fight....this is the adventure. So no, it's not the story.

And how can you accuse naruto of concentrating on just fight and praise OP for story? They both have rubbish stories. Naruto has better fights and OP has a larger world to explorer and new people to see and fight. Travel travel travel.

You want an adventure manga/ anime where the stories are the main focus of the adventure itself? Watch/read kino's journey. That should tell you the difference.

And lastly? Since when did pace become dependent on fight scenes? Do you understand what pacing in a literary work means? It moves too slow and has little going for the longest of time. I need information that would move the story towards some resolution and after watching 300+ episodes, I was fed with nothing but luffy and his gang playing heroes to anybody they meet. No info on the monkey's one piece treasure. Just luffy unesscessarily making a ton of friends that always results in him being turned into a punching bag. Fights are not necessarily part of pacing. Infact when talking of pacing, fights are not factored at all.

Funny enough, the things you call 'unnecessary' are the very things that has got One Piece the praise it has over the years. If at all you did literature in school, you'll know that those are qualities of a good storyline. Am sorry if you wanted Oda to verbally tell you what the One Piece is all about, because the dude says he'll save it for later, and that's called suspense. Yeah they're running around making important key friends that'll help them when its time to become the Pirate King. So as I said, if you don't gat the patience to sit still, bow out, OP has more than 50mil fans over the world for 1 persons absence to be noticed.

kimco:
So wait...knowing geography and knowing mathematics is the same as fighting a villain? Are you telling me that zorro cannot help luffy fight a villain because........reasons? Or that frankie or the chef guy can't help because they are not specialised in fighting that villain? Maybe someday the logic behind your post would dawn on me. But I doubt its anytime soon.

Just because you can make up analogies doesn't mean it is valid. With that said you might follow your own advice thank you very much.

Don't worry, it doesn't need to dawn on your dull brain. They've always resorted to fighting together when it was necessary, against Odz and the Pacifistas...funny enough, this same type of teamwork was also depicted severally in Naruto. So if you have a problem with them tackling their opponents alone, then go relying on everybody all the days of your life.

kimco:
Lol what are you talking about? What naruto makes us know is that no villain is above good planning and collective abilities that are capable. Does that mean that 10 genins can defeat kakuzu? No, cos they are not capable. Even against pain with all the knowledge and help naruto was brought down till 9tails came to the rescue. But atleast we are taught the essence of fighting as a team. The pirate theme which should automatic mean teammates, ergo, teamwork shows them splitting up to fight their enemies one on one. Funny though that their numbers always match too. Zorro could finish his fight and sit back and witness luffy get pounded yet tell his friends that they should have faith in him and that he will come through for the team. Preaching rubbish about team work and how it'll be against the pride of each member to receive help from anoda member. That is not teamwork that's nonsense. Waay to help ur friend in need, faith in a friend to pull thru being a punching bag is not friendship, it's stupidity.

The very same thing you call nonsense is the very same reason why in your school, different teachers teach different subjects, and the Geography man can't come to teach Maths cos its not his line...but all the teachers still work towards 1 goal, perfecting their students to meet world standards.
Same nonsense is done in the bank, Law court, even in your home.
There are various aspects of teamwork. If you don't understand it that way, go to a hospital and ask the receptionist for a proper medical checkup.

kimco:
Did you say op is for story? Hahahahahhaahahahhahahahahahhhaha, my lawd. What story? It's for adventure. The thrill of an adevnture. I ddon't click with the take on adventure in OP, however I will not say it a bad adventure manga. It does it pretty well. Others?its below average. Especially the pacing. The worse pacing in any manga yet. How does the lack of fights affect the complaints people have about the pacing? They are mutually exclusive you know that, right?

Naruto started as a great new take on shounen. Felt different (after watching dbz and samurai x at that time) and the fights scenes and the world of chakra with all it mysteries is what got me hooked. It lost it way painfully after the time skip. The beginning of shippuden was good too. Not great, but okayish.

Dude, what I mean by saying OP is a story is that it concentrates on its story telling more than any other thing. The adventure you're calling it is still a story.
And the only reason you complain of the pacing is because you wanna see fights. Every moment, even sometimes insignificant to fans always culminates into something later. Oda simply takes his time to write his story and has greater build up instead of rushing into the climax and as a result of the build up, the climax is always very big.
So if you can't be patient and let the author write his story, just shut up and quit. We don't need half made plans with lots of plot holes like in other series.

kimco:
Did you say op is for story? Hahahahahhaahahahhahahahahahhhaha, my lawd. What story? It's for adventure. The thrill of an adevnture. I ddon't click with the take on adventure in OP, however I will not say it a bad adventure manga. It does it pretty well. Others?its below average. Especially the pacing. The worse pacing in any manga yet. How does the lack of fights affect the complaints people have about the pacing? They are mutually exclusive you know that, right?

Naruto started as a great new take on shounen. Felt different (after watching dbz and samurai x at that time) and the fights scenes and the world of chakra with all it mysteries is what got me hooked. It lost it way painfully after the time skip. The beginning of shippuden was good too. Not great, but okayish.

Dude, what I mean by saying OP is a story is that it concentrates on its story telling more than any other thing. The adventure you're calling it is still a story.
And the only reason you complain of the pacing is because you wanna see fights. Every moment, even sometimes insignificant to fans always culminates into something later. Oda simply takes his time to write his story and has greater build up instead of rushing into the climax as a result of the build up, the climax is always very big.
So if you can't be patient and let the author write his story, just shut up and quit. We don't need half made plans with lots of plot holes like in other series.