This article contains spoilers from One Piece’s Final Saga.
Summary
- Oda struggles to fit his ideas into 17 pages due to Jump’s publication limits.
- Oda prioritizes the most important battles in One Piece for focus.
- Fans may not know Oda’s struggles, but he would make the manga more elaborate if he could.
One Piece is an absolutely massive manga that fans know features a ton of exciting developments each week. Being a shonen story, it is no surprise to know that One Piece has many exciting battles for the fans to witness week-in week-out.
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However, one big complaint quite a lot of the fans have had with One Piece over the years is that Oda often skips over small battles completely and just shows the aftermath instead. Often, fans blame Oda for off-screening a fight and while it is true that he does do it often, Oda has a big reason for it that he’s revealed already in the past.
Oda Struggles To Fit His Ideas In 17 Pages
- Oda Has Many Ideas For Each Scene
- In The End, Oda Prioritizes What’s Important
The biggest reason why Oda offscreens a lot of stuff in One Piece, especially some fights, is simply because he cannot cram his manuscript into 17 Pages. Jump has a limit on how many pages one can publish each week with a chapter and there is absolutely no way that they will allow for longer chapters to be published. One Piece has to fit within 17-18 pages every week and that’s what Oda tries to do. His job is to cram whatever he thinks will happen next in those 17-18 pages, and make do somehow. If it were up to Oda, he’d have more pages in his chapters where things would be more fleshed out. Here’s what Oda said about this back in 2021:
If I’m allowed to draw 30 pages each week, I’ll soon finish submitting my manuscript. — Eiichiro Oda
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As is clear from Oda’s own message, he would ideally want to draw and submit 30 pages per chapter every week and it is the fact that he has to cram his ideas into 17-page chapters that annoys him. According to Oda’s before, Oda spends a lot of time deciding how to fit his ideas into 17 pages. If Oda draws the manuscript for 30-page chapters, then, perhaps he’d actually save more time by submitting 30-page chapters instead of 17-page ones. In fact, fans would love it too, but Jump doesn’t work that way, unfortunately. Oda has to always fit his ideas into 17-page chapters.
Oda Only Draws The Most Important Battles To The Fullest
Cuts Have To Be Made Here And There
Naturally, if Oda usually draws 30-page drafts for his manga, he would then have to cut out some stuff to make it fit in 17 pages. Undoubtedly, to Oda, plot developments are the most important, which is why the fights in One Piece get skipped over at some points. Of course, these fights are certainly smaller in scale as all the big fights get their own focus from Oda, as seen in Wano.
As long as I’m alive, there are infinite chances. — Luffy
Oda makes whatever cuts he deems necessary and that’s the version of the chapter that gets published. Fans, unaware of this, often criticize One Piece over this, but at the end of the day, if it was up to Oda, One Piece would be far more detailed and elaborate than fans know it to be.
One Piece chapter 1146 will be out very soon, later this week. As usual, One Piece is going to drop on the upcoming Sunday. In Japan, One Piece drops at 12AM JST on Monday. However, the vast majority of international readers will see the chapter available on April 20. The official release date of One Piece Chapter 1146 is April 20, 2025. Fans can read the chapter for free on Manga Plus.
- Release Date
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October 20, 1999
- Network
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Fuji TV
- Directors
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Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou
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Mayumi Tanaka
Monkey D. Luffy (voice)
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Kazuya Nakai
Roronoa Zoro (voice)
