Manga Sales (Japan, 2010)

[KichiVerde]

ethomaz said:

KichiVerde said:

I can see how One Piece is very popular due to its drawing style and assortment of interesting characters. But for me it is rather boring. The story is too drawn out and convoluted. I mean the thing is already over 10,000 pages long and the creator only said a year or two ago that he felt he was halfway through the series.

Nope. no joke. I read a lot of manga and I find the best stories are those that are concise. When manga artists go and on they become victim to one of two things. One they lose the originality that made their work unique, that or their work becomes repetitive. In the case of One Piece I think it is the second. This and the lack of focus on overall plot are what bother me most. However, since it is a shonen manga most of the adolescent readership don't seem to care.

 

Not that I'm trying to bash Eiichiro Oda. He has accomplished something incredible considering it is his first full length work and he had no previous following.  And he publishes in Shonen Weekly so thats an output of about 20 pages a week. That certainly will cause an author to sacrifice quality of story to create the required volume in such a short time frame. At any rate there is no denying how huge One Piece now is.