This included being an assistant for the last few chapters of Midoriyama Police Gang, something that inspired his work. This is the problem with long-running series, they just get worse after a while when the author gets too ambitious, or simply loses creativity for it like you can see with things like Naruto, AoT, or even MHA nowadays (which all had it's heydays too but have fallen off quicker than OP).Īnd yes you can argue that the length of the series can also be used as a criteria to decide on how good the mangaka is but imo, the fact that OP was able to last this long while still being one of the most interesting mangas I've read shows that Oda is a skilled mangaka.Oda started his professional career as an assistant for Shonen Jump creators. Like if OP ended at timeskip, we can all say that OP was pretty great up until that point. But also keep in mind that I'm sure it's a lot easier to write series that are shorter, which may seem to make the mangaka more skilled. Sure, a lot of emerging series that are getting popular now might seem like they're better than OP. But this is also the problem of comparing OP (and Oda's writing) with other mangakas. It goes to show that after writing the same story every day for 20+ years, you kinda lose your touch and creativity you had 20 years ago. OP is getting noticeably worse in the past few years. Especially during the height of OP, I don't think any series would interest me as much to read 800+ chapters in two weeks like i did when i caught up haha. I don't mean he is perfect by any means, but in terms of a lot of criteria listed, I think for the most part Oda does it above average. Out of all the mangas I read, I'd say Oda is definitely one of the best ones. So in the realm of WSJ yea Oda is the goat imo. Araki is another name I wouldn't mind calling the goat, he's been dishing out hot content since the 80s and is still relevant, but again I want to give Oda the edge because he's had no breaks since 97. Togashi just decided to tap out without seeing his series suffer in quality, most didn't have that luxury. What Togashi does is much more relatable to me, most mangaka tap out eventually. To do what Oda does you have to be a bit of a nutjob if I'm being honest, the man is way too dedicated to this despite having all the money in the world. Togashi is pretty beast in his own right for having 2 top tier series, but he's constantly taking breaks with HxH so it's easier to maintain quality that way. If I had to name a goat from SJ weekly serialization I'm going with Oda. I also don't really want to compare Oda to shorter Seinen works that run on a different schedule, those comparisons can stay in their own lane. Most of the works people praise these days have barely hit the 300 chapter mark. Most long running series can't maintain the same quality 300 chapters in. That's extremely hard to do, in fact I don't think it's ever been done for this long on this schedule. Oda's a monster who's been doing this consistently for over 2 decades, and his quality didn't really start diminishing till a few years back imo. This is different from calling One Piece a top 3 manga too. Top 3 Mangaka? Yea I honestly think so, based on a mix of accolades, quantity of chaps, quality of chaps, relevancy, sales etc. the D no Haoshoku D Tan Missing Knight D. Roger the Fist pirate Admiral Lee Hung D Goat Sazid Miyata devil God OF is the the D Lee Beast D. Jerami CUCKSMOKE CUCKSMOKE tekkai Delight devil slayer Refugee God Ryuma Anderson DaSlayer D Goat Ashi From Laughtale D.
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