User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/You and One Piece/@comment-25152698-20160822051527

It's funny, because I picked up One Piece years after closely following both Naruto and Bleach, yet placing aside all my bias from my childhood days, I must honestly say that One Piece to me far outranks the others. And that's not to say that those two in particular weren't good; hell, they're flat-out legends without a doubt, but Oda's genius simply knows no equal.

I think part of the reason it's been around for as long as it has been is with respect to how well balanced Oda has kept the series. Both Ichigo and Naruto received such staggering power-ups with each given arc, until there came a point in which they could no longer be challenged by anyone. Once the challenge has been erased, it really cuts down any further story potential.

Where we are with One Piece, it seems as though Luffy is going to get his ass handed to him in the very next chapter, haha. Obviously, neither Kubo nor Kishimoto had the luxury of spacing together their manga like Oda, and there's plenty of other reasons as to why One Piece is as far as it is today, but in raw context, I'm just so glad that I picked this manga up when I did.