User blog comment:Joekido/Is One Piece getting tiring?/@comment-5640399-20140125182901

Working from the bottom up, are you trying to say that keeping a massive fanbase enthralled and speculating about your manga for 16 years is a flaw in Oda's writing? It's called suspense, and it's not easy to do.

Ticket names are a very useful literary technique that many writers use, you're forgetting all the really good stuff, like a navigator on a ship named for the waves, or Luffy and Shanks being actual pieces of a ship or the archetypal pirate of the seires being named for the Jolly Roger. Would you say Wilde and Fitzgerald were being 'lazy' when they named their characters Earnest or Gray or Daisy?

OP has a twisted sort of logic to the powers, Enel manipulating the shape of a conductor by controlling the electric current in it is the inverse of how we use conductors to dictate the direction of electcity in wires, same with the Kage-Kage no mi. Chakra and Magic wouldn't fit that, and no, I don't think you could call the fighting in OP boring.

The art has changed quite a bit over the years, but it's never been goofy, it allows oda to have fun while being able to create both humourous and powerful scenes. Also, it a shonen manga!

Their are plenty of unusual races in OP whose origins ae unknown to us, Long-arm/Long-leg, giants, fishmen, the angels on Skypiea, so I kind of like getting some exposition on the origins of a few races, the centaurs and satyrs also showed Law's ability as a doctor and revealed some cool facets to the Ope-Ope no mi, for instance, the centaurs and satyrs controlled their lower bodies, so could Law have stuck one of his subordinates on VP's dragons and controlled them? Exposition isn't a bad thing provided it isn't over done and no one can say OP has too much exposition.

OP is all one huge adventure, with a constantly changing setting that is brilliant to read, I don't want a bloody dungeon just cause Magi has one, like I don't want magic just cause FT or some other manga has it, OP has Sabondy, FI, PH, Skypiea, W7 and loads more, with more than enough adventure.

The characters aren't going to be reinvented in a timeskip, because that would be inconceiveably lazy on Oda's part, do you want to know when characters really change? Here's one of my favourites, Usopp, the coward, fights a fishman despite overwhelming fear and his own weakness. That scene is frightening, it's edgy and quite distrubing when Usopp literally bashes the guys brains in with a hammer. But he fights, because Luffy and Zoro and Sanji have shown him how to be strong, and he is ashamed and afraid to lose them and the life they offer if he runs away. They are what makes Usopp strong in that arc.

But Usopp dons the sogeking mask and fights to save Robin of his own accord, and when Bearsy is beating him to death in Thriller Bark, it's not Luffy who makes his fight, who makes him strong, it's Sogeking, it's that unbelieveably brave part of him that was ready to die to save his nakama. That's is character development, that is subtlety and that is good writing. Not using a timeskip to reivent a character because you can't be bothered to write a character arc.

Sorry about the ridiculously long response, a good blog that gets people thinking, but bad points. It's the same frustration that fuels bad fanfiction.