User blog comment:Joekido/One Piece Polling: Is the series declining? 70% said no/@comment-104.13.84.194-20160514053352/@comment-3507581-20160610005340

Well, you said it: in the United States (and with good reasons: The Simpsons' change on the writers and the ex. producer, and Law and Order from the influx of more popular newcomers).

The thing is, One Piece is a Japanese shonen manga series, on top of that being one of the most notorious of its genre with emphasis in the plot (alongside others like Fullmetal Alchemist, Magi, Attack on Titan and a fairly big excetera). It is being serialised in the Shonen Jump, a magazine (in)famous for ruling its series in terms of readers' popularity, this means if a manga, be it new or old, loses -or never attains- popularity, can get terminated and replaced by a new one -and the cycle repeats until a "big-time rookie" appears (as it has happened on the recent years). Even if the american fandom can state all it wants that the series jumped the shark shortly after the New World Saga started, I would counter it stating that Japanese fans can rate their own series with more fairness -and how, the worst rank One Piece attained in this second half is a 4th, out of 16 or so series; OP can be either in first or second, if My Hero Academia, Haikyu, and (which else) perform in a particular week-.

Well, this wraps out it.