User blog comment:AYET/Minute Details Planning by Oda/@comment-6920514-20130629033625

Oda is remarkable in his creativity no doubt but I think there are a lot of those details that he thinks up a couple weeks in advance rather than years in advance like it's sometimes assumed. He's only human. Like Shanks getting his arm bitten off by a Sea King when we later find out about haki and him being one of the Yonko. Thinking about it he should've crushed it's teeth with armament haki or tamed it with conqueror's haki but Oda came up with haki later and maybe even Shanks' true power too. Not trying to be critical of Oda, I love him and his work and am envious of his talent. I just don't think he thinks extremely far ahead with the exception of maybe the Whitebead War. That was built up over a long time.