User:Ursa.g.bradley

What's up, guys? I'm a new contributor here on One Piece Wiki, ready and raring to help edit, expand, and/or rewrite pages so that our wiki continues to be a fount of knowledge for all of mankind, and the One Piece gospel of AWESOME covers the globe in a grammatically correct, factual way.

Favorite Straw Hat: Roronoa Zoro's freakouts, because they happen often enough to be a character of their own.

Favorite Pirate: Emporio Ivankov, hee haw!

Favorite Marine: Monkey D. Mothafuckin' Garp, that's who.

Favorite Revolutionary: that one guy who made his underlings haul a couch out onto the freezing cold deck of a ship so that Nico Robin wouldn't have to sit inside because she's paranoid or maybe just screwing with them because she can be a douche like that sometimes. Dammit, Robin.

What I enjoy most about the series: Oda's careful plot construction. I love the fact that he started writing One Piece with its end already in mind. A lot of shonen mangaka's seem to use the "IDK, I guess the story ends kinda...whenever. I guess?" approach, and tend to set up story arcs like boss fights in video games: opponent down, move on. It's a very linear style of writing, and it makes antagonists irrelevant once they've been beaten. Oda's characters, on the other hand, pop in and out of the story line in the craziest places, and they're often the last person you'd expect to see (like Helmeppo, for crying out loud. Who thought they'd ever see that guy again? And with those sweet shades, too). This means that Oda's entire cast of characters stays relevant, no matter how long it's been since they were last seen.