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From 1997 to 2004, Oda produced 349 chapters. He started writing One Piece at age 22. He started out with Romance Dawn and was halfway through Water Seven when he became 30.

During his 30s, he produced 431 chapters. He covered up so much. Water Seven, Sea Train chase, Enies Lobby, aftermath and the chain reaction to the timeskip, Thriller Bark, Saboady and Luffy finding himself alone and getting involved in the war, timeskip, Fishman Island, Punk Hazard and half way Dressrosa.

During his 30s, however, Oda's health was already in decline and was getting worse as he went through his 40s.

In his 40s, he produced 362 chapters. He made the most longest arc in the story that took four years to finish, Wano. He has to take 2 month long break and had an eye surgery. Over the years, he takes more and more breaks. I bet One Piece might even finish before he hits 60.

Between Romance Dawn to Drum island, Oda never took breaks. But over the years since Arabasta he would start taking breaks. It would at first be 5 chapters, then slowly go down to 2 chapters before break. Back in 2006, he manage to pump out chapters without a break from January to April until his break came back.

During his 50s, Oda would go even slower. If he has not taken any breaks, One Piece might even finish the series already.

Look at Wano that was full of missed opportunities, sloppy writing and how he was speedrunning the arc. He essentially skipped the middle of Egghead Island without exploring more potential. Heck, Franky wanted to meet Vegapunk but there is no development between the two and did not explain the Devil Fruit right like Oda said he will explain what they are and how it works. He is rushing everything but makes the end of each arcs sloppy and chaotic. The writing of Egghead was always back and forth.

Since the series is at the final stage of the story, it is painfully obvious that the story is going to end somewhere in his 50's.

He'll never beat out Charles Schulz where he continue drawing Peanuts until he was 82 years old.

The story is long enough and it is time to stop.

With chapter 1115, I can see where the Government's obsession with Justice and righteousness, obsession to nipe out evil come from.

All of this was to prevent Joy Boy's return and end piracy.

Since the Government are victorious, they came to believe they are gods of the New World, giving them that right.

Don't you think we should put that down?

You know, it's obvious that Oda is making Joy Boy/Luffy a messiah figure similar to Yeshua (Jesus) Christ.

In the Bible, the Romans invaded Judah and enslaved the people living there. The keep expecting a messiah to appear and free them but when he did come all he did was preach for 3 years until they crucify him. He never fought the Romans for freedom, instead he promised his student that he will come back soon. That was 2,000 years ago.

Joy Boy however did something during the Void Century and freed slaves. He made a promise he will come back at the appointed time.

While Yeshua saved souls, Joy Boy saved those in needs. Yeshua would even feed hungry crowds fish and bread while he quish thrist of slaves.

To Christians Yeshua was seen as a savior who will come back and banish evil, Joy Boy was seen in a very similar way.

Joy Boy made a promise to rise the Noah, befriended Zou, did something to Wano and left something of great value on Laugh Tale.

Yeshua promised treasures of heaven, he brings joy to those lost and left something for us to get; salvation. He would bring laughters and tears.

So we have a second coming of Joy Boy similar to the second coming of Christ who is going to rise the Ark, tear down Wano's wall and do something in Laugh Tale while beating One Piece version of Satan. So Joy Boy made made a second coming of Joy Boy who is going to finish the 800 years old task, free slaves and save the world like what Yeshua is going to do.

My ass how weird this sounds and what I wrote is something to say "WTF did I just......."

Well yeah I find it WTF as well but this is Oda we are talking about. What was supposed to be a pirate sailing the sea thing turns out be a christ figure story with pirates thrown in it. Let's see if we are going to start seeing angles and Luffy's crew being his disciples Luffy going around preaching freedom. Oh....my....ass. it's like Oda has been throwing shit in randomly as One Piece has entered it's late stage.

However back in 2004 when I starting to read One Piece, I have always had the feeling it was not gonna be a simple pirate story that will end with Luffy finding the One Piece in a dark damp cave with the story ending there.

I always gotten the gist that the story will have an wild ending. I later read that back in 1999 the final arc will have a massive war going on.

I remembered Woop Slap making a chilling fate comment or Smoker shocked at Luffy surviving, claiming that something was keeping him alive or Crocus commenting if Luffy and his crews were the ones they are waiting for or how Luffy always have luck siding with him when he gets a near death experience and survived.

It's like Oda already knew and and after the timeskip he started to throw in the messiah thing, science and family theme while focusing too much on the world building thing. By the time of Wano, Oda has really starting to speed run the whole thing.

One Piece should've be called Crazy Piece or Chosen Piece with pirates no longer a relevant thing.

Should we add the connection in the [[Joy Boy]] page?

(Snarkly) I won't be surprised if they decided to crucify his rubbery ass, ugh....

Is a post apocalypse island filled with vegetation overgrown buildings, cracked road pavement, debris laying around, broken robots, and and car wrecks?

Since the Great Kingdom is supposed to be a city that is similar to the one found in Egghead and it makes since for Laugh Tale to hold the Great Kingdom. Plus when we see a close up of Laugh Tale it was clear that the cliffs is some kind of a fortifications.

Just think of something you would find in Horizon Dawn Zero, Days Gone, Metro series, Dying Light, Last of Us and Fallout.

What do you guys think? It's clear it's going be a long time now but I want Oda to finish the series already.

Ever since I was in my late teens and early 20's I have always wanted to create a world building story. I remembered playing Final Fantasy 9 and always tried to imagine what would it be like if I extended it much longer then it already was. However I had a hard time trying to take pieces and twist it to my own ideas. Then in 2004 One Piece caught my full attention since 1999 and for long was always inspired by this series. For years However I tried to create a franchise that would be similar to One Piece but I kept having problems coming up with my own ideas and not take a big chuck of One Piece as if I'm about to plagiarize it instead of using some ideas from that series and twist it to my own ideas while it may sound similar but I don't wish to carbon copy One Piece. Oda loves Dragon Ball to death, Dragon Ball however was literally found all over One Piece but Oda manage to twist these ideas up. Star Wars however was stories that has already been told to death many times yet it was popular. Now I'm 41 and still struggling to creating such ideas. Then I decided this: A story of a young boy found a device that transported him to a world that looks just like One Piece but has more landmass with a cluster of valleys where Red Line would be. The world is called Via, an heavily diverse world of different race, architectures, geography and culture. It is a world located in the Grand Universe inside one single galaxy called Grenda. The boy learns that he is a Grand Guardian, group of freedom loving people to arrived to explore and fulfill destiny of their own. The Grand Guardians however are not all good guys, these people are humans with free will who can do whatever they wish. There is no limits, no getting fired from it, it's all about freedom and how you chose your path in your own desires. Grand Guardians are known to have avaters they can summon or transform into, similar to Xenoblade Chronicles 2. However there are Guardians who are Incarnation of certain people from Via or any other planets in the Grenda galaxy. This young boy however is from Vearth, a planet outside of the Grand Universe. Vearth is similar to our earth but all countries are fictional with different but similar history and no people that existed on Earth are not found on Vearth. However like the Blues outside the Grand Line that is supposed to be a normal place, Vearth is like that. The Grand Universe is suppose to be a purely a fictional universe that is not supposed to exist but somehow came alive. The Grand Universe was created by the imagination, inspiration, dreams and desires of people on Vearth. A young boy by the name of Yincoln E. Redwood finds out he is an Incarnation of a notorious owtlaw who can be seen as a pirate or a bandit or a marauder or other groups like that. His name is Vantius E. Bluewell. He ends up loving Via and made friends, however like with Luffy he strove to be a notorious outlaw who will surpass pirates, bandits, marauders and terrorists (They called themselves rebels). Like with Luffy he thought being a notorious outlaw was all about fun, just showing how simple minded he is. Like how Luffy wants to be a pirate king, Yincoln wants to be an outlaw king but unlike Luffy he does not say "I want to be Outlaw King!" Over and over again and does not care if someone else says the same thing but he is motivated to go out in the world. He learns that Vantius' lost 13 crews is wandering the Vearth being Incarnated in 13 different and goes back to reunite with them which takes a long time to do so but he can't fulfill his goals alone nor does he wants to be alone. Yincoln was a lonely boy much like Luffy, growing up with parents mysteriously gone, going to one relatives to another. But being a Incarnation of an Outlaw King sets him forward to explore Via. The story premise is very similar to One Piece. Since long ago in the early 90's treasure hunting stories was my least favorite but while the story may look like a treasure hunt thing but it would eventually come to a point that it is deeper then finding a treasure at end of the line. In fact instead of looking for an lost island, they are looking for a larger landmass called the Grand Valley that disappeared long ago and the Republic attempting to keep it hidden forever. The story however is known to explore regions or islands while the characters would make a stop to Vearth before coming back. Like how Oda like to pick inspiration, this is exactly what I would do, designing characters that is similar to characters from real life or media. Vearth represents realities we are in while the Grand Universe is a place where you'll like to go to take a break from reality. This story is heavily inspired by One Piece and other stories such as Dragon Ball, Lord's of the Rings, Star Wars, Persona 5, Xenoblade Chronicles, Adventure Time, Final Fantasy 9, Boxcar Children, Digimon, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things and many others with varies of genres but is to target age 10 to 25 years olds.I strove to finally tell the story already. I forgot to point out that while I had this idea since my early 20's and how it kept changing to much, on September 13th 2021 I just had a heart surgery and no motivation. However as I get old and how unpredictable death is I have came to the point that it is time to fulfill my dreams that was supposed to start in the late 90's. At this point I'm in the progress of writing a story testaments. Here are some samples:4,000 years ago, two major orders called the Amaki Dragons and the Fable Round appeared. The Amaki Dragons were a militaristic order that believes in chaos and control of the world. The Amaki Dragons came from the D tribe. The Fable Round order while militaristic believes in helping people in need, they believe in freedom and peace. They came from the E tribe. They would butt heads for centuries. * 1900 years ago invaders from space attacked Va. They heavily occupied the eastern hemisphere but lightly with the west. They built scientific bunkers and do strange experiments on people that result them manipulating their dark cognition and brought their persona to consume their bodies, turning them into monsters. They even created a mutagens that gives a person abilities to augmente their bodies, giving them superpowers. The invaders allowed the Va government to function on their own and allowed the population to go on with their daily lives but the world is split up into provinces ruled by governors that every governments or kingdoms within every province are to answer to. * 100 years ago Ventius and his crews disappeared. They discovered they are too soon to do anything what they found in the phantom continent that they used the Fable Round mechanic to regenerate themselves to be reborn in different peoples bodies on Vearth. They however were forerunners of the outlaw age that will be stirred up 75 years later. * 40 years before the story, an empire called the Goring rose up and amass alliance of pirates, rotten Guardians, beast raiders, marauders, sky pirates, phantom thieves, and bandits at the eastern hemisphere to challenge the Republic. The empire appointed 7 generals to expend there influence but William E. Oldwood of the powerful Wood families took down many of them. He got support from Ganz E. Redwood of the Navy and Tang E. Goldwood of the legionary. A powerful outlaw called Arsene E. Whitewood made a pact with the the Goring empire and became influential to the empire that William, Ganz and Tang took him down, severely shattering the empire and the Republic army taking down the alliance. The emperor of Goring died of an heart attack and his son took over and shrank down the empire to stay at the south east sea and made peace with the empire. * 7 generals of the old empire would not accept the new administration that they cause an series of power vacuum, gathering loyalists of the old empire and outlaws. Seven generals bended togather to take down the new empire. * 25 years ago William and his crews decided to travel around the world, making new alliances with other outlaws along the way and discovered the phantom continent and found the mark of the Fable Round and cracked it's mystery. He alone went up to the old Numberian space colony and faced the unknown. He came back all wounded saying he was too ill to win. He gave himself up to Tang and the Republic decided to burn him while hanging on a cross with niles. He however preached past 15 years about the concept of Fable Round, the treasure they created, the truth of world, the lost continent and the space colony. He even stated that Republic is not the real threat but something bigger is coming to put both worlds; Va and Vearth in danger. This scared the Republic that they burned him on the cross as a stern warning to the world to not find the truth. However it's still rough drafted and will take some times not to make it a One Piece carbon copy. I remembered back in 2015 I tried to start writing a story but could not continue but I still have notebook with that draft. I have already created some main characters. The woman in my profile pic is one of these characters.

Ever since I was in my late teens and early 20's I have always wanted to create a world building story. I remembered playing Final Fantasy 9 and always tried to imagine what would it be like if I extended it much longer then it already was. However I had a hard time trying to take pieces and twist it to my own ideas. Then in 2004 One Piece caught my full attention since 1999 and for long was always inspired by this series. For years However I tried to create a franchise that would be similar to One Piece but I kept having problems coming up with my own ideas and not take a big chuck of One Piece as if I'm about to plagiarize it instead of using some ideas from that series and twist it to my own ideas while it may sound similar but I don't wish to carbon copy One Piece.

Oda loves Dragon Ball to death, Dragon Ball however was literally found all over One Piece but Oda manage to twist these ideas up. Star Wars however was stories that has already been told to death many times yet it was popular. Now I'm 41 and still struggling to creating such ideas. Then I decided this: A story of a young boy found a device that transported him to a world that looks just like One Piece but has more landmass with a cluster of valleys where Red Line would be. The world is called Via, an heavily diverse world of different race, architectures, geography and culture.

It is a world located in the Grand Universe inside one single galaxy called Grenda. The boy learns that he is a Grand Guardian, group of freedom loving people to arrived to explore and fulfill destiny of their own. The Grand Guardians however are not all good guys, these people are humans with free will who can do whatever they wish. There is no limits, no getting fired from it, it's all about freedom and how you chose your path in your own desires. Grand Guardians are known to have avaters they can summon or transform into, similar to Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

However there are Guardians who are Incarnation of certain people from Via or any other planets in the Grenda galaxy. This young boy however is from Vearth, a planet outside of the Grand Universe. Vearth is similar to our earth but all countries are fictional with different but similar history and no people that existed on Earth are not found on Vearth. However like the Blues outside the Grand Line that is supposed to be a normal place,

Vearth is like that. The Grand Universe is suppose to be a purely a fictional universe that is not supposed to exist but somehow came alive. The Grand Universe was created by the imagination, inspiration, dreams and desires of people on Vearth. A young boy by the name of Yincoln E. Redwood finds out he is an Incarnation of a notorious owtlaw who can be seen as a pirate or a bandit or a marauder or other groups like that. His name is Vantius E. Bluewell. He ends up loving Via and made friends, however like with Luffy he strove to be a notorious outlaw who will surpass pirates, bandits, marauders and terrorists (They called themselves rebels).

Like with Luffy he thought being a notorious outlaw was all about fun, just showing how simple minded he is. Like how Luffy wants to be a pirate king, Yincoln wants to be an outlaw king but unlike Luffy he does not say "I want to be Outlaw King!" Over and over again and does not care if someone else says the same thing but he is motivated to go out in the world. He learns that Vantius' lost 13 crews is wandering the Vearth being Incarnated in 13 different and goes back to reunite with them which takes a long time to do so but he can't fulfill his goals alone nor does he wants to be alone. Yincoln was a lonely boy much like Luffy, growing up with parents mysteriously gone, going to one relatives to another. But being a Incarnation of an Outlaw King sets him forward to explore Via.

The story premise is very similar to One Piece. Since long ago in the early 90's treasure hunting stories was my least favorite but while the story may look like a treasure hunt thing but it would eventually come to a point that it is deeper then finding a treasure at end of the line. In fact instead of looking for an lost island, they are looking for a larger landmass called the Grand Valley that disappeared long ago and the Republic attempting to keep it hidden forever. The story however is known to explore regions or islands while the characters would make a stop to Vearth before coming back. Like how Oda like to pick inspiration, this is exactly what I would do,

designing characters that is similar to characters from real life or media. Vearth represents realities we are in while the Grand Universe is a place where you'll like to go to take a break from reality. This story is heavily inspired by One Piece and other stories such as Dragon Ball, Lord's of the Rings, Star Wars, Persona 5, Xenoblade Chronicles, Adventure Time, Final Fantasy 9, Boxcar Children, Digimon, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things and many others with varies of genres but is to target age 10 to 25 years olds.I strove to finally tell the story already.