There Will Never Be Another Manga Like One Piece

[@MrMorj]

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[@Coolgamer..]

One Piece is amazing, and it is this Generation Modern Epic. I will cherish it forever. 🏴‍☠️

[@et8210]

One Piece has the best setting and worldbuilding but definitely not the best writing stop saying it is the goat. No it isn't an epic it is just a chosen one Shounen what quality are you talking about it fell off in Wano.

[@abdirizakm9426]

thanks for the discount morj, now i can start smelling good.

[@royalfun1031]

​@@et8210 That's why it's the goat

[@SonGoku-qn1nc]

​@@et8210🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@LuciusVulpes]

That's just it. One Piece isn't the story of the protagonists. It's the story of the entire world of One Piece. Once you realize this, you finally understand what makes One Piece so unique and why it will be highly unlikely for other mange to even come close to becoming what One Piece is.

[@thedoctor3528]

You said it very well

[@mistersureshot1749]

damn, maybe Manga should cease to exist once One Piece ends

[@step2058]

@@mistersureshot1749lmao just end Shonen Jump 😅

[@mistersureshot1749]

@@step2058 It'll magazine version of Studio Gainax, Because of One Piece "Greatness" and can't be replicated, whats the point of continuing the magazine.

[@notes6987]

Exactly, and what triggers me most is having people hate on the previous chapters because of "too many reactions" lol, like what manga or story are you reading really, i'd actually be pissed if Oda didn't show them

[@cognitivedissonance9938]

If Oda manages to close the story on a high note, nothing else like it would exist. Between 25 and 30 years of one continuous story, released weekly and with an ending that satisfied most of its readers. Let's hope he pulls it off!

[@miniatureface]

more like just over 30 years, im betting

[@zacurrya9485]

@@miniatureface im saying 33, egghead took about 2 years and the following will be much longer

[@StrawhatRye]

​​@@zacurrya9485He could easily close it out satisfactory for the community by the 30th anniversary in 2027. Of course that wouldn't cover everything, but it'd get all the really important stuff covered.

[@Turkiye09U]

@@zacurrya9485 with this much breaks it might be even more ngl

[@zacurrya9485]

@@Turkiye09U I got no clue how he'll wrap up everything considering all the loose plot threads. I still wanna see him go back to that old guys bar in logue town when he's pirate king

[@GroutMobile]

Shit we getting the One piece analysis before the Wano one 😭

[@GeckoMoriia]

Wano analysis will 5 hours long I just know it 😂

[@DrBingusCheeseburger]

He’s still waiting on the raid to fail.

[@milosuchihaserbiamc9083]

He doesn't wanna get hate probably

[@BlueNyde]

I've already given up on the Wano analysis. It's clear he just doesn't have the motivation to do it since he didn't enjoy Wano & I realised it's not really fair to pressure someone to make something they don't actually want to just because they said they would.

[@MarquiseDowning]

We’ll get gta 6 before the Morj wano analysis.

[@Popstalgia]

Just discovered OP last year with the live action, & am totally blown away by the scope, world building and depth that Oda has constructed over the last 25 years, with much more on the horizon.

[@thedoctor3528]

Glad to have you! Always love it when new fans fall in love with this amazing story :)

[@StuffCentralstuffs]

Yo same, I caught up to wano, it's fire!

[@TheTroy3060]

yeah i started the anime the last year before starting the live action but im with you it was such an amazing feeling when i started getting it and just how emotionally invested i got in the most random characters was just unbelievable . I know now that when it ends i will cry probably a lot not sad that its over but filled with joy i got to be there and be part of it

[@MidnightO42]

i'm so happy that the live action helped you discover one piece, thanks for sharing - hope you continue to enjoy it!

[@primesonic4459]

Yo, how far did you catch up ? Do you only watch anime or do you read the manga ?

[@HeadbutKneecap]

I remember when Ace was introduced and i thought to myself "This guy should be the main character. He's got a great design and is so much cooler and his devil fruit is FIRE" and as the story progressed i realised and appreciated how and why Oda subverted this story this way and its still a hell of a story.

[@campyouisthatway4099]

It’s funny because everybody else in the story thought he was supposed to be the main character also

[@CosmicFreedoms]

@@campyouisthatway4099 every character popularity ranking has Ace at #2 or 3 to this day so that make sense lol

[@Ryquard1]

and the nAce got donuted

[@MihawkTopOne]

Ace is garbage. Sucks to see. They made him look like a scrub without his DF. His haki should've been able to combat Blackbeard, but it's almost as if it didn't exist. Even Doffy used Haki far better even though Ace should be stronger.

[@mickynick9888]

The main character is never the coolest I'm the series

[@nameputhpong9041]

Oda prolly the only other person on earth that could say “Motherfucker, Big 3? It’s just big me.”

[@nathanhargenrader645]

“Motherfuck the big 3, it’s just big me”

[@SASJinno]

"50 chapters for any character of note" - This Buggy slander is harsh, Morj.

[@Jaywav18]

Fr how can he disrespect a yonko like that

[@dragonwizard0d]

Buggy sama has no equal

[@WillofD18]

I thought the same thing😂

[@monkeyboy275bobo8]

Buggy plays on NG+ He already went through the entire grandline once with the previous pirate king and now does the whole thing again alongside the next.

[@MissinginMiami]

😅😂

[@42ndLife]

One Piece is the kind of story that comes along once in a century

[@dothangbui4918]

once in a millenium

[@matthiasrauert8397]

Agreed for me it has many similiar traits with LoTR probably the fantasy epic of the last century.

[@55meds]

This will be Morj's "Non One Piece fan" reaction video. Hope this one gets the traction that Appeal of One Piece and Breathtaking world get lol

[@thedoctor3528]

Yesssss! Guys please reccomend this to non One Piece fans!

[@floriandolder8111]

Unfortunate then that it is filled with spoilers but maybe they are not so bad out of context.

[@SensiBurning90]

⁠​⁠@@floriandolder8111yea most people who watch all the openings first don’t even remember by the time they watch the actual show. This shouldn’t really spoil anything for people who are new. Appeal of One Piece and Why you should watch/read have WAY more spoilers.

[@troillandford7679]

Or with all the book tuber diaspora to one piece, it’s time Morj debuts a book channel

[@floriandolder8111]

@@troillandford7679 We have seen this twice already, BookMorj would produce 3 incredible videos and never return.

[@DanteTheRedPossum]

As a filmschool graduate and amateur comic artist I often think about how great making "A new One Piece would be", but I constantly think about a lot of these points. I think the only way to make it work would be basically "fool people" into it as a work around. In a similar fashion to how series like Dungeon Meshi masks themselves as silly comedies and then start dropping a bigger storyline around it. And even then, no one has really come close to doing it in the scale One Piece does; Replicating those conditions for it to happen without workarounds it's something that will likely not happen in a long time. Great video Morj.

[@water7962]

Could this be done by introducing a vague original goal for the main characters and once the reality of the world starts to appear, clarifying their dream to be completely and utterly absurd in scale? This was made a while ago without a specific formula in mind or knowledge of your theory but I think it still should work out.

[@royalfun1031]

​@@water7962depends on the sales

[@minokawasum]

im glad you mentioned dungeon meshi! i started watching it recently and it caught me so off guard. the silly charm with heavy plot out of no where was really one piece-esque for me.

[@TheRockerX]

@@water7962two manga that have done that recently are Attack on Titan and Undead Unluck. Revealing that the actual story/world you had been experiencing is actually much deeper and larger than you had thought for the first 100 or so chapters of the story

[@keshunutts5696]

I always say this to my friends "the existence of one piece is impossible and yet we somehow have it so fucking cherish it"

[@TheOne11111]

I just started watching One Piece in 2020 and I'm totally fall in love with it. I avoided One Piece for so long because of it's length. After watching so many other famous anime and nothing left to watch except from One Piece, so I decided to start watching it. It was so frustrating at the start because my expectation was the same with other anime. I expected to see fight after fight after fight without thinking too much about the story like other anime did. But I slowly fall in love with One Piece because it is funny, ambitious, sad, and also massive world building, exciting adventure, beautiful friendship, interesting powers, and many plot twists, historical theme, mysterious things and so many other great things. I used to love the bloody action anime/movies with non-stop fights but One Piece is the exceptional and number one favourite anime for me now and ever.

[@royalfun1031]

W

[@ddp6397]

One of my favorite things about one piece is the no internal monologue with Luffy I think it helps keep your view on the world

[@HeadbutKneecap]

Oda's gonna have a field day with elbaf given his initial inspirtions.

[@xt4977]

Gonna be as disappointing as wano vegapunk and whole cake island

[@Pirategamer5656]

​@@xt4977wdym ? Wci was great, sanji's backstory whole tea party raid was great Wano was also great shown as an ancient japan who's people are suffering too much from kaido and orochi. Smile fruit concept and reveal was appreciable and don't forget Yasui dono and oden's death ! Fights were definitely Dragged out but Nika reveal was also great And silly of you to expect any new reveal from vegapunk for us readers it's the job of Robin not vegapunk but Vegapunk told whole world about Joy boy and entire conflict in general terms...

[@WorstPlayerZee]

​​​@@xt4977 never comment on yt and first comment was harsher but you wouldn't have made it that far if you actually thought that

[@ivegonesickomode1610]

​@xt4977 your bait is spoiled, go back to the shop and buy some more

[@xt4977]

@@Pirategamer5656 whole cake island sanjis story was ok Big mom a yonko was treated like a joke character which she kinda of remains Katakuri was goated Wano was not good and dragged out showing unimportant side characters and plot lines and not the pointless "deaths" the only good part of wano was ironically outside wano with the flash backs And I swear gear 5 and the entire retcon of luffys fruit has Naruto written all of it Also what has robin done post time skip Most of the crew post time skip are becoming more and more irrelevant and have flat character arcs that doesn't fundamentally influence them to act differently Compared to water 7, enis lobby, sabody and marine ford it just doesn't feel the same I could go on and on but coping fans will excuse poor writting by coming up with "theories" that actually explains everything

[@Danienti]

I almost started crying while realising how lucky I am to be able to experience this amazing and unique story, Oda really is one of a kind artist

[@GourSmith]

There will also never be a One Piece raid that ends in failure

[@wisdommanari6701]

Marine Ford was a Raid that ended in failure

[@GhostReaper928]

Until it gets leaked lol

[@GourSmith]

@@GhostReaper928Can’t get leaked if it never gets written in the first place.

[@kiraamv5507]

Why you want it to fail

[@thedoctor3528]

Lets make ton of comments on this video to make it blow up! Reply to every top comment that you can!

[@iurypadilha]

Oda created a world that functions much like the universe in Star Wars and Star Trek. Each island can be completely different in scale and technological advancement and cut off from the entire planet and the reader don't question it. That way each new island for Oda is technically a new manga tittle in a giant overall series, it gets a fresh new start for the reader and for him.

[@Syntenyy]

Oda should get the Nobel Prize for literature 💯

[@aatmadevvadakkedath9703]

Fr

[@willyjacobs5418]

Just shows how good the writing is that the 100 chapter “prologue” delivers such hype dramatic moments

[@Freedom_iwant]

2:15 Nah the amount of self glazing

[@thedoctor3528]

Ngl i thought that buff dude qaa morj for a sec lol

[@troillandford7679]

Nipple morj

[@NEWX722]

I personally think you should never say never. I’m pretty sure that before Oda started writing OP, there were people who would say the concept of OP is impossible, and Oda proved them wrong. Who knows; maybe one day there will be a spiritual successor to OP

[@erde9790]

unless it's book, manga seems hard to happen. consodering how people love fast pace story now. in 100 chapter of One piece and other mangas are so different.

[@water7962]

There will be.

[@PTzhrzlfzyyn]

Dandadan is getting there. Maybe not 1000chapter+ but i'm positive it's going to be grand.

[@RaykinaBreaker]

The reason why he say there will never a manga like One Piece is because majority reader these day always expecting something hype happen every chapter. One Piece is a type of slow pace manga that didn't make every chapter has hype scene during their early journey. But most author these day had to rush writing their story because modern reader these day don't like reading slow pace shonen manga. Even My Hero Academia author is struggled to continue maintain the quality of his story while receiving complain from the reader. Only Oda has freedom to do that because One Piece were start written during around 25-30 years ago, where internet didn't even a thing yet.

[@Diboh]

well before oda and OP, dragon ball was the ONE! that couldnt be surpassed

[@KurosakiRuka]

When i studied literature and we had the topic of legends and epics i thought about one piece. The classical works a products of their time. But what i value the most about one piece is that we start the journey when luffy was a nobody who had just a dream. No narrator explained to us what great deads the protagonist did to accuire his reputation as a legendary warrior. No, we the reader witnessed from the begining how it all started, how a guy in a barrel was brave enough to declare war to the whole gouverment, when he was a nobody. How he fought the great marine ford war that would change the coming century. How he liberated the countries. And it is all believeable, because we were there. At the highest and the lowest points of the protagonist. And the world does not simply exist to serve the protagonist but lives and breathes without him. If you an og fan, when you really followed the story of luffy and his crew from the begining, without getting spoiled, the format of weekly releasing (eventhough it comes at a cost of health) means we are on this unknown, everevolving journey together with them. Back in the day the epics and legends were not simply made by one person, the authors as we know them today just simply wrote down what was before told orally and passed on by people from generation to generation with new additions to the story and i think that the weekly release mirrors somehow this tradition in that the story is not finished but gets with every week a new layer of narration, our theories feed even more into it week for week. It is hard to find out what will be our "modern" literature canon. One piece definitly deserves a place there. My wish is it that instituations finally recognize manga and anime as an form of art that has its value. I cannot believe how often i heard my professors complain how there is an lack of stories in a specific department yet they ignore any recomantations of modern media.

[@WeebControl]

Not everyone can be oda, there will be other great new series but OP will be the greatest forever

[@thedoctor3528]

Its too ambitious a task to take on

[@souljemexpress5609]

@@thedoctor3528 Well you're not a creator/writer, so it seems impossible to you

[@j.b.5422]

no, it wont

[@deanwinchester2685]

Oda's been running on motherflame for 25 years

[@cvox607]

This came at the perfect time with one piece 25th anniversary and the huge LA sphere display One piece will only go up

[@benabaxter]

With foreshadowing, Attack on Titan probably matches One Piece, but notice that it's ultimately a small-scale story, three or four factions, two or three secret histories, but ultimately two places. It is an incredible achievement but also very focused.

[@pablobuquet2534]

I like tensura foreshadowing

[@Moe_Posting_Chad]

AoT was the most yawn crap I've ever seen. It was what a solid 3 episodes before it removed any doubts it would be paint by numbers. They had exactly one interesting character and they killed her off for genuinely bad reasons. She fell off a tower or something. All and all a true midwit show. Nothing wrong with that but its not some occult revelation or disclosure.

[@phantomknight1395]

Attack on Titan is head and shoulders above everything, my only problem with it was the ending. However is it the greatest story ever told.

[@Moe_Posting_Chad]

@@phantomknight1395 Uh huh. So when do the chosen people get their day on the Minecraft server?

[@royalfun1031]

​@@Moe_Posting_Chadtf is blud wafflin abt

[@cloudstrife7900]

One Piece, Kingdom and Berserk are the ones that gave me the same feelings of how a long running series can still make you hype or intrigue every chapter coz of the story RIP Kentaro Miura

[@jaishkhan7442]

Berserk doesn't feel that long tho... Just a sad and depressing experience Kingdom also shot itself in the foot after those asspulls (Houken, Shin's Revival etc.) Hoping that One Piece doesn't pull bullshit now

[@natalimoina]

No need for rip, bro was a pdf file

[@d33ps3a_3ntity]

One thing I think is key to the one piece formula is that once in a blue moon, it is deviated from. The Summit War Saga is a great example. Because we thought we knew what to expect, that saga made One Piece one of the greatest stories ever told in my eyes.

[@Freedom_iwant]

That's why One piece is real - Edwar D new gate

[@thedoctor3528]

Aye sir

[@alexanderpope7777]

This is an underrated/under-subscribed channel. Thank you for the in depth analysis on all your videos!

[@thedoctor3528]

Ikr? He desreves to easily be the most subscribed op KZbinr. Sadly casuals dont like this type of deep content

[@troillandford7679]

Underrated? Nah morj is one of the mainstream ones

[@Henry-jl1xt]

to be fair, his channel is quite big for a one piece youtuber. still, he is underated imo, if you consider that people like ohara or Grandlinereview have over a million subs, but Morj does vastly superior content. (No offense, I like and watch these youtubers too)

[@kbdc]

Underrated? Highly doubt it. Subscription count though, definitely deserves more recognition for his commentary/analysis videos.

[@alexanderpope7777]

@@Henry-jl1xt your second point is exactly what I was getting at. One of the few replies who understood what I meant or didn't just completely disregard it

[@26_jyotishmanbaruah_cse85]

"One piece is the greatest story ever told " not in anime history but in the history of this planet. That's it.

[@s3studios597]

Not a manga, but Tower of God is a pretty good competitor. It's 600+ chapters and not even close to ending. Last I heard a couple years ago, it was at most 40-50% done. The author, SIU, apparently even had 20 books worth of material written before starting the series. Naturally, there's an insane amount of planning, world building, and character building. Probably the most notable difference is the ToG doesn't really follow a formula, or at least not one that I've noticed.

[@thedoctor3528]

Dang now i wish it had a good adaptation that covered everything because i heard anime was skipping things

[@tuberialolicon-tanuki6533]

This. Other places of the world can end up with similar conditions and give their own workaholic genius it's golden chance. Hell, even another manga like one piece could appear if we don't assume that our decaying global economic relations are to stay the same forever. Things could change and create similar or even better conditions down the line.

[@voxomnes9537]

Great point!​@@tuberialolicon-tanuki6533

[@s3studios597]

@@thedoctor3528 Well, it turned out far better than God of Highschool at least. And it's getting a 2-cour season 2 next month

[@Luffymynika11]

I agree tog is definitely the op for manhwa series it has 500+ chapters of content, with only a few family heads being revealed and hella unexplored lore using oda long term writing method.

[@josephfoxton5257]

As the one piece community we should make sure this vid is seen by everyone. This is such a well articulated video on what makes one piece near perfect. I will show it to everyone

[@arshia0y7009]

Kingdom is the closest manga to one piece, but I doubt it will ever get the recognition it deserves.

[@xt4977]

Kingdom is better written too

[@cj_lts]

you are sooo cold bro i just left a comment about it it’s crack. it needs more recognition

[@KnightfallFelix]

@@xt4977 Respectfully disagree but it does have some great tactical elements that I usually look for in shounens and which One Piece kinda lacks

[@royalfun1031]

​🗿@nicolasrojas84

[@Freedom_iwant]

THANK YOU, I just started to read it , it's awesome 👍🏻 49 ch

[@ansemore]

One piece is truly unmatched

[@julesgardena6804]

For now.

[@toshinronin]

@@julesgardena6804 I don’t think you understand that whatever series comes after op it’ll never be on the caliber that this series holds

[@thedoctor3528]

Lets make ton of comments on this video to make it blow up! Reply to every top comment that you can!

[@GourSmith]

One *Peak*

[@matthewh4124]

@@julesgardena6804 praying for that to be the case

[@jinkun2629]

It's even more obvious now with all the authors that have to take breaks regularly after "just" two or three hundred chapters. Oda is a certified monster on many levels.

[@nickgates4259]

I want to thank you Morj, like Oda to other mangaka you seem to be one of the few OP youtubers whose love for the series never feels burntout or forced

[@thegantz87]

I wanna thank my dad for putting me onto this show, he died a year ago but this show was something we spoke about DAILY. When it’s over it’s going to be a rough day for many of us.

[@acrane3496]

One piece lasted this long because oda was firstmost primarily focused on pure adventure. Specifically luffy’s adventure. That’l structure is easily found in children’s Saturday morning cartoons (i know they don’t do that anymore). Where the story/plot isn’t meant to be taken seriously but to enjoy the ride. While oda does this he can easily build the world. Because remember that one piece was supposed to just be the yonko and that’s it. Then he added schibukai to lengthen it and im sure he added more to lengthen the adventure. So technically his manga would’ve been as short as the other shonen mangas out there.

[@Desmond_Video_Discussions]

"im sure he added more to lengthen the adventure" another example was the supernova. he made them all up completely on the spot as a suggestion from his editor. the week they appeared in a chapter is the same week he came up with the ideas for them. that means Bonnie, Law, Kidd, Biege, Killer, Hawkins, etc, all of them and all the important arcs they follow and influence, were also spontaneous additions

[@acrane3496]

@@Desmond_Video_Discussions you’re right! I was trying to remember what additional things he added and it was definitely the supernova.

[@FAcw1z]

@@acrane3496 also was meant to be shown in onigashima but instead had his own arc

[@DandyMan2525]

I think when I first read One Piece and got caught up I was stressed about having multiple long running manga to follow alongside One Piece (because having to read multiple stories weekly is such a big deal obviously lolll). As time has gone on, stories have come and gone, while One Piece persists. I think a lot of it for other manga has to do with the fact that no one wants to even try to compete with One Piece rn

[@ale1997co]

Stoooooop saying 30 years! I'm from 97 as well... I'm 27. 27! Not 30. Stop aging me brother.

[@jayzeeiy]

lmao

[@Pateckharu3]

Oda said that drawing One Piece was his dream come true... so, he must be so happy doing the work... without quitting. One Piece is his life.

[@BARRELGOD]

Of course there won't be, just imagine your manga staying relevant for over 2 decades 🔥🔥🔥

[@thedoctor3528]

And staying great even after 25 years

[@TuskyBaby]

Araki moment

[@YoyMcFroy]

By the end it'll probably be 30 years of One Piece. Hard to believe a weekly manga can be so good after so long.

[@milosuchihaserbiamc9083]

@@thedoctor3528 Timeskip did fall off in quality a lot tho

[@Moe_Posting_Chad]

@@milosuchihaserbiamc9083 You're wrong though. If anything it got better, but you as a weekly reader felt jarred and threatened by change. Its okay. You can just say that next time.

[@YoyMcFroy]

There will never be another Morj like Mr.

[@ArchanTulpule]

Awww hell naw so we not gonna talk about how bro just violated all of us for that sponsorship

[@gman8477]

20 mins of Morj glazing One Piece? ....I'm all for it 😂❤

[@eomcello]

that last line about how we are all experiencing something that won’t be repeated in human history sent chills down my spine. videos like these are such a tribute to this incredible series, and for me they’re a big facet of why the world of one piece is larger and more complex than other stories - the community’s predictions, analyses, and discourse give it a three dimensional life that goes way beyond the written page. and here we are, living in that world. what a privilege.

[@thedoctor3528]

Leaving comment for the algorithm because i want this video to blow up

[@floriandolder8111]

Pretty based of you

[@thedoctor3528]

​@floriandolder8111 i try to help morj and op haha

[@TheZaxcan]

An epic: it's fitting with the likes of the Odyssey, with ships, island hopping, weird creatures, gods and all. With the messages and philosophies in One Piece I hope it does get that kind of status one day

[@FelipeFrotaBass]

morj, gotta say this is one of my favorite videos ever! I think about this precious thing all the time and you put it into words greatly, OP is just the GOAT! Praised be the ones who got to apreciate it !

[@brolybsavage]

Morj this video reminded why I originally followed years ago, you’re able to highlight the genius of Oda and the greatness of One Piece.

[@phillydam]

I’d say in terms of scale, the only other manga that’s close to One Piece is HxH. The Dark Continent was really leading up to be an epic saga.

[@thedoctor3528]

Potential and realizing that potential are two different things. This is like if we considered One Pieces scale to be huge just by hearing if the grand line and never exploring it

[@floriandolder8111]

All that we now need is an actual storyline that takes place on the Dark Continent and fleshes it out a lot. Going by the current pace that should only take 50 years.

[@nathanlevesque7812]

'Epic' doesn't just mean big, and it isn't comedy compatible (explicitly defined as dignified). Having 1000 chapters of accumulation doesn't make the worldbuilding uniquely deep. FMA is more densely packed with interconnected layers. Pacing is kind of an arbitrary frame of reference when 1 day is 200 chapters.

[@Desmond_Video_Discussions]

This was a fabulous video Morj, makes me excited for the Wano analysis video to come

[@jannecapelle_art]

i mean its really really crazy how this story has been going for more than a quarter-century and STILL every new arc people say "this is peak". which is fair - ever since reading/watching it in the mid/late 2000s, water 7 has always been my nr 1 favourite arc. always. but now, finally, almost 20 years later, egghead finally toppled w7 as my favourite arc.

[@MylesB93-]

Did this mf just say I stink???

[@souljemexpress5609]

You can easily use TV tropes to break down One Piece as a: Ocean Punk, Adventure-friendly, action, gunpowder fantasy with a "wooden ships and iron men" backdrop, with enough "anachronism stew" and bathos surreal humor. Knowing all that, saying there will never be another epic like One Piece is both correct and false, there won't be a story EXACTLY, like One Piece, because every "world-builder" and creator have their own flare and tastes, that not everybody will blatanly rip-off each other (unless Tolkein), but there are enough creative storytellers out there that the future of storytelling is not as predictable as most say it is

[@TheRockerX]

It definitely won't happen in the manga medium. That era is over

[@markernest3775]

so now those silhouette obsession by ODA makes sense and the Dragon infamous 3 dots reaction.

[@juanmarodriguez6010]

The whole One For All vs All For One plot of Boku no Hero is literally the inherited will of one piece.

[@user-kv6jh8gd8p]

I always tell people One Piece is the modern day Lord of the Rings.

[@mrlion8834]

Love the line up of the 4 laugh tale locations and your point of all four factors coming together.

[@rezoannur2333]

I feel like Toriko was the 1st manga to try to replicate One Piece's style. There's some obvious influence there: One Piece = GOD ingredient, New World = Gourmet World, Roger = Acacia, Golden Age of Piracy = Gourmet Age. Also, Oda adding more and more characters isn't always a good thing. It sometimes leads to overstuffed arcs where there's a lack of focus and a lot of meandaring.

[@j3nki541]

Imo only true in Wano where he rushed to the ending and some plot lines weren't fully realized. Otherwise he manages his massive cast quite well. Reading week to week it can feel pretty awful, since it becomes so difficult to remember them all and stuff, but on reread stuff usually functions really well. The smaller cast that we're having on Egghead rn feels a lot better week to week tho.

[@rezoannur2333]

@@j3nki541 It's still a problem in arcs like Punk Hazard, Dressrosa and even WCI. What did the Yeti Cool Brothers add? Oda introducing numerous children of Big Mom in the end when most are inconsequential and will never get proper development.

[@sohailsadaqat6684]

Agreed on Toriko. But I was disappointed by gourmet world and how fast it was rushed.

[@invi022]

All time great Morj video

[@qlitch]

My reply to this video is Kingdom, respectfully

[@gokukakarot5246]

Ive always felt this way, thank you morj.

[@tomlion0116]

I started watching One Piece 13 years ago in late 2011. I was only 17 years old. Since the episode 536 Zoro vs Hody I watch it weekly. Now I am 30 and can't believe that in a few years this series will end.

[@coolguitarchannel]

Every One Piece fan should watch this, as well as every other video you make.

[@f1recharge854]

I joined OP weekly manga ride only 1.5 years ago & with every weekly chapter, I am grateful to be a One Piece reader, regardless of how hype or how slow the chapter is, who knows when this will be snatched, so better be grateful to GOD(A)

[@Slampty]

What a limited view, it's amazing but you just surpressed the future.

[@Maxvr9999]

Imagine Luffy wakes up from a dream. He is still on the roof top and he has yet to defeat Kaido. He goes for it, however the raid will fail.

[@erickpacas5409]

If One Piece ends up good, I believe the only way a story like this will be ever published is if Oda himself endorses it. Like the autor reched Oda and explained his ideas and then Oda himself convinces the Magazines to have patietence.

[@bmoney3837]

or the world reset

[@fuegofuegoss]

thanks for this video, morj

[@baructort]

one manga i felt had the potential to go far was “hunters guild: red hood”, but of course, a couple chapters in they axed it and forced the ending to come far too prematurely with nearly no setup. it really was a shame because while i read it i felt “this adventure could last forever”

[@TheRockerX]

I read that one weekly at the time. I definitely got the opposite impression. After that first explosive chapter, it just didn't have the juice to sustain a longform narrative. Hence it's cancellation

[@emperorluffy6001]

Morj we need that One Piece story structure analysis video.

[@thedoctor3528]

I 2nd this

[@TheRockerX]

He's already done several of those. Go look through his earlier catalogue

[@emperorluffy6001]

@@TheRockerX No he promised a full version of that. He hasn't done it yet.

[@mohammedashiq783]

How did joyboy lost the war and how will luffy's going to win.... Here's a theory what makes the difference between luffy and joyboy?.... their powers are probably the same and the only difference that we could speculate their crew or allies. When the void century war happened there could be a stage when joyboy's allies must take a decision and may be they make a decision against joyboy (probably they tricked by imu or someone from 20 kingdoms) and that leads to joyboy's loss.they probably lacks of loyalty or belief towards joyboy or ancient kingdom.And after joyboy's loss they realised that they had been tricked and wronged joyboy.Maybe because of that zunisha and the giant robot apologising to joyboy. And like mihawk said the greatest strength of luffy is make people around him his allies.We all know the loyalty of luffy's crew.They all believe in him.like the void century war the decision making stage would repeat in the luffy vs world government war and luffy's allies will believe luffy unlike joyboy and make decision in favour of luffy.And that will lead to their victory.

[@Nosferatu011]

Great vid as usual.

[@onuti7692]

What a great time to be alive and enjoy this great adventure of One Piece. Awesome video.

[@MiTrOn]

That's it, Morj. You've put into words something I always think about and try to explain to those who ask me about One Piece. Today, I don't watch or read manga or anime like I used to. I just don't care as much as I did before. But I've continued with One Piece because I feel like we're witnessing something unique and possibly unrepeatable. I like football (soccer to you), and I feel blessed to have seen geniuses like Messi and Ronaldo at the same time, something that surely those who like tennis also feel. These things don't happen often in one's lifetime. I don't know how One Piece will end, but just for what it has given me so far, I am grateful to be able to experience week by week the work of a person whose genius will be difficult to replicate.

[@michaelscottfuku]

It’s a modern day illiad. We still talk about the illiad/The Odyssey today thousands of years later. One Piece will be like that. It will be talked about for hundreds and hopefully thousands of years into the future.

[@acarbonbasedlifeform70]

2:20 lululululululuLOOFAH SENPAI

[@masteratemu]

what an underaprecciated comment

[@thewhopper411]

The literary analysis is One Piece's Pirate King-level! Amazing Stuff!

[@doesntmatter5996]

11:11 2 emperors fighting was a pretty big event that early.

[@Coletto42]

You know... that was chapter 434, not early enough

[@PixelPikmin]

Im currently at chapter 230 of One Piece and I love it. The setting is phenomenal, devil fruit abilities are really unique, and that level of consistency and worldbuilding is insane. Every new crewmate is my favorite above the last. Reading something like Jjk is nauseating bc the pace is way too fast. Reading One Piece is something I can digest and can’t wait to catch up on.

[@bigbangpegasusmaster]

"Morj will go the Drizzt way if the raid fails" Morj:

[@TPShanks]

thats why we love morjy

[@thedoctor3528]

Thats why we like morj despite his flaws

[@royalfun1031]

Lrizzt

[@Atharvashete-ub1kg]

For me what make one Piece the best piece of fiction is that its theme in each and every arc and what its try to represent in each and every chapter

[@gdulheflljasduhdzccvm9926]

Wouldve loved more comparing between jojos vagabond and berserk since they are praised even more

[@nikgokuhil]

I am optimistic about the future, there will be someone who will surpass Oda one day, the next joyboy I would say that Togashi could've matched it in this era itself with HxH if his health wasnt bad. He has similar drive as Oda about including every type of thing in his story (we got stands, card games, isekai and so much more), his world and power system accommodates fantastical places and creatures. It has mystery, adventure, heartfelt moments But poor guy just cant write long term stories because he is writing each arc with intention of somehow managing to finish it and give it a proper ending. Each plot element relevant to arc is mostly introduced at beginning of arc and is more or less done with at the end of it

[@bmoney3837]

this gen wont be able to handle it with their attention span

[@ReddSquall]

2:15 Loofah? There was ... never such a thing in the first place.

[@friedbryce5777]

I would love for Morj to do a version of this video that's strictly for people who have never watched One Piece (for us who want to introduce more people to the series!). I feel like this is the perfect time to get on board with so much happening for the series and with us still not knowing what the One Piece is. Once that Pandora's Box is opened I feel like almost nobody will be able to watch again without it being spoiled so a video like this with no spoilers that captures the same energy would be awesome!

[@Somerandomoak]

Did Morj just roast me for using a loofah😭?

[@SMKurama]

14:17 literally the best way to describe Eichiro Oda and One Piece. The level of consistency with such a simple template yet complex enough to never be the same each time is a feat no one else will ever achieve.

[@lionyosef1818]

its as what people used to say " we will never see someone as good as Maradona" then 20 years later we got Messi, the same genius guy will come but not any time soon

[@und3rt3h1nfluence]

Dude! I have been making that comparison of One Piece to the Odyssey since like 2009! A truly modern epic that I hope gets taught to kids 20 years from now after it finally concludes, haha.

[@mistersureshot1749]

what can kids learn

[@und3rt3h1nfluence]

@@mistersureshot1749 Narrative structure, themes, character development, character philosophy, the competing ideologies between characters of the same faction or between factions, the value of one’s legacy (inherited will), found family vs. blood-related family, etc.

[@jonathanhutchins9718]

Wonderful video, my guy. Thank you for making such quality One Piece content! I've been watching your stuff for years and I'm always pleased with how thoughtful and in-depth your analysis is. I definitely feel like One Piece deserves to be thought about in this context. It's an Epic

[@RiotZen]

one thing I feel that you didn't mention is that most of the influence from plot that comes from one piece mostly had to do with stagnant main characters, despite it being one of tropes within shounen the only comparable stagnant main character in the face of anime legend history is goku, and saying that even then goku still developed throughout dragon ball and only became stagnant in dbz. molding the peoole around him is luffiest strongest points and his mind will not bend or break no matter what happens (besides that one time) and I feel like this is very prevalent in new gen mcs. deku, itadori, even someone like sakamoto feom sakamoto days all have an ideal that they influence others and gather others around them with. usually i would just sum it up to the character troping within the genre but, the way luffy does it is EXTREMELY childish and shounen mcs were atleast slightly more serious before luffy when it comes to their ideals, but after their ideals all seem to be childish. it went from things like protecting their friends to ensure the future of humanity and then luffys dream just turned people child like, imo. it's very selfish and allowed for morally amguity within the drama while still knowing that ultimately despite being selfish they're still mostly good guys.

[@TheGlenn777]

Working on a manga myself hoping to come close to this masterpiece. Keeps your eyes peeled gents, chapter 0 drops soon

[@ratedr7845]

what will it be called?

[@jofftiquez]

Me just trynna watch and enjoy a one piece video: Morj: you are smelly HAHHAAH

[@CornG4397]

Only issue with Oda's writting is that things can get too bloated, like with the buildup to vegapunks message was very infuriating

[@ratedr7845]

yh, it's one of those things that come with the madness

[@zf8496]

I agree with you on this one! also in the anime how they animate few or sometimes glimpses of chapters! very infuriating indeed!

[@royalfun1031]

Nah

[@bmoney3837]

you know we had so many breaks if you read egghead again its actually quick. one piece is better to binge than waiting weekly

[@versernal]

kid named Kagurabachi:

[@TheRockerX]

Kagurabachi is an adventure manga?