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One Pieceis an absolutely massive manga that fans know features a ton of exciting developments each week. Being a shonen story, it is no surprise to know thatOne Piecehas many exciting battles for the fans to witness week-in week-out.
However, one big complaint quite a lot of the fans have had withOne Pieceover the years is that Oda often skips over small battles completely and just shows the aftermath instead. Often, fans blame Oda for off-screening a fight and while it is true that he does do it often, Oda has a big reason for it that he’s revealed already in the past.
Oda Struggles To Fit His Ideas In 17 Pages
The biggest reason why Oda offscreens a lot of stuff inOne Piece, especially some fights, is simply because he cannot cram his manuscript into 17 Pages. Jump has a limit on how many pages one can publish each week with a chapter and there is absolutely no way that they will allow for longer chapters to be published. One Piece has to fit within 17-18 pages every week and that’s what Oda tries to do. His job is to cram whatever he thinks will happen next in those 17-18 pages, and make do somehow.If it were up to Oda, he’d have more pages in his chapters where things would be more fleshed out. Here’s what Oda said about this back in 2021:
If I’m allowed to draw 30 pages each week, I’ll soon finish submitting my manuscript. — Eiichiro Oda
As is clear from Oda’s own message, he would ideally want to draw and submit 30 pages per chapter every week and it is the fact that he has to cram his ideas into 17-page chapters that annoys him. According to Oda’s before, Oda spends a lot of time deciding how to fit his ideas into 17 pages. If Oda draws the manuscript for 30-page chapters, then, perhaps he’d actually save more time by submitting 30-page chapters instead of 17-page ones. In fact, fans would love it too, but Jump doesn’t work that way, unfortunately. Oda has to always fit his ideas into 17-page chapters.
Oda Only Draws The Most Important Battles To The Fullest
Cuts Have To Be Made Here And There
Naturally, if Oda usually draws 30-page drafts for his manga, he would then have to cut out some stuff to make it fit in 17 pages. Undoubtedly, to Oda, plot developments are the most important, which is why the fights in One Piece get skipped over at some points. Of course, these fights are certainly smaller in scale as allthe big fights get their own focus from Oda, as seen in Wano.
As long as I’m alive, there are infinite chances. — Luffy
Oda makes whatever cuts he deems necessaryand that’s the version of the chapter that gets published. Fans, unaware of this, often criticizeOne Pieceover this, but at the end of the day, if it was up to Oda, One Piece would be far more detailed and elaborate than fans know it to be.
One Piece chapter 1146 will be out very soon, later this week. As usual, One Piece is going to drop on the upcoming Sunday. In Japan, One Piece drops at 12AM JST on Monday. However, the vast majority of international readers will see the chapter available on April 20. The official release date of One Piece Chapter 1146 is Aug 01, 2025. Fans can read the chapter for free onManga Plus.
