I keep forgetting Oda has hyper realism in him because OP has become his life. I truly hope he can end the series the way he wants and take a nice break. One of worlds most imaginative creators.
I heard after the series end , he want to make a manga about robots like the Franky shogun , i just hope he take atleast 2 years rest before starting again
@@RedLogicYT yeah but he's been having health problems due to overworking himself, to the point that his editors FORCED him to take more than the regular holiday breaks mangaka get. In an industry infamous for overworking creators to the bone, that's a big deal.
One thing I would like more people to understand is that drawing realistically and drawing stylised/cartoonish are two very different skills. Someone who is good at realism and can't draw a comic would still be a good artist. Similarly I think mangakas shouldn't have to draw realistically or painterly to be conisdered great artists
This is especially true because the art style matches the story so well. One Piece would be a completely different story if Oda chose to draw the whole thing realistically.
Oda can draw realistically, he just havr choosen dowing one piece cartoon Style, if you see the before drawing of oda he can draw very perfeclty in a realistacally style
Didn't oda say he improved his personal life? He sleeps and eats better and he even started doing some exercise to keep his body in good shape. Oda has been taking weeks off for his own personal life so instead of releasing 48 chapters a year he skips some weeks and ends up releasing around 40 chapters a year
I hope so. One Piece is my favorite -anime- story of all time, but if Oda overworks himself to the pint where he can't finish it (like some other magaka...) it would be tragic.
Its amazing how in so many anime and manga, their gag expressions aren't actually what they look like in-universe, but in One Piece, every time their jaws unhinge, or their eyes pop out, or anything, its physically happening in that world. It's such an amazing style that feels so cartoony yet perfectly tangible in every panel.
@@tonydai782 oh yea lmao, reminds me of when Sanji's nosebleed actually played into the arc's plot and themes. I love how cartoon logic is just part how that world works, so rare to see outside of western cartoons
i do love how much more unique expressions oda gives characters in the recent few years chapters, it makes them soo much more funny than going with the usual "face faults" of manga/anime to convey extreme reactions/emotions
It makes complete sense that he is so talented at realistic artwork. You can't make believably unrealistic art without knowing exactly what realism rules to break and how to break them. It is also mind-boggling how talented Oda is as an artist and a writer. I am just so grateful that his genius was allowed to shine and be shared with the world.
been waiting on this one!! edit: while it’s true that oda’s assistants draw the backgrounds, it’s been said that oda draws everything in motion (ie. clouds, trees, water, smoke, characters, etc) as well as all of the color spreads :)
One Piece's evolution is like watching your sibling or best friend age. You never really realize how much they've changed until you look back at a picture or, in this case, a volume from 5, 10, even 20 years ago. Ever since I've started watching/reading One Piece, it's like the story has been with me throughout all those years. I can't imagine the day when it ends and we can all look back at it's spectacular history One Piece has left behind. What an amazing story, and a fantastic video to go along with it!
it's more depressing than anything, the amount of pointless panels, confusing layouts, and zombie hordes of text constantly increasing more and more just watching as he slowly but surely completely destroys everything good about the series he dedicated half his life to
Not only is Oda one of the greatest character designers, but his COLORING ability and mastery of palettes is second to none. Only Tite Kubo comes close, able to make creative and vibrant characters in a more serious style, but Oda's style that is more cartoonish actually allows for MORE creativity. A world with Katakuri also has Wadasume. A world with Big Mom also has King. Such a good balance of dark and bright, cartoonish and serious.
If there's one thing about One Piece that I find tends to be pretty underappreciated is the art. One Piece's style and exaggeration has been such a massive influence on my own art up until now that it kind of saddens me when all I've heard from other people online about it's art are negatives and dislike. I could just be surrounded by specific people who don't find One Piece to be that appealing. And it's also not to say that it's objectively the best artstyle in any manga ever. I just wish to see more love for One Piece's art due to how influential it was to me and how much negativity I see when it comes to the style. Or anything about One Piece for that matter... I should probably surround myself with more people who actually like One Piece...
People just haven't spent time learning art and don't see when something is technically good or not, they see the detail and style, not the fundamental skill. One Piece has a more simplistic and different artstyle than your usual manga, so people will use that to suggest the art is bad, when it in reality is far from it from a technical standpoint. Like, people will say Kingdom has better art because it's a lot more detailed, but it's just strictly worse if you look at it based on perspective, proportions, composition, clarity, and form especially. If anyone thinks Kingdom is better drawn they're smoking crack is what I'm saying. Now if we're talking about Vagabond and the later part of Berserk, it's pretty safe to say that the art is much better from a technical standpoint, they have a lot of detail, but the detail is on top of very good fundamentals. Anatomy and proportions look correct, perspective is better, values make more sense and etc. People just have no clue.
I feel you bro. Tbh i haven't been into one piece for as long as many people here, but it has quickly become kind of my dream artstyle. All the bold designs and super exaggerated expressions are something i always wanted to incorporate more in my drawings, and One piece is the perfect example. Seeing people deem it as "ugly art" makes me very angry and sad, cuz not only it ignores all the love and skill put into it, it's kinda like saying the kind of art i aspire to make is bad too :( Ofc i won't (and can't) copy it, and I've already accepted i can't make stories and characters as great as Oda's, but I wish more people would stop saying simple/different = bad and appreciate it more.
Not many authors would dare to have a style like one piece and tell an serious amazing story. People saw him as a joke first but now he the one last laughing Goda
I think it comes just down to preferences. One Piece can have pretty cartoony and wildly exeragated character designs. If you are more of a fan of realistic and serious designs like Berserk, Gantz ect., you don't know alot about One Piece and see characters such as Gaimon, Alvida, Foxy, it'll be hard to convince you to give it a fair chance. Especially with that many episodes to go through.
This may sound very cheesy, but Oda's become a huge inspiration to me as an upcoming writer. Not in a sense of improving my drawing skills, but just to improve on my writing in general. It's funny looking back on 17 years worth of practice and seeing just how terrible many of my stories turned out, and it's because of people like Oda that I've taken steps to improve on my own works. I doubt any of my books will become as popular as Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings, or even the Percy Jackson series. But in all honesty, that doesn't matter to me. Giving others the opportunity to enter the worlds I've created and experience the adventures the characters go through is more than enough. In the end, I want to provide an out for those who may be going through tough times, or just want to shut off their brain and enjoy a fantastical tale.
@@Lean-vs5um I actually plan on making a FictionPress account to post rough drafts of my stories there. Mostly to gather feedback on what people like and dislike. :)
@Slapstick If you're interested my name on there is TheAnimeCreator1992, though I haven't posted anything yet. Currently typing out the prologue of the story atm. :)
@@turo_tcg I hope so too. I always pour my heart and soul into each work, but more importantly I always make sure it's something I'll enjoy writing instead of something trendy. :) Hope your next project goes well too!
6:46 Saying that early One Piece was paper animated or cell-animated is a common misconception. I've seen some behind-the-scenes stuff. And yes, even in 1999, and 2000, they were drawing digitally. They had these bulky, pressure-touch pads that reeked of Windows XP, but they did it. Once you realize this, it becomes extremely noticeable that old One Piece was not cell animated. There's no film shake, no film grain, no shadow underneath a character's cell. (There's sometimes interlacing or rainbow effects, but that's a product of CRT TVs, not cell animation.) The One Piece: Special Edition remasters are essentially really well-made upscales. There's no 16mm to do a new transfer with. The only thing in One Piece that's hand-drawn is the backgrounds. But from what I can tell, that's still being done today. The first few One Piece films were cell animated, as mentioned. But not the series itself.
The wano arc anime art style is fucking gorgeous. I remember when I was binging the whole series, and finally reached wano, I was absolutely mind blown at the difference in quality. Oda deserves all the fame and praise he gets. I wish he never had to work again but at the same time no one else could bring us what we've all fallen in love with. He is definitely one of the great legends of history and will not be forgotten, much like our historical shakespears, platos, and so on. People have always been searching for the answer to immortality, but we've had it all along, make great art that people fall in love with and inspires generation after generation in any way.
He doesn’t have to work again though. He has a net worth of 200 million dollars. So if he quit the manga now he would still be good for the rest of his life.
he's okay nothing amazing, his main downfall is trying to do everything himself his panel work, character design (somewhat) and ESPECIALLY writing are all sinking deeper and deeper into shit over time
@@fortnitesexmanbro he literally created best selling manga in the world he is one of the greatest author in the world. People will remember one piece for hundreds of years his legacy is big
@@LEGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA argumentum ad populum lemme just pull up a single example of his current writing, and lets have you try to defend it zoro refuses to properly fight a woman because he just can't bring himself to turn his blade on a woman, resulting in the endangerment of tashigi
Out of the Big 3 I've always been big fan of Tite Kubo's art style, specially during the near end of bleach. How clean his line art is and how makes the use of solid blacks on his panels is just so satisfying.
I remember how off put o was at first when I started One piece as a kid because I had already started reading Naruto, dragonball and bleach but oda’s artsy le really grew on me and before I knew it his art style had improved so much I forgot how awkward it looked to me at first
As for hajime no ippo, there’s been a huge change in art from the beginning to a thousand chapters later (literally) but if there was going to be some huge artist evolution we would have seen it already.
Could have mentioned Nobuhiro Watsuki in terms of inspirations since Oda worked as his assistant. Shaman King's Hiroyuki Takei also worked alongside Oda as Watsuki's assistant. Both Shaman King and One Piece share a lot of stylistic details with Rurouni Kenshin before they really found their own styles.
@@hon3stly_z615 Agreed, though if he does a "Shaman King" vid, he would probably mentioned that they worked together at one point as assistants for a big manga series from the mid 90s and would probably leave it at that. If he does go into more detail, he would probably put in a disclaimer saying that he is only explaining Takei's (and to a lesser extent Oda's) history, not praising Watsuki.
I somehow love the early One Piece art the most. There's something about it that makes it very special to me, as the style amazed me when i watched it for the first time. Same goes for Manga, i simply love the rubber-like look of characters, with hands and feet being so big compared to arms and legs. Maybe it has to do with my love of 90's Anime. I also noticed a trend that many late 90's shounen used somewhat cartoony look. Trigun, Jing the King of Bandits, Rave Master, Shaman King, early Naruto and One Piece, they all share some similarity with there being some militaristic-looking armor, some cowboy western feel, and characters looking very exagerrated and zany. I can also mention anime like CyberTeam in Akihabara, Saber Marionette J, Space Pirate Mito... There's something zany about late 90's anime that makes me love it a lot ^_^
I kinda prefer manga with a cartoony look than a realistic one, they feel a lot more alive, their emotions hit harder, and they can show us a world that only their mangaka can draw
I feel like it is very simple to see the talent and ability of Eiichiro Oda, even if you don't understand cartooning, by looking at his techniques and how he draws animals. He has some incredible detail and very accurate anatomy that you can often see maybe not in the stray alley cat or dog in the background, but often the monkey, giraffe, bird, whale, or lion on the cover page.
Am I the only one who questions the change of Luffy's head but can't put a finger on what it is? From what I can tell (at least in the anime) his eyebrows are missing the majority of time and are replaced by the outline of them through shadows, his face is rounder, and his hair doesn't follow the same formula as in the past. His appearance is supposed to be leaning towards a Brazilian, which is more apparent in how he first looked compared to his future appearance. Idk, I'm not sure if I have a problem with it now, but I liked it better before.
If it's already considered the best, imagine if Oda went Araki-style and started releasing one chapter a month or something. Never ever going to happen, but what if...?
I doubt we’ll get that. Breaks are the way they do things, because One Piece is way too big for Weekly Shonen Jump to transfer it to the monthly schedule
Ayyyy, new video, it's nice to see ya back, dude! I haven't read the whole of the One Piece manga (only volume 1), so i didn't know how much it changed. I also have never seen the realistic paintins he'd done before, they're insanely good! BTW, can i suggest ya do one of these videos on the evolution of the Tokyo Ghoul art by Sui Ishida, maybe?
I don't think any other anime has made me more excited or sad than One Piece. It makes me sleepy at times, but then I just take a break and then binge like 100 in a few days. Kinda sucks I am reaching the end though, well at least to a point where I will have to wait for more episodes.
Well, the thing that got me in to One Piece is its art style, I like that it is weird, surreal, exaggerated and colorful on its own way that it became its trademark and whenever I see a One Piece's colorspread the first thing that will be in my mind is adventure.
One thing about Oda… it takes a great artist who understands reality and form, to twist it so easily and have it be attractive. It’s harder to make a great caricature than it is to make a realistic drawing. Knowing what you can push, how far, what you want the viewer to feel… etc. those take a keen eye and skilled hand. People think of exaggerated art as somehow lesser or easier, but it’s absolutely a separate skill and one that requires a whole basis of knowledge in traditional art. Kinda like people saying a Vet isn’t a real doctor… they have to learn all of the same stuff about how a body works, how to fix it, medications, surgery… etc.. and then they need to learn even more to adapt it to multiple species… human doctors only need to know how to fix one type of hairless ape, but vets need to know how to set a broken leg on a dog, accurately medicate a massive horse, perform surgery on a snake and diagnose cancer in a birb! Caricature and exaggerated art is the same thing… you need to understand the body, anatomy, and proper traditional art so you can twist it and morph it so it makes sense! When we see Luffy all stretched out, fighting a huge character with bizarre proportions at some weird angle… it looks and feels right. We think… “oh damn! Cool! Kick his ass Luffy!” but we don’t think about how perspective and angles with a normal human form is hard enough but keeping the odd proportions accurate and recognizable at odd perspectives is just crazy difficult! Oda doesn’t hold back with the insane character designs either… so keeping them all accurate, on model, and instantly readable during all kinds of fights and scenes is a damn miracle!
No matter whether you like One Piece or not, Oda's work ethic is nothing short of monstrous... I have no idea how this man didn't completely destroy himself yet with how much he's working. Massive respect to one of the GOATS of the manga scene.
i mean, it's the reason he's facing health issues, so while it hasn't literally killed him it's definitely taking it's toll on him i have no idea why he doesn't just take a chill pill for a while and go at his own pace instead of rushing, resulting in the destruction of himself and the thing he's making i kinda just feel sorry for the dude, he deserves a full on team on his side helping him with everything, instead of what's actually going on, that being him going about it as if he's a one man army
and although i do think he's basically destroyed everything good about one piece at this point, i do still have massive respect for him taking on an impossible task practically all alone over the span of 2 decades, and yet he's still a functional man
It's funny that you point out that the staff usually draws the scenery while showing the big opening spread of Wano - because IIRC that one was mainly done by Oda personally, as he often does with big establishing shots. I like to imagine that his assistants constantly have to convince him to let them do stuff just so that he can actually get some sleep on any given day.
It's crazy how Oda, his staff, and Toei manage to make One Piece a pretty much weekly release. With all the bangers in manga and anime right now, it's pretty insane.
yeah, it's insane-ly stupid he's sacrificing everything good about one piece just so he can rush to the end of the story and get it all over with oh, and what bangers are you referring to? cause atm manga and especially anime is pretty dry when it comes to worthwhile stuff
@@fortnitesexmanBro first look at your username and pfp💀 Second it’s not stupid and the story is definetly not ”rushed” Like it’s already going on for 25 years or something how is that rushed? And the bangers are: The story, The characters, the personality’s, certain arcs and how you fell like your living through the adventure with them.
It is incredible to see odas more realistic artwork and still being able to clearly see one piece characters in them (or at least parts of them, and their mannerism. The one piece with the crying guy has such a similar expression to luffys expression when Ace died that in my head the picture automatically moved to that extreme.
I *MUCH* prefer the classic art style (pre-timeskip) I find it *a lot* more charming than post-timeskip, and is the first thing i think of about one piece. And it somehow feels nostalgic despite not growing up reading/watching One Piece.
Im currently reading one piece(I’m only at volume 14 but have 23 volumes😅) and before I read it I wanted to watch the anime and get to post timeskip because I thought it was much cooler. But now I think the pre timeskip art and character design is much more charming(especially Luffy)
Next evolution video: Psycho-Pass. Its a bit more left field than most but I would be interested to see your take on the dark themes and sci-fi cyberpunk aesthetic.
This is a great video; I'm tired of people calling Eiichiro Oda a bad artist. I don't care whether you dislike his style you can't look at me in the eye and tell he he's a bad 'artist'.
@@ChaosSwissroIl You are not actually making any valid arguments. Oda's art was and still is good. So stop harassing everyone in the comments about the art
@@ChaosSwissroIl Your supposed argument is "Oda bad because I don't like good artstyles". How about you grow up and actually get a good taste in art. Because it is obvious that you don't have that
@@ChaosSwissroIl I just binged the entire series for the first time very recently, and I didn't see a downgrade at all. The art is busier and it's a little more confusing to follow but the art itself is just as strong as ever, if not better. The first 200-300 chapters had a very simple style. You could see that as a good thing, but some could also see that as kind of boring. Some people don't want characters talking in an all-white background. Some people like very detailed panels. It's all about preference.
One Piece has the best characters design of all time next to HXH and Jojo yeah Naruto and Bleach look good but to me it just felt so limited and just focusing on looking cool and serious while One Piece you can have any character look badass cool goofy serious scary cute all at the same time it’s amazing
Agreed! Other manga series like JJK, MHA, Shaman King, Soul Eater, and Zatch Bell also have a great variety in character designs too! I guess what I'm trying to say is that I love it when a manga series has a decidedly cartoonish art style.
After you ask, I directly thought about "Hōseki no kuni" but I think it's not a good choice.... You can't show too much without spoiling the story and the plot twist.
The digital line filter wasn't used first on the Broly movie, it was in Tiger Mask a few years before. Also most animators still animate on paper, it's the composition what's more modern and high quality nowadays.
I wouldn't say the art (simply) got better... Oda was actually always a good draftsman. Some mangaka start with a low level (Beelzebub comes to mind). Oda was always good. Look at how he drew hands in the first few volumes. He already had a strong grasp of anatomy and perspective. The style evolved that's for sure. He became faster andmore efficient and was able to put more details before the deadline. There are things I like more in his earlier art (the more cartoony aspects) and things I love more now. Also, most artists actually can draw realistic pieces if they want too. Real life drawing is a key asect to improving as an artist. To be able to draw Luffy and Co, Oda first learnt how to draw realistic people.
OP and Oda has inspired me a lot throughout the years, I just bought a stylus tablet 2 weeks ago (With barely any experience in drawing) and I've just been grinding away at manga designs, I already have a shonen manga in the writings I just gotta get good enough to actually draw them now.
i definetly like the old style way more, it feels way more unique, the colours are really nice and warm, and all the characters look exactly how they should
Having only caught a few episodes of One Piece on tv as a kid, the manga art does look impressive. Still gives me archive panic, it would be an investment to read. Great video as usual, of course
Incredible video, very well crafted. Where can I get the oda illustrations? There are some that I thought were simply great, I would love to have them as a screen shot haha
