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One Piece Reader Burnout: Fans Want to Rename It 'One-Pattern'

「もうワンパターンに改名しろ」ワンピースに飽きた日本の読者たち

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One Piece Reader Burnout: Fans Want to Rename It 'One-Pattern'
“Honestly, just drop the "One Piece" name and rename it "One-Pattern" already.”

もうワンピースじゃなくてワンパターンっすに変えろよ

— @南南ナンカリー

One Piece has hit a wall with a vocal slice of its Japanese readership, and a Japanese commentary thread turned into a blunt referendum on where the series has gone. The most-liked reaction wanted to rename it outright — from "One Piece" to "One-Pattern." From there the recurring themes piled up: that the manga is now "too childish for adults but too gratuitously nasty for kids," that it has been stuck on the Celestial Dragons and the World Government for years with the pirate-adventure spirit long gone, and pointed jabs at Eiichiro Oda's creative fixations and his missing editor. Running underneath it all was a half-joking envy of Demon Slayer's clean, well-paced success — right up to a closing line comparing Oda to its author that the diehards will not enjoy. (This is the critical side of a two-part debate.)

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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 339)

  • At this point it's basically become "One-Pattern-Piece."

    今や「ワンパターンピース」と化しましたね

    — @RyohKigoshi4 likes

  • The real problem is that none of these developments connect to anything actually being interesting.

    問題はその展開が面白さに何一つ繋がってないこと

    — @k2k632114 likes

  • He's got so few tricks up his sleeve and just keeps recycling the same ones — his world must be really small.

    引き出し少ない癖に同じこと繰り返すあたり世界が狭いんだろうな

    — @すえぞー-o1e80 likes

  • Same pattern over and over, dead boring. Way too lazy. Reads like a total amateur.

    ワンパターンでクソつまらん もう安直すぎる 素人丸出し

    — @ひろきポッポ47 likes

  • I think the problem is simply that it isn't fun. Dragon Ball was one-pattern too, and it was still a blast.

    単純に面白くないのが問題なんじゃないかな。ドラゴンボールはワンパターンでも面白かったし。

    — @sat-90774 likes

  • Looking at the thumbnail — even the way they cry has become one-pattern now… Every single one of them is bawling, wailing. Tears that slip down a cheek despite someone biting their lip to hold them back — he used to draw that kind of thing too…

    サムネ見て思ったけど、泣き方すらワンパターンになったよな… どいつもこいつも号泣、慟哭。 唇を噛んで我慢しても堪え切れなかった涙が頬を伝うとか 昔はそういうのも描いてたじゃん…

    — @sin868014 likes

  • "Too childish for adults to read, too gratuitously nasty for kids to watch" — yeah, that really nails it. Guess you'd call it "for childish adults."

    大人が読むには幼稚すぎて子供が見るには露悪的すぎるは確かにそうだね 幼稚な大人向けと言った所か。

    — @鈴木土下座衛門-v4k293 likes

  • That's the most on-the-money comment I've read in a long time.

    ここ最近見たコメントで最も腑に落ちたわ

    — @めびうす092452 likes

  • A manga stuck at an eighth-grader's sensibility, where gratuitous shock, misery-porn, and dignity-destruction are treated as the peak of storytelling.

    露悪展開、鬱展開、尊厳破壊こそ至高みたいな中学二年生並の感性で止まっている漫画

    — @ナムルマン-b9j53 likes

  • The scary part is he seems to take "this isn't the kind of content for a shonen magazine" as a compliment — but the context is totally different from when people say that about Demon Slayer or Attack on Titan…

    少年誌で描く内容じゃないってのを褒め言葉だと思ってそうで怖い、鬼滅や進撃が言われてるのと文脈がなんか違うんよ…

    — @真柄游子41 likes

  • I saw it mocked somewhere as "an elementary schooler's doodle notebook" and it clicked — you honestly can't tell what age this is for anymore. The villains are cheap too, just cruel for cruelty's sake. Other series have wildly popular villains driving sales; lately you never hear that about this one.

    どこかで｢小学生の自由帳｣って揶揄されてるの見て合点がいったことで、もう対象年齢がわからんのよね。 悪役もただ残酷に見せるだけでチープ。 他作品だと人気ヴィランとかがいて売れてる一方、この漫画では昨今そういうのを聞かん。

    — @daikichi_banzai31 likes

  • It's been nothing but Celestial Dragons and the World Government for ages now — where did the actual pirate stuff go?

    もうずっと天竜人と世界政府ばっかり、海賊要素どこ行ったよ

    — @アルテラマン207 likes

  • For a bunch of pirates, they sure spend an absurd amount of time taking detours on land.

    海賊の癖に陸上で寄り道し過ぎやろ

    — @真っ白アザラシ31 likes

  • Why are the Celestial Dragons all cartoonishly evil (except a tiny handful of literal saints)? They aren't even individually strong, so why can no one defy them? The lack of any real explanation is just too much.

    天竜人がなぜ極悪人しかいない（のにごく一部の例外は聖人）のか、個々の戦闘力は高くないのになぜ誰も逆らえないのかなど描写不足が過ぎる

    — @PB-cv4cx33 likes

  • The Celestial Dragons — Im included — are themselves a later addition, so making them the final boss turns it into a completely different manga from what was originally planned.

    天竜人（イム含む）自体が後付けの存在なのにそこをラスボスにしちゃうと当初の想定とは別物の漫画になるよね

    — @KOWLOON198318 likes

  • The Celestial Dragons ARE the author himself.

    天竜人はこの作者自身だよ

    — @朝倉-v9t148 likes

  • This is where you end up once the editor who used to actually think up the story is gone.

    話考えてくれる担当編集がいなくなった末路

    — @JasonSilver00883 likes

  • Shonen manga author: "Gotta get the pretty ones pregnant~" Oda's hang-up is way too creepy.

    少年漫画家「美人は孕ますえ〜」 尾田のコンプキモすぎ

    — @rta7273213 likes

  • Netorare and cuckoo-parentage plots are top-tier stomach-churning even in porn manga — I can't believe he looked at that and decided, sure, let's put this in a shonen title.

    寝取られ托卵とかエロ漫画ですら胸糞トップレベルやのによく少年漫画で描こうと思えたな。

    — @ひこ-x3v62 likes

  • He must have one massive complex about how big Demon Slayer got lol 😂

    よっぽど鬼滅ヒットがコンプだったんやろな😂

    — @遊TUBE_i155 likes

  • If he's copying Demon Slayer out of a complex, isn't that basically admitting he's lost…? I mean, he has already lost, but still.

    鬼滅コンプで鬼滅の真似してたら負け認めてるようなもんじゃないですか……負けてんだけどさ

    — @槙田公一67 likes

  • Calling it "aping Demon Slayer" is honestly rude… to Demon Slayer.

    鬼滅の真似事って言い方は流石に失礼やろ 鬼滅に

    — @かいわれ-d3g19 likes

  • He should genuinely take notes from Demon Slayer, which ran through Hantengu's backstory, then Akaza's, then Nakime's, one after another.

    本当に反天狗の過去からの猗窩座の過去からの鳴女の過去をやった鬼滅を見習って欲しい

    — @限界社会人浅倉とおらない61 likes

  • Watching Demon Slayer and My Hero Academia, you realize that "I don't want it to end" is, in a way, the absolute best moment to actually end.

    鬼滅とかヒロアカとか見てるとおわってほしくないってのがある意味一番終わるタイミングとしては最高なんだなって思う

    — @vecter145232 likes

  • It's sad watching it go from a manga for teens and young adults into a manga made purely for the diehards.

    少年、青年向け漫画から信者向け漫画になるなんて悲しいな

    — @sekaowa74263 likes

  • Oden-kun 🍢, you're just never going to become Gotōge-sensei 🐊.

    おでん🍢君、君はワニ🐊先生のようにはなれないんだよ

    — @tkas585962 likes
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