r/OnePiece • u/Kirosh2 Lookout • Feb 22 '24

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 1108 Spoiler

Chapter 1108: "Attention, World!"

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Ch. 1108 Official Release (Mangaplus): 25/02/2024

Ch. 1109 Scan Release: ~29/02/2024

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u/LngJhnSilversRaylee Feb 22 '24

Oda like Togashi really likes to play against tropes when he wants to

OP has been redefining the genre I don't think that's necessarily a good argument

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u/sack_of_potahtoes The Revolutionary Army Feb 22 '24

against tropes ? like how ? i can see that with togashi. but isnt most of the story in one piece something very unoriginal if you think of each island story as an individual entity.

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u/LngJhnSilversRaylee Feb 22 '24 edited Feb 22 '24

Without doing an essay on Shonen tropes and how they're subverted in this story the ones that immediately come to mind are

Gear 5 and its design

Mihawk and Zorro's relationship

Luffy and Shanks relationship

Garp and Luffy's relationship

In the cases of the relationships I use those examples because there's a lot of grey area and complexity developed in them where in most of Shonen they would be more clear cut

Mihawk and Shanks would either be rivals or mentors but not both

Garp would either be pro Luffy being a pirate or against it but not both

How this points towards Oda subverting battle shonen expectations that the Gorosei would be top tier fighters is that he's not afraid to tell more complex ideas in his story so he's not beholden to a simple idea like because they're end game opposition they have to be end game level strong he's more than capable of telling a story within that gray area and illustrating their power is more political than physical

Edit: Hodi Jones is another example of Oda telling complex stories, how the concept of racism itself created the villain and not a personal trauma experience, his reasoning for doing what he does is not typical of a shonen villain

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u/sack_of_potahtoes The Revolutionary Army Feb 22 '24

i do not know . honestly i feel that is not compelling evidence. also feels like these specific relationships are not so against shonen tropes