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A thread on 5ch’s Nandemo Jikkyo G board blew up over longtime “One Piece” readers growing so fed up with the story that they’ve become so-called “backlash haters” (反転アンチ — fans turned critics while still reading). Posters piled on criticism of the story’s direction since the Elbaf and Wano arcs, with some arguing “the first half was great, but it lost all momentum once it dropped its foreshadowing,” while others blamed an editorial system that can’t rein in the author anymore. Others pushed back, saying “of course you complain if you’re still reading it” — so opinion in the thread never settled into one camp.
What people said
Put Mashirito (legendary Shueisha editor Kazuhiko Torishima) in charge of him.
Better than Nika-god anyway
No guts at all.
If they'd just dropped the minor foreshadowing once they got halfway round the Grand Line, wrapped up only the main plot threads, and ended it there, it would've been a masterpiece.
Yeah, it clearly went off the rails around the Shirahoshi arc.
Feels like they're testing just how far the "One Piece" brand alone can carry it.
Me (in denial): "It was just the Wano arc that sucked…"
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Everything since has sucked too
It's that same gut-punch as thinking a career .950 OPS player just hit a one-year slump, only to realize it was real decline and they never topped .800 again.
It's "Monkey" D. Luffy.
WHOOAAA!!!! 👁👁 *boiiing~*
Garp and Dragon are both Monkeys too, you know.
I don't get why they brought back the "Mito Komon" formula (a solve-it-in-one-episode period-drama setup) once they hit the New World
Elbaf was decent too, around the part where the murals start unlocking the world's mysteries — I think they should just ditch the battle-manga formula altogether.
If you cut the battle formula, what's even left of this manga…?
That overlaps hard with nanG users, which is why nanG's got so many true believers
Why can't manga fans manage that?
They keep reading and keep complaining nonstop.
I'm still reading it, so I'm allowed to complain
The real scum are the ones who don't even buy Jump or the tankobon and just bash it based on scanlated clips.
They make Garp and Sengoku's behavior look weird.
Letting the author just do whatever he wants from some point on is exactly how we got the current state of One Piece.
The Kaguya-sama editor basically said, "My job as editor is to let the mangaka write happily (i.e., do nothing)"
That's the thing
Manga gets boring because editorial quality has dropped
Back when Mashirito — who had no problem giving Toriyama blunt notes — was editor-in-chief, everything in Jump was good.
That part's fine though
He earned that lifestyle himself, so he's entitled to it.
This version looks way more interesting.
This one's way easier to read lol
This is hard to follow
Like that panel top-left
Looks like there's Luffy plus one more guy in there
Yeah, it really has to be Eiichiro Oda's actual art.
Guess "peak era" means something different to everyone.
There's no way Luffy even knows the word "Gear."
Honestly this one isn't even cool.
I've never seen a fight this cool in any other manga
Right now it doesn't connect to anything.
There was an analysis video that actually put that nagging feeling into words
Basically arguing the story's already strayed completely from the whole "find the One Piece" process, just like you're saying.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
One Piece began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997 and has run for nearly 30 years. As its readership has broadened over that time, this thread saw voices fondly recalling “the first half was great” clash with others harshly criticizing everything since the Elbaf arc. One point of debate is whether fans who keep complaining yet keep reading should be labeled “backlash haters,” or whether that’s simply an honest assessment of the work. Questions about the editorial system — specifically whether the editor assigned to the series can actually rein in the author’s direction — came up repeatedly too, with some posters contrasting it against past editor-author relationships. That said, the thread’s comments alone don’t reveal any actual shift in sales or popularity — this remains discussion built on impressions circulating on 5ch, so it’s worth reading with that caveat in mind.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “[Sad News] One Piece Fans Keep Turning Into Backlash Haters, One After Another wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww“.
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