What
is super weird is KnY getting two back to back last two chapters because no series
ever has gotten them. You could make an argument Naruto did, but those were in the same issue, but no manga has gotten two back to back last two chapters in two different issues of WSJ. Also TIL Hokuto No Ken, Dr.Slump, Kinnikuman didn't get a CP for their final chapter.. And that Dr.Slump ended in Septemer of 1984 an Dragon Ball started in December of 1984... Crazy
The Jump you see today was manufactured two or so weeks ago (as is every Jump), Oda was probably told way in advance (maybe even a month or so ago) about OP getting LCP and said sure.
(Also remember that the delay was known to the general public in issue 20, we knew since April 8th-ish there was going to be a delay, so Jump staff probably already knew about this delay since the beginnings of April, perhaps even late March because an issue of WSJ takes around 1-2 weeks from the developing stages until it gets to stores.)
But then all this happened and Oda pretty much lost either all his assistants or some of them at the very least, and thus according to theory told the staff over at WSJ Japan he wouldn't be able to make the LCP for the Golden week issue (Which was changed from Double Issue to a single issue, issue 23).
And as I told you guys
it really shows in this One Piece chapter. Like it's not Togashi drawing sketch looking chapters in HxH but it's noticeable.
Some people have pointed out how busy most panels in One Piece are right? Well this week's panels were noticeably blank.. Not a lot of backgrounds or characters and
LOTS of close up to faces, almost like a rookie mangaka that only draws faces (or maybe a mangaka that was perhaps in a hurry trying not to miss a deadline with half his normal team or assistants or even working by himself?)..
Here's a comparison I made for the sea, just to give you an idea of how the chapters looks less polished than usual. Doesn't even the sea in this weeks chapters look kinda rough? Less polished? Well it's just a small sample of how unpolished this chapter looks next to the others.
I'm not disputing KnY having the last CP, or even LCP or even a full color as 101nemsesis said, it's deserving of all that and more.. But there's no doubt that lots of patterns were broken here, it's not one or two or three coincidences, is a lot of them.
This is the first time ever I felt something was weird while reading One Piece, the first time ever a manga in WSJ gets two back to back last chapters, and (don't know if its a first time too), but I don't think Mangaplus had had any other errors like this in the past?
I get your point guys, it's easier to just say that mangaplus just made a mistake, but when everything points out towards the same conclusion:
-KnY having two back to back final chapters (something no other series have ever had) even series that were more successful than it (DB and SD)
-Oda's chapter this week being sloppy in the art (No backgrounds stuff like that).
-Oda's letter of hiatus a couple days ago.
-Mangaplus's advertisement for One Piece LCP.
-One Piece not getting the LCP for a double issue (Not like it hasn't happened before, but it's weird, specially coupled with the fact of mangaplus's "error").
It kinda seems weird, lots of patterns being broken here, but whatever if I didn't open your mind to the possibility of this after all these arguments I guess you just don't want to see how all these although circumstantial points out to OP losing its LCP due to Oda losing some of its staff.
well some are haha
