If you want to stay in the illusion that One Piece is the best of greatest animes of all times, let it go, dont read my review.
If you wanna know why the series is saturated already, keep reading at your own risk, you have been warned:
1- No ONE. EVER. DIES. - It doesn't matter what is happening, if it is a bullet, cannon ball, knife, sword, atomic bomb, war, no one in the series ever dies, Oda only gives you the illusion that the character died to show moments later that everyone is ok.
2- Flashback Kills - This one is contraditory to my first argument, but to dont say that oda never kills, he'll enjoy doing that in flashbacks, in the actual arc be relaxed, no one will die, but in flashbacks? be sure that someone will die.
3- "Hey, Ace and White Beard Died" - Yes my Friend, and he made an entire arc for that to happen and who else died without being in a flashback, entire wars and civil wars happened, where EVERYONE got just bruises and scars...
4- Civil Wars : EVERY ISLAND, EVERY SINGLE INSLAND, they face a civil war, one way or another, the population of the island fight, it doesnt matter the reason, they'll just fight.
5- Random Mystery to be solved: Oda tends to throw mysteries around the series, just to solve them 100 chapters later, but it is not like lost, he doesnt give you hints about it, he just throw the mystery, and throw what it means, simple as that, but if you wanna know, keep watching for the next 2 years.
6- Moar Boobs: By the past years, the female boobs is just increasing, while his creativity is diminishing. He is basically throwing random fan-service to keep audience.
7- Hidden Royal Familly Seeking Something: Somehow the Crew will reach an island, and if that island have a monarchy, be sure that the king is overthrown and they will meet the princess and the king in coincidencial circunstances.
8- Secret Organizations: I lost the count how many shady characters and secret organizations appeared, they are always the all powerfull, just to appear another one more all powerfull than before.
9- Epic Moments: At the end of each arc, Oda tends to do something unexpected, and THAT where is his MASTER TRAP is, every arc, usually ends with luffy or someone from the crew doing something amazing or really unexpected, remember when I said about Ace and White Beard Death? That is Shocking, happened at the end of the arc, Goind Merry Being Burned? End of The Arc, Luffy Burning the Marine Flag? hum... And now that the trap is laid, the audience wants to see more, so he dont need to be deep, so shallow plots and characters are just enough, as long as he can keep giving them what they want.
And that's basically his formulae, and it works pretty well, he doesn't change it, people like repetition, Fairy Tail is also a "success" so... if you give people simple fights with Power Ups never seen before, boobs floating, Epic Moments at the end, Rinse and repeat, success, One piece is doing that with maestry in his last years, Fairy Tail do that since the beggining, and Naruto do that Since the end of the Genin Tournament. This is Basically the Formuale of all those non ending series.
