Comments on: How’s That Supposed to Work?

By: ManTwoGa

ManTwoGa — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:11:19 +0000

Agreed with the previous commentors, they shouldn’t ruin the manga reading pleasure by cramming it into us (us English readers, that is) just so people can watch One Piece nonchalantly via anime… show a little respect, eh?

I agree, even for One Piece fans, 21 volumes over just a few months is asking a lot. Let’s just hope the readers still enjoy the series…

By: Lori Henderson

Lori Henderson — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:45:18 +0000

I initially thought that too, but that’s just stupid. I mean, I listened to an audiobook that was 16 volumes ahead of the last one I’d read. I didn’t know it at the time I got it, but I was completely lost through most of the story, wondering who the characters were and what was going on. The same is going to happen with One Piece if they try do that. It will ruin the reading experience of the paying readers just to try and get some of the non-paying readers to stop. And it won’t work. DRM/deterrents aren’t supposed to punish the people doing things legally, but that’s just what they end up doing, which is why I’m against DRM, or stunts like this.

If this is the direction they wanted to go with One Piece, then they should have done a jump with it like they did Naruto. This won’t fix anything.

By: Lissa

Lissa — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:22:03 +0000

When I read the press release I assumed that the new chapters would be running in Shonen Jump here but the graphic novels would remain on the same schedule. I see the simultaneous releases as an illegal scans deterrant more than a goal for the graphic novels to reach. That was my initial understanding anyway. A 32 volume jump would be pretty epic by any standards, wow o.O I’m not a One Piece fan and never knew the series was that long in Japan currently.