r/OnePiece • u/Kirosh2 Lookout • Dec 21 '23

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 1102 Spoiler

Chapter 1102: "The Life of Kuma"

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There is a break next week technically

Ch. 1102 Official Release (Mangaplus): 24/12/2023

Ch. 1103 Scan Release: ~30/12/2023

Please discuss the manga here and in the theory/discussion post. Any other post will be removed until 24h after the release.

Please also remember to put the chapter number in the title for any future post talking about this chapter.

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u/javierm885778 Dec 21 '23

I don't know why people keep thinking arcs will be that short lol.

Even Zou, without a big conflict in the present, was 23 chapters long.

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u/SunEmpressDivine Dec 21 '23

I think it’s the breaks that make everything feel longer. There are 52 weeks in a year, so even accounting for Jump’s Christmas and Golden Week breaks, if One Piece didn’t have one every 2-3 chapters then a 20 chapter arc would’ve been long over by now.

Also pre time skip long arcs were like, 60 chapters and not 100+ so Egghead so far is competitively short

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u/javierm885778 Dec 21 '23

I don't see how that's related to the length? I'm talking about people saying Egghead would be 20 chapters long, when that makes no sense with how Oda paces arcs since like Arabasta.

The rate at which the chapters come out doesn't change how long the arcs are.

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u/SunEmpressDivine Dec 21 '23

Oh I was adding my thoughts onto yours lol. Before the arc really started, people thought Egghead would be short, similar to Zou, Jaya, or LRLL. 20 chapters is short for a One Piece arc. It might just not feel like it week to week

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u/javierm885778 Dec 21 '23

Yeah, before it started it might have made sense.

But it quickly became clear it was a huge arc. It didn't have the features that made arcs like that short, the most important being how self contained the setting is.

Egghead started with Vegapunk, and quickly added Bonney. That alone meant it wasn't self contained, even more so when we found out Vegapunk was split into seven bodies. The introduction of the Seraphim and CP0 only made it more evident it would be long.

And I still see people saying we were close to the ending all over. When they said they were leaving people were saying it'd happen within 5 chapters lol. As usual, a lot of people really love underestimating how long arcs will be. Hell, during Zou I remember people saying the arc would end within 10 chapters since Jack had already left. And how to forget people saying the raid was near its end when Luffy got to the roof in chapter 1000.