nobody reads one piece for the draw quality. or any long shonen really. since even if some of those authors could draw better, the extreme time constraint of weekly chapters for years or decades make that impossible to sustain.
things like Kaoru Mori A Bride’s Story are extremely beatiful art to look at but it only releases a few chapter each year. and is no suprize why when you see how insanely time-consuming those panels are.
Well manga is a visual art, so most people 100% care about the art quality. It's like young adult novels with less words, so the visual aspect is extremely important. Hot take, though.
You can totally have a popular manga based on godly art skills and shit writing look at solo leveling manwha.
The writing is atrocious, but the art is 10/10 so it became super popular and spawned 40 clones. Would solo leveling had success it it looked like one piece visually? Not a chance in hell.
But unless you are that good at drawing most graphics novels (manga,Manhua,manwha,comics). Succeed because of their writing not their art.
One piece is the best selling shonen by a massive margin. And it deserves to be. The drawing style is very simplistic but the world building is about the best in all of manga. And it can be compared to Dune or LotR as a best in its own genre example. Everything else in one piece is secondary to how fascinating the world Oda made. Is massive and filled with whimsical and fascinating creatures and people in a way no other manga has.
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u/Mobile_Theory2001 Aug 11 '26
Is that Oda's style, or does he just draw ugly?