a narrative device that is commonly used in the telling of epics or sagas. It allows the storyteller to quickly age characters or develop events without getting bogged down in irrelevant or uninteresting details. Though time is commonly fast-forwarded in small amounts, timeskips usually refer to periods of several years or decades, wherein a pronounced change can be measured against the same characters, such as a child becoming an adult.
For those of you reading the One Piece manga, and are up to speed with the current storyline I have a funny feeling that the One Piece manga will finally get a time skip; and I say finally because it appears to be the cool thing to do with most shonen anime (ie. Naruto, Dragon Ball, Claymore, Satan 666 ect.) Now this is not just a weird feeling that I have, but the mangaka of One Piece Eiichiro Oda has hinted about it in volume 0 and the Strong World movie art book.
Oda: And as far as something that will hold true for both the comic and the anime, this will be Luffy's last adventure as a 17 year-old. So this [movie] is something I want you to burn into your memories.
Interviewer: Whaaat!? You can't leave me with just that!
Oda: Nope, I can't say anything more than that now.
Interviewer: Whaaat!? You can't leave me with just that!
Oda: Nope, I can't say anything more than that now.
How does pertain to the story? Let’s find out, but be warned, spoilers ahoy!
Oda stated this was about the halfway point for the manga, so what better time than now to have a time skip. What do you think?
So this manga is going to go one for another 500 years?
I'm not to sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing for One Piece fans, but it sounds interesting.
I keep hearing about a time skip in One Piece, but I just can't buy that. The only purpose for a time skip is to have your hero mature and change in some sudden and drastic way. Goku grew up and matured much more. Right after that the series became Dragon Ball Z and the story seemed to be more about Gohan. In Naruto, Naruto stopped being such a screw up kid and became a matured hero admired by all.
Can you ever imagine One Piece not being about Luffy being a fun and lighthearted idiot? Luffy has been 17 for the past ten years now. Isn't it about time he reached a point of a birthday and became 18? That hardly seems drastic.
Also, Luffy has never shown to train for anything. Even the Gear Second and Gear Third moves just came out of nowhere. Sometime between being stuck between those building in Water 7 and on the train to Enies Lobby he came up with these drastic new techniques. He never had time to practice any of them.
What would really be the point of a drastic time skip? Is Luffy just going to hover at the Red Line? Yes, the crew has been scattered around most of the world. Luffy can't crew the ship himself to go after anyone. I'm not even sure the Thousand Sunny has the ability to cross the Calm Belt. Seems more likely they will find a way to reach him. Also all the crew have a piece of Rayleigh's Vivre Card. They know what direction to take to find him and the Thousand Sunny. Nami has the Vivre Card of Captain Lola's mother.
Robin was last seen with the Revolutionaries. She has a good opportunity to reach Luffy.
Man I wish the manga came out faster, now I wanna know.
Will there be a time skip? Probably. Will it be a 10 year type of thing? Eh... I dunno. I would enjoy it, though. I'll never understand why, but I love training arcs.
What if it's just a prank and all he means is that Luffy's going to have an 18th birthday?