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What anime has the best worldbuilding? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 10 months ago by darkguyman@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/anime@ani.social
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For me, it has to be HXH and One Piece. Are there any other shows that can compete with those two's worldbuilding?

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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

actually think One Piece worldbuilding is hilariously bad

Yeah, I'm not going to bother with the rest of your comment

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I mean, there is a lot that doesn't really make sense.

A simple example - the geography and navigation in one piece is just broken. Look at any map that exists and none of the way they travel seems logical (especially given all the crazy powers). Not to mention the inconsistency in how fast people can travel.

Its a fun show, but the rules/world change as the story needs it (a good example is shanks, who is both super strong yet losses an arm to save luffy as a child).

[–] darkguyman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I agree with you on how the world is inconsistent at times,

Tap for spoilerbut the Shanks example might be proven wrong in the coming chapters. A recent chapter hinted that Shanks might have lost his arm on purpose.

That's it; I won't go too far to defend its worldbuilding, but it's fun to watch regardless.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

SpoilerIf Lor D. Coast was strong enough to remove the mark of the Abyss from Shanks' arm, what does this mean for my base Luffy stonks?

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The biggest change that I loathe is the Void Century. The initial concept seemed too fantastical to be true. A 100 year chunk of history that has been cut out and scrubbed from the record? So there was contiguous history from before that, right?...right?

Spoilers for MangaElbaph has been good so far, but learning that actually there's a shitton of history from before the Void Century that has all been covered up, and actually it would be more correct to just call the Void Century the start of recorded modern history, was a huge let down. That's just Big Brother from 1984, it's not nearly as impressive that the WG was able to craft their own narrative when they were the only ones coming out of an apocalypse.

Oda's really big on rule of cool and having flashy setpieces in the moment, and that's fun. It's just a very disappointing world when there are so many examples of the audience being told one thing, only for the information to be changed later.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

That must be in some of the newer content, but yeah that sucks.

And yeah, it's definitely rule of cool, which is fine and lot of fun, but doesn't make for consistency/good world building.