Eiichiro Oda's Advice

[Aykay]

That's actually really interesting. Different things inspire people in different ways.

[Kelheor]

People saw 5 most popular shounen mangakas ever judging the contest, no wonder everyone went to draw their shounen

[Aykay]

I get the impulse and there's a level of flatter there. But everyone who does that might inadvertently be setting themselves up for much harsher criticism.

[DiegoPalacios]

Originality is not creating from nothing, is giving your own personal touch to your creations.

[domisotto]

That's window dressing though. The originality is "Oh, hell, I have never/almost never seen anything like that, and I am a fan of the genre." It also tends to start spin-offs when successful. Or it is a new idea that a bunch of creators grab, then only one pulls ahead with it, the rest left in the dust.

[mikeampao1]

Oda was started to be different that's why he is standing out. Making originality wasn't easy and it is underappreciated that's why you see thousands of Romance or LGBT comic clones are the most safest way to success in entire webcomics, It's a sad reality but Oda is really wanted to give appreciation to those who are not scared to create originality even if it can't appreciate to everyone

[mikeampao1]

I participate on that contest too and i hope Oda will enjoy reading my comic even if i can't win. My 54 pages of my comic was totally worth it

[Jenny-Toons]

You can still be original with a non-original idea.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. The sooner people understand that, the better. Execution always matters -- if you can make that idea exciting, that's what draws people in. Whether or not they've seen it before becomes second when they like the story for what it is. I've read many stories with similar premises -- their executions still made me come back for more.

Oda isn't the first to do the "band of misfits come together to go on an adventure", and he won't be the last -- but his execution was enough to draw people's attention and have them love his work.

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Which one was yours? Did you upload it already?

[MrOwl]

Oda isn't the first to do the "band of misfits come together to go on an adventure"

Eiichiro Oda was obsessed with Vikings, and pirates when he was a kid. It started all with “Vicky The Viking”.

Fun Fact: Luffy is inspired by Goku. And, Goku is inspired by the Monkey King.

[Aykay]

Sun Goku, that's why he had a tail and power pole like the monkey. Toriyama didnt orginally decide Goku was an alien until around the sayian saga.

[HGohwell]

It's a sad reality but Oda is really wanted to give appreciation to those who are not scared to create originality

I said it makes sense now I know it's a competition but that it's not good day to day advice and I stand by it. Competition and day to day are different things. For a start, competitions rely on now, day to day these comics can go on for years so whats popular now won't be what's popular later, there's a lot more leeway there. Telling people not to do something just because something similar has been done before or because something similar is popular is terrible advice day to day and takes away the individuality and originality that individual creators bring to things. You and I could both get the same prompt and plot line and characters and produce wildly different things. Originality in day to day work is not just "no one has ever thought of this before" it's putting your own spin on things and knowing that you are what makes your work unique.

[MrOwl]

Toriyama didnt orginally decide Goku was an alien until around the sayian saga.

Toriyama is a Superman fan (or hater idk) Goku's backstory as an alien, home planet destroyed, etc is because of that, but his first superman homage came even before that, his other manga that came before Dragon Ball had a character named "Supaman." and the character was clearly a parody of Superman.

[Kelheor]

Telling people not to do something just because something similar has been done before or because something similar is popular is terrible advice

otherwise it would be only 1 shounen manga and oops, it won't be Oda's

[Aykay]

Well there's an example of taking something similar and doing it wildly different.

[MrOwl]

Well there's an example of taking something similar and doing it wildly different.

Yeah, Dragon Ball is Journey to the West + Jackie Chan Movies + Superman, I know that combination for a fact, that's the secret imo, instead of ripping-off 1 story, he combined/remixed different stories that he like/d.

[Aykay]

An inspiration domino effect.

[MrOwl]

An inspiration domino effect.

Yup, that effect is kinda funny, modern anime and manga only exists because Osamu Tezuka loved Disney, Japanese Theater and guess what? Superman!!! (Astro Boy is Pinochio + Superman) and Superman only exists because of Hercules/Heracles and so on, everything is a remix.

[Aykay]

There's the whole Greek writing thing about the 7 or 12 story archetypes and everything else just being a remix. Like revenge, journey of self discover, love boy/girl meets X etc.

[MrOwl]

There's the whole Greek writing thing about the 7 or 12 story archetypes and everything else just being a remix. Like revenge, journey of self discover, love boy/girl meets X etc.

There's also this.