Originally posted by Q99
I should say, more characters that hang around.Naruto has five villages and the enemies, each with regular characters. All of the Konoha 11 and Taka/Hebi get revisited semi regularly, and likewise the Kage and villains.
Most of the OP characters are crew or get left behind as the voyages go on. So you've got a core group, and the rest cycles by.
Eh, perhaps. Then again, Oda does that ingenious thing of using the chapter covers to tell mini stories concerning past characters. And that's just friggen clever.
But yeah. Really the only character we flash back to often is Vivi, which is why she'll probably be joining the crew. And I like Vivi so yay.
Originally posted by Q99
Oda does have his lost century thing and ancient weapons, but we don't have enough info to make much guesses yet.On the other hand, we have a nice incomplete picture of what happened with Hashirama/Madara/Tobi etc.. We know a lot of stuff happened, and we know what some of it is, but we don't know how it all fits together.
Indeed. Kishi gives us just enough so we can make reasonable speculations but not enough that it takes away the mystery. Right now in One Piece, no one can reasonably guess what D. is based on what we have. One speculation was the D was a smile made by a : D face. lol
Tobi in particular is a good example. He happens to wear a mask and he happens to have a hole where his right eye can see and he happens to have been introduced shortly after the Kakashi Gaiden, where a character gave up only his left eye, and he happens to have a name suspiciously similar to that character.
Kishi loves a good red herring if nothing else. 😛