User blog comment:Leek0421/Fairy Tail vs One Piece/@comment-3987368-20150813170330/@comment-3987368-20150813174322

Let's be honest, would you really have made this blog if I hadn't compared the two? You can claim you wouldn't have but I highly doubt it.

If I didn't say something, don't go saying that I did. You can write that I implied it or that you felt I feel that way but if I haven't said anything then don't say I did.

If you want more of what I feel Fairy Tail does better, I'd say that it has better romantic relationship development.

As to your point about not knowing where Fairy Tail is leading while we know where One Piece is leading, that is true but my statements were not about predictability, they were about the development. The story of One Piece works because it builds upon itself better. What happened in Skypiea was relevant in Dressrosa. What we found out about the world in Alabasta is referenced in Fishman Island. All of the above have not lost their relevance either, as we still have more of what needs to come and what we learned will turn up again. The story of One Piece itself may not be as appealing to some as the world of Fairy Tail but its structure is far more intricately and intelligently designed than Fairy Tail's.

Now, does Luffy act the same way he did in chapter one? Well his attitude is more or less the same but consider that his entire character was not designed in just one chapter. We came to know his character over the course of a several chapters. Ask yourself this in turn: if faced with a challenge, would Luffy act the same way in chapter 777 that he would have acted in 77? The answer is "most probably not" in my opinion, but that could change depending on the specifics of what is going on.

If you want my opinion on whether long backstories are necessary, my answer would be "usually but not always". However, when they are to be plot-relevant and involve long-time characters then I would say that they should be long. Making them long helps to flesh out the details and make the reader understand, rather than infer, the consequences, motivations and interests of the characters in question and how they came to be what they currently are from what they once were.