User blog comment:Leek0421/Fairy Tail vs One Piece/@comment-5268982-20150820181602/@comment-4829046-20150821133620

But that's how One Piece rolls you see. It mixes the lighthearted with the serious themes(so that kids won't get too disturbed). Some have shown their distaste for it, but that was how it always was and represents the genre itself. Oda never compromised his formula.

You seem to be missing the main bit. We see how people are treated like dirt by other similar people. You have characters straight up brutalize a father in front of his children and even worse. You hear various normal people comment on their home situation and their care for their loved ones. Those characters are just fodder too and some aren't even drawn. And it isn't really the focus either, just a look at the merciless world. True enough, their plight is resolved within a number of chapters and we forget about them, but at least we are in the moment during the particular section. That's the strong point of the series after all; World-building and setting highlight. It's also why the pacing suffers though.

I may want One Piece to crash and burn, but I have continuously praised it more than Naruto, Bleach and FT for being true to itself. One thing both FT and OP share however, is the need to end soon. Yet, I'll be supportive and give OP the credit and allow it to end at 1000 exactly, but that's it. If it ends sooner than that, by god, I'll go and worship Oda and buy all the volumes directly from the store without going through English release. Fairy Tail though, despite aiming to buy all the volumes regardless, I want to see it end with the Alvarez arc. Length of the arc doesn't matter as long as it is the final.