One Piece: Is The Wano Country Arc Too Long?

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Wano Country is the most important arc in One Piece so far, with Oda slowly having built up to it for years. With the goal of taking down the Yonko Kaido and liberating Wano Country in the process, the Straw Hat Pirates allied with the Heart Pirates, the Samurai and Ninja of Wano, along with the Minks of Zou. Luffy formed an alliance with Trafalgar Law on Punk Hazard after the two-year timeskip and with time, Oda slowly moved towards Wano Country. Eventually, One Piece finally began the Wano Country arc in 2018 and nearly four years later, the arc is still ongoing.

Before the Wano Country arc, Dressrosa held the record for the most number of chapters in any One Piece arc at 102. So far, the Wano Country arc already consists of 138 chapters, however, it is far from done, and by the looks of it, the arc will certainly cross the 150-chapter mark. While most fans of One Piece have thoroughly enjoyed Wano, the question remains, is Wano unnecessarily wrong?

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One Piece's Wano Country arc is special in more ways than one. For one, Eiichiro Oda planned this arc before the timeskip even happened. In Thriller Bark, fans got to meet Ryuma, a Samurai from Wano Country. The famed blade Shusui was also introduced to the fans and the terror of Kaido in the New World was set up by Oda through Gecko Moria. Without a doubt, Oda planned for his arc meticulously and over a decade before it even began. As such, the intricacies of the Wano Country arc hold great value in the overall plot of the story.

But that's certainly not all. Wano's structure also plays a massive role in why the arc is as long as it is. Often, narratives in storytelling are known to follow the 3 Act structure, where the first act