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That's why manga like One Piece have horrible pacing, you could tell by Dressrosa. After the timeskip the quality took a hit which was also when One Piece was peaking in popularity. One Piece is super popular in Japan and merchandise sells like hot cakes so shonen jump or whoever is probably making Oda drag it out longer than it needs to be.Jared1111 said:Kinda reminds me of the rumor for the Cell Saga where almost every choice Toriyama made was either vetoed or discouraged by his editor so he had to change the villain like 4 times just to satisfy them.
Manga creators certainly don't have much "freedom" as people like to pretend. Even the original DB I heard really didn't get much traction til the Tournament arc, and that's why almost every Shonen series has a forced Tournament arc to appease fans, or to get a series more publicity. Manga are merchandising machines and are often treated as such.