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One Piece and Fairy Tail are both incredibly popular shonen series with huge fanbases. Over the years, there have sầu been plenty of theories about the intertextual connections between the two works, and one primary piece of evidence that fans think they"ve found relates khổng lồ two of the respective sầu franchise"s most powerful characters: Shanks from One Piece and Gildarts from Fairy Tail.
At first glance, the character designs already look similar enough. Both have wavy red(ish) hair, beards, capes, and most importantly, they both carry a similar disability from past battles. Shanks lost his left arm when saving Luffy from a Sea King, while Gildarts lost his left arm & leg during his battle with The Dragon King Acnologia. But Gildarts usually wears prosthetics while Shanks does not. Besides appearances, the characters even cốt truyện pretty similar personalities. Both are relatively easy-going, and while they do not like lớn harm others they can absolutely dominate during a fight. They are also well-respected by their peers and can be good leaders without resorting to controlling tactics. Moreover, they are both amuốn the most powerful characters within their respective series & serve sầu as a mentor to the protagonists.
With all these unavoidable similarities in mind, it is only natural for fans khổng lồ speculate about the relationship between their creators, One Piece"s Eiichiro Oda and Fairy Tail"s Hiro Mashima. Some suspect some purposeful or incidental copying by Mashima, since Gildarts debuted in 2009, while Shanks was introduced in 1997 in Chapter #1 of One Piece. But there are enough differences between the two series, such as different power systems, and the characters themselves -- like the fact that Gildarts and his daughter Cana"s relationship is one of the character"s most defining traits -- khổng lồ mix them apart.
Besides, Oda & Mashima have sầu a similar art style, so the evidence is not svào enough to lớn warrant the copying claim (whether intentional or not) by thiết kế alone. There are even some that think Odomain authority & Mashima are brothers, or that they are actually the same person using different names. But given the rigorous schedule of shonen manga publishing, this theory seems implausible. The most reasonable theory circulating amongst fans is that Mashima used to lớn be Oda"s assistant, & these similarities are actually tribute khổng lồ his former mentor.
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This theory makes sense because this type of relationship is very common within the manga industry: Oda himself worked as an assistant to Shinobu Kaitani who created One Outs and Lier trò chơi, as well as Nobuhiro Watsuki of Rurouni Kenshin fame, & it is possible to lớn spot the influence of these mangakas" styles within One Piece.
However, Mashima"s publisher has denied this clayên và said that Mashima has, in fact, never worked as an assistant to any artists. Mashima created a story that got the attention of publishers, which led to hlặng winning a manga competition in 1998. His work went into lớn serialization in Weekly Shonen Magazine immediately after winning. This was Mashima"s debut series, Rave Master, which was serialized from 1999 to 2005. Since One Piece started serialization in 1997, the timeline would make Oda & Mashima contemporaries rather than teacher & student.
Fairy Tail"s former English publisher Del Ray Manga postulated a more grounded theory as to lớn why the two works cốt truyện so many similarities: since both Oda and Mashima have publically stated that one of their biggest inspirations is Akira Toriyama, the creator of the Dragon Ball series, it is entirely possible that Toriyama"s influence has seeped inkhổng lồ both of their works, và the similarities they mô tả are actually with Toriyama rather than with each other.
In other words: fanboys (và girls) think alượt thích. There"s validity to this theory if we simply look at the protagonists of Dragon Ball, One Piece and Fairy Tail. All three characters -- Goku, Luffy và Natsu -- all have similar, happy-go-lucky personalities; they all started out as underdogs and they are all motivated to lớn fight for friendships. They even all have spiky hair... The menu goes on. Or, perhaps these are just tropes shared by almost all shonen manga series. Take a look at Gildarts & Shanks for yourself & be the judge.
