Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-34509017-20171024180450/@comment-734582-20171029174655

Seelentau wrote: And then there's One Piece, where the author constantly takes days off to do research... Doesn't mean that every author should or wants to do that.

Seelentau wrote: If Kishimoto cared enough, he would've taken the time to prepare and create a set timeline of events even before he began writing the manga. Except he never set out to make a hit manga, it pretty much just happened to him. For every successful series there are dozens of pilots in the trash, and those that succeed tend to be those that adapt on the fly.

Planning guarantees nothing for success.