As formas de se contar uma história: os segredos do arco "País de Wano" no mangá de One Piece

Abstract

This monographic research aims to understand how the narrative is configured in the ‘Wano Country’ arc of the One Piece manga, created by Eiichiro Oda. To answer this question, the research has as its research hypothesis the configuration of the narrative through its three-act structure. Thus, the methodological strategy used was to analyze the reading and prepare a summary of each of the chapters of the arc, focusing on the protagonist’s journey, and a subsequent comparison of this material with the characteristics that Syd Field proposes for the three acts of the narrative in the Screenplay Manual. In conclusion for this research, it is clear that although the plot dialogues in parts with the three-act narrative structure, especially with regard to the characteristics of each act, ‘Wano Country’ presents a relevant distinction in the arrangement of the plot, in addition to other differences, which demonstrates a distance in the configuration of the manga’s plot in parallel with the theory of the North American screenwriter.