Oda by the Numbers
A quarter century of foreshadowing, quantified. Every number below is derived from the archive's chapter-cited seed → payoff chains — the same receipts behind every entry, aggregated. Set your ⚓ progress and the headline stats rewind to your chapter; anything that names a specific chain stays veiled until you get there.
How long does a seed stay buried?
Chapters between a seed being planted and its payoff, across all921 resolved chains (through Ch. 1189). Half pay off within 15 chapters — but one tail of the distribution runs past five hundred.
The longest cons
The chains Oda held the longest before paying them off. Each row is veiled until you've read its payoff chapter — the payoff is the spoiler.
Technique mix by saga
How Oda's foreshadowing toolkit shifts era to era — each bar is one saga's planted seeds, split by the techniques the archive tracks. Sagas beyond your progress stay veiled.
chekhov-explicitparallel-arc-structureprop-tellname-etymologydialogue-from-dead-characternegative-spaceother techniques
Seeds planted vs. paid off, by arc
Each bar is the seeds planted in one arc; the teal portion has since paid off, the rest is still open. Counts are complete once an arc ends, so rows unlock as you finish each arc.
paid offstill open
The open-seed age leaderboard
The seeds that have waited the longest without a payoff — still unresolved as of Ch. 1189. Titles are withheld on purpose: an open seed's name tells you exactly what to watch for. Browse the technique instead, and let the chains find you.
- prop-tellseeded Ch. 11,188 ch open
- visual-silhouetteseeded Ch. 11,188 ch open
- visual-silhouetteseeded Ch. 11,188 ch open
- hat-as-character-identifierseeded Ch. 11,188 ch open
- prop-tellseeded Ch. 11,188 ch open
- visual-silhouetteseeded Ch. 11,188 ch open
- dialogue-revealseeded Ch. 11,188 ch open
- misdirection-via-folk-mythseeded Ch. 21,187 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 21,187 ch open
- prop-tellseeded Ch. 21,187 ch open
- name-etymologyseeded Ch. 21,187 ch open
- visual-silhouetteseeded Ch. 21,187 ch open
- visual-silhouetteseeded Ch. 31,186 ch open
- name-etymologyseeded Ch. 41,185 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 41,185 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 41,185 ch open
- prop-tellseeded Ch. 61,183 ch open
- dialogue-explicitseeded Ch. 71,182 ch open
- character-as-foreshadowingseeded Ch. 91,180 ch open
- parallel-arc-structureseeded Ch. 91,180 ch open
- character-as-foreshadowingseeded Ch. 111,178 ch open
- captain-side-role-assignmentseeded Ch. 111,178 ch open
- prop-tellseeded Ch. 121,177 ch open
- parallel-arc-structureseeded Ch. 131,176 ch open
- thematic-foreshadowseeded Ch. 141,175 ch open
- dialogue-tellseeded Ch. 141,175 ch open
- wardrobe-foreshadowseeded Ch. 141,175 ch open
- parallel-arc-structureseeded Ch. 161,173 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 161,173 ch open
- name-etymologyseeded Ch. 171,172 ch open
- silhouetteseeded Ch. 171,172 ch open
- arc-finale-compositionseeded Ch. 171,172 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 171,172 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 171,172 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 181,171 ch open
- character-pattern-recurrenceseeded Ch. 191,170 ch open
- in-voice-cosmology-dropseeded Ch. 191,170 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 201,169 ch open
- cover-story-payoffseeded Ch. 201,169 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 211,168 ch open
- prop-tellseeded Ch. 221,167 ch open
- exposition-via-narrationseeded Ch. 231,166 ch open
- villain-silhouetteseeded Ch. 231,166 ch open
- inflated-number-lieseeded Ch. 231,166 ch open
- fairy-tale-overlayseeded Ch. 231,166 ch open
- pre-recruit-captain-statusseeded Ch. 231,166 ch open
- boy-who-cried-wolfseeded Ch. 231,166 ch open
- visual-silhouetteseeded Ch. 241,165 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 241,165 ch open
- cover-story-payoffseeded Ch. 241,165 ch open