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. 1192). 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. 1192. 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. 11,191 ch open
- visual-silhouetteseeded Ch. 11,191 ch open
- visual-silhouetteseeded Ch. 11,191 ch open
- dialogue-from-dead-characterseeded Ch. 11,191 ch open
- hat-as-character-identifierseeded Ch. 11,191 ch open
- prop-tellseeded Ch. 11,191 ch open
- visual-silhouetteseeded Ch. 11,191 ch open
- dialogue-revealseeded Ch. 11,191 ch open
- misdirection-via-folk-mythseeded Ch. 21,190 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 21,190 ch open
- prop-tellseeded Ch. 21,190 ch open
- name-etymologyseeded Ch. 21,190 ch open
- visual-silhouetteseeded Ch. 21,190 ch open
- visual-silhouetteseeded Ch. 31,189 ch open
- name-etymologyseeded Ch. 41,188 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 41,188 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 41,188 ch open
- prop-tellseeded Ch. 61,186 ch open
- dialogue-explicitseeded Ch. 71,185 ch open
- character-as-foreshadowingseeded Ch. 91,183 ch open
- parallel-arc-structureseeded Ch. 91,183 ch open
- character-as-foreshadowingseeded Ch. 111,181 ch open
- captain-side-role-assignmentseeded Ch. 111,181 ch open
- prop-tellseeded Ch. 121,180 ch open
- parallel-arc-structureseeded Ch. 131,179 ch open
- thematic-foreshadowseeded Ch. 141,178 ch open
- dialogue-tellseeded Ch. 141,178 ch open
- wardrobe-foreshadowseeded Ch. 141,178 ch open
- parallel-arc-structureseeded Ch. 161,176 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 161,176 ch open
- name-etymologyseeded Ch. 171,175 ch open
- silhouetteseeded Ch. 171,175 ch open
- arc-finale-compositionseeded Ch. 171,175 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 171,175 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 171,175 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 181,174 ch open
- character-pattern-recurrenceseeded Ch. 191,173 ch open
- in-voice-cosmology-dropseeded Ch. 191,173 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 201,172 ch open
- cover-story-payoffseeded Ch. 201,172 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 211,171 ch open
- prop-tellseeded Ch. 221,170 ch open
- exposition-via-narrationseeded Ch. 231,169 ch open
- villain-silhouetteseeded Ch. 231,169 ch open
- inflated-number-lieseeded Ch. 231,169 ch open
- fairy-tale-overlayseeded Ch. 231,169 ch open
- pre-recruit-captain-statusseeded Ch. 231,169 ch open
- boy-who-cried-wolfseeded Ch. 231,169 ch open
- visual-silhouetteseeded Ch. 241,168 ch open
- chekhov-explicitseeded Ch. 241,168 ch open