INB4 they jump the shark, finds One Piece, but now all of a sudden there’s a Second Piece.
It should be illegal to recommend shows with more than 1000 episodes.
If you like it fine, but I saw it and the pacing is straight up horrible even if the worldbuilding is neat.
There are battles that take literally more than 5 hours without counting the intros and recaps. Even my longest D&D battle was shorter, and those are freaking turn based.
Fuck the animes pacing, it’s unbearable. Luckily https://www.onepace.net exists
Not for nothing, but the manga is paced much better and can be read legally, easily, and digitally for a $3/month subscription. Took me like a month and a half to read the whole thing.
You’ve made your opinions clear about long recommendations, so take it or leave it. You were interested once before, though, and it might be worth checking out.
Read the manga
Shonen manga is notorious for having winding stories with no narrative endgame planned.
Even the DBZ anime at 291 episodes is brutally long and drawn out, with a narrative that obviously repeats itself to the point of self-parody.
Everybody is gonna enjoy what they want to enjoy, but cmon.
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A lot of these types of media have a really great premise and initial story before it devolves into every Shonen stereotype ever and way the hell too long and specific arcs.
Like One Piece’s original formula of sea travel, pirate action, and island story worked great. It only suffered from Toei’s asanine pacing for the Anime.
Now it’s basically 99% Island and nothing else. No one even acts like pirates anymore, and each Island lasts so long it actually gets boring to watch or read.
The real crime here is that each chapter is about 15 pages, with currently 1101 chapters, yet the each anime episode is 24 minutes long and there are currently 1087 episodes.
Toei has milked this content harder than their infinite stalling in DBZ.
All that matters is that we know the one piece, the one piece is real
As a huge #OnePiece fan, I was enjoying it at the get go, but I have to admit that there were some moments where I felt it was slow, but I kept watching because of the way fans talked about it, the moment I felt completely in love with the series was at Arlong Park Arc (ep 31-44), especially with the episode 37, for others is later or early in the story.
I understand it is scary to get started after seeing the amount of chapters and episodes it has, it takes time commitment, it’s been almost two years since I watched the first episode, and it has been an incredible experience. You have multiple options to start.
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Read the manga. The source material. Official website to read the first saga for free
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Watch the anime. Fans complain about the pacing, it was annoying for me at certain moments, but for me, most of the time I didn’t notice it. It has the advantage of being more accessible, I would say, most people will likely watch on a streaming service with the dub in their native language. Watch One Piece on Crunchyroll
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Watch One Pace. Fan edit of the anime. This is a project that takes the episodes of the anime, and edit them to make them more truthful to the source material by removing filler scene, long reaction shots, stretched fights, fixing certain errors from the original anime (especially from the old ones, like color schemes since they didn’t know or errors that made the final version probably because of deadlines of being a weekly anime since 1999) and removing censorship from certain censored scenes. You can download the episodes by torrent or watch through telegram. Their website claims it 45% faster to watch than the original. One Pace official website
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Watch One Piece Live Action. Even though it has certain controversial changes that I don’t agree with, I loved how it opened the door for a lot of people to read the manga, watch the anime or One Pace. Watch One Piece Live Action on Netflix
The live action adaptation is amazing
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it’s viewer’s patience, huh?
The real One Piece are the friends we made along the way
Literally going to be the ending line and everyone knows it
Oda already said is something tangible.
I’m somewhere around 350 episodes I think. My least favorite would be the episodes with a lot of screaming. I know it’s Anime and a bit of that is expected but some get to a whole new level.
The anime has been in production so long it’s extremely hit or miss, depending on where in the show’s run you look. The effort put into the production falls of a cliff several times. It’s part of the reason I personally can’t stand it in comparison to other anime series or even the manga.
It’s a pity, some of the OP movies are excellently produced and I’d really like it if a version of the whole story with FMAB level production quality existed. But that’d be a massive undertaking at this point, so it is unlikely to happen.
The episodes airing currently have pulled their shit together on the animation, but they are still re-cycling the same old OST recordings and SFX samples, making the anime unwatchable for me.
Soooo basically, The Simpsons? As of late, some real banger episodes. Not a fan that they retcon’d Marge being in high-school in 1999.
It’s ok, I realized I was old when they changed the TV to a flat screen.
You haven’t read Detective Conan it seems. At least with One Piece the plot is progressing.
Omg it’s still ongoing? I remember being a kid, when the anime was on TV. That means the manga should be even older.
I checked a few months ago and they still haven’t caught a single man in black
And how many men in black are there?
Look right here please.🔆
One piece is the definition of “It’s the journey, not the destination.” Nothing the One Piece could actually be would be worth 23 years worth of content hyping it up.
(I myself am still a fan of the “one-(head)-piece” that make someone a king, but has to be an item that has been around since the first season theory. Gee, I wonder what that head-piece could be?)
It’s definitely a one-piece swimsuit.
Chapter 1176?
The quality of the anime has some serious dips, but the manga is absolutely god tier from start to finish (or current latest chapter).
It gets good around chapter 81.
Then later you realize it was always good.
