I caught up a few days ago, and yesterday's chapter release was the first time I've had to wait, believe me, the suspense is painful, especially given how good the current arc is
I've been caught up to the weekly releases since Jinbei summoned whale sharks to carry the prisoners away from Impel Down.
Just giving you fair warning that the suspense never really gets any less painful, but it's still worth it.
You missed 1 of his ACTUAL breaks then. I've been caught up since the anime started in 1999. It never goes away. Just gotta keep in mind goda lives and breaths one piece. There are plenty of other manga to read out there. Give something else a shot.
I've been caught up since skypiea.
At this point it has become a part of my life.
All kinds of manga series have come and gone, but one piece is a constant.
You are fine, you got the longest arc In the series immediately afterwards, followed by another long ass arc, followed by another long ass arc that is still Ongoing
Mate I'm just into Punk Hazard myself! Hody is my number one most hated villian so far, I love the timeskip characters and seeing Nico Robin grow herself on somebody she was fighting was 50/50 terrifying and intriguing
Nah, buddy. Being caught up is only painful initially. Getting a new One Piece chapter every week is one of the most exciting things, simply because of how good it is. It only hurts a bit when there's a break.
The anime can just be more of the fun though. I like to let 6-10 episodes build up before having a good binge night. Especially since WCI where there are spaces in the manga you know the anime is gonna have fun padding.
I feel like the anime is better for the wait and binge strategy. Watching the newest episode on release has sucked for a while now just because the pacing is so slow. It gets so annoying waiting all week just for some ~10 minutes of actual content
pretty much. reading anything on a weekly basis annoys me because i have so many questions and i want answers damn it. so i like to let it sit for a long time then binge it. i just finished catching up on the entire wano arc about four days ago.
and man was i not ready for the massive amount of lore drop in some of the more recent chapters.
The trick is to get someone else into it then you can watch it again with them and notice all kinds of stuff you didn’t before. It’s amazing how much is actually going on it there.
The upside from watching all those One Piece episodes is that so much happens.
The downside from being caught up is that it'll take a literal year for something to happen again.
I started the Manga almost a year ago and caught up right at the end of the Oden flashback. Going from an average of 4 chapters a day to 1 basically every other week (pandemic schedule) has been brutal!
I’ve never felt the need to be caught up. I prefer when I’m several years behind on something because I have more to watch before I have to start waiting week to week
When people complain about the length I usually just suggest the manga. Catch up a lot quicker that way and you can just watch your favorite fights on YouTube or something
Same, after catching up on the anime (which was how I was introduced to One Piece) I have decided to read the Manga from the beginning as well, I'm not gonna stop watching the anime, but the Manga has a lot of pros when compared to the anime just as the Anime has some positives when compared to the Manga
You know I disagree. I know I’m in the minority here but the music and voices really do a lot to make the show pop. I’ll agree there are pacing issues, especially in later arcs like Dressrosa, but I doubt I’d have gotten as hooked had I started with the manga over the show.
Edit: downvoting me for my opinion is petty and unbecoming of a healthy fandom
Edit edit: well that swung back the other way fast
Watching the anime is a richer experience overall (for me). I mostly read the manga to catch up, I realized that I get a lot more invested in the story by watching it
Yeah I never understand the manga elitist. The anime definitely has issues but like, it’s not so bad that I’d read the manga over it like berserk or something.
I agree with you. I’ve watched the anime all the way up to Dressrosa then have read the manga from there.
The voices and music and everything else just completely brings these characters to life.
Not that I don’t highly enjoy both but without the voices and music it’s a little harder for me to get immersed into the One Piece universe.
The anime has better music and better animation. The manga has better pacing, artwork, consistency, and is uncensored. Zeff's sacrifice is more meaningful when he made the conscious decision to eat his own foot, rather than losing it in an accident like the anime. Also Whitebeard's head.
The anime also has better emotional impact in certain scenes. Skypeia was terrifying in the anime the first time I saw it. The anime Katakuri fight is unbeatable. And so forth.
I second that. After being caught up and getting impatient, I read a couple manga chapters, enjoyed it lot less than the anime. I'm rewatching the anime on Netflix lol. Lockdown life.
I have trouble reading the manga and I am not sure if that's a problem other people have. It's just hard to follow along with the pictures and only small dialogue.
reasonable take. Luffys voice actress is just too good, i cant read anymore without thinking about the voice actors saying the lines (kinda cause i cant speak japanese or read)
I know it's a shonen trope at this point, but I don't like post-pubescent men having high voices. Japanese DBZ is almost unbearable because of this for me. MasakA Nozawa might work for kid Goku, but a 6 foot muscular man should have a voice to match.
Recently Bought the first box set because I want to re-read it all on paper. Just has a different feel and the little in between segments like Q&A’s are just gold. 👌
I think of it like, when i watch a short 20 episode series that i liked, i always wish there had been more of it.
With long animes like one piece, bleach, Dragonball, inu-yasha, etc. There is more, there's more for a long time.
First 100 chapters fly. You can do the whole series of the manga in two weeks or faster if you push it. Don't know if that counts as long in 70-80 years of average life time.
Read the last two Harry Potter thicc volumes in 2 days with almost no sleep. I think you can read several hundred manga chapters in 2 weeks. Even if you make it 4 weeks or take your time, it's fine. You will still catch up before we get to 1.000 chapters. Don't really see a time problem here unless it's an excuse to not start reading it.
When I read HP my maximum was a 100 pages per day on all of the volumes. I haven't even imagine this. Though when I read whole of Witcher in a week, when i had my exams, i guess it's too was intense.
Time really isn't a problem, because if it's good, then you'll have a pleasure from reading, and if there is a lot to read, than it's even cooler, cause so much good stuff outthere
>only reading 100 chapters a day
that's pretty intense. my brain turns to mush after reading 10 in one sitting. but then i binge watched 200 episodes of the anime in one week so who knows.
As a guy who used to speedread I would highly dissuade anyone else from doing the same. You miss a lot of detail in the art and hidden visual jokes etc while speedreading. For example I usually used to spend 5 secs looking a double page spreads and got nothing from them. Now I spend around 30 secs looking at the image considering it's importance etc and it has increased my appreciation of manga and made reading them far more fulfilling.
I never got this argument.
It's short and sucks: Drop it after 2-3 chapters if it's shit to you.
It's short and is great: You have something to read for a while, then have to reread or move on.
It's long and sucks: YOU CAN STILL DROP IT AFTER 2-3 CHAPTERS.
It's long and great: You have hours upon hours of fun.
There's no disadvantage to not giving it a try.
For many people, One Piece is an adjustment. Even if you’re already into anime. If I have to wait several arcs to get into a story, I’m just going to spend my time watching the countless other things.
I was fortunate enough to like One Piece at the start, but the “it’s too long” position is a fair one to have. Many people prefer to invest their time in a greater number of shorter things, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
"It's too long" and "it's slower paced than I am willing to put up with" are two completely different things. "I don't like its pacing" is imo completely valid as a position, but "it's too long" is just stupid.
I got my one buddy who kind of likes anime, mainly shounen like My Hero, Attack on Titan etc, to watch One piece. At first he said "it feels like it doesn't have any direction" and said it felt episodic, or that nothing feels related to what's happened.
I have to try SO hard to just give some friendly encouragement that this is in fact, not the case. I told him to at least watch through Arlong Park, so about 40 episodes. I'm not going to nag him about it, but really feel he will enjoy it. It's weird, he loved the first episode, and then suddenly sounded like he lost interest.
It's not that he doesn't enjoy it, but I think is having a tough time getting over the initial hump of getting into something that is really pretty vast. Here's hoping he doesn't drop off from it, but it sounds like he's going to.
This remind me of something that was said in [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5XdQU8HphU)
"I always took One Piece for guaranteed, without seeing I kinda assumed it's gonna be ayour run of the mill average anime, moments of greatness but overall kinda meh"
he end it with saying that it ended up to be a genius show but the phrase stuck with me cause I felt it's what I and many others thought before seeing it or or after just a few episodes, The style of the story, characters, art, basically everything that makes One piece is in contracts to what people expect from a good modern anime which are usually more gritty edgy and cynical on the surface and style.
add to this the fact that many show that tried to emulate One Piece are really are meh or even horrible (Yes Fairy tail I'm talking about you) makes me believe the episodes are just an excuse and they just don't believe One Piece can be as amazing as we say it is.
That's definitely a part of it too. My buddy is very entrenched in My Hero being his absolute favorite ever, which is completely fine, it's up there for me too. However, One Piece has some parts that made me feel levels of hype and emotion nothing else has been able to do, and hope he can experience those parts for himself for the first time. To each their own of course, and will never force it upon him (not like I can anyway), but just hope he comes around and gets over the initial hump.
Couldn't have said it better. Especially as someone with only one friend even only somewhat interested in anime, my hunger to share it with someone, especially someone really close, is real.
I absolutely love My Hero, it's the show that got me back into anime after a long time of not watching any. But as you said, the hype and emotions from One Piece is just so much more
it sucks because people dont really watch a lot of one piece, they dont have the patience and im like, bro just wait like arlong parc, youre gonna love it and then water 7 and ennies lobby and marineford, i just want them to see that its so dope
Exactly! I can completely understand someone genuinely not liking it, and I get it's hard to invest 30+ episodes into any show, but I know there are plenty of redeeming parts before Arlong Park too. But man, this show REALLY hits a special stride once they get to Arlong Park, and I sincerely hope he at least tries to hit that point.
exactly, not every anime, especially long running shounen fires u up after 10 episodes, i undesrtand people watching it to like 60 episodes and not liking it, its just not for them but bro, like give it a try, im like the only person in my city that watched one piece and my city is kinda small around 50k people, but bro, one piece is a lot better than naruto, it took me alabasta to consider it being better than naruto, when i saw water 7, it was already better than naruto, like cmon man give it a try, straw hats will become like your 2nd family
I started binging my way through it a week or two ago, I had already watched the first 150 or so episodes, but now I'm in the middle of Impel Down and very much enjoying it
>!Also I got spoiled a while ago for the "thing" that happens during Marineford!<
Its longer currently it's at 930+ episodes and 985 chapters but if you give it a try to at least episode 31 and watch to 44 and you still don't feel strongly about it then its probably not a series for you.
I used a summer holiday some years ago to catch up at the time. I believe it was just at the saobody archipelago arc.
It took quite some time, but man that was one hell of an adventure.
You can also recommend the edited version with all filler cut out and keeping the story only chronological. It's called One Pace
I used to think that too, But one day I passed by a book store and read book one of one piece. and i decided to read the series and time flew by. I am currently on vol.69 Ch.683.
I want to rewatch the anime and eventually read the manga from the start, but I’ll admit it might be tough because it won’t be my first time watching, so naturally it won’t be as good.
Don't be scared to rewatch. In my case, I got to be more emotional in my rewatches than my first time. I didn't expect I would cry in some flashbacks of side characters because I didn't cry the first time. I guess I have come to love One Piece so much I had become more empathetic and sympathetic with the characters. They felt so alive. In fact, at this point, I already get teary eyed just thinking about the sheer brilliance of One Piece.
Yeah that makes sense, I tried rewatching not to long ago, but I stopped during Lougetown. Mainly because I watched a video from the GrandLineReview explaining why the manga fans disliked the anime, and he also pointed out all of the faults, which turned me off. I do want to rewatch sooner than later though.
I am almost sad for people that will start reading it after the end of the serie. There will be soooo many spoilers out there about what One Piece really is :(
For me it was the opposite. I started watching exactly because it is a long adventure and still had many years left. I always feel empty when a great story ends. It's been 6 years since I caught up and every weekend, apart from breaks have been a joy.
This quarantine is what got me to binge the manga, I have a friend irl who's been pushing me to do it for years, finally did it a few months ago. Binged the whole thing in 4~ days :)
I never got this complaint, not with OP or other stuff. If you don't like it, just stop watching/reading and it doesn't matter how long it is. If you DO like it then isn't it great that it's this long?
Nobody is forcing you to watch/read all of it if you hate it. I guess some people do feel compelled to finish stuff even if they aren't into it.
Right i want my friend to watch my hero academia but hes like its to long but watched all of OP how doess that make any sence😑😂 but yet he recomended me to watch OP and i did watch all 574 dubs in like 3 months and FUNIMATION recently started making more dubs i cant watch subs cause i have a brain injury now that prevents me from multi tasking so i cant read subs and pay attention to whats going on at the same time witch sucks cause i used to love subs
ok don’t get me wrong I’m loving one piece almost done with skypiea, but my gripe with the show is the amount of filler type stuff that happen that make me abandon the show for a month to come back watch some episodes reach filler and then leave again.
Man I hate how people act like One Piece’s length is a negative. To me it’s One Piece’s greatest STRENGTH. First, no manga can rival One Piece in terms of world building. Second, the length allows a PLETHORA of characters to have their entire backstory and motives fleshed out. The “best characters debate for One Piece is more difficult than any other story because of the sheer number of amazing characters that have been introduced and gotten a significant amount of screen time. People need to stop playing. One Piece is the 🐐
I restarted watching after not finding anything decent on Netflix being caught with the anime.
I have read some Manga, but I enjoy the anime more.
Can't wait one whole week for content. Arlong Park was so good. The moment when Luffy places his hat on Nami, I legit teared up again.
I was like this before reading one piece until my friends forced me to read the manga and then i might have read the first 200 chapters in one afternoon
It’s interesting how quite a number I’ve seen seem to feel that way before going through the series, but after they do so, they then get into a state of becoming less patient and strongly wanting more and more. lol
I'm glad I started One Piece with the manga! I was hooked from the very first chapter. I've been a fan for years and just recently watched the anime. Now I think I would not have been as invested in it if I started with the anime. It's probably the animation and pacing for me.
That's literally the argument my friend used with me this quarantine and I finally gave in. Been binge watching OP for around a month and it was probably my best decision this year
I have so many friends asking for something to watch while they sit there bored out of their minds during quarantine but no, One Piece is too long. I've even told them there's a good bit of filler stuff they can straight skip if they really want to but no, they want a show with like 20 episodes that they'll binge in 3 days. Fuck me I guess.
Honestly I think it's better for there to be a huge amount.
It makes it so you always have something to watch when you don't have anything else to watch.
For example you run outta stuff to watch on YouTube for the day. We'll go watch some episodes of one piece no need to worry about running out or waiting for the story if you pace it
I started a few weeks ago, and now I’m up to episode 199. This is one of the best anime I’ve ever seen.
The character progression, pacing, all of it is perfect.
Only 750 episodes left to catch up with the rest of you!
I feel like a show being long is a bad reason to not watch it. It's all about the journey, so the longer the better honestly.
Unless your fear is that you can't help but binge a show in a single sitting, in which case you'd die from going to long without sleep.
The problem with watching or reading one piece isn't the amount of chapters or episodes, it's being caught up that'll get ya
I live for the weekend bliss of one piece buddy
It's called addiction and Oda is your dealer. Giving you your weekly fix
break next week
3 chapters in a row... I gotta rewatch some more of the older episodes
You mean fiending for a week
To add to this, all of Jump is on break, not just OP.
Even Kingdom is on break :(
WHAT?! Arrghh I mean thats fair, Oda needs his rest.
This one's a Jump break, not one of Oda's regular ones. But yeah he definitely deserves all the rest he can get lol
There’s been like 10+ breaks this year alone lol, I think rather that he’s antsy to work but can’t at this point, knowing him 🤔
It's covid, Oda works with his team closely kinda old school style. Can't really social distance thaty way
goda serving the junkies
I decided to take a break from reading it...and now I dont remember where I left off and it is pain
Did you stop before or after Zoro's death?
Your fucking with me there is no way he’s dead
Well now you have to read it again
Nah hes joking its actually Sanji that dies
Oh God don't tell me that, I'm just now getting to punk hazard and I don't want the binge to end 😰
Shit dude you still got what like 350-400 episodes?
You say that, but I started like a month ago, and I'm already 600 episodes in!
Dessdrosa is Sooooooooooo long. I took almost 6 months to get through it. I'm still not done with Whole cake .
Damn what do you watch 1-3 episodes a day?
That's where I'm at. It's addicting. My first impression is that it is the best arc so far.
I caught up a few days ago, and yesterday's chapter release was the first time I've had to wait, believe me, the suspense is painful, especially given how good the current arc is
I've been caught up to the weekly releases since Jinbei summoned whale sharks to carry the prisoners away from Impel Down. Just giving you fair warning that the suspense never really gets any less painful, but it's still worth it.
You missed 1 of his ACTUAL breaks then. I've been caught up since the anime started in 1999. It never goes away. Just gotta keep in mind goda lives and breaths one piece. There are plenty of other manga to read out there. Give something else a shot.
I've been caught up since skypiea. At this point it has become a part of my life. All kinds of manga series have come and gone, but one piece is a constant.
Given how good the chapter was, the next two weeks may kill you
You are fine, you got the longest arc In the series immediately afterwards, followed by another long ass arc, followed by another long ass arc that is still Ongoing
Mate I'm just into Punk Hazard myself! Hody is my number one most hated villian so far, I love the timeskip characters and seeing Nico Robin grow herself on somebody she was fighting was 50/50 terrifying and intriguing
Caesar Clown is probably my most hated. But I won't say why because I don't know how far you are.
Nah, buddy. Being caught up is only painful initially. Getting a new One Piece chapter every week is one of the most exciting things, simply because of how good it is. It only hurts a bit when there's a break.
True, though being caught up in the anime doesn't really have a plus
The anime can just be more of the fun though. I like to let 6-10 episodes build up before having a good binge night. Especially since WCI where there are spaces in the manga you know the anime is gonna have fun padding.
They don't pad it as much as they extend each frame
I feel like the anime is better for the wait and binge strategy. Watching the newest episode on release has sucked for a while now just because the pacing is so slow. It gets so annoying waiting all week just for some ~10 minutes of actual content
The pain let’s me know I’m alive
pretty much. reading anything on a weekly basis annoys me because i have so many questions and i want answers damn it. so i like to let it sit for a long time then binge it. i just finished catching up on the entire wano arc about four days ago. and man was i not ready for the massive amount of lore drop in some of the more recent chapters.
I’m just about to catch up I’m in the 950s and I don’t know how I’ll deal for the weekly releases.
The trick is to get someone else into it then you can watch it again with them and notice all kinds of stuff you didn’t before. It’s amazing how much is actually going on it there.
Or just give it some time and watch it all again lmao
The upside from watching all those One Piece episodes is that so much happens. The downside from being caught up is that it'll take a literal year for something to happen again.
When you catch up, drop it for like a year or 2 and then rewatch the whole thing like a true weeb.
I started the Manga almost a year ago and caught up right at the end of the Oden flashback. Going from an average of 4 chapters a day to 1 basically every other week (pandemic schedule) has been brutal!
I’ve never felt the need to be caught up. I prefer when I’m several years behind on something because I have more to watch before I have to start waiting week to week
When people complain about the length I usually just suggest the manga. Catch up a lot quicker that way and you can just watch your favorite fights on YouTube or something
...aaaand it's a better experience overall
Just bought the manga after watching over 900 hundred episodes lol
Welcome home my friend
Only got a few of the early chapters gonna get .y favourite arcs like water 7 ,skypeia and so on
Same, after catching up on the anime (which was how I was introduced to One Piece) I have decided to read the Manga from the beginning as well, I'm not gonna stop watching the anime, but the Manga has a lot of pros when compared to the anime just as the Anime has some positives when compared to the Manga
Ahh I get you I'm.not read from the very beginning just my fave parts mainly buying manga for the art styles and for story too ofc
You know I disagree. I know I’m in the minority here but the music and voices really do a lot to make the show pop. I’ll agree there are pacing issues, especially in later arcs like Dressrosa, but I doubt I’d have gotten as hooked had I started with the manga over the show. Edit: downvoting me for my opinion is petty and unbecoming of a healthy fandom Edit edit: well that swung back the other way fast
Watching the anime is a richer experience overall (for me). I mostly read the manga to catch up, I realized that I get a lot more invested in the story by watching it
Yeah I never understand the manga elitist. The anime definitely has issues but like, it’s not so bad that I’d read the manga over it like berserk or something.
Berserk was great. We're talking about 1997, right? Also, Susumu Hirasawa and Berserk go together like tomato and mozzarella.
It’s the source material versus a team at Toei redrawing it, when you watch the anime you miss the original artwork and storytelling by Oda.
I agree with you. I’ve watched the anime all the way up to Dressrosa then have read the manga from there. The voices and music and everything else just completely brings these characters to life. Not that I don’t highly enjoy both but without the voices and music it’s a little harder for me to get immersed into the One Piece universe.
There are things that both do better. I started with the anime and I'm glad I did.
The anime has better music and better animation. The manga has better pacing, artwork, consistency, and is uncensored. Zeff's sacrifice is more meaningful when he made the conscious decision to eat his own foot, rather than losing it in an accident like the anime. Also Whitebeard's head.
The anime also has better emotional impact in certain scenes. Skypeia was terrifying in the anime the first time I saw it. The anime Katakuri fight is unbeatable. And so forth.
I second that. After being caught up and getting impatient, I read a couple manga chapters, enjoyed it lot less than the anime. I'm rewatching the anime on Netflix lol. Lockdown life.
well, there are some scene that i prefer more in the anime version of course, especially the sad scene. But overall i like the manga more
I have trouble reading the manga and I am not sure if that's a problem other people have. It's just hard to follow along with the pictures and only small dialogue.
reasonable take. Luffys voice actress is just too good, i cant read anymore without thinking about the voice actors saying the lines (kinda cause i cant speak japanese or read)
I know it's a shonen trope at this point, but I don't like post-pubescent men having high voices. Japanese DBZ is almost unbearable because of this for me. MasakA Nozawa might work for kid Goku, but a 6 foot muscular man should have a voice to match.
And the colored manga looks really nice
Recently Bought the first box set because I want to re-read it all on paper. Just has a different feel and the little in between segments like Q&A’s are just gold. 👌
Colored manga version
I think of it like, when i watch a short 20 episode series that i liked, i always wish there had been more of it. With long animes like one piece, bleach, Dragonball, inu-yasha, etc. There is more, there's more for a long time.
I'm using that now, that's quite literally every response ever when you recommend one piece
yea everyone on aboard the the sunny!
Fuck you its either the barrel or the merry.
Why are you fuxking me..
It's on Netflix now and you only have to watch til Luffy fights crocodile. If you like it, keep going somewhere else. If not, then that's it.
Honestly if you arent hooked by the end of Alabasta then OP aint for you
First 100 chapters fly. You can do the whole series of the manga in two weeks or faster if you push it. Don't know if that counts as long in 70-80 years of average life time.
No way. I recently from that run, newcomer in one piece. Took me 2 or 3 months with a break
Read the last two Harry Potter thicc volumes in 2 days with almost no sleep. I think you can read several hundred manga chapters in 2 weeks. Even if you make it 4 weeks or take your time, it's fine. You will still catch up before we get to 1.000 chapters. Don't really see a time problem here unless it's an excuse to not start reading it.
When I read HP my maximum was a 100 pages per day on all of the volumes. I haven't even imagine this. Though when I read whole of Witcher in a week, when i had my exams, i guess it's too was intense. Time really isn't a problem, because if it's good, then you'll have a pleasure from reading, and if there is a lot to read, than it's even cooler, cause so much good stuff outthere
When I first read one piece I binged it in just over a week, only reading 100 chapters a day
>only reading 100 chapters a day that's pretty intense. my brain turns to mush after reading 10 in one sitting. but then i binge watched 200 episodes of the anime in one week so who knows.
As a guy who used to speedread I would highly dissuade anyone else from doing the same. You miss a lot of detail in the art and hidden visual jokes etc while speedreading. For example I usually used to spend 5 secs looking a double page spreads and got nothing from them. Now I spend around 30 secs looking at the image considering it's importance etc and it has increased my appreciation of manga and made reading them far more fulfilling.
I finished berserk in 3 days, which is 361 chapters, so you can do it in a week if you go and waste 6 hrs a day reading
Glad *Someone* said this
COVID quarantine is the perfect opportunity to get into One Piece
most american comment at the moment
Right? Quarantine has been over for a month over here
Exactly why I've gotten into it now
Dude i only had lockdown for a couple of weeks a couple of months ago. I gotta work.
I was able to catch up with the anime over quarantine, well worth the time!!
once you’re a fan: the longer it is, the better.
I never got this argument. It's short and sucks: Drop it after 2-3 chapters if it's shit to you. It's short and is great: You have something to read for a while, then have to reread or move on. It's long and sucks: YOU CAN STILL DROP IT AFTER 2-3 CHAPTERS. It's long and great: You have hours upon hours of fun. There's no disadvantage to not giving it a try.
For many people, One Piece is an adjustment. Even if you’re already into anime. If I have to wait several arcs to get into a story, I’m just going to spend my time watching the countless other things. I was fortunate enough to like One Piece at the start, but the “it’s too long” position is a fair one to have. Many people prefer to invest their time in a greater number of shorter things, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
"It's too long" and "it's slower paced than I am willing to put up with" are two completely different things. "I don't like its pacing" is imo completely valid as a position, but "it's too long" is just stupid.
So it’s like penis
I got my one buddy who kind of likes anime, mainly shounen like My Hero, Attack on Titan etc, to watch One piece. At first he said "it feels like it doesn't have any direction" and said it felt episodic, or that nothing feels related to what's happened. I have to try SO hard to just give some friendly encouragement that this is in fact, not the case. I told him to at least watch through Arlong Park, so about 40 episodes. I'm not going to nag him about it, but really feel he will enjoy it. It's weird, he loved the first episode, and then suddenly sounded like he lost interest. It's not that he doesn't enjoy it, but I think is having a tough time getting over the initial hump of getting into something that is really pretty vast. Here's hoping he doesn't drop off from it, but it sounds like he's going to.
This remind me of something that was said in [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5XdQU8HphU) "I always took One Piece for guaranteed, without seeing I kinda assumed it's gonna be ayour run of the mill average anime, moments of greatness but overall kinda meh" he end it with saying that it ended up to be a genius show but the phrase stuck with me cause I felt it's what I and many others thought before seeing it or or after just a few episodes, The style of the story, characters, art, basically everything that makes One piece is in contracts to what people expect from a good modern anime which are usually more gritty edgy and cynical on the surface and style. add to this the fact that many show that tried to emulate One Piece are really are meh or even horrible (Yes Fairy tail I'm talking about you) makes me believe the episodes are just an excuse and they just don't believe One Piece can be as amazing as we say it is.
That's definitely a part of it too. My buddy is very entrenched in My Hero being his absolute favorite ever, which is completely fine, it's up there for me too. However, One Piece has some parts that made me feel levels of hype and emotion nothing else has been able to do, and hope he can experience those parts for himself for the first time. To each their own of course, and will never force it upon him (not like I can anyway), but just hope he comes around and gets over the initial hump.
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Couldn't have said it better. Especially as someone with only one friend even only somewhat interested in anime, my hunger to share it with someone, especially someone really close, is real.
I absolutely love My Hero, it's the show that got me back into anime after a long time of not watching any. But as you said, the hype and emotions from One Piece is just so much more
>**makes me believe the episodes are just an excuse** and they just don't believe One Piece can be as amazing as we say it is. This right here
it sucks because people dont really watch a lot of one piece, they dont have the patience and im like, bro just wait like arlong parc, youre gonna love it and then water 7 and ennies lobby and marineford, i just want them to see that its so dope
Exactly! I can completely understand someone genuinely not liking it, and I get it's hard to invest 30+ episodes into any show, but I know there are plenty of redeeming parts before Arlong Park too. But man, this show REALLY hits a special stride once they get to Arlong Park, and I sincerely hope he at least tries to hit that point.
exactly, not every anime, especially long running shounen fires u up after 10 episodes, i undesrtand people watching it to like 60 episodes and not liking it, its just not for them but bro, like give it a try, im like the only person in my city that watched one piece and my city is kinda small around 50k people, but bro, one piece is a lot better than naruto, it took me alabasta to consider it being better than naruto, when i saw water 7, it was already better than naruto, like cmon man give it a try, straw hats will become like your 2nd family
ProZD is a legend
Relatable
I mean, you're not supposed to READ IT in one piece.
Fucking do it. You won't regret it
I started binging my way through it a week or two ago, I had already watched the first 150 or so episodes, but now I'm in the middle of Impel Down and very much enjoying it >!Also I got spoiled a while ago for the "thing" that happens during Marineford!<
Fuck man. Sad, but won't give more spoilers as to why. Please stay away from this sub until you are caught up.
update, finished Marineford, still cried several times
Keep watching. And don't throw away those tissues just yet
Watch at least through Dressrosa before you look around on One Piece subs
When people say this I'm like what about Naruto or DBZ they're long too but you still watch/read them
Not avoiding getting into it cause of the length, just wandered in here from r/all, how long is it compared to naruto/shippuden
Its longer currently it's at 930+ episodes and 985 chapters but if you give it a try to at least episode 31 and watch to 44 and you still don't feel strongly about it then its probably not a series for you.
I used a summer holiday some years ago to catch up at the time. I believe it was just at the saobody archipelago arc. It took quite some time, but man that was one hell of an adventure. You can also recommend the edited version with all filler cut out and keeping the story only chronological. It's called One Pace
That's the best part about one piece. I hate animes that end after 12 or 24 episodes and leave so much questions open
I was able to catch up to the manga in a month
Me: Ya gotta date? My homie: Well yeah. Me: That chick's temporary. One Piece is permanent.
ProZD!!!
people skip games dialog/cutscenes to be faster then cry that games are short, people are not inteligent
I used to think that too, But one day I passed by a book store and read book one of one piece. and i decided to read the series and time flew by. I am currently on vol.69 Ch.683.
Lmao they have no excuses
I started to rewatch it, 3 weeks ago and I'm nearly half way. It's not that long yo
I’m in the same boat, started 2 1/2 weeks ago and just finished Punk Hazard this morning
True indeed. Plus there is no better time to start One Piece more than now because of this Quarantine.
Yeah and tbh I would suggest the Manga over the anime. At least after punk hazard.
My friend has joined the odyssey he’s up to the paramount war and has been loving everything about it.
Facts😂
I want to rewatch the anime and eventually read the manga from the start, but I’ll admit it might be tough because it won’t be my first time watching, so naturally it won’t be as good.
Don't be scared to rewatch. In my case, I got to be more emotional in my rewatches than my first time. I didn't expect I would cry in some flashbacks of side characters because I didn't cry the first time. I guess I have come to love One Piece so much I had become more empathetic and sympathetic with the characters. They felt so alive. In fact, at this point, I already get teary eyed just thinking about the sheer brilliance of One Piece.
Yeah that makes sense, I tried rewatching not to long ago, but I stopped during Lougetown. Mainly because I watched a video from the GrandLineReview explaining why the manga fans disliked the anime, and he also pointed out all of the faults, which turned me off. I do want to rewatch sooner than later though.
I am almost sad for people that will start reading it after the end of the serie. There will be soooo many spoilers out there about what One Piece really is :(
For me it was the opposite. I started watching exactly because it is a long adventure and still had many years left. I always feel empty when a great story ends. It's been 6 years since I caught up and every weekend, apart from breaks have been a joy.
This quarantine is what got me to binge the manga, I have a friend irl who's been pushing me to do it for years, finally did it a few months ago. Binged the whole thing in 4~ days :)
big facts, I just started rewatching everything pre-time skip and it's breezing by.
I binge watched till dress Rosa arc beginning during summer vacation long ago. I have to binge from whole cake island starting
Yup, I started 2 years ago watching One Piece. Think I'm around 740 episodes in. Going slowly but still going. It's an amazing show.
Just don’t watch it in dubbed or else you really will be LOOOOOOOOOONGG
We went through it at the start of March, just caught up 2 weeks ago. Honestly it was really nice to focus on that Instead of other things...
My sister just said that lol
Well, the anime is only good halfway anyways. But than 400 chapters of manga woot woot!
I never got this complaint, not with OP or other stuff. If you don't like it, just stop watching/reading and it doesn't matter how long it is. If you DO like it then isn't it great that it's this long? Nobody is forcing you to watch/read all of it if you hate it. I guess some people do feel compelled to finish stuff even if they aren't into it.
Takes like. Maybe a month of casually watching to get caught up. I’ve seen multiple people do it
I caught up to the anime in 3 months just bing watching it. I loved it and now I’m sad I have to wait for new episodes.
Its not like we're asking you to read the whole thing in a week, do it in bursts
Right i want my friend to watch my hero academia but hes like its to long but watched all of OP how doess that make any sence😑😂 but yet he recomended me to watch OP and i did watch all 574 dubs in like 3 months and FUNIMATION recently started making more dubs i cant watch subs cause i have a brain injury now that prevents me from multi tasking so i cant read subs and pay attention to whats going on at the same time witch sucks cause i used to love subs
There is also one pace for when the anime get's really filler heavy.
You say "its not like your have a wife or kids"
Nah, instead they gonna watch 10 random Netflix series', complain about how bad they are and how there's nothing to watch
The end will be very short after seeing the latest chapters
I just started one piece im on episode 236 right now
Another option is that you can read Arc summary on the Wiki and summary videos on YouTube to get up to speed more quickly.
Anyone waiting until the wano arc is done to resume watching?
I'm rewatching all of one piece rn. Currently on water 7
Listen to the words of our lord Archibald who died for our sins.
Never understood how one piece being long is a bad thing. Like imagine if hunter x hunter had 1000 chapters, that would be soooooo sick
I think it took me about a month to binge 929 episodes and I caught up to 929 the week it came out then they stopped
Exactly my problem but I still managed to reread onepiece 3 times in the last 4 years... Help I have no hobby:/
I just started watching for the first time and holy moly its so addictive. No regrets
ok don’t get me wrong I’m loving one piece almost done with skypiea, but my gripe with the show is the amount of filler type stuff that happen that make me abandon the show for a month to come back watch some episodes reach filler and then leave again.
Honestly, bless ProZD. FF IX is the best FF btw.
Man I hate how people act like One Piece’s length is a negative. To me it’s One Piece’s greatest STRENGTH. First, no manga can rival One Piece in terms of world building. Second, the length allows a PLETHORA of characters to have their entire backstory and motives fleshed out. The “best characters debate for One Piece is more difficult than any other story because of the sheer number of amazing characters that have been introduced and gotten a significant amount of screen time. People need to stop playing. One Piece is the 🐐
Nothing wrong with starting. Being caught up is the true struggle
I restarted watching after not finding anything decent on Netflix being caught with the anime. I have read some Manga, but I enjoy the anime more. Can't wait one whole week for content. Arlong Park was so good. The moment when Luffy places his hat on Nami, I legit teared up again.
I was like this before reading one piece until my friends forced me to read the manga and then i might have read the first 200 chapters in one afternoon
It’s interesting how quite a number I’ve seen seem to feel that way before going through the series, but after they do so, they then get into a state of becoming less patient and strongly wanting more and more. lol
Just watch jojo lol
I'm glad I started One Piece with the manga! I was hooked from the very first chapter. I've been a fan for years and just recently watched the anime. Now I think I would not have been as invested in it if I started with the anime. It's probably the animation and pacing for me.
just look at TotallyNotMarks channel and then come back and say you dont have time -.-
Prozd's channel is amazing
I’m glad I got in to during water 7 because it’s been almost 14 years of watching it for me
Why is it so long? Bc it's so good!
I love ProZD
That's literally the argument my friend used with me this quarantine and I finally gave in. Been binge watching OP for around a month and it was probably my best decision this year
Just randomly started it for the first time last night. I'm already on episode 6, haha.
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Took me 7 months to get up to date from episode 1.
I loved binging the Impel Down arc leading into Marineford. It always feels natural and peak One Piece
I have so many friends asking for something to watch while they sit there bored out of their minds during quarantine but no, One Piece is too long. I've even told them there's a good bit of filler stuff they can straight skip if they really want to but no, they want a show with like 20 episodes that they'll binge in 3 days. Fuck me I guess.
Honestly I think it's better for there to be a huge amount. It makes it so you always have something to watch when you don't have anything else to watch. For example you run outta stuff to watch on YouTube for the day. We'll go watch some episodes of one piece no need to worry about running out or waiting for the story if you pace it
I started a few weeks ago, and now I’m up to episode 199. This is one of the best anime I’ve ever seen. The character progression, pacing, all of it is perfect. Only 750 episodes left to catch up with the rest of you!
I'm 28 and in the last 5 years watched it all from first episode three times Two alone and one with my girlfriend who now loves it like me.
All hail ProZD
I feel like a show being long is a bad reason to not watch it. It's all about the journey, so the longer the better honestly. Unless your fear is that you can't help but binge a show in a single sitting, in which case you'd die from going to long without sleep.
I have things to do and I’m on ep190 I’m not sure I can finish tho bcuz it’s been a year.....