This is my biggest issue with One Piece, or any form of extended media like this. It’s not that I won’t like it, but how much unique media am I giving up to watch it? It’s the same vibe I got when I was really into an MMO. Love the game, one of my favorites of all time even. But I’m much happier broadening my horizons and playing a unique experience every month or so opposed to the same game for a year straight.
I never watched one Piece but there’s no way you need over a thousand episodes for whatever story they are trying to tell. I can’t wrap my head around that.
After a while you need to stop caring about the overall plot (which is pretty interesting on its own, but that is like drip fed to you) and start enjoying the arcs individually. Usually the structure is that they get to a new island, get to know the inhabitants and their culture and individual characters, the crew finds a mystery, problem or conspiracy, and they help the inhabitants. Quite often there are also multi-island plots that tie up all the plots of each individual island.
Admittedly the solution is always inevitably “Luffy punches the bad guy really hard in the face” while the rest of the characters are usually busy punching the bad guy’s underlings, but since you end up liking both the main characters and the characters they meet in each island (and the relatively rare but much beloved recurring characters), you don’t mind it as much.
It’s cause they’re turning 16 page chapters of manga into full episodes. If you made a succinct version, you could probably tell the whole story so far in 200 episodes. Much smaller than that and you’d really start cutting into the story being told.
One Pace, yes. It’s the only way I’ve consumed the anime. It’s good but occasionally the site goes down. Also it is not up to date with the current stuff because it can’t be, it’s all volunteer.
One Piece has a 25-episode fight at one point. Here’s a short list of anime shorter or the same length as this one fight:
The first season of FLCL (6 Episodes)
Hellsing (13 Episodes or 10 double-feature Ultimate episodes)
No Game No Life (12 Episodes)
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (24 Episodes)
The first season of Re:Zero (14-22 Episodes depending on cut)
Devilman: Crybaby (10 Episodes)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica (12 Episodes)
Bokurano (24 Episodes)
Berserk (25 Episodes for the OLM show, 13 Episodes for Studio 4°C, 24 Episodes for 2016)
Kill la Kill (24 Episodes)
Ergo Proxy (23 Episodes)
The first season of Psycho-Pass (22 Episodes)
The first season of Assassination Classroom (22 Episodes)
One Piece is best enjoyed as a manga. Reading it goes much faster and loses a bit of the anime character tropes.
This is my biggest issue with One Piece, or any form of extended media like this. It’s not that I won’t like it, but how much unique media am I giving up to watch it? It’s the same vibe I got when I was really into an MMO. Love the game, one of my favorites of all time even. But I’m much happier broadening my horizons and playing a unique experience every month or so opposed to the same game for a year straight.
I never watched one Piece but there’s no way you need over a thousand episodes for whatever story they are trying to tell. I can’t wrap my head around that.
After a while you need to stop caring about the overall plot (which is pretty interesting on its own, but that is like drip fed to you) and start enjoying the arcs individually. Usually the structure is that they get to a new island, get to know the inhabitants and their culture and individual characters, the crew finds a mystery, problem or conspiracy, and they help the inhabitants. Quite often there are also multi-island plots that tie up all the plots of each individual island.
Admittedly the solution is always inevitably “Luffy punches the bad guy really hard in the face” while the rest of the characters are usually busy punching the bad guy’s underlings, but since you end up liking both the main characters and the characters they meet in each island (and the relatively rare but much beloved recurring characters), you don’t mind it as much.
It’s cause they’re turning 16 page chapters of manga into full episodes. If you made a succinct version, you could probably tell the whole story so far in 200 episodes. Much smaller than that and you’d really start cutting into the story being told.
Wasn’t there a project aiming to recreate the anime but without any filler?
One Pace, yes. It’s the only way I’ve consumed the anime. It’s good but occasionally the site goes down. Also it is not up to date with the current stuff because it can’t be, it’s all volunteer.
One Piece but it’s made by 5secondfilms