One Piece is the straw hat.
He finds it in the first episode.
There. Saved you 1100+ 22min episodes full of fun and adventure and friendship.
You’re welcome.
Reading one piece is like planting a tree, the best time to start is 20 years ago.
Didn’t someone took all the episodes and cut all the fluff out? And it was like 200 episodes.
You’re thinking of the One Pace project! Definitely cuts down the watch time in an attempt to make it feel more in pace with the manga, but some of the filler and anime-specific arcs are fun and worth the watch even at ~1150 episodes.
i absolutely SWEAR that the One Piece will end up being the friends they made along the way. 100%.
Oda said once upon a time that the One Piece is a physical object, not metaphorical or figurative.
But he may as well have said that a million years ago at this point.
With One Piece entering it’s “final chapters”, I wonder if Oda is going to be able to stick the landing.
https://youtu.be/0Cw7aAFS5oc tales of alethrion has an episode like that
You know, you don’t have to read/watch the whole thing at once. You could just enjoy the story.
Whenever I see stuff about pacing and too many flashbacks I remember that time DBZ had a flashback inside of a flashback lol
well, thanks for the spoiler :(
Watch the One Pace fan edit of the Anime, or wait for The One Piece, a new official Anime that will condense the story to something more sane.
Seconded. Not only does it make the watch period much shorter (about half), but it also makes the watching experience insanely better. The biggest weakness of the anime is pacing
Half still sounds absolutely insane, just for the record
No argument here. This is purely for people who were already interested. Not going to push those run times on anybody
I almost gave up during Dres Rosa. Half the episodes are filler and flashbacks a dozen times. So awful
Dressrosa is easily the worst arc of the anime.
Ah damn, that’s where I am now. I’m thinking of skipping the flashbacks since I know the arc is over 100 episodes long.
Check out One Pace. It’s a fan edit of the anime without filler.
i checked it out, still too long, it will take an entire year to finish watching/reading.
By the time they find the one piece, there will be two pieces.
They find it and it immediately breaks into pieces. Now they need to collect them like they’re Dragon Balls.
Sequel!
One Piece: The story of how my cats kept me from finishing a puzzle.
Won Peace: The irony of using conflict to put an end to conflict
Wan Pierce: James Bond feeling unwell.
We’ll get GTA 6 before they find the One Piece
Not surprising, considering One Piece first released before GTA1 came out
this is the one anime I’ve always wanted to get into because everyone loves it and at this point…no, I don’t think it’s possible.
I remember One Piece being on Fox Kids or something when I was in high school or my early 20s, I’m in my 40s now, I don’t think it’s possible to even remotely try to catch up.
Try the One Pace fan edit. It cuts out all of the recaps and filler and shortens up long pan shots intended to eat time. It cuts out 40% of the overall time. And it’s even more if you skip the intros of each episode
Why the fuck would they leave in the intros? Do i need to make a nonfan edit and remove them?
Because some people actually enjoy watching the intros? Don’t be an ass by yucking other people’s yum.
Regardless, One Pace gets packaged into 50-60 minute episodes, so you’re seeing intros 1/2 to 1/3 as often per unit of play time.
There’s a version called the One Piece Omnibus Supercut that also eliminates the intros and outros, except for the first time they are shown. It chops the episodes up and stitches them together to make them about movie length each.
I had a psychiatrist once who was a fan of One Piece and when I had him explain it to me, it didn’t sound like he enjoyed the plot as the main course per se but enjoyed that the characters were consistent. That he could pop in around any arc at random and have an idea of what’s going on. Luffy is rubber, Zoro has his sword, etc.
He viewed it more like a soap opera you could tune into, rather than something you view from start to finish.
An article written in February this year said the show currently has 411 hours although their math was questionable with assumed episode length so I bumped it up to 440 hours.
So if you watch 7 hours of one piece per week that would take you just under 63 weeks. Which is about a year and 3 months. Accounting for new episodes let’s call it a year and a half.
Ways to spead it up would be skipping every intro and credits (this was in episode length calculated) and if you watch dub/read fast you can speed up videos anywhere from 1.25 to 2 times speed depending on your comfort level.
It is possible
I think trying to catch up to the anime would be basically impossible but 1100+ chapters of a weekly manga is just barely doable. Could easily go through 50+ a day.
Anyways, I say this but I also haven’t caught up with One Piece because there’s just so many other manga I’d rather read. Daemons of the Shadow Realm seems cool!
I caught up with the anime last year but its definitely rough. There’s a lot of padding in the older episodes though. They’re going to be slowing down to putting out only 26 episodes in 2026. Reading the manga up to the point the anime is at and watching the bigger fights is probably the more sane choice though as Toei is kinda shit.
The anime is hilariously padded. 24 minute episode with a 3 minute intro, 3 minute outro, 3 minutes of little animation action breaks, 3 scattered minutes of actual plot, followed by 12 minutes of broken up reaction shots from each of the 26 charectors in any random episode.
A charector will kick a guy and the anime will show you shocked faces for 3 minutes.
Art.
And they like don’t bother animating the cover stories
which are plot, relevant, by the way, and also help create the beloved feeling of the series’ world that it is a world in motion even when we’re not looking. it’s thanks to the cover stories that the supernovas don’t feel like an asspull despite being conceived of the week they were introduced
Everyone caught up knows there isn’t nearly enough One Piece
I read it up to 1044 before I dropped it :3. Was fun until then tho
Imagine if they found the one piece in 1045.
I mean, I don’t particularly care if they do at this point lol, im really out of the fandom :3
I imagine when they do find it, it’ll be big enough in the anime/manga space that I’ll see it wether I want to or not tho, and at that point if I do feel like it I’ll read up on what it actually was
