Watch. It.
Watch. It.
But there’s so much else on my “to watch” list!
And it’s been, like, 12 hours since my last Wolfs Rain rewatch, so I’m kinda late to that, y’know?
Yeah, like that. Anyone who genuinely think the anime equivalent of episodes is better quality/story/entertainment than the live action are delusional fanboys.
Usually it’s the live action that is slop
That is not the case for One Piece. It’s the opposite.
Honestly, the anime isn’t even good. Like, I’m still reading the manga, but I had to stop watching the anime something like 10 years ago.
I’ve heard it has gotten better since then, but watching the whole thing still includes years worth of episodes so thinly streched you could probably watch every third one without missing anything. And that’s on top of arcs so long, they are even a slog to read through (Dressrosa and Wano).
I agree, actually.
The quality is monstrously inconsistent, and even though the animation is at times absolutely mind-blowing in newer episodes (look up some clips, its amazing) the SFX department is still working with what are now ancient audio samples, which for me, still ruins it.
Yeah, that is controversial.
Since, if you just want to get into it, they literally did a movie version of the beginning of the story called “Episode of East Blue”, which IIRC is pretty good.
It’s a very compressed re-telling of the East Blue saga, and skips stuff like Logue Town, but it’s well acted, animated and scored. And isn’t live-action.
Does it remove all the annoying flashbacks, recaps and opening/closing themes in the episodes?
Or does it just remove filler episodes?
The problem with OnePiece is that because it used to release 1 episode per week, it needed to recap so many things that happened in the previous episode for the people to follow.
Which becomes so annoying when you binge watch them since they are repeating the same scene over and over.
Removing those would make the entire episodes about 10 minutes a piece.
You should look at all the work they put into it. They did custom fan edits to make the anime match the manga’s pace, hence the name. I think they removed about 1/3rd of the original anime’s runtime.
It’s how I watched One Piece on my most recent watch, and I wouldn’t watch it any other way in the future.
I started watching like a year ago.
It never became good entertainment.
I truly learned what it meant for a fight scene to take like 3 episodes or whatever. It’s disturbing. So many long, repeated stills, with “exciting” music and horrible dialogue.
I might be misremembering, but I feel like both the stranded pirate ship fight where they’d picked up Usopp and the “wax guy” fight on the giant island lasted 3 episodes. Or they were just so boring and slow they felt like it.
Never seen DBZ, don’t intend to.
Epicly long light novels are like that, too. Like in xianxia, they’re weak and looked down upon, but, due to [secret hidden ultra advantage], they advance quickly until they can defeat the bullies. Which brings them to a new tier of power where they’re weak and looked down upon, …
Some series do a good job of expanding the scope of things so politics start playing a bigger role, and they interact with people multiple tiers above their power for more continuity/scope, and/or move to new worlds/environments with entirely new structures, etc.
Others just do the same thing over and over again. Most do both, lol.
I find I can’t binge the same thing for more than a few weeks before I need a “palate cleanser” series before going back.
You have weak genes and a weak constitution, but don’t worry. One Piece will fix them both.
Start One Piece now.