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.
Things “One Piece” means in Scotland -
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An unfashionable all in one ski suit
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A sandwich
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Like the Bible, I maybe haven’t read every single word, there was the title, something something with a ship and a cross, then a damn long register, but I think, I got the essence. It’s a boring antediluvian scam, kinda like Elon has written it…
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.🔆
