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?)
I’ve only seen the live action series. Are you talking about loofys hat?
No idea what that theory is.
Yea luffy’s hat. It’s been a while since I read the Manga, I could have sworn gold d Roger had the straw hat when he got executed but it wasn’t present in the live action show.
Roger had the hat in his rookie years. He later gave it to shanks when he got himself a cooler hat (we just recently learned when).
Ah ok that explains why I pictured Roger with the hat. I’m like 30 chapters behind current.
The one piece is the friends we made along the way.
Oops sorry, no, it’s the more powerful than God fruit. Still can’t swim in seawater tho.
Oda already confirmed that isn’t what the One Piece was. Thankfully.
Gol D Roger had the straw hat way before visiting Laugh tale. That would be worse than “It was all a dream”, or “The one piece was the friends you made along the way”. Both of which have been debunked by Oda.
Personally I subscribe to the theory that the World Government is whom split the world into 4 pieces during the Void Century. Whatever the One Piece is - it will have the power to rejoin the 4 oceans.
It would solve every dream of all the Straw Hat Pirates. It would literally make the world One Piece again.
Favourite theory I heard was that the One Piece refers to all of the oceans being joined by destroying the strip of land in the centre of the cross shaped continent. They foreshadow it by having every character dream about the different types of fish all co-habiting in the same ocean.
Yes that’s what I’m talking about.
The destruction/removal of the Red Line which is the Mountainois ridges that go North to South round the world. But you would still have the Grand (East to West) that would prevent all 4 oceans from meeting.
It’s definitely a one-piece swimsuit.
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.
Fuck the animes pacing, it’s unbearable. Luckily https://www.onepace.net exists
Thank you for posting this. I gave up on the show a week ago around episode 600. Marineford legitimately felt like they spit in my face and told me my time was worthless with how many cuts of “he’s almost there”. The show looks like it gets interesting again afterwards but Marineford legit just sucked the will out of me to continue watching. I was thinking of looking up a fan edit to just get the cliff notes and this is perfect!
I feel ya bud, I always wanted to watch One Piece but it was no fun.
Until I found One Pace. Be sure to use a VPN when downloading via torrent though!
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.
Yep it’s the same with a lot of these super long series, they are much more digestible and addictive in manga form.
This is my same thought with soap operas. Not that I want to but how would you even get into a show that had been running 5 times a week for 30+ years?
You start at the same place every one else did - at Episode 1 Romance Dawn.
You don’t need to be caught up quickly. Shows are a journey not an end-game. If you don’t like watching it then don’t. You don’t have to watch something you don’t enjoy.
I tried to watch the ocean cut of Naruto, which basically edits each arc down, cutting out unnecessary flashbacks and recaps, along with intros and intros, making it into basically a series of films.
It’s still 40 films worth of content and 3+ hours per film sometimes (I think, it’s been a while), and the pacing is still absolutely fucked which is a symptom of basically every episodic anime when binged.
Read the manga
I had to watch the first 40 episodes on 3.5x and that shit was still boring. I dropped it after 40 lmao
Had to
Why did you have to?
Who is forcing you to watch a show you don’t enjoy.
The hype around One Piece saying “guys it’s really good trust me you should watch it.” That sentiment came from the Internet and one of my coworkers so I gave it a chance and watched around 40 episodes.
Anyone got any shows with more than 1000 episodes?
I’d rather watch 1000 episodes than an 8 episode Anime that rushes everything to the point that you’re never emotionally invested.
Not that i’ve seen any of them but 3 others come to mind
Doraemon, Crayon Shin-Chan, Detective Conan
Huh. I never knew Shin Chan or Detective Conan went on. I saw them on Adult Swim and figured those 20eps were it.
I’m gonna have to go to find where I can watch the rest. Thank you.
Conan is terrible for this. The author has said that he already has the ending planned out, but wont use it until the series loses enough popularity to be cancelled. Canonically, the story only takes place for one year, but has had multiple Christmas specials, gone from pagers to flip phones to smart phones and has had more murders than Japan’s official yearly average.
As a huge #OnePiece fan, I was enjoying it at the get go, but I have to admit that there were some moments where I felt it was slow, but I kept watching because of the way fans talked about it, the moment I felt completely in love with the series was at Arlong Park Arc (ep 31-44), especially with the episode 37, for others is later or early in the story.
I understand it is scary to get started after seeing the amount of chapters and episodes it has, it takes time commitment, it’s been almost two years since I watched the first episode, and it has been an incredible experience. You have multiple options to start.
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Read the manga. The source material. Official website to read the first saga for free
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Watch the anime. Fans complain about the pacing, it was annoying for me at certain moments, but for me, most of the time I didn’t notice it. It has the advantage of being more accessible, I would say, most people will likely watch on a streaming service with the dub in their native language. Watch One Piece on Crunchyroll
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Watch One Pace. Fan edit of the anime. This is a project that takes the episodes of the anime, and edit them to make them more truthful to the source material by removing filler scene, long reaction shots, stretched fights, fixing certain errors from the original anime (especially from the old ones, like color schemes since they didn’t know or errors that made the final version probably because of deadlines of being a weekly anime since 1999) and removing censorship from certain censored scenes. You can download the episodes by torrent or watch through telegram. Their website claims it 45% faster to watch than the original. One Pace official website
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Watch One Piece Live Action. Even though it has certain controversial changes that I don’t agree with, I loved how it opened the door for a lot of people to read the manga, watch the anime or One Pace. Watch One Piece Live Action on Netflix
The live action adaptation is amazing
Huh, so they didn’t fuck it up like they did with all the other anime adaptions? Neat.
Edit: so anyway, I started watching it last night and IMO it’s better than the anime!
Nope, it’s a really great adaptation. The changes they made were mostly to make it work better in live action, and a few story changes I actually really liked since they improved on aspects of some characters back stories.
And really, it’s juts a lot of fun. My girlfriend who doesn’t watch any anime absolutely loved the live action version, and is impatient for season 2.
Oda’s directly involved.
It really is much better than it has any right to be.
I had a good time watching too, not saying it was bad, just I didn’t like certain changes, but I understand why they had to do it, it is a different medium and if I’m not wrong, they didn’t have much time.
I just wanted the Krieg battle! That was hype when it first came out, damn I’m old as dirt
Thank you, for this, I’m going to check out one pace
One Pace is great. Started it in the middle of Thriller Bark and really noticed how much less the pacing annoyed me.
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One Piece is great, but it is a big investment. Worth it IMO. If you’re not sure, watch the Netflix live action. It’s only 8 episodes and is pretty faithful to the original.
I was laid off, and in my 13 months before getting a new job, I didn’t watch a single episode.
Same, except the getting laid off part
yet
You’re right, I might end up watching it
Ask not for whom the pink slip is printed…
And it’s a high risk investment at this point. I hope Oda stays healthy to see through his masterpiece.
3 more years tops. Iirc he mentioned he has one more arc in him. Historically they’re 2ish years long give or take. So just a bit longer and we’ll get to see how the one piece was the friends we made along the way.
Jk I know he said it wasn’t that.
I don’t trust the guy that initially planned it for 5 years. He just can’t help it!
I loved the live action One Piece much more than I thought I would. Just realize that it’s goofy and go along with it and you’ll have fun.
Plus if you like it enough to watch the anime you can skip like 50 episodes
That thing is like the least faithful adaptation of anything.
Ding dong you are wrong
Yeah “faithful” isn’t what I would call it but your comment is a huge exaggeration and I hope you know that. I’d struggle to find western adaptations that change less stuff than what the OP LA did.
Shonen manga is notorious for having winding stories with no narrative endgame planned.
Even the DBZ anime at 291 episodes is brutally long and drawn out, with a narrative that obviously repeats itself to the point of self-parody.
Everybody is gonna enjoy what they want to enjoy, but cmon.
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You haven’t read Detective Conan it seems. At least with One Piece the plot is progressing.
I vaguely remember there was an old line in Conan about how the de-aging poison would kill Shinichi if not reversed soon. Guess they had to conveniently forget that to preserve their commercial mascot.
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?
Three, a Saturday morning cartoon, and one that people don’t talk about
And one that people…forgot.
Look right here please.🔆
I bought volumes 1-40 when I was a kid until I moved out of Asia in the early 2000s… don’t want to look up how many are out now
the plot is progressing
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I think it’s more like a soap opera to the Japanese, that’s a guess though. It started in 1998 or 99, which means if you were 5 when you started watching it, you’re in your upper 20’s which is wild. I think there are people that cut out all of the filler of the anime that you can watch and the netflix adaption is about 4 years’ worth.
It’s called One Pace, it’s a fan edited version that takes out filler and overly long panning shots etc. to make the pacing of the anime match the manga more closely.
I realize that’s something I really like about unvoiced JRPGs, and manga; my reading pace dictates the scene’s pace, and I’m a decently fast reader. I’m not going to rush delivery on a dramatically impactful line, but I also won’t linger on some duke blabbing about the history of his house’s conflict with the weekend’s villain.
And most importantly, the flashbacks.
So. Many. Flashbacks.
Thanks for the heads up, that looks great.
The Netflix Live action One Piece didn’t even cover all of the East Blue Saga, which ran from 1997 to 1999 originallly.
Yeah I haven’t seen the OG but the live action was still a blast
From what I’ve read, they are framing out 12 seasons.
In the manga you mean? I thought one piece anime was '98 or '99 and I’m going off of that.
INB4 they jump the shark, finds One Piece, but now all of a sudden there’s a Second Piece.
Things “One Piece” means in Scotland -
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An unfashionable all in one ski suit
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A sandwich
In America its most notorious usage must be a woman’s bathing suit that is connected from bottom to top in some way.
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Chapter 1176?
The quality of the anime has some serious dips, but the manga is absolutely god tier from start to finish (or current latest chapter).
Nah, the manga has its issues too. They are just minimal compared to the anime. Oda will sometimes easily spend 10 chapters moving characters around just to setup some specific scene he wants to draw, then spend another 10 moving them back to where they need to be to continue the story. Half of wano was just moving chairs.
When I had a kid at home who liked one piece I learnt that the show has no end. You can watch it while you want to and you’ll get a little story progression. You don’t need to start at the start, you don’t need to watch to the non existent end
It was fun to watch the first twenty or so episodes then jump to the current state (current state circa 2007)
If you’re not reading right now, then you’re missing out on the story of the saddest family in existence.
Great, definitely a pass.
When did they sail to Roshar?
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…
First time I’ve seen the word antediluvian used in a context that wasn’t referring to the ancient super vampires from Vampire the Masquerade.
Wait, that’s not what they meant here?
It gets good around chapter 81.
Then later you realize it was always good.
I agree completely, don’t get me wrong, I was liking it so far. But that episode was what made me realize what story I was getting into and made me fell in love with #OnePiece.
