• randon31415@lemmy.world
    78·
    10 months ago

    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?)

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
    691·
    10 months ago

    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.

      • Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        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!

        • Ace! _SL/S@ani.social
          1·
          10 months ago

          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!

    • toaster_waffle@lemmy.world
      181·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • Obi@sopuli.xyz
        61·
        10 months ago

        Yep it’s the same with a lot of these super long series, they are much more digestible and addictive in manga form.

    • BlackPenguins@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 months ago

      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?

    • Khrux@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world
      42·
      10 months ago

      I had to watch the first 40 episodes on 3.5x and that shit was still boring. I dropped it after 40 lmao

      • Killer@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        Not that i’ve seen any of them but 3 others come to mind

        Doraemon, Crayon Shin-Chan, Detective Conan

          • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
            4·
            10 months ago

            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.

  • TheFederatedPipe@kbin.social
    331·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • Read the manga. The source material. Official website to read the first saga for free

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    #OnePace #OnePieceLiveAction #Manga #Anime

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        10 months ago

        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!

        • Tavarin@lemmy.ca
          11·
          10 months ago

          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.

      • TheFederatedPipe@kbin.social
        5·
        10 months ago

        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.

        • MrBusiness@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          I just wanted the Krieg battle! That was hype when it first came out, damn I’m old as dirt

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
      6·
      10 months ago

      I just rewatched Yuyu Hakusho and it became obvious real quick nothing planned from arc to arc. Even when the creators want a clean end, their editor will push for more if it’s popular enough. I can respect Demon Slayer for committing to the final villain that was setup in the beginning.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • Gigan@lemmy.world
    26·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
    17·
    10 months ago

    Things “One Piece” means in Scotland -

    1. An unfashionable all in one ski suit

    2. A sandwich

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      10 months ago

      In America its most notorious usage must be a woman’s bathing suit that is connected from bottom to top in some way.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
      24·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        10 months ago

        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.

    • Gigan@lemmy.world
      5·
      10 months ago

      The Netflix Live action One Piece didn’t even cover all of the East Blue Saga, which ran from 1997 to 1999 originallly.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
    175·
    10 months ago

    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).

    • Phen@lemmy.eco.br
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.

  • Sagrotan@lemmy.world
    154·
    10 months ago

    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…

  • psud@aussie.zone
    11·
    10 months ago

    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)

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
    91·
    10 months ago

    If you’re not reading right now, then you’re missing out on the story of the saddest family in existence.