Asking about the one piece anime is a good litmus test for potential friends. If they hate it, they have decent taste. If they like it, they’ll probably accept my extended, meandering tangents.
I used to read shonen jump when I was a child and I remember reading the debut of the English translation when it came out. I fell off anime and didn’t start watching it again until a few years ago.
My mind was fucking blown that they were still making new episodes. It wasn’t even a spin off, it’s the same show.
Eta: when I say “child” I meant I was 8 or 9. I turned 30 last month.
https://onepace.net thank me later
I’ll thank you now, I’ve been wanting to get into one piece but the ridiculous length was keeping me off.
I’ve seen 46 anime series and movies in the time it would take me to get 2/3 the way through One Piece
The pacing is completely fucked most of the time, production quality varies over time (mostly because it’s spanning a decade now) and I wouldn’t recommend the show over the manga (which has none of these issues) aside from some key highlights, but I don’t think I’ll ever understand the disproportionate hate for the actual story of One Piece. Of the popular, long-running shonen series it has an original setting, a ton of world building and a romantic atmosphere. It’s not for everyone, but it does take an edgy contrarian to act like it’s dogshit with no redeeming qualities.
If I say this outside of shitpost subs, I get attacked.
One summer in college I watched the first 500 episodes in an extreme binge session. Probably 18 hour days of nothing but one piece day after day. Then I ran out of episodes. I keep thinking I’ll watch the rest someday, but I struggle up even remember most of what I watched back then. And now watching 1000 episodes feels like an impossible challenge
Just keep going from where you stopped. You might remember a few things you forgot and even if you don’t it’s fine. I’ve been reading the manga weekly for a decade and I’ve forgot a lot over time but it didn’t make it any less enjoyable.
Probably 18 hour days of nothing but one piece day after day.
… was that enjoyable?
It was at the time, but honestly it wasn’t great for my ability to retain much of what I watched. Good old ADHD hyperfocus kicking in.
All they do for 99% of each episode is talk about how they gonna defeat this enemy who is standing on the other side of the screen staring menencly at the protagonists
Oh thought we were talking about One piece, are we talking about Dragonball now? Jk, they both have that annoying shit
Just started it last week. Enjoying it so far.
Is the main character autistic or something? He seems kinda oblivious to social queues
Just a heads up I think you mean “social cues”. A cue is an indicator. A queue is a line waiting for something.
Unless the main character has issues with queueing, I guess. I dunno, I’ve never watched One Piece specifically because of the bonkers number of episodes.
Luffy wants a stocked fridge, to honour his friendships and to be king of the pirates. He just doesn’t give a single fuck about anything else
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Autism has always been a thing, and got its first medical definition in the 1940s.
we don’t talk about that guy, around here. He’s a dick.
Yeah, total waste of time.
goes back to playing DCSS
Ah yes, Dicks, Chicks and Slick Sticks for N64.
Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup?
Yes. While its breadth is amazing, the devs seem to keep changing everything which keeps me from exploring anything.
honestly I’m almost halfway through the anime and it’s pretty good
the latter half of Naruto Shippuden or Bleach be like
One Piece is a children’s show. My children love it. I wouldn’t wish it on adults.
It’s absurdism. It’s as much a children’s show as Slaughterhouse 5 is a childrens book
my mother in law is a one piece enjoyer
