That’s just a barrier of entry though. I’ve never seen anyone read the whole thing and then come out thinking it was just a waste of time. You either enjoy it or give up.
One Piece is kinda different from other long shows because it’s not being stretched artificially, but in a more natural way. Like, comparing it to Dragon Ball, it’s not a case of “and now we need to find the 7 dragon balls again” but a case of “turns out that finding 7 specific items that may be hidden anywhere in the world is actually fucking hard”. In that analogy, the story is at the “we just found out who has the seventh” stage. So now all that’s missing is getting that last one, making the wish and seeing the outcome of it.
The first segment of the series was quite linear, but after some point each country they visit has its own story, almost like an Isekai. Some of those stories are incredible, some are extremely boring and others are just fine. Then once Naruto and Bleach ended, OP kinda shifted into trying to absorb the fans of those two series and it became a lot less interesting to people who enjoyed only OP out of the big trio.
Half-truth take. It’s not stretched artificially in the fashion you describe. It is still rife with artifical stretching. Rife with filler. An absolutely obnoxious amount of screaming. Several minutes in each episode wasted explaining what happened last time. And so on. It is garbage that needs to end, but for those who absolutely want to dive into it, I’d at least recommend canning the anime shit and just read the superior manga.
Well, it isn’t one. There’s a great overarching story and recurring characters and all sorts of stuff that makes it not quite qualify as an Isekai, but yeah in general every new country has their own stuff going on in addition to the main story and it takes the main focus. Usually the most hyped chapters are the ones in-between arcs because it’s when there are updates on what other characters have been doing while the main cast was absorbed into a separate story.
And then even inside those separate stories there’s some times an additional level of separate story through some long flashback that last up to dozens of chapters.
It’s like the author wants to move on to create new stuff but can’t so he just adapts OP to fit whatever new story he wants to make. But I guess I’m just giving you even more reasons to stay away from it and I haven’t even mentioned any of its flaws.
The power creep just got way too out of control for my liking, and while I know that the power creep always existed, I feel like the adventures before showed how you can tell a good story without just brute force. Plus, even with their superhuman abilities, their struggles still felt relatable. And with what happened before and right after the aforementioned turning point, it felt like that would be left in the dust.
One Piece. I was interested in it (the manga), but it’s way too long.
That’s just a barrier of entry though. I’ve never seen anyone read the whole thing and then come out thinking it was just a waste of time. You either enjoy it or give up.
One Piece is kinda different from other long shows because it’s not being stretched artificially, but in a more natural way. Like, comparing it to Dragon Ball, it’s not a case of “and now we need to find the 7 dragon balls again” but a case of “turns out that finding 7 specific items that may be hidden anywhere in the world is actually fucking hard”. In that analogy, the story is at the “we just found out who has the seventh” stage. So now all that’s missing is getting that last one, making the wish and seeing the outcome of it.
The first segment of the series was quite linear, but after some point each country they visit has its own story, almost like an Isekai. Some of those stories are incredible, some are extremely boring and others are just fine. Then once Naruto and Bleach ended, OP kinda shifted into trying to absorb the fans of those two series and it became a lot less interesting to people who enjoyed only OP out of the big trio.
Half-truth take. It’s not stretched artificially in the fashion you describe. It is still rife with artifical stretching. Rife with filler. An absolutely obnoxious amount of screaming. Several minutes in each episode wasted explaining what happened last time. And so on. It is garbage that needs to end, but for those who absolutely want to dive into it, I’d at least recommend canning the anime shit and just read the superior manga.
Oh I was only talking about the Manga.
You could not have found a better phrase to make me hate One Piece more. I was ambivalent before, but I loathe isekai in all its forms.
Well, it isn’t one. There’s a great overarching story and recurring characters and all sorts of stuff that makes it not quite qualify as an Isekai, but yeah in general every new country has their own stuff going on in addition to the main story and it takes the main focus. Usually the most hyped chapters are the ones in-between arcs because it’s when there are updates on what other characters have been doing while the main cast was absorbed into a separate story.
And then even inside those separate stories there’s some times an additional level of separate story through some long flashback that last up to dozens of chapters.
It’s like the author wants to move on to create new stuff but can’t so he just adapts OP to fit whatever new story he wants to make. But I guess I’m just giving you even more reasons to stay away from it and I haven’t even mentioned any of its flaws.
Honestly, I stopped reading after
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they passed the halfway point of the Grand Line.
The power creep just got way too out of control for my liking, and while I know that the power creep always existed, I feel like the adventures before showed how you can tell a good story without just brute force. Plus, even with their superhuman abilities, their struggles still felt relatable. And with what happened before and right after the aforementioned turning point, it felt like that would be left in the dust.