One Piece

Warning: Minor Spoilers

If I were to say anything bad (and I will have to do that as this review is not a positive one) about this anime that would not offend the hardcore fans (and I know there are a lot) is that it's PAINFULLY slow.

Even if you leave the fillers aside, still- the plot itself progresses in such a slow pace that it's rather hard to watch. Now for a younger audience it may not matter that much, but to me as a higher age audience, it matters greatly, after all, out of the 23~ minutes of each episode 3 are spent ... on opening and ending (which is usual I guess), but in most episodes, roughly 5 (!) or more minutes are spent on a recap of the current story arc, as if the creators of the show forgot it's a shounen anime and instead got the idea that the audience are elderly people with Alzheimer.

But ok, this means there is still 15 minutes left per episode right? Well, not really. In most episodes, the heroes get separated. When they do, the anime tries to keep track of ALL of them simultaneously, cutting every few minutes. This wouldn't be so bad IF after the cut, the same exact scene did not repeat itself (example - a few seconds that show one of the main heroes standing and looking at a place/ villain that is shown from a few angles. Then the anime continues elsewhere, and when it comes back to the same place, the same exact scene is shown). That may not sound as much, but in drastic cases that can sum up to a few minutes (the worst case I bothered to count was almost 4 minutes of time wasted on watching the same scene). Combined with a lot of other tricks, I'd say that a lot of episodes are left with about 11 minutes of actual content on average. That is simply dreadful.

Now to say some positive things for contrast- the story is actually very interesting and the characters are well done... BUT, no matter how good something is, if you drag it out too much (and this is indeed the case with One Piece), even the best story in the world and the best characters possible (not to say one piece has neither of those.. The story is great, and the characters are good, but not more) will not keep you entertained, and turn even the best story possible into a boring experience.

Now back to the negatives. NO ONE DIES IN THIS ANIME. This is of course an exaggeration, as some people actually do die in this anime BUT only when it's critical to the plot. At all the other times, the characters "die" just to add drama and to come back a few scenes later.. Sometimes to "die" again and add even more "drama" (added "" because at this point its more awkward/silly after one time rather than dramatic). The worst case of this I saw was with Brownbeard who "died" something like 5 times over 2-3 episodes (if I remember right), and still stayed alive in the end while the show tried to suck as much drama out of this as possible. And this brings me to the next point- fake drama. They seem to try and squeeze out as much of it as possible, at every opportunity they get. From crying children (and adults) to characters repeatedly "dying" and to the most cliche tearjerkers possible at every turn of the story. They even go as far as to try and make the villain's henchmen AND EVEN THE VILLAIN himself have a tragic past that you are supposed to relate to and feel sorry for (because seems a villain can't just be evil because that is just the way he is, he had to become evil because something bad happened (lol, how about sheer ignorance or plain greed for wealth or power?)... and we apparently MUST know. for both villains and side characters that we'll never even see again). Also I mentioned crying.. There is an unbelievable amount of it in this anime. And that would be ok (I guess) if
A- they did not try to milk it for drama (yep, that's a word that sure gets a lot of use when discussing this anime huh?) every single time
B- they didn't think that when someone cries, he instantly turns ugly, with snot running down his nose and with the worst face expression possible, regardless of gender, age or how emotional he is.

I'd say a lot more, but there is already a lot of text, and it's enough to sum it up - this anime is not one I would recommend someone to watch under any normal circumstances (maybe only if someone made a shortened version with all the repeats, openings, endings and cuts removed thus making the whole anime be at around 300 episodes max), I watched over 600 episodes myself, and I can safely say that although some parts were enjoyable, it was mostly rather boring when looked as a whole, and especially the later episodes, and I am regretting the time I spent watching it (as to why i watched it so far- my friend recommended it to me and I did not expect it to last this long. I usually finish what I start, but this is ridiculous, bad, and really beyond me at this point.)

Review In short,
I'm Going to keep it real with you all that you would obviously see my score that i gave One Piece.
Well, That is why in my review I'm going to go over these factors as to why this isn't worth your time so that I can save you a life line. So for that You are welcome. (This Applies To Manga Also in case your wandering)

Anyway I have Dropped this series for many reasons alone that I did to where I was watching and Investing my time with this and its pretty simple why that is and why It made sense ... for me to review One Piece.

Firstly Its very easy to base this series on the analogy of this being a shonen adventure series yes, however what continues to irk at my own viewing experience of watching this for a long while now and to put it simply if I were to sum up this series in a nutshell It would be summed up in 4 words...(Typical Forced Annoying Tendencies)

To empathize my point much further,
This anime has dragged onto the point where I know longer care where the story is heading now because its writer
Oda Eiichiro unfortunately likes to Time waste WAY too often in his
writing of milking hundreds of episodes of this series of its so called world building and brain wash a lot of its Japanese audience as well as those that following the whole over saturated popular shonen trend in the process to the point that the fans themselves have overate this anime in general in its own category.

Literally the story has not changed to any degree where a new plot can be implemented differently in its approach which sadly isn't the case let alone can the story mature with its premise as this is still following the same freaking formula of a repetitive lame shonen nonsense of its character troupes with most of its episodes from 1 to god knows what episode its currently on right now so far which I really question if this anime just wants the viewers attention just because of its length that can still be milked because of it?

OR does it want to be a pirate adventure shonen that can integrate an effort into its story and characterizations? Well at this point I can easily tell you that both completely Suck at making these traits realized in Oda's craft which is not engaging my viewing of the same formula with many random added coincidences that luffy and strawhats encounter on their journey and with that has lost more credibility in claiming that this is an anime about pirates in general which is even more ridiculous throughout and for the longest time after a while I just found this series to be rather boring and predictable in its long tedious dragged out boring narrative.
(Btw, Nothing to do with just its length or its terrible look in general)

I honestly got to ask those currently watching or even reading One piece
Do you really like to enjoy the same old tropes and jokes over and over again that includes many long pointless plot elements that have many cons for milking their story and character for its own purpose??

Its Just like how the Naruto franchise lost credibility thinking its own series depicts ninjas in its own way to show the struggle taking place for nonjas old and young in its own viewing in the show which shows in both naruto and one piece over time what it has lost through its extended transition in both their writing of these concepts.

As a shonen anime Its these glaring flaws that just keeps continuing on and on. That in terms of its story, characterization, progression, writing, enjoyment and any replay value what so ever for a shonen experience which becomes blatantly obvious that it fails! especially when some claim this to be the definitive shonen anime experience of a grand adventure. (Oh Dear.)

There are 2 clear things fans will use to defend this show by saying don't be put off by the shows length or its dumb cartoony animation and secondly dont be put off with the handling of the material in the way Toei Animation handles this so instead read the manga, And to that I say.. NONSENSE! Since the show already has a lot problems already that fans seem to gloss over.

You see, Reading its Guinness book of its trash manga doesn't even help or even give me value for reading through for what has loads of the same problems as I've mentioned above.

If that wasn't enough of an issue. Its story of its characters and its events always end up feeling pretty much the same Forced Melodramatic story in its writing that you have seen and heard loads of times and only forces you to endure this along with bad side stories that contribute into an even SLOWER pace for this show in each of its build up with each Arc that by over hundreds and hundreds of episodes later by then it totally becomes unacceptable, By then I don't blame certain people out there for skipping chunks of its story now and then.
(Trust me, Having tolerance for this anime should be the least of your worries here people.)

For me going through each arc to arc in a easy going manner that I approach most anime through my viewing You'd expect that this would be casual thing of ease for me right? No sweat? WRONG,
It didn't guarantee me as a viewer any love or charm what so ever to a lot of its characters like the time you are first introduce to them in the series.

Instead it only just copies and paste stuff mostly of the same scenarios that you would see far too often in this series for most if not all of these characters and YES that does includes the main crew along with their progression except for some few in the straw hat crew that show to get more abilities than others really makes it fair in its togetherness doesn't it?
(Some bonding that is if you ask me?, since only a few certain characters with plot armour that can do certain things most others couldn't do)

Even when uniting the straw hats together only just makes it for a more cheesier affair most of the time when you would obviously expect it Especially when it comes off as cliche as it does.

Which also regards to parts where one piece at some parts wants to go dark its already so desperate to up the ante that a blind Ray Charles can easily tell from miles away that its only going to result into a similar conclusion like before.

I mean come on! its way past most of the amount of standard shonen episodes! which reminds me of Detective Conan, However in Conan's case the Difference is between these 2 series is in its Fandoms.
One Piece fans try to Over hype the crap out of this which is really unnecessary even when lots of people know clearly that it is the case.

A terrible excuse for making points along this series own progression just because its stretched out as it has been for the premise inexcusably which is a joke for those who try to justify this notion.

Look, We already got the basic gist of things going on in this series from the beginning, Even through its dumb world building and set up and even till now is still not even well structured since it throws random places for us to be distracted so that fillers can help maintain its bad pace let alone does it even make that much sense to begin with especially when trying to use foreshadowing to justify the ridiculous amount of episodes that is in this series as it is to make us feel like we have feel invested in the unknown mysteries of the show which actually does the opposite effect.

I believe the one piece fandom have gotten mixed up with what world building actually is with the amount of episodes there have been especially focusing on stuff that this show thinks I should see but I don't and no I don't need to have to skip arcs just to enjoy something, Why should I? that is just retarded. Is that why its Manga counterpart is in the Guinness book of records because of its pacing and complacency? Makes sense for whatever parts of this series gains popularity in much of its story for being pointlessly repetitive i suppose.

1. First off regarding what I've mentioned so far,
If you have an immersive world and there is already enough content in the story/journey in your world building never mind how vast or mysterious it is, Don't pointlessly drag it out instead USE IT! and stop milking it with stupid character expressions of coincidences full of plot devices and plot armour, I do not care that it is a dumb shonen. At least FMA knew this a lot better.

2. Pointless prologues to your episodes.

3. Bad morals in many different situations of the story with its writing.

4. Stupid journey objectives that hardly revolves around the plot of the treasure of one piece until HUNDREDS AND I MEAN HUNDREDS of episodes later on to the point which is unacceptable along with milking its main characters most of the time of this franchise that gets to the point where it feels like its turning into filler which by the way there are a lot of them no matter what fans try to say against this.

5. Dumb fanservice depictions of its females making video games like dead or alive and Onechanbara look a lot more tolerable.

6. Stop foreshadowing something in the story that was mentioned hundreds and hundreds of episodes ago as its not good story telling neither is it clever in any way since it never justifies its consistency for constantly dragging on in the way it does.

7. Over hyping stronger characters that don't really get involve in the story that much anyway.

8. Its lame music score that should sound great but it doesn't.

9. Most of the times bad animation no doubt, AKA Toei Animation VERY LAZY INDEED and are swimming in pools of Yen around them like fat sewer Rats.

10. Devil fruits abilities in the way with any other devil fruits that are demonstrated looks stupid and nonsensical to the overall balance and power scaling with variations of different class devil fruit users, which in term of supposedly creating unpredictability and uniqueness to a devil fruit user's abilities only serves to unfortunately create a convoluted mess of an explanation of devil fruit powers in general to those that are Logia, Paramecia and Zoan in their own element even in terms of their weakness which is badly depicted on in the show.

11. Haki creates a lot of bullcrap deus ex machinas later on as an excuse of not explaining a lot about devil fruits all that well and lots of times is used mainly for plot armour for certain characters of the writer's choice which is lazy nor does it add anything new to the battle scaling in fights more like unneeded add ons.

12. its voice acting well its just mostly tedious and over the place nothing great or over the top despite how Oda writes the story (Bad writing Btw) that even after listening to lot of these characters it just makes me want to listen to a dying mule instead. Nothing weird or wonderful about that my friends.

With all that being said, Its only qualities that I like about one piece are the art designs of certain characters and the fact there is a series that stars pirates, since there are very few anime series that have pirates (not that they are suppose to be role models in any way)
but those are the only positives with this series in general for me and honestly nothing more.

Overall its an over exaggerated series of repetitive outcomes that I have not enjoyed in its long run about dumb wannabe pirates quote PIRATES! It's only real positive here is HEY ITS ABOUT PIRATES WOW THATS RARE TO FIND IN ANIME ISN'T IT???..WRONG BECAUSE CONSIDERING WHAT PIRATES ARE LIKE IN REAL LIFE WHO CARES ANYWAYS.

That is like me wanting to write a story about slavery on different Ethnicity/Races but NOOOOOOO............. that won't be right, so why not glorify slave traders into being these nice dumb heroes? because you know It sounds interesting right? RIGHT??... WELL WRONG AGAIN.

Now going back to my point of Watching this crappy cartoon this only makes me or most viewers seem to have to glorify such a pathetic outlook of a premise with its stretched out world building that is not even incisive enough to its history of the story, neither is it memorable for me enough to even care about it to watch it any longer as it doesn't reward me growth in their characters, a decisive objective or consistency of its so called journey within its story in general.

Last but not least The fights really suck! seriously do yourselves a Big favour there are better Shonens and many other Animes out there that is worth watching that has better characters, better story, better pacing and better growth than this long turd of a show that seems to overate a lot in Japan above others which unfortunately is the world we live in today. Consider this dropped and good riddance.

Excuse me for being honestly critical as I am as I do not sugar coat a series if that is what you really wanted about this show in general, well too bad. You can go to other reviewers that are giving out tens towards this Overrated piece of fiction that's overstayed it's welcome.

To all of you who have read my review thanks for taking the time and take care.

Lets start with the story.

Story. 2/10. The story is about a boy name luffy that wants to go and reach one piece. Him and his crew member will set sail to go anywhere except one piece.

Art. 3/10 The art in one piece is ridiculous stupid looking the characters have weird over exaggerating expression. When they are shouting or just opening their mouth it's so huge it could fit 10 ships in it. Ed edd n eddy has way better art than one piece and that cartoon was made from the 90s that's to show you how bad the art is.

Sound. 7/10 the sound is ... the best thing in the series this is what made me watch made me watch so much episode of one piece is because I enjoy the sound. I also like to laugh at how stupid it's and how stupid the characters look.

Characters. 1/10 The characters are cut out cardboard boxes they dont change they are exactly the same and I'm talking from a manga reader the series has over 700+ chapters and all the characters are still the same. Oda doesn't know what character development means.

Enjoyment. 5/10. My enjoyment comes from how stupid it's, I lol so much time while watching this series. it even tries to take it self seriously but failed miserable, lol and that made me laugh a lot so I had some enjoyment in it because of how stupid it's but the other 50% of the series is Luffy running up and down like a chicken without a head which is boring....

overall this series is mostly full of gag you should not take it seriously if you do you're only going to be disappointed so the series isn't the worst series I've ever watch. So if you want a series to laugh at, I would 100% recommend one piece to you all.

OnePiIISSWuaaaa!!!

From a scale of "over 9000" to "too damn high", how excited am I, you say? Well, judging from watching this garbage, I'd say a 9 will suffice for the after effect. I like it, but in all honesty, it's not good. So, to begin my review, let me start of my experience of watching OnePiIISSWuaaaa!!!!

Please do understand this is not me taking shots at this series in any way, this is just me expressing my views on the show in terms of its merits and failings to see if its as great as fans really suggest this to be.

For a long time you ... see I've watched the series of One Piece back on television during the great Toonami era which basically is The western TV version of saying HELLO JAPAN!!

The dub for 4kids was what I watched at first and no surprise it deserved it at the time, because the show wasn't that special from the get go from when it started off to where it's currently at now with DOH Flippin Flamingo. And yes, I went to Funimation and the Japanese for their take on its characters voice and music etc. which still did not make any difference apart from seeing some dumb unrealistic violence and yet the show still hasn't grown up to where I am now in the series, it could be possibly I'm not acknowledging the show in the right way despite that I'm still watching it or maybe Oda just isn't Goda anymore. OH NOOO! THE HORROR!!

The basic story premise is about pirates with super fruity power ups known as Devil Fruits (Laughing excessively here at this point). More to it lies with our main character Monkey D Luffy a wannabe young man who wants to be king of the pirates. (Wow had no idea there was royalty to begin with pirates but oh well)

Luffy strings up a group of people to join his pirate crew within different arcs of the story to help in searching for a treasure known as OnePiIISSWuaaaa!!! that was foretold by the greatest pirate known as Gold D Rodgers who apparently hides the treasure in the Grand Line (because that's the name of the big game I guess?) and by the time our hair turns grey we might actually find out as to why and what it is (that is either you or Oda stays alive until then.)

At the time of Gold D Rodger's death sentence, he makes his last infinite statement that he says he left everything in OnePiIISSWuaaaa! Oh yes! Gotta love that D, eh Boys and Girls?

So far in the midst of everything, the story tries its hardest to keep building up and gets messed up at an early point right after 50 episodes which was supposed to be its greatest strength but also becomes its greatest weakness. You probably won't believe me for saying this but that weakness being is WORLD BUILDING.

Basically what I mean by that is that it is constantly dragging on episodes to make you feel that you are on a long journey of some sorts but in reality, all it really is doing is STALLING on the part of the mangaka Oda Eiichiro's Art design and writing for whatever wage he seems to be earning on demand at the moment and yes, it's fact since the industry supposedly is hard on the condition of writers on a weekly basis. In other words, the PACING OF THIS ANIME IS AWFUL.

Sounds familiar?? It's pretty much very similar to Hunter X Hunter mangaka Togashi Yoshihiro's approach in the story that constitutes for being excessively greedy in its approach, then again quite a lot of Shounen animes are like that, I guess.

It's like the anime is holding up a sign saying:
HEY NOTICE US PLEASE!! PLEASE TAKE NOTICE OF US! OR WE'LL KEEP SLOWING DOWN FOR WE SEEK THE ATTENTION!!!!

Anyway, enough of the issue at hand before some of you start feeling like I'm trying too hard to be negative on purpose. Think to yourself THIS, if this was such a great shounen for examples like Death Note or even FMA Brotherhood why the need for SO many episodes?? Why am I so serious..??

Very simple answer. Again it's World building, which demands many SLOW pacing in a lot of episodes, so much so that they probably need LOADS of spin off specials and movies like you haven't watched enough of this already as it is in and outside of this franchise, (also referring to Japanese one piece merchandise of course.) By the time you get your toys at whatever time period this show continues, you ALL would of already grown out of this at some stage in your life unless your an Otaku then fair enough.

This is no rant here, I'm only stating the obvious critical point towards the show as a whole. But like I mentioned, it's because of this World Building this leads to the major reason why the story at most becomes tedious and below mediocre at best on a consistent level in almost EVERY Arc.

Oh, and also FILLERS! Whether the fandom wants you to know or not know, there are a lot of filler characters which also includes badly forced gags for no progressive purposes except for you to question say ''Hey maybe I should watch something else for the time being,'' and me being an honest critic of this generation I will gladly say this, that you should not be force to be put through too much of the same stuff that you don't really want to SEE in a long series like this.

Can we be honest and say for any anime watchers out there that loads of episode can harm World building because of timing and pacing problems such as this? When you are chock full of content like this, it should be constructed and executed better! Never mind the BS on the whole it started in the 90s kinda nonsense. YOU have the content for viewers to be engaged in the show, yet this anime stretches out the same shit you already witness before without some even realising it (Naruto I'm looking at you on this notion here). So, don't go into this series thinking there ain't gonna be any fillers because I can most assure you there are, and quite a lot of them even if some of the extreme fandom don't seem to believe so.

The Art is okay and at the same time can look very BAD in terms of the details of a lot of characters. Marines look stupid and quite similar to one another and just well fodder really and females in this series turn out to have the same physique as every other hourglass shaped female in the show. Wait, is this fairy tail?? (Oh boy I might of hit the nail on that one)

Big tall men have extremely wide bodies and extremely skinny legs for no reason, at least Whitebeard is the more convincing one out of them. Other characters which includes non human characters look ridiculous and just too nonsensical to be taken seriously, no matter what dragon ball like power they seem to possess. Almost like I'm watching a Disney cartoon back in the day if it was on LSD. Znd for the love of god, why is Usopp's nose like THAT?? I don't care what third dimension of Disney this is supposed to be? THIS does not appeal to me, thank you.

Now on to The Power schemes and structures of OnePiIISSWuaaaa! such as:
Paramecia: Body manipulation over their own bodies, environment, or produce substances.
Logia: Having the power of natural elements or force of nature.
Zoan: Transformation of species and inter-species hybrid forms at will.

Ah, you would think this category would be solid? While some powers in the series I'll admit can be used to good effect, others can look completely ridiculous and nonsensical even in their own category which for the most part makes the power balance of this series even more unbalanced.

Oh and lastly, Haki AKA (Haki of the Color of the Conquering King): Domination of the wills of others is the dumbest made up BULLSHIT! in the entirety of this franchise.
"Oh wow Conquerors Haki! OMG! That guy just looked at another person and that person fell DOWN!! OMG!!" Seriously? NO SERIOUSLY, don't get me started talking about the different fighting styles in this series, it's lame and not worth mentioning for they are like an excuse for characters that have to fight for the sake of having fights as their only true purpose and nothing more.

Villains in this show are typically One dimensional; they the kind of villains that likes to display cruel tendencies to other characters that you really wouldn't care for, BUT I guess because the straw hats appear (Oh Whoopie), you are forced to unfortunately. At times, it can seem somewhat tiresome, especially if you are already familiar with this Shounen pattern again and again and again and AGAIN. How long has this series been going on for? (No Seriously)

So, now on to characters where the show for the most part kind of develops, but only due to back stories to further a fully purposed plot for them later on from the get go, but it never really makes ground breaking attempts to carry along in this stride in every arc which is a real shame. So this wouldn't really be shocking up to this point, ESPECIALLY if you have already watched a shit ton of episodes till the current episode you are at right now.

Main Characters, The simple short version.

Luffy: IMO, as the Lead character he is one of the most uninspiring main character leads I've ever seen in shounen he has 2 fixated moods DUMBASS Or Constipated Raging Man child. Take your pick.

Zoro: He is useless following directions making the punt of his efforts in lots of situations where he is lost at every turn very stupidly which in turn leaves his three swords style. But then who cares when you see characters like Killer Bee from naruto who uses his own 8 swords style? So right off the bat, what is so impressive about this 3 swords style? Haki Right? The only answer to just about anything dumb in this show, that's cool, I get it.

Sanji: He is basically Brock from pokemon as he is just a generic character who tries to be a hit with the ladies and never gets any including that he is also a chef and STILL never gets ANY WOMAN. Poor bastard.

Franky: I guess you can say he is the Cyborg technician of the ship who thinks he is SUPER MANLY but most of the time he is just a complete Super douche mentally and physically speaking.

Nami: She is Tragic navigator turned tragic Fan service, which gets dudes thirsting ''Where's that Nami hentai at!!??"

Chopper: I don't want to know any further about this annoying Doctor.

Brook: Probably my favourite straw-hat pirate out of them all, but Oda sometimes devalues his character like others.

Nico Robin: She is Tomb Raider but with a cool ability, if I might add.

And to be fair, I liked the back stories of the characters. However, what I didn't like was over using the same sad theme for each of their themes with streams of over exaggerated tears. (talk about milking moments like these here to give people quickly them feels, which gets old really fast.)

As for the sound department, it's lacking but by no means bad, it suits whatever mood you could be feeling in this long ass snail pace of a series. The voice acting quality were few and not so many.

Animation wise, it can look really decent when they put there time into it like marineford for example, and a lot of other times can look pretty abysmal most of the time according to Toei Animation.

Overall am I enjoying this series? I am trying to, but because of those obvious glaring flaws on the surface still exist just like the treasure OnePiIISSWuaaaa!!!!!

I'll admit I have put this on hold during the arc of Doh Flippin Flamingo because I still intend to finish what I started. Otherwise why go in over 600 episodes deep just to drop it? You see I'm a watcher not a reader of forever long manga, so I intend to keep it that way plus I have no time for comparisons between the anime and manga I have better stuff to do in my long life so I leave you with this.

If you want the most silliest longest Shounen adventure ongoing where everything changes with the times except this then by all means give this a shot you might end up loving it, just not in the same way it has been for me. I can be sure I'm probably not the only one.

The pinnacle of mind-numbing tedium, One Piece proves that just because something is popular doesn't necessarily mean it's good. It's issues are many and numerous, eliminating any chance it had at being the greatest anime of all time.

1. The Pacing: There isn't a single arc that isn't outrageously long. From drawn-out fights to lengthy (and usually dumb) filler scenes, I'd say about 70% of each arc is a waste of time and doesn't need to be there. The longest arc (Wano) is close to 200 episodes, and yes, they spend the entire arc fighting the same guy.

2. Length: It's not just that the show is ... drawn out, it would still be unbelievably long even if it the arcs weren't stretched to their limit. The anime has been running for over 25 years and the manga will soon reach it's 30th anniversary in 2027.

3. It doesn't have a clear demographic: Sometimes One Piece boasts idiotically cringe-worthy humor that only a child would find funny, but with dark moments, outrageous oversexualization of female characters, and blood, it's clearly not for young kids. But the series is so childish overall that it cannot be considered a show meant for teens.

4. Irritating Characters: All of the characters are either dumb or loud. I don't think there's a single episode that doesn't contain idiotic yelling. Luffy is so stupid and clueless that it's impossible to like him.

Would I recommend this? No. Never.

''I'm Luffy! The Man Who Will Become The Pirate King''

This is the quote, that sets the main plotline for the series. Along with the name of the title itself. Hearing this and glimpsing at the synopsis, I build up expectations of an amazing journey, coupled with an engaging story driven narrative and good sense of mystery. Unfortunately those expectations were not met with great content to satisfy them. My main motivations for starting this was my desire to understand why is this series so successful in Japan. And I'm afraid to say after I gave the show a shot, I wasn't able to get it, ... or even see the appeal like I would for others shows that I didn't like.

Let's start with the Characters [3/10]. They might be one of my biggest gripe of the show. I could forgive the semi-episodic narrative of the show and the repetition found in the format of the arcs if the characters kept my interest and made me want to keep watching. It's not that I simply didn't like them, because Luffy the protagonist himself is pretty likeable, and I like Zoro and Robin. But characterization, progression and just the general writing of the characters fails to deliver. Luffy is two dimensional at best. Everything about him feels borrowed from Goku, and not much is exclusive to him. He doesn't have any significant character development for more than 100+ episodes. He has the same track mind, same point of view. Never changing or maturing. Not feeling any more sense of responsibility and not gasping a bigger sense of the world, emphasizing his naivety and immature personality. So he is a static character for a big portion of the show. While static doesn't mean a bad character by default, in the case of Luffy it makes him a bad character. It makes him super predictable in how he reacts to things, his interactions with others and his decisions in general. There is hardly any fleshing out of his character outside of simple dialogue and simple motives ''I want to be the pirate king'' '' I Will Protect my Nakama'' ''I love meat''. His characterization is very simple and while that could be considered likeable, it's yet not charming as Goku. Since it's just a copy. I just find him dull and non-simulating, the shouting and care free personality with the serious personality in fights doesn't make him interesting to me. There is just no particular depth in his characterization or the execution of his character. He is faced with a major life changing events later on in the series, but he is still the same character after it passes. When speaking of development, it's not meant to be a complete change of personality (180 personality change) but it means a significant change in characterization, while his fundamental character is still intact. A dynamic character most often than not is more interesting with more room to show more layers of the character.

The other main characters more or less are the same as Luffy just slightly better. I found Nami's character to be good due to her conflict with pirates and her character development and back story in Arlong park. I thought that was a not so average aspect like most other things, and I even started liking her. But as soon as that arc finished she remains static with nothing to offer, making her interactions with the crew members predictable, annoying and hardly funny. I expected to see more to her than simple gags. They don't get development past their introductory arcs. Which makes them less believable and interesting, considering they are on a big journey that should alter their lives forever. Repeating of their dreams and motives every other time kinda makes them shallow, because they offer nothing else in conflicts, internal struggles or different dimensions or something subtle to make me wonder and try to think and understand something deeper or anything interesting really. They remain in a status quo for a very long time. The author just doesn't try and bring fourth interesting conflicts for them to develop alongside the story. It's like after he is done with their basic and initial characterization he just stops there. So they feel like very incomplete characters that have unharvested potential despite the length of the series.

I really dislike Sanji. He is the worst crew member. No. He is the worst character in the entire show. No. He is the worst character I've ever seen in any shounen anime. There is bad, and there is offensively bad. Sanji belongs to the latter. His characterization, I don't exactly get what the author wanted here. Did he really want him to be a celebration of sexism? it's supposed to be chivalry but it goes beyond that, and enters the realm of sexism with Sanji. When he refuses to fights female characters even if the lives of his crew members depends on it. He is not supposed to be a comic relief character, so this isn't an excuse to how his character is written and presented. I don't see him as a classy womanizer, I see him as an offensive character who's love for women shouldn't be more than a comedic side to him. It shouldn't be a big part of his characterization. It came to the point where his comedic nose bleed became an actual plot point, I shit you not. It's like everything about him aside form his initial dream (that is never brought up as an actual point of relevance after his arc) is about women. And that's why he is that much worse than the other characters in the show. There is nothing redeeming about him (even his style of fighting is bleh)

The story [5/10]. I didn't see something particular impressive about it. There are certain problems that is apparent in almost every arc. They are formulaic for the most part. The crew goes from an island to an island helping the inhabitants of said islands, and go on about their way. It feels like every arc is episodic and discontinued, with little things barely connecting them together to an overarching story. I didn't like that since I like continuity and for a premise such as this, I was more in favor of non-episodic storytelling. As it feels like padding, since you get introduced to a lot of characters that are in the end not important or even relevant outside of their perspective arc for the story or the main characters. Once in a while one of those characters make a surprise appearance and the fans get excited, feels a bit like tricking them from my point of view, especially with the characters that are supposed to be dead but are never shown exactly their death.

The type of stories in each of these arc is more or less fundamentally the same. An evil oppressor (Arlong, Crocodile) does his evil ways in the island and controls it for his own objectives. The heroes (strawhat crews) became friendly and bond with the villagers, so they are asked to help them. Luffy takes on the big bad and the others take care of the henchmen. This type of scenario gets boring pretty fast. Especially when it in itself, without the repetition is dreadful and the bare bones of a hero vs villain narrative. In Alabasta, it almost feels like a Disney story, with the person asking for help being a princess. Villains in the series in general are evilly cartoon-ish. Another issue is the plot armor, and how almost nobody dies. 700 episodes and the death of important characters can be counted in one hand. Nothing wrong with keeping it light, but if that's the the intention then the characters shouldn't be facing that many near death experience and surviving through cartoon logic. It will really test your suspension of disbelief. Luffy for whatever reason almost always has to take the big bad of any arc, which adds to the formulaic nature of the arcs. There no logic behind it aside from Luffy being the protagonist. This negates the potential for more interesting conflicts or the chance for other crew members to get a bigger spotlight. Zoro's spotlight in Thriller Part is a fine example of how Luffy not hogging the spotlight for once was incredibly refreshing and most importantly great on it's own.

The pacing [2/10]. This in particular is one of the biggest issues in the series. That overwhelming amount of episodes isn't like that just because of the great mass of content alone, but the almost snail pacing contributes to that greatly. Toei is the animation studio in charge of this adaption. It became infamous for this type of pacing and production. Intro in the beginning of each episode, recaps, a lot of paused shots, and overall just the mind numbing feeling that nothing of interest is happening for several minutes of an episode. This is definitely the biggest hindrance of enjoyment in the show, at least for me. But it's not all Toei's fault. The original source material also has a slow progression of events. Along with Toei's treatment, this makes for an unsatisfying watching experience. Which is one of the main reasons if not the biggest reason why I dropped the series above all else. Take in mind, that this isn't to say slow pacing is inherently bad, it actually can enhance the experience of certain works. But One Piece is definitely not one of those works. A balance would have been ideal, even if I have preferences for fast pacing in action shows. It's currently according to a lot of people unbearable, so it only gets worse.

The action component of the series is, in my opinion just awful [3/10]. I personally consider the fights in One Piece to be the worst I've seen in any action shounen I've watched. Be it in terms of creativity, strategy, abilities/powers, excitement or animation. The abilities/powers are silly, while that works with the general style of the show, its still lacks creativity, as they feel like they are created by a child. A rubber man. Someone that can make anything into a door. Feet that generate fire from the passion of the heart, etc. I will get to the animation in it's own paragraph. The fights are sometimes really dumb, and are mostly devoid of strategy. The best you can get in terms of strategy, is juvenile tricks by Ussopp, and the silly 'tactics' Luffy comes up with, that shouldn't work but they do because of Luck or/and the incompetence of the villains (the classic trite of you are beneath me so I didn't take you seriously and was careless) . Shouting and straight forward predictable fighting, is what you will get. The tension created by how is this character going to best this character is simply not there. When Zoro gets beaten up badly by someone made of steel, but suddenly has the resolve and wants to believe he can cut steel, and he just does with no good explanations, you will know that you shouldn't expected anything smart out of the fights. In fact some are offensively dumb, Bon clay vs Sanji comes to mind. There is also how the comedy is inserted in some fights or certain scenes. I realize that show has a lot of comedy, and it's a prominent genre, but that doesn't mean it should be inserted whatever. With disregard of the current tone and atmosphere of the scene, a particular scene in thriller park had that. It undermines the importance of the fights sometimes and the mood that is being set, and it in itself is rarely funny. The humor in general is not great. As it's very repetitive and most often dry. How many times until Nami, yelling at the crew and showing her greed becomes just plain unfunny. Though maybe if you really like any particular gag, you will still like seeing it again and again (Zoro's bad sense of direction for example). So it depends on the individual's sense of humor. It wasn't until Alabasta that I found an episode to have legitimately funny scenes, so I came across more misses than hits.

The Art and Animation, and OST [5/10]. I will be frank, I didn't really take much notice to the soundtrack so I can't comment on it. The artstyle of the series is often described as ''ugly'' by those who refuse or avoid to watch it. And I can't say that I blame them. Is the art different compared to similar shows? Yes. Does that automatically makes it better or good? not necessarily. The art is influenced by western cartoons and Disney. And it's fair point for those that think it's works well with the series, and I agree to a certain extent. But that still doesn't mean me or others will like it, as it's still very unappealing. It also has an apparent effect on the emotional scenes in the show. The facial expressions are so exaggerated that it disengaged me from whatever emotional scene I was watching. With big rainy eyes, and noses full of snot. It completely lacks subtlety. Bigger doesn't always mean better. It comes off as the show trying hard to emphasize just how sad what you are watching is. It can be ineffective and worse, counterproductive, when instead of feeling sorry and emotionally involved you feel like laughing because of the ridiculous faces.

While I understand this is a long running anime therefore expecting fluid animation is unfair. It still should mean that at least once in a while you will be presented with good to great animation in important scenes and fights. Like with other long running battle anime. This unfortunately is not the case here. At times it feels like a slideshow. Barely any nice visual effects. Lot of pauses and staring. Still shots. No good Sakuga. And it only gets worse currently according to the fans.

The Worldbuilding [5/10]. I left this at the last, because from my general understanding this is the most praised thing about the show. But why? from my point of view, there is nothing impressive about a city in the dessert or an island in the clouds/sky. Once again the creativity of the author seems child like. But maybe that's the appeal. The feeling of freedom, and childish imaginative without the shackles of reality. But it still doesn't necessarily make it great. It feels like it's praised because he created a vast world that is still expanding because why wouldn't he expand it, when the estimation for the number of chapters is beyond 1000. But then again, worldbuilding wasn't something that I cared for in general, in my favorite shows, or any work of fiction for that matter. I could appreciate well done aesthetics of a beautiful world, that you like to take a mental picture of. That's not the case here, so I can't really credit it.

Ultimately, I truly and honestly wanted to like this. So the gigantic amount of episodes/chapters would become an advantage. I wanted to be immersed in a story and keep following it for years. But the series failed me, after giving it a fair enough chance. I stomached through the beginning since they said Arlong park where it will get good. I endured after that, when they said Skypiea is fun and worth it. I couldn't keep on hoping, when they said it's Water 7 this time, more than 200 episodes. I just gave up. There wasn't any pay off. Everything was standard average to below average, with few exceptions. Not special or distinctive to dislike or for this to become more than a disappointment. My enjoyment being hindered with the pacing, and lack of stimulating characters, I made the natural choice of dropping it. I just couldn't take another minute felt like I will just die from boredom.

TL:DR- If you are hesitant whether or not to make this big time commitment, you should keep in mind that it's generally agreed upon by fans and haters alike that it doesn't get better until Arlong park, which more than 30 episodes into the anime. I would recommend this, if you are looking for a happy go lucky battle shounen, that has a lot of focus on the adventure. I don't recommend this, if you are looking for a continuous narrative of a complex story about finding a treasure, with interesting unique characters. Nothing of value is lost, or something worth the commitment if you are avoiding this.

One Piss is hands down one of the most childish and badly written Shounen I've come across. There is absolutely nothing interesting about One Piss. It fails at literally everthing it tries to attempt. These are the reasons why One Piss is trash.

STORY: 0/10

One Piss is about a trash character called "Luffy" that wants to become the pirate king. He gathers a crew of even more awful characters that also have dreams of their own. Almost all of these characters are one dimensional and do absolutely nothing to accomplish their goals. Nami wants to draw a map of the world, yet there isn't a single ... scene in the manga showing her draw anything. Usopp wants to be a brave warrior, yet after 800+ episodes he's still a coward. Sanji wants to find All Blue, he does absolutely nothing to accomplish his dream. Luffy wants to become pirate king yet there are so many filler arcs that have absolutely nothing to do with this.

Here are some examples of arcs that have absolutely nothing to do with the story: Alabasta, Skypiea, Thriller Bark, Drum Kingdom, etc. None of these arcs have anything to do with Luffy becoming the pirate king, yet they each are at least 40 chapters. Even the arcs that are actually relevant are awful. Dressrosa is one of the most poorly written Shounen arcs I've come across. 120 episodes of one arc, bad characters that get too much screen time, generic villain with a generic back story, terrible animation, slow pacing, etc. It cant get any worse than that. For some reason Oda isn't capable of making a story arc that isn't extremely long anymore. He says that he isn't going to make long arcs after dressrosa, yet he makes even more bad arcs that are too long.

One Piss arcs are essentially the same thing every single time. The plot is very formulaic. They go to an island and make friends, beat up the bad guys that are oppressing the country, new cremember (sometimes), feast, and then repeat. I mean it continues this bullshit over and over again for over 800 episodes. It already starts to get boring during the Skypiea arc, I'm surprised I could actually tolerate the rest of this trash.

One Piss has some of the worst fights I've seen in Shounen. It's actually hilarious how One Piss fans criticize other Shounen like Fairy Tail because of "friendship powerups". One Piece does the exact same thing. Every single fight is won by Luffy's sheer willpower, not because he actually outsmarted his opponent. Every One Piss fight is the same exact thing: Luffy tanks evey hit, villain tanks every hit, but then somehow the villain loses because he isn't as durable as Luffy. This is why One Piece fights are extremely boring. It always just ends in asspulls/plot armor. Luffy has won many fights that he shouldn't have won, especially his battle against Katakuri. Katakuri injures himself because a random character interfered in their fight. If you cant see how much a contrived plot device that is, then I don't know what to tell you.

One thing One Piece fans praise about this series is how good the world building is. In my opinion, it doesn't mean SHIT if One Piece has good world building. Why should I care about how detailed Oda made the world of One Piece when the crew is just stuck on one island for 100 chapters? The world building is irrelevant if we barely even get to see the rest of the world, besides the Island they spend 200 chapters on. For fucks sake they've only been on 5 for over 300 episodes.


CHARACTERS: 0/10

There are rarely any interesting characters in One Piss For the most part, all of the main characters are poorly written. They just get their sad and generic backstories and then they never get character development again. A perfect example of this would be Nami. Sad backstory, then gets no development for the rest of the series. Usopp is another example. After 800 episodes, Usopp still is acting like a coward. 800 episodes and yet he still didn't develop whatsoever.

I used to like Sanji until post time skip One Piss completely ruined him. He hasn't had any shine in post timeskip. He loses every damn fight, and he wasn't even in the most important arc of the timeskip. Then Oda makes an arc all for Sanji, which ended up being absolute trash. He just gets a generic sad backstory, doesn't actually change as a character, and then he still gets no shine whatsoever. No one should ever compare this trash character to Zoro.

Speaking about Zoro, he's the only straw hat that actually developed as a character.

Luffy is hands down the worst Shounen protagonist of all time. Luffy has no character development. None whatsoever. He has no internal characterization at all. None. Any chance he had at character development was ruined because he just ends up going back to how he previously was. If an anime/manga is over 800 chapters/episodes long and the main character doesn't have the abiltiy to reflect on his actions, then that's an absolute problem for the story. To be honest, there's nothing interesting about Luffy. He's just the basic Shounen protagonist that we always see in any Shounen.

There are no good villains in One Piece. The only villain I enjoyed is Crocodile, yet he's just a generic villain anyways. Besides him, every other villain is bad. There are no complex villains in One Piece. None whatsoever!

ANIMATION/ART: 0/10

Do I even need to explain this? One Piece has the WORST animation I've ever seen in ANY anime. I'm pretty sure everyone can agree with this. I've never seen a Shounen with worse artstyle than One Piece. The characters look extremely ugly too, especially in the Whole Cake Island arc. I don't know why Oda loves drawing ugly ass characters.

ENJOYMENT: 1/10

How can I possibly enjoy an anime that has bad characters and a bad plot? The truth is, I cant. It was at least decent until Oda completely destroyed his manga. The only reason I gave it a 1 is because of Zoro

OVERALL: 1/10

Well not long ago started watching this series and now have "watched" quite a lot. And I don't get how people have so a high opinion of this series.

Story:
Is quite boring honestly, if you like to watch the same joke 10 * in an episode for 700+ episodes then this series might be for you. Nothing interesting happens until the Summit War arc. In that arc, there was an interesting development in characters and connections to other characters. And during that time there Luffy did as he pleases and didn't give a damn what others were thinking. That is the only reason I gave ... this series even 6, would have been 4 or even 3 without that arc. But at Fishman Island arc it went back to boring as there doesn't seem to be any reason for any fighting again.

Art:
Well, quality in art is like a roller coaster in this series, some scenes it is good, and some are bad. But I like the old feeling what art style gives and that's why I rated it to 6. Could have been much higher if the quality would be stable good. Color themes are also pretty good in this and seem to be they're not scared to use colors what I'm happy about.

Sound:
To be honest, nothing too fancy but the quality is mostly stable if some side character voice actors are not counted in. Music could be better in some situations but good overall.

Character(s):
Well, characters in this series are 90% of boring or fanservice. There is no character development in this series so I don't get how this series is even going on anymore.

Luffy:
Pretty good character but I have watched over 500 episodes and still personality is exactly the same as the beginning of the first episode of the whole series. As a fighter, he is getting stronger but it doesn't feel like it at all because still sidekicks give him hard time. I know when they go deeper in Grand line there are stronger mobs but honestly.

Usopp:
90% of boredom. He doesn't have growth at all in the whole series as a person. As a fighter, he has grown a little but his personality ruins this character wholly for me, crying help or crying to Luffy to stop all the time. That's everything this character is, nothing more or less. I don't even get a reason for this character because of...

Tony Tony Chopper:
Chopper is pretty similar to Usopp but he gets things done if the situation requires it. Chopper is as a character is a direct upgrade for Usopp. He cries also for Luffy to stop and cries for help but if the situation requires it he can get things done what Usopp doesn't. Pretty interesting character and this one I would keep in this series.

Nami:
This character is 100% of fanservice and nothing else. She doesn't have anything to give to series and can be also annoying you-know-what. I hoped when I first time saw when she was rescued by Luffy that she is just a side character who drops after she's arc end but no.

Zoro:
This is a most interesting character in the whole series, he is the only one who has grown as a person in the whole crew, and that's pretty sad considering how long this series has already run.

Sanji:
After Usopp, this is the second most boring character in the whole series. He has not developed as a person nor as a fighter at all. And his obsession with women, a joke that is gone for too long and got boring already. I hope he dies on a nosebleed somewhere. Not gonna miss him at all.

Brook:
Can be a quite interesting character but feels like he's going to be in the same category as Sanji. Same joke over and over again and does not do anything new. At first in Thriller Bark arc he seemed a really interesting character and was quite good but when I went to Luffy's boat he went to the bottom, he honestly doesn't give anything new to the series and seems to be he is just there for filling Sanji, Usopp and Chopper joke so they don't repeat same joke 3 jokes whole episode but 4.

Nico Robin:
Sometimes just for fanservice but much better character than Nami. Personality much better and honestly in a big role to drive the story forward.

Franky:
Last but not least, this character got interesting design as a character and he has grown quite a lot. I hope they don't ruin this because Franky got a lot of potential as MC.

Enjoyment:
Well as I said in the story, this series is quite boring and I have been "watching" this. Only "watching" not watching cause it's hard to enjoy the same jokes over 500 episodes. And usually, I keep this rolling for background sound so when I'm doing other things. I had quite high hopes for this series because this has run so long but looks like expectations were crushed hard. Most likely I watch this series till it ends but just for background noise, not for entertainment.

Overall:
Well this section is more like TL;DR for me
- Do you like to watch the same joke in every episode till you die? sure, watch this. Otherwise, stay d*mn far from it.
- Do you like series that are 90% fanservice and otherwise boring? sure, watch this. Otherwise, stay d*mn far from it.
- Do you like characters don't grow at all (even after 500 episodes)? sure, watch this. Otherwise, stay d*mn far from it.
- If you want to watch this you can skip straight to the Summit War arc cause there isn't any development in this series so you won't miss anything.

Recently I started to notice that the One Piece fandom has become really toxic and likes to compare/attack other anime, claiming that "One Piece is the best anime" and I honestly don't understand it.

The pacing alone disqualifies this anime from competing for the title of "best" not to mention the rest of the problems this anime has.
I don't read the manga, it probably doesn't have such big problems with pacing as the anime but never mind... I haven't read it, I won't comment, I mean the ANIME which is far from what One Piece fans think about it...



Let's start with the ultra awful pacing... it's ... best illustrated by comparison to Jojo (a manga that has a similar number of total pages as Ona Piece) out of 80 volumes of the manga there are 190 episodes of Jojo (parts 1-5) and ATTENTION... as many as 755 episodes of One Piece, this series is so stretched and doesn't compensate for it with anything.
The One Piece anime, trying to prevent it from catching up with the source material (as other long series try to do), does the worst thing possible.
Other similar series prevent this with filler episodes, One Piece stretches/dilutes the original plot to the limits of its possibilities, drastically reducing its value, in the case of other series, episodes that are not part of the main plot could be easily skipped, in the case of One Piece there is no such possibility because the filler is written into the episode, it's just a tragedy.

But OK, this anime has terrible pacing but is the plot really good anyway? No, it's average and ultra formulaic.
This anime had the potential to be a really good adventure anime, 1000 episodes give the opportunity to tell about really many adventures of our heroes, however (also touching on the pace) we are trapped for several hundred episodes in one place and once again, most of it is not compensated by anything special.
Because yes, most of the arcs (apart from the mass of pointless, boring and too long plots in between) look almost identical, the schematic nature of this anime is terrifying:
The crew arrives on a new island -> Luffy meets new friends who are terrorized by a bad guy -> Luffy and the rest split up, Luffy runs to the boss and the rest beat up the minions -> Luffy fights the boss as always and Zoro and Sanji fight the vice captains, there are some exceptions but overall it looks the same, without any surprises.

The fact that the characters always run somewhere for almost half of each arc is already a meme.
I'm not saying that the plot is tragic, it has a lot of good moments but it's still far from very good.

Moving on...
"Dragonballization" from the beginning of the Wano arc, this anime decided to start moving towards Dragon Ball, when previously the fights of the most popular characters in this universe looked good but still mundane, in the Wano Arc suddenly the power scale skyrocketed, they started introducing various colorful auras and a lot of different exaggerated effects, it introduces a huge inconsistency compared to the rest of the anime.
It seems like One Piece is losing its entire atmosphere in favor of the exaggerated efficiency we see in today's shounen, but they have been like that from the beginning and do not seem inconsistent like One Piece, which started introducing all this crap relatively recently.

One Piece lost a bit of "it" after the time skip, it seems like the character interactions became less natural, more forced and there are fewer of them in general due to more frequent character separation, some characters lost their character and meaning, Usopp and Chpper were mostly reduced to boring comic relief.

Luffy (MC) well... his lack of development hurts me, the lack of development itself is not a bad thing BUT when the plot hits the hero with a traumatic event that screams "you idiot, you have to learn from this" and he gets up and moves forward without a moment's hesitation... it's stupid and makes this dramatic and important event irrelevant.
Luffy lost his entire crew due to his own stupidity (he was convinced of it) and what does he do in the rest of the story? he repeats the same mistake without a moment's reflection and provokes the emperor without any real preparation, stupid characters are cool and funny until their stupidity is simply annoying and gives the feeling that the character is completely empty. Additionally, for the vast majority of the time, Luffy stood out because unlike other anime of this type, he does not have hidden powers, he motivated by the fact that with seemingly weak powers, thanks to his willpower, he was able to pursue his goal, cliché? Yes, it works? Yes, but the author decided to surprise everyone and make Luffy a divine chosen one with divine powers and all this in the name of what? The "symbol of freedom" narrative does not compensate for this because Luffy is ultimately no different in this respect from the rest of the typical shounen MC.

Yes, Luffy is a "symbol of freedom" even though he doesn't see himself as such, but in the end it seems like he's just an idiot and does whatever he wants, the fact that he frees the oppressed doesn't matter because he only does it when his friends are imprisoned, his perspective is limited and if he doesn't see that someone has a problem he won't help them, he won't stop the world government which is a symbol of oppression xD but still, being a "symbol of freedom" doesn't require being a divine chosen one at the same time, what's the value of all that determination Luffy has and everything he's been through so far? if at the end, when the ceiling was too high, the author came up with an ultra big plot twist and gave MC divine powers is completely uninspiring and contradicts what we've seen in most of One Piece.

All that I wrote above is not everything, there would definitely be something more, but I didn't sit with a notebook in my hand while watching this anime and I don't remember everything, so well....

Before the time skip-8/10
The whole thing-6/10

Short review:
For me, this anime was the greatest anime to ever exist for the first ~500 episodes (which is impressively long by almost any standard) but then after that, the anime began to steadily worsen over time.
I'm going to portion my experience into three main parts: pre-time skip, post-time skip, and my overall general view.

Long review:

- Pre-time skip:
When I first got into OP, I instantly fell in love with it for many reasons. I'll name the big main ones.

First, the atmosphere and theme of anime was unique; the idea of sailing the seas to find different unique islands, finding exciting new things, and the variety ... of different devil fruit powers and bosses are all well constructed it felt like the anime had it all when it comes to overall theme: it's new, it's intriguing, and it's exciting especially for the first time you experience it.

Second, the side characters in the straw hats were not very complex or advanced but they were very unique in their own way and likable (probably other than Usopp), each had an interesting backstory and dream, each said something interesting from time to time that was more than some overused gag, and most importantly (this is very important) they actually felt like they actively existed and were adding to the storyline while still peaking my interest.

Third, I was so excited about so many things including the the other straw hats: I had so many exciting questions unanswered and my expectation would be that they would be answered soon enough (guess what? they weren't).

Fourth, a lot of events just made me cry buckets. I rarely get emotional when watching anything really. I think making the viewer emotional over a show isn't easy to do since being emotional means that the narrator successfully made a good story with good elements and characters that one can get emotionally invested in along with a really good production team that can recreate those events very well.

There were no cons in the pre-time skip that are worth mentioning other than some scenes feeling unnecessarily stretched out and Kaku being the worst gag of a villain ever (seriously? a giraffe with a nose for a sword?).

- Post-time skip:
My love/hate relationship begins here. At first it was all love, to me this was the greatest piece of fiction to ever be created but now, not so much. The novelty of a lot of concepts within the show such as the devil fruits, the crazy ideas of islands, and so on begins to wear off after the time-skip.

Post-time skip, you start to notice that Oda has this script that he repeats in almost every single arc involving the straw hats; this script isn't really an issue when you first experience it but after a few times it just gets incredibly boring and predictable. What really pisses me off is that we are almost towards the end and Oda is still using the script again in egghead. The script is basically:
1- Luffy arrives at Z island
2- Luffy meets some main X friend in Z island
3- X friend is in trouble
4- Luffy helps X friend which involves miraculously beating bad guy(s) along the way which saves X's kingdom/island (usually a scene here where you're supposed to cry happens).
This happens almost every single arc and it gets so damn boring to see after a while. I can already see this pattern happening with Egghead. Oda tries to spice the script up but it's more or less the same. This script is a very lazy and boring way of writing up a story that had many elements of success. The script also makes those emotional scenes I talked about incredibly less effective since you can predict what will happen very easily from early on.

Remember how I was talking about the straw hats? Well, here these characters are incredibly dumbed down to one-liners (haha usopp has that funny scaredy cat disease! or haha Nico robin back at it again with a sad joke or haha zoro lost his away again ROFL). Instead of further developing the other straw hats, Oda is not only dumbing them down now but also making them incredibly less involved in any thing significant. Oda tries to undo this by sometimes having them involved in incredibly short-lived pointless subplots but it just comes out to be lame.

Spoilers being in the show's opening is so frustrating. I do not read the manga, why am I being told of so many major events going on? I do not want to know all these spoilers; can I just skip the opening of the show? Sure and I have done that but I shouldn't have to worry about finding out there's a new crew member before they actually join from the opening OF THE DAMN SHOW, I shouldn't have to worry about finding out where X missing person's whereabouts are from the opening when they haven't found them yet, and so much other stuff.

The story has been moving at an incredibly slow pace that the One Piece treasure hunt seems like a lost subplot: when other shows take years showing significant progress towards a character's goal(s), with one piece it is years ON THE SAME ISLAND with almost zero progress.
I have reached a point where it does not matter whether the one piece treasure is is a bunch of gold on some random island, a bomb equal to 100000 nukes, or some secret majestic powers, the excitement just isn't there because it has been unaddressed for hundreds of episodes.
Now that I'm thinking about it, this is a crappy thing Oda loves to do: he will tease you really hard with a supposedly HUGE unknown/possible thing within the story and either never deliver the answer or just take so long that you start to lose interest. My interpretation is that the author does this to maintain interest throughout the series but actually after a while it just gets annoying since it is sooooo overdone.

One of the worst downgrades about the post-time skip is the introduction of haki within fights. My number one issue with it is that it made arguably the strongest type of devil fruits seem like a joke since haki renders it almost useless along with significantly weakening the other types of devil fruits as well. In summary, the introduction of haki is more of an overhaul of the both the power scale and battle system within the anime rather than an addition since haki is basically either just strength or some other busted type of haki that only a select few have. Pre-time skip fights were more fun and entertaining as fights involved some strategy or some expectation of how the fight might look like before it begins (I.e a logia vs a paramecia is not the same as a logia vs logia). However, now with haki it leaves fights way less interesting since more haki can demolish just about anyone, if you have enough of it, in the most boring way possible.

- Overall thoughts and general view:
The show feels completely different than what it started as in a bad way. What started off as a pirate crew's adventure towards an exciting unknown treasure moved towards a god-like superhero show where the MC is just saving everyone all the time. Normally, shows can have more than one plot(s) but moving the whole idea of Luffy from a pirate who wants to capture the great treasure into some God-like savior WHILE JUST BARELY moving forward the first plot in any meaningful manner seems like a terrible idea.

Another thing is Luffy has to be one of the worst main characters of all time. His personality consists of shouting, being reckless, eating an OP devil fruit, and every other very basic main character (loves his friends crew, adventurous, honorable etc..). What do we actually know about luffy? Very little. Has luffy changed at all as a main character during 1000+ episodes? No. Has his experiences changed him in any way? No. We don't even know his "real" motive and dream related to wanting to be the pirate king.

For me, generally speaking, the pre-time skip alone carries the overwhelming majority of my rating points. All the recent arcs along with all the post-time skip content is very underwhelming, repetitive, and simply put: a snooze fest. The post-time skip part of this anime makes it enough to not recommend anyone getting caught up in a show that starts off excellent but screws up everything as it gets closer towards the end.

The story is quite decent and voice acting is also. This deserves 7/8, but some of the fandom is so trash like they adulates toei so much that some of them even say One piece's pacing isn't a problem. So, it fueled my mind and not giving it more than a 4.
I request all of you to read the manga or wait for the remake to be released. Toei just butchered the series with insane slow pacing and below average animation quality. We live in a world where AOT adapts 33 volumes into 94 episodes and One Piece adapts 33 volumes into 300+ episodes 😭, ... man just accept it's pacing problem isn't just minor, it's huge. Imagine wano arc having more episodes than chapters :(((
Only a lifeless one would waste time watching this. Life is short everyone, don't waste time this abomination of art and One Piece manga itself.

Mid Piece. I started watching the show because I heard it is good but it is worse than SH1T ART ONLINE. BLACKEDTHEANIME is better than this stupid rubber man midpiece 3/10 hate it. There is not a single good villain other than Katakuri, Doflamingo is the most overrated character of all time. Luffy is a static character that doesn't undergo any development and the only reason he's good is "HE EMBODIES FREEDOM". Don't get me started on the pacing. HOLY. It is extremely poorly paced every arc feel dragged. If you don't want to waste your time, than don't watch one-piece.

One Piece is the most over hyped piece of trash i have ever had the displeasure of sitting through. Below are some, but not all, (as there are too many for a simple review) of my biggest issues with this horrendous work of fiction.


Female Character designs:

When asked about his process for drawing female characters, Oda wrote " Yes. Hello. It's drawing time at the SBS segment. I would suggest that you think of a woman's proportions as "three circles, one X". Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be leaving." This is a great start because it shows what his female characters main roles are in ... the story; to be fan service. It's no secret that after the timeskip, Nami and Robin (who were both already done with puberty) somehow went through puberty again and grew huge breast. I don't personally have an issue with any of his female character designs but how is this any different than Fairy Tail or Bleach sexulaizing its female cast members?

Nami and her dream:

Nami's dream is to draw a map of the world. You'd think Oda would have a panel of her drawing a map at the end of each arc to show us that she's actively fulfilling her dream but you'd be wrong. The whole point of her traveling with the Strawhats is to help her friends achieve their goals and to achieve her own. So, instead of showing Nami actively achieving her goals, Oda simply writes about it in an SBS "Of course she is. Her routine every day is to draw maps after dinner. As the story progresses during the day, she has to give sailing instructions as the navigator, so there's a lot she has to do out on the deck." All we need is one tiny tiny panel at the end of each arc showing Nami adding Islands and locations to her map but her dreams don't matter.



Zoro's goal of becoming the greatest swordsman:

The way you become the best swordsman in the OP world is to do what Mihawk does and travel around the world fighting swordsmen. Zoro has rarely fought any swordsmen post time skip; he had a little skirmish with Fujitora, he had a fight with killer who's kind of a swordsmen, he "fought" Hyouzou and that's about it. We were shown how you become the world's greatest swordsmen through Mihawk yet Zoro never has actual, life and death sword duels with swordsmen anymore. How can I take him wanting to become the best at his craft serious when he never challenges others who are on a similar level or stronger than he is at said craft? Even in Wano, a land filled to the brim with samurai, Zoro never actually fights any of them. If I'm leaving out any fights Zoro has has had with any actual swordsmen post time skip, please let me know in the comment section.

Chopper is a mascot now:

Chopper has always been cute but would transform into a more serious form when using his transformations. Now, Chopper is just cute. Even his transformations are just adorable. The pre timeskip joke was the world government treating him as the Strawhats pet but now he actually feels like the Strawhats pet. His original personality has been replaced with a cute, cuddly, "kawaii" persona. Oda also doesn't really focus on his dream of curing every sickness in the world, he simply gives him people to treat each arc which is better than some of the other SH's. It'd be nice if we saw Chopper in his lab each arc working on actual medicine that can cure all illnesses but we never do.



Usopp repeats character development each arc:

Usopp's character development each arc is the same. He's afraid of going to an island, he gets into dangerous situations on said Island, he pussies out, he commits an act of bravery then he repeats this process in the next arc. Are we still supposed to believe Usopp is a coward at this point? He stood up against the world government, he regularly fights enemies many times stronger than he is, he trained on a dangerous Island for two years and he travels with notorious pirates on a daily basis. I get the irony of it but it's still redundant which is another issue with the story as a whole.



Recycled plots:

Almost every arc has the same structure. Luffy and crew goes to an Island, that Island's residents are oppressed by a king or ruler (Kaido, Doflamingo, Arlong, Crocodile, Big Mom, Enel, etc), Luffy vows to take down the big bad, Luffy fights the big bad and loses, Luffy gets separated from the crew, the crew has their fights with the Big Bad's minions, Luffy comes back into the story then ultimately defeats the big bad or at least wins a victory somehow. Very few arcs go outside of this general formula and it becomes repetitive after 900 chapters.

P.S.

I could talk about how Sanji is basically a gag character at this point, how Whitebeard not reaching out to Oden makes no sense, how Robin truly is just fanservice who occasional reads poneglyphs, how Oda has a habit of "killing" characters then bringing them back to life which is bad writing, how Big Mom is a meme or how Kozuki Toki's whole character was pointless but It'd take me forever to detail each issue. The point of my original post was to ask the question "why can every other shonen be criticised but not One Piece"?

There's tons of videos and posts criticising dragon ball, Bleach, Black Clover and Naruto. There's tons of posts on this sub criticising hxh and My Hero Academia for example but One Piece seems to be off limits for some reason. Is One piece just perfectly written so every criticism of it is invalid or is the One Piece fandom incapable of accepting criticism.

The perfect example of Quantity over Quality,
both in characters, arcs, episodes, everything.

Being a part of the big 3, and considering it's popularity and rating, it was to expect better, instead it is just a (long) waste of time.
Under a promise of "it gets better", I watched 500+ episodes and it never did. As much popular as the show is, it tries to milk as much of the property as possible, and it shows how strict the schedule of publishing manga is considering how bad it is.

Characters:
Over the million characters it has, focusing on the main crew, they all give the illusion of being good characters ... considering the eternity you have with them, but they just have a typical sad backstory, and remain pretty 1 dimensional throughout the rest (the female ones being used just for sex appeal) growing only on power level and fighting abilities.
The rest of the characters are as good as their designs: appalling and ugly, which is expected considering there's a million of them.

Main Character:
Receives it's own category by how terrible it is, the show treats him being a jerk to others for no reason as a joke, his humor is being vulgar, and there is no stakes to his elastic plot armor. He has terrible morals that only benefit him, and forces them into others by screaming, shouting, or punching while screaming louder. It makes a truly obnoxious character hard to root for, even when sometimes bad happens, not to him, but to others he cares about, there is no compansion felt since he also has no compasion for others. None of his fights were enjoyable for that.

Story:
What is does well is World Building, since it's expected considering how many episodes they have for that. Every arc has it's own location with it's own rules, which should be a positive point, however the payoff at the end of each arc is non-existent, it always ends in a easy battle to the plot-armor of the MC, or plot-convinience occurence whenever the situation gets rough.
The loop is getting 40 or 50 episodes dedicated for build-up and antecipation to always end in a lousy and predictable way, and hope the next arc to be better (which it never is).
The milking on the series is so bad that, besides having fillers (which are unwatchably bad), it also has entire arcs disguised as fillers which contribute nothing to the overall plot, streching it as much as possible.

Animation:
Cut all the corners, re-used animations, recaps, some seasons with 3 minute openings, we have 1000+ episodes and not more of 10 mins of quality.

Fanbase:
It gets the award of being the worst in all anime community, considering they have to dedicate so much of their times on this anime alone, it is all they can talk about, and trash on every other anime that gets popular, they have a mentality that only allows them to like 1piece and hate on everything else.

In conclusion:
There is no reason to watch this besides knowing how NOT to do storytelling, besides world building there is nothing of value here, it is a good thing that its sheer amount of episodes discourages people from watching it to watch better shows instead.

The One Piece anime is a lot like Berserk (2016), yeah it looks terrible, and is badly animated, but it's still One Piece.

I've been watching this loveable train wreck for almost twenty years, and I have to admit, I don't understand people who decide to watch this now that it's over 1000 episodes in. It takes 17 uninterrupted days to watch this, who has the time?

Toei may be the bain of my ability to watch anime. Slam Dunk and Dragonball, both are great manga with terrible adaptions. One Piece is a pretty good manga with an even worse adaption then the aforementioned Toei disappointments.

And what ... are the shared issues between all three, that cause them to be poor adaptions? The horrible weekly schedule, which leads to poor direction, bad pacing and terrible production values.

Arcs get dragged out for ludicrous amounts of time, deflating the tension week by week as we wait for something to happen.

Story: it's One Piece, it's looney tunes lord of the rings for kids and their families. I'm generally fond of the story, I mean I haven't stopped watching it yet.

Characters: due to its length, One Piece characters do tend to feel very static, but they're charming enough to usually get you through whatever meandering plot thread is being covered in the episode you're watching (and the subsequent 20 that plot will run through).

Themes: don't trust the government kids, treasure your friends and help out when you can. Good simple themes to teach kids and remind adults about.

Animation: AHAHAHAHAHA.....it varies wildly, arc to arc, episode to episode... shot to shot.....
Overall, it's pretty bad.

Music: It's an anime by toei, you're going to hear the same 5 pieces of incidental music so many times that they will be permanently etched into your brain.

Pacing: Luffy fought Kaido on the roof on Onigashima for over a year....... as a child, I thought those five minutes it took Namek to explode felt like forever, but that was only five episodes. Why is toei doing this to us? (So that TV tokyo's ad revenue isn't devalued during One Piece's time slot)

In the end, do I think One Piece is worth it? I guess, if you've been watching it for decades, or if you want to share it with your particularly patient offspring. But it feels like a cheap product, made to broaden the reach of One Piece's market saturation, allowing the production committee to make even more money.And that just feels hollow. I'm looking forward to the remake, hopefully it addresses my issues and let's people who are intimidated by the length try out the series. But in the mean while, if you want to try out One Piece, just watch the live action show or read the manga.

i've been a fan of this serie since a lot of years ago. I dropped the anime when it started the previous saga to the actual one (punk Hazard, i guess), that means that i hav not seen a single chapter in three years.

This series could be a very huge one, but it has some negative things.

- the development of the plot lacks completely of fluency. The narrative of the chapters got worse, more or less since... Fisherman Island. Oda is obsesed about telling what is doing every strawhat, and that it's quite tiring. If you substract the op, the ... ending, and the resume, the chapter will get reduced to 10 minutes. Surprise! It won't happen anything in that time. The thing that names the chapter will happen at the last moment, so you'll have to wait another delicious week.

-The obsesion of oda, of being always telling the past of the characters, olds and news. I found this aspect disgusting and pityful. Would not it be better, if you'd insinuate things about the character instead of let out all the information? It's horrible being in the middle of a great saga, and realize we have got involved in a 10-chapters flashback. I can understand it with the main characters, but Oda NEEDS TO DO IT WITH EVERY ONE. I DO NOT CARE ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT THEIR LIVES.

Those two aspects, made me take a little..... 3 years break. I don't know if i will see it again.

The art has become poorer and poorer. Neves have been an important thing, but some of the last chapters i saw weren't very well animated. And the Tits of Namy and Robin looks like an universe in continue expansión. Those two used to be, 2 sexy chicks.

That's only my humble opinion. It's still a nice series, but i can't follow it week by week. Or my pity and disgust will overpass me and i'll became a monster. Probably.

However, in general is fine. Music can be very surprising, there are very epic moments (and there will be) and each time i listen ''we are'' i only can say..... that crap was good (in the good sense)

To say it simply my rating continued to drop from being 9 to now 2 over the years.

This show turned from a fun, funny and interesting show to a complete disappointment. Nothing makes any sense anymore or is even interesting to watch. It is just boring, overly stretched and disappointing.

Watching it is hassle and afterwards you are left empty not convinced with anything.

If I could rate each arc to be fair it would be like this: (I won't mention details to avoid spoiling)

East Blue 8/10

... Grand Line 8/10

Winter Island 8.5/10

Alabasta 8/10

Sky Island 8/10

The Marine Fortress 7/10

Water Seven 8/10

Enies Lobby 8.5/10

Thriller Bark 8.5/10

Sabaody Archipelago 8/10

Island of Women 8.5/10

Impel Down 9/10

Marineford 9.5/10

Fishman Island 3/10

Punk Hazard 4/10

Dressrosa 5/10

Zou 8/10

Whole Cake Island 6/10

Wano Country 2/10

Thank you for reading

i grew up with one piece and i will be genuine , at first the show was cool , the story was fun , the story pace and the characters interaction were good , the ARCs were sooo fun i dont remember getting bored at all but as i progressed towards the 700s episodes the story got ridiculous i even forgot their main objective , the episodes and the story pace got slow and it was boring and repetitive as well, from a shounen anime fan i will give this show credit for being good at first . i know some of ... you will say it will get good later BUT i dont want to watch and waste time throughout the boring episodes to reach the good one .

I've said this before. One Piece is one of those stories you'd write as a 12 year old, look back, have all kinds of good feelings, but realize it's a FAR cry from a real story. Some characters have amazing designs, pretty cool abilities, but the rest... nah. No character development, no story progression.
Luffy doesn't question his actions once. Sure, he's hardened by the death of Ace, but at the end of the day, he's still the same Luffy you know from before right? He hasn't changed. Most characters don't change. Their goals remain the same, their "never-ending adventure" goes on, and the story ... doesn't leave you hints about what the one piece treasure could possibly be. In a sense, you can compare it to a cartoon like Scooby Doo. The gang's doing the same old shenanigans, just with Shonen tropes thrown in. Sabo has something that's akin to development, because you see how he was back then, then how he grows up, but I'd argue that's because Oda himself has admitted at a point that he doesn't know what the other characters are like in an interview besides what they do. For example, he knows Luffy would eat a piece of meat if it fell off the sky, and Zoro would slice it up, but, what else? People are human beings, not human doings. In a sense, you need to articulate real feelings to make them relatable. Anyone can write a death scene, it's the easiest thing to write. But that's because everyone experiences death somewhere somehow in their life at least once, and it can be from a person close to your heart or a complete stranger you just met. That's why I said Sabo is a prime example of he's kind of grown as a writer, in a sense that he's able to develop a character that goes through a certain state of change based on the circumstances given to him. That's why Oda focuses on building more places, more islands, more things to explore, because his world doesn't feel LIVED in, as in, it's like seeing something for the first time, but if you were to watch or read it again? What other depth is there? Does the character's power symbolize some kind of critical change and defining moments of character growth? If so, is it positive or negative? For example, Obito from Naruto. He sees Rin dies, and that's because he wasn't able to make it there in time, in fact he's always been kind of late to things his whole life. What's the Mangekyo that develops for him? Kamui. To transport himself anywhere, to make it in time. With Itachi, it's the fact that people around him made him question their worth, even his own clan, so Tsukuyomi, the ability to make people believe in illusions, and Amaterasu for him and Sasuke, for both want to burn those who have hurt them, with Sasuke even more so, because his other eye controls the flames to an even larger extent as his target isn't just hatred towards how he's been forced to act, but how the world around him robbed him of his entire family. You see the same thing with Nen in Hunter x Hunter. A person's aura and Nen ability is developed alongside how their characters have changed and the abilities grow and progress towards how their characters have changed as a person. This is most prevalent with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. A Stand goes through Acts 1-3, sometimes 4, signaling growth in the person's character, how they either gain confidence or falls. I could go on, but I think you get the point.

Let me ask you this, if you stayed the same throughout your life without changing, do you think that's a good thing? And please don't give me the "it's entertainment, it's not real life", like no. Art is a form of self expression, in an essence, it is derived from real life experiences and emotions. If you had a friend who never learned their lessons despite the problems arising from their actions, would you still hang out with them knowing YOU could end up as collateral damage? This is why Flat characters RARELY work. No one in reality goes with changing. You aren't even the person you were yesterday let alone a few seconds ago. You aren't even breathing the same oxygen molecules you just did. Is there anyone you actually know in real life that remained the same? Nope. The character they play? Maybe it remains the same, but the inner person inside of them must have gone through some changes, am I right? Oda's usage of the Flat character trope is shallow at best, when it comes to literature. On the other hand, Yoshihiro Togashi uses the Flat character with Gon, and goes the length to deconstruct him, and build him back up. He's still a "Flat" character, but the way he goes about being one is entirely laced with deep nuances. It also doesn't help that One Piece is entirely a product that looks like the editorial team meddling with the work. It just looks, sounds, and feels like a product of business decisions, made to remain the same for the sake of being as recognizable over the years to make as much money as possible. In a sense, any artistic exploration is denied for the sake of being household milking cow.

I have read the manga, surprisingly, up until the latest chapters. And, I'm also aware that every character is simply sinking into the idea of the characters embodying their philosophies. I am also aware of how different the manga and the anime are in regards to it's depiction. What I've argued is that there is no depth. And I know it is a thematic choice. That's specifically why I said it's something that looks like it came from a 12 year old who hasn't learned reality. I didn't say it was an inability, but I did say Oda doesn't give much thought to what each character would actually be feeling, beyond their beliefs and ideals. It is by no means, a higher art form.

And it's fine being that way, but that means you gave up any thought of self improvement because you're fine with being who you are, even if realistically speaking, it's not a healthy way to be. See the reason why epic poems made sense and are considered higher art forms is because they were layered with nuances. One Piece is not. It tried to emulate it, but it ultimately isn't, even if it follows the same format.

Also, might I add that being a "Pirate King" makes no sense? Being a pirate means you are free already, doing whatever you want, and for there to be a King, do you think that that plays into an ideology of what a pirate is? It's not the same thing as being Hokage. Luffy stated he doesn't want to be someone important, he just wants to be the Pirate King. But isn't the Pirate King an important person by title then? This is like a child saying he wants to be president, but he doesn't want to do anything important, he just wants to achieve the status and rank. I'm not saying it's wrong to dream, but at some point, the dream ends and reality begins. It's the epitome of strawman arguments, ironically, that's the title of his crew, the Straw Hats.

Even epics write in stories about overcoming hardships, furthering ideologies, but they also highlight weak flaws inherent in the characters that can be reflected back to the human condition. Luffy, for all purposes, is a caricature of what characters like Goku are. Stupid, stubborn, strong, and have a certain charisma to them. With no explanations beyond those. He does not embody any weak flaw the human condition has to offer that can reflected back into the person viewing it, which is why I think it has no value beyond provoking imagination. Ideologies need to be questioned, even by one's self in order to reinforce it, not just go forward with it with no repercussions. Even Naruto learned this the hard way.

Sure you can say characters don't need to develop and progress into something new, but that's basically making a show for kids that's actually meant for kids. Which is probably why it sells well. It does the Shonen trope by the books, and does nothing more. What's more boring than doing everything by the books, especially since there's a hundred of them out there JUST like that? The first ones you pick up might leave a special place in your heart, and I've remained with it just because it was something I picked up when I was young, but any reasonable adult will eventually realize that dreams do come to an end at some point. There is no meaning in a never ending story or dream. Good stories have an ending, because they offer lessons to be learnt. One Piece is subpar at best. And it's the king of it.

The problem with Oda is his inability to portray them beyond that. At least in MHA, we got Stain and other villains who aren't really villains. With One Piece, it's clear as day if you have any logical comprehension skill who's on what side because Oda relies on the labels he created too damn much. Sure, characters can say they don't have an allegiance anywhere, but at the end of the day, you KNOW who they're going to side with and WHAT they will do. You KNEW Law would play the whole "I'm your ally, but not really gonna join you, but I'm still somewhat of an ally" trope just based on his design alone, by how unique it looks and what it says about the characters. Law wanting revenge of Doffy? Man, his backstory just reeks of Oda's usual "oh look, character with tragic backstory." Also, about Brooks? Yeah, A LOT of writers do that. They look back on their work or have an idea in mind about how to relate characters back to some other character they created. It's actually relatively as easy as "this is my long lost brother" character trope. My point has always been, does his character designs and powers say something about their psyche? The human conditioning they have? Are their relationships reflections of what each other lack? Is the relationship a metaphorical symbolism of some statement? In most cases, Oda doesn't even do this. Take Persona 5 the game for example. Each character manifests a Persona that is a reflection of their psyche based on Tarot cards, much like Stands were in the beginning of JoJo. They each represent some type of metaphor, straight down to their designs. One Piece has nothing on this. Just because someone does something to appease to a larger crowd doesn't mean it's any good. That's just settling for what you can get. What the public loves and what you yourself love is different to begin with. You go by Mob Mentality, rather than what you yourself think has value, you're doomed to be stuck an entertainer who can only entertain based on things you know the public loves, for example, juggling, performing circus acts, walking across a rope, all that stuff. It's all been seen before, and it offers nothing new.

Let’s cut to the chase, this anime has a good concept but is horribly executed, it is entirely consistent of filler episodes and movies that don’t perform well as this show constantly keeps going and going never reaching the premise or point of things. At the end of the day its the same thing repeated all over again, a stupid adventure, dumb jokes some being sexual which are overall unfunny. This anime certainly does have a successful idea but at some point it just gets tiresome. It is not worth watching over 1000 episodes for, its filler, filler, filler, nothing more and nothing less. It ... is so slow and it is definitely for the money which infuriates me onto why people like it, it’s slow purposely I believe for money and they keep making more movies and shows instead of actually getting to the point. It’s the same thing over and over.