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watching chimera ant arc of hxh. damn its too long. currently @120 episode. i think it spans to 60 odd episdoes. so i was wondering which shounen anime has longest arc? just curious.
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May 7, 2018 7:05 AM
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I think one piece has the longest one, Dressrosa, with 117 episodes.
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Naruto Shippuden's war arc was 217 episodes
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I mean, Jojo arcs are basically the whole Part of each series and they are pretty long after Part 2

But, when if we are talking about anime...One Piece pacing makes me want to hang myself.



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May 7, 2018 7:07 AM
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Probably the Dress Rosa arc in One Piece with a whopping 118 episodes. The anime stretched it a by a large margin,tho. It was "just" 102 chapters in the manga.

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May 7, 2018 7:13 AM
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If you count fillers, Naruto's 4th world war arc is pretty damn long.. next to it is One Piece's dressrosa arc.. which is the reason I switch to the manga for that arc.. XD


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May 7, 2018 7:17 AM
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FMmatron said:
Probably the Dress Rosa arc in One Piece with a whopping 118 episodes. The anime stretched it a by a large margin,tho. It was "just" 102 chapters in the manga.

Damn, I know that the pacing in the one piece anime is bad but it's actually really messed up, how can you survive watching those padding scenes?
I really hate Toei for what they did to world trigger



May 7, 2018 7:18 AM
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All 300 episodes of DBZ are only 3 story arcs.
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The longest I ever watched was Naruro's 4th war. That arc was so damn long, what the hell.
May 7, 2018 7:18 AM
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Including filler episodes, the Arrancar arc in Bleach is 201 episodes long.
May 7, 2018 7:19 AM
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the one piece movie is 2 hours so thats pretty long
May 7, 2018 7:20 AM

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UrbanSpaceman said:
All 300 episodes of DBZ are only 3 story arcs.


Saiyan
Freeza
Cell
Buu

That's 4 arcs.
May 7, 2018 7:26 AM

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Cybertron said:
FMmatron said:
Probably the Dress Rosa arc in One Piece with a whopping 118 episodes. The anime stretched it a by a large margin,tho. It was "just" 102 chapters in the manga.

Damn, I know that the pacing in the one piece anime is bad but it's actually really messed up, how can you survive watching those padding scenes?
I really hate Toei for what they did to world trigger


Sometimes they didn't even adapt a whole chapterxD

And people,the Ninja war arc had way too many fillers with no connection to the war at all and even the canon material was way too disjointed to call it a proper arc.
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FMmatron said:
Cybertron said:

Damn, I know that the pacing in the one piece anime is bad but it's actually really messed up, how can you survive watching those padding scenes?
I really hate Toei for what they did to world trigger


Sometimes they didn't even have adapt a whole chapterxD

And people,the Ninja war arc had way too many fillers with no connection to the war at all and even the canon material was way too disjointed to call it a proper arc.

Yeah the ninja arc fillers was annoying, I just went straight to the manga, read all the way till the final chapter and made peace with it
Sorry baruto i'm not interested in the ninja world anymore XD



May 7, 2018 7:32 AM

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i heard that akagi last arc span more than 20 years with length more than 200 mounthly chapter in length of nearly 30 volume for one duels.... in comparison, chimera ant arc is "only" lasted for 12 volume.... glad that i don't have interest in the franchise...
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Kuma said:
i heard that akagi last arc span more than 20 years with length more than 200 mounthly chapter in length of nearly 30 volume for one duels.... in comparison, chimera ant arc is "only" lasted for 12 volume.... glad that i don't have interest in the franchise...
Akagi, you mean Fukumoto's manga? The fuck



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-Lofn- said:
Kuma said:
i heard that akagi last arc span more than 20 years with length more than 200 mounthly chapter in length of nearly 30 volume for one duels.... in comparison, chimera ant arc is "only" lasted for 12 volume.... glad that i don't have interest in the franchise...
Akagi, you mean Fukumoto's manga? The fuck


yes, the guy who made kaiji... he also made akagi...

https://myanimelist.net/manga/1218/Akagi__Yami_ni_Oritatta_Tensai

i wonder how it fan felt about it?
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Kuma said:
-Lofn- said:
Akagi, you mean Fukumoto's manga? The fuck


yes, the guy who made kaiji... he also made akagi...

https://myanimelist.net/manga/1218/Akagi__Yami_ni_Oritatta_Tensai

i wonder how it fan felt about it?
Some probably died already RIP Still waiting for Kaiji S3 here.



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May 7, 2018 7:56 AM

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Naruto shippuden war Arc is over 200 episodes long.
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at least arcs in one piece and naruto are interesting to watch then the chimera ant arc.
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at least arcs in one piece and naruto are interesting to watch then the chimera ant arc.
That is so true man.

Plus I don't know why everyone is talking about the 4th Shinobi War Arc. That arc was the final arc whereas the Dressrosa Arc was just a normal Arc. I am sure that One Piece's final arc will be the biggest arc ever.
May 7, 2018 8:41 AM
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Probably something from Naruto/One Piece
May 7, 2018 9:39 AM

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DBS, tournament of power.

30-40 episodes you say?

haha. every episode was so shit and annoying that it's actually LONGER than OP's dressrosa arc or naruto's war.
May 7, 2018 9:54 AM

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Effulgence said:
UrbanSpaceman said:
All 300 episodes of DBZ are only 3 story arcs.


Saiyan
Freeza
Cell
Buu

That's 4 arcs.


It can be argued that Saiyan + Frieza is one single arc, Saiyan arc can be considered as the warm-up to the latter, since both deal with and encompass the whole saiyan history and Goku's past...
May 7, 2018 10:06 AM
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honestly to make a proper "headcount" you'd need first to define properly what an arc is. some of these things we call arcs in other people's minds could be more than one arc or divide into parts which would be arcs.

still, I'd bet on One Piece or Naruto, regardless.

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Plus I don't know why everyone is talking about the 4th Shinobi War Arc. That arc was the final arc whereas the Dressrosa Arc was just a normal Arc. I am sure that One Piece's final arc will be the biggest arc ever.


oh yea, good point. we just need to wait 10 years and then we'll have the undisputed biggest arc ever.
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The truly longest arc without fillers and uncanon garbage is chimera ant arc which you are watching. Naruto, bleach, one piece etc just stretched their arcs to earn money. Thats why madhouse >>>> peirrot+toei.
May 7, 2018 10:22 AM

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Striker-3649 said:
The truly longest arc without fillers and uncanon garbage is chimera ant arc which you are watching. Naruto, bleach, one piece etc just stretched their arcs to earn money. Thats why madhouse >>>> peirrot+toei.


Implying chimera ant arc wasn't stretched....lol, there were like 2 events happening in like 10 episodes and that narrator telling us every single step characters made certainly didn't help.
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honestly to make a proper "headcount" you'd need first to define properly what an arc is. some of these things we call arcs in other people's minds could be more than one arc or divide into parts which would be arcs.

still, I'd bet on One Piece or Naruto, regardless.

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Plus I don't know why everyone is talking about the 4th Shinobi War Arc. That arc was the final arc whereas the Dressrosa Arc was just a normal Arc. I am sure that One Piece's final arc will be the biggest arc ever.


oh yea, good point. we just need to wait 10 years and then we'll have the undisputed biggest arc ever.
And I am sure those 10 years will pass in the blink of an eye
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Damn. No one talks about the katekyo hitman reborn future arc :/
It spans from episode 74 - 203
Thats 129 episodes
Its so long that there is sub arcs in it
Also damn who could even watch the fillers for bleach and naruto. Its so boring. Unlike gintama
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Ferien said:
Striker-3649 said:
The truly longest arc without fillers and uncanon garbage is chimera ant arc which you are watching. Naruto, bleach, one piece etc just stretched their arcs to earn money. Thats why madhouse >>>> peirrot+toei.


Implying chimera ant arc wasn't stretched....lol, there were like 2 events happening in like 10 episodes and that narrator telling us every single step characters made certainly didn't help.


Sure the narrator is quite wordy, but have you watched the supercut of those 10 episodes without narration occurring simultaneously? It is only around three minutes, and following just one portion is almost impossible. The narrator is, ultimately, a necessity.
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I guess Naruto:Shippuden war arc is longest one I have seen so far
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Any big One Piece arc and Naruto war arc

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Bleach's Thousand year blood war arc maybe
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Thanks god the current anime are not supposed to have an arc longer than 2 seasons / 24 episodes.
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Hmmm if I have to guess I think the big mom arc and dress Rosa ark from one piece are the longest I have ever seen
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Implying chimera ant arc wasn't stretched....lol, there were like 2 events happening in like 10 episodes and that narrator telling us every single step characters made certainly didn't help.


Sure the narrator is quite wordy, but have you watched the supercut of those 10 episodes without narration occurring simultaneously? It is only around three minutes, and following just one portion is almost impossible. The narrator is, ultimately, a necessity.


A narrator is never a necessity lol. Some shows manage to tell a much more complicated story without narrator.
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Most modern animation doesnt have the imagination to last long. I'm glad One Piece and Naruto were as long as they were. Binge watching them was the most fun I ever had watching anime.

Can someone tell me if Legends of the Galactic Heroes has multiple arcs or just one? I've only seen the remastered version and thats still early in the show of course.
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Probably the Dress Rosa arc in One Piece with a whopping 118 episodes. The anime stretched it a by a large margin,tho. It was "just" 102 chapters in the manga.

A friendly reminder that in Whole Cake Island arc Toei managed to make 8 episodes out of 2 chapters.
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Ferien said:
Effulgence said:


Saiyan
Freeza
Cell
Buu

That's 4 arcs.


It can be argued that Saiyan + Frieza is one single arc, Saiyan arc can be considered as the warm-up to the latter, since both deal with and encompass the whole saiyan history and Goku's past...


More like Toriyama just didn't know where to take it after the Frieza arc.
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I think one piece has the longest one, Dressrosa, with 117 episodes.

And this is why I'm glad I stopped watching One Piece.
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Naruto Shippuden's war arc was 217 episodes

And this is why I have no idea how I was able to finish Shippuuden and why I'll never touch Boruto...
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Probably the Dress Rosa arc in One Piece with a whopping 118 episodes. The anime stretched it a by a large margin,tho. It was "just" 102 chapters in the manga.

A friendly reminder that in Whole Cake Island arc Toei managed to make 8 episodes out of 2 chapters.


Which episodes exactly? I remember the pacing around episode 860 till the showdown against Katakuri to be particularly annoying.

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pedromgdo said:
I think one piece has the longest one, Dressrosa, with 117 episodes.

And this is why I'm glad I stopped watching One Piece.


You should rather feel bad for dropping it at where you did. It was still in the middle of it's juiciness.

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FMmatron said:

FanofAction said:

And this is why I'm glad I stopped watching One Piece.


You should rather feel bad for dropping it at where you did. It was still in the middle of it's juiciness.

I believe, and I could be remembering this incorrectly, that I dropped it because it was about to go back into several episodes of flashbacks/recaps.
I was in a phase where I hated the idea of skipping episodes, even filler, and didn't want to sit through all that.
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i stopped watching amines that went over the 100 episode mark out side of shows that have multiple seasons. for a reason they all tend to have shit pacing.
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call it short but goku Vs frieza arc felt to me like years...
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Chimera Ant Arc: 132 Chapters. Didn't realize the arc was this long since the anime did a great job of adapting it, even tho it was still long with 60 episodes.
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FMmatron said:
NamikazeHime said:

A friendly reminder that in Whole Cake Island arc Toei managed to make 8 episodes out of 2 chapters.


Which episodes exactly? I remember the pacing around episode 860 till the showdown against Katakuri to be particularly annoying.


Batle with Cracker was 2 chapters long in the manga, but the anime stretched it out by adding unnecessary conversation and parts and some random scenes from all over the Island.
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NamikazeHime said:
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Which episodes exactly? I remember the pacing around episode 860 till the showdown against Katakuri to be particularly annoying.


Batle with Cracker was 2 chapters long in the manga, but the anime stretched it out by adding unnecessary conversation and parts and some random scenes from all over the Island.


Ah right, it was certainly stretched out, but the manga version already spanned over 6 chapters, the anime simply shifted to it more often and I think I even remembered some nice additions.

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FanofAction said:
FMmatron said:



You should rather feel bad for dropping it at where you did. It was still in the middle of it's juiciness.

I believe, and I could be remembering this incorrectly, that I dropped it because it was about to go back into several episodes of flashbacks/recaps.
I was in a phase where I hated the idea of skipping episodes, even filler, and didn't want to sit through all that.

The only reason that stops me from dropping it (mainly because I prefer manga over the anime way more) is the fact that I already watched like 900 episodes and I didn't want to throw all that time I invested in it.
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naruto's 4th war arc was at least 200 eps i got so bored watching it after a while that fillers became refreshing
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