Why Is the pacing so bad

Linus_Li_Lelouch said:
Mainly because that’s how TOEI likes to animate long series. They add in a ton of fluff material. Alabasta, Skypiea, Thriller Bark, Whole Cake Island, Fishman Island, and Punk Hazard has awful pacing. I stopped watching the wano arc at ep 915 because the pacing is so booty. I’m just gonna wait until the arc is over and speed watch the important parts.

EDIT:
I’ve heard many a times people say: “Well One Piece has the lowest percentage of fillers ever!!”.
Well of course when half the main canon episodes feel like filler with all the wasted time on irrelevant scenes. Those are filler to me because they add nothing, except exercise for my finger to hit the skip ~15 second button again and again.

-Elevate- said:
instead of crying over pacing just enjoy the show tbh. pretty sure the pacing will stay like this until the end.

Sweet_Escape said:

It's hard for some people to enjoy a series that's supposed to be about pirates but feels more like a an anime about marathon running.

Honestly what annoys me more than the pacing itself is the fact that Toei can't come up with good filler material to put into the episodes 90% of the time. They've extended some fights in the past, but it's usually done with subpar animation and/or they don't expand on the fights for more than a minute or two. If they actually had competent writers to write the filler scenes they might actually come up with something interesting that doesn't feel like a chore to sit through.

FMmatron said:
They would catch up if they did a chapter per episode since the manga takes more breaks, but that's not really the only issue here.



Y'all better watch this video, especially those of you blaming Toei.