Dropping One Piece

Alertedmanatee9 said:
I put one piece on hold/dropped due to its pacing. I found myself just not enjoying it. I just wanted to watch other stuff rather than invest even more time into a show I'm not having fun watching.

I will go back and try and watch it. However, that won't be for a while.

Early_Morning said:
@cassieDmonkey Watching One Pace is better, or just reading the manga imho. Watching the anime at double speed just seems annoying as hell because some of the subs already have really quick subtitles, so who would want the headache of reading the dialogue at twice the speed and potentially missing something important?

elderonn said:
I put it on hold after enies lobby at ep 326. Then after the time skip and now at the beginning of wano. I disliked the show almost the entirety of my watch. And I want to drop it every time I finish an arc. The only reason that I am not dropping it is because I am too far gone.

neverthepeace said:
if you like to read and are willing to sacrifice some time on it, then go ahead!

neverthepeace said:
the anime adds some funny parts but, at the same time, it skips and censors stuff, mostly on the first episodes 😖

GakutoDeathGlare said:
the constant padding of episodes with shit from Toei Animation is what always gets it back on hold. I

neverthepeace said:
I dropped it at ep 200 and something to read the entire manga instead lol 😆 believe me, the manga is way better! if you like to read and are willing to sacrifice some time on it, then go ahead! I restarted the anime after that and now I just watch the best parts and skip the ones I feel like were meh because, after all, I already know what happens next 🤣 btw, I forgot to mention that the anime adds some funny parts but, at the same time, it skips and censors stuff, mostly on the first episodes 😖

PsychVstar said:
I want to ask those who dropped or thought about dropping One Piece while already being far into the anime (like >500 episodes) why they dropped or thought about dropping One Piece. Obviously it can be overwhelming to have so many episodes ahead of you but I never felt like dropping the show

Hitagi__Furude said:
It doesn't help that I'm not that much into battle shounen for years now!!!

Deanomac2010 said:
like each episode is like 12-14
minutes, so if you just skip the opening and recap you basically get through 4 episodes an hour, in a way its quicker then when one piece used to have 18 mind of episodes in the earlier part of the series in a sense.

Gr8gg said:
I'm really interested to know what has been censored in the anime 😏

cassieDmonkey said:
for the people that have problems with its pacing: watch it in 2x speed (or more:))

youre welcome

ps. you actually don't miss out on the story cause everything happens so slowly that 2x feels normal

Loaf_dontcare said:


That almost sounds like a obsessive-compulsive disorder. 🤔

But don't get me wrong, it's just an observation. :)
I'm no expert on this sort of manner.

Berry-Vodka said:

i really don't know why people assume that OP is a true shounen maybe is because of word of mouth and it's constant repetition of it make it a fact when it's not. others may accept this because it's actually being published on a magazine of such demographic but what am saying is if you watched enough of this you'll know it doesn't remotely looks like a shounen because it lacks the elements that makes them one... don't know it reaches the reputation of being a big three, maybe because it sells a lot of copies. heck even with examples like naruto, bleach, dragon ball, hxh and even... Digimon had have more fearful battles to the death than one piece. I mean, shounen has been more confrontational than ditch around, making it seem that the crew in OP actually fights like elusive rats or little girls.


i dun wanna sit around that much... sorry but this show apparently beats my completion issue xD


ah, in case you didn't know this site it has all the differences

danunito said:

do not worry,i do the same ,put it on hiatus until 200 episodes are out! 😅

Loaf_dontcare said:

I feel like you do it with a different mind set tho.. 🤔🤷‍♀️

_otaku_man00 said:
i didn't drop it but like it has soooo many episodes and takes too much time That's why I put it on hold. i watched the Dragon Ball series and Naruto so, i don't have the same patience as before. i guess I may be able to watch in holidays but i also wanna watch Bleach so it's taking so such time about thinking which should I watch first one piece or bleach,🤣🤣

Hitagi__Furude said:
Dropped at 750+ bcoz of pacing!!!

Read the manga until around 1087...

On hold due to how overpowered Luffy is that it just kills the tension of the fights!!!

Now thinking about it,
This pattern keeps on repeating each if not all arcs in the timeskip:
The antagonist is strong due to Devil Fruit/Haki or setting>>>Luffy gets weak & is underestimated>>>He suddenly gets a power up & the villain somehow gets stupid despite how op they are>>>Luffy wins!!!

It doesn't help that I'm not that much into battle shounen for years now!!!

Ramen_And_Anime said:
10 years ago, maybe I'd have stuck with it. These days, with all the other options, there's just too much filler to bother with it.

CG-Silver said:
@RaeRighteous I'd disagree on the last part. Both in terms of worldwide popularity and it's story, One Piece has just started hitting its peak after all these years and it might continue to elevate until the end based on current events. I speculate, rather than "never ending", we might get another 300 (hopefully more) chapters if we're lucky enough but Oda seems to be in a hurry to finish the story.

But to agree on a point, post timeskip to end of Dressrosa is the weakest portion of the story. It's way more dragged out than it should be.