| One Piece has a high barrier in a sense that a lot of the arcs / sagas start out EXTREMELY slow & lackluster.. which makes many viewers give up on the show or drop it momentarily. We all know the classic " one piece doesnt get good for 400 episodes " meme. While it is an exaggeration, it is partially true. The first few arcs of One Piece are brutal to get through. This trend has continued throughout the series. Skypiea is extremely rough to get through at first, same with Alabasta, and now that im on Thriller Bark im noticing it as well. A lot of these arcs arent even bad! Its just that they suffer from being too drawn out, and as a result have a really ehhh start to the arcs |
| I didn’t have a problem with attention retention until skypeia. Definitely felt unnecessarily drawn out. |
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Old_Greggu said: I didn’t have a problem with attention retention until skypeia. Definitely felt unnecessarily drawn out. Not even when it took them like 10 episodes to get across the desert in Alabasta? |
SE_000 said: CickNipolla said: One Piece has a high barrier in a sense that a lot of the arcs / sagas start out EXTREMELY slow & lackluster.. which makes many viewers give up on the show or drop it momentarily. We all know the classic " one piece doesnt get good for 400 episodes " meme. While it is an exaggeration, it is partially true. The first few arcs of One Piece are brutal to get through. This trend has continued throughout the series. Skypiea is extremely rough to get through at first, same with Alabasta, and now that im on Thriller Bark im noticing it as well. A lot of these arcs arent even bad! Its just that they suffer from being too drawn out, and as a result have a really ehhh start to the arcs I think you should read the manga instead than. It gets only worse after the timeskip, especially in Dressrosa and partly Wano. The manga tho is mostly well paced. It only gets rare like that, and if your not for example especially a weekly reader than you will not notice it. And even as a weekly reader myself, it just depends on yourself. I don't have any problems with the pacing etc. Oh I have heard that a majority of people see post time skip once piece as a major downgrade. |
CickNipolla said: Old_Greggu said: I didn’t have a problem with attention retention until skypeia. Definitely felt unnecessarily drawn out. Not even when it took them like 10 episodes to get across the desert in Alabasta? I do vaguely remember it being drawn out, but was still enjoying it enough to not be bothered, once I stopped though (after 177) haven’t felt enticed enough to return, too much other stuff to watch that can actually be completed in a timely manner, as well as started watching other currently airing shows. |
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| I dropped the show at skypiea for a whole year because it was slow and then started watching it again I was going to drop it in thriller park but got to a certain episode that made the arc better now I'm in impel down I like this arc but even if the arc is good I still see some slow episodes here and there |
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Weezy42 said: You can also watch the first couple hundred episodes in specials. I think it was Episode of east blue, Episode of nami, then there is an alabasta special and episode of skypiea. So with 8 Hours you get like 230 eps no reason to watch the show at all at that point. you can find better anime than one piece if youre looking for short, conclusive plots. you watch one piece for the humor/dialogue and the extensive world building. its just a lot of times they try to mask draggin the anime out for money as world building. |
| Nah, there is no such barrier, but people want it to get absurdly epic in the episode 1 and that's not gonna happen. Anyone who just start watching it without being in a hurry is fine. |
| I’m only on episode 40 |
| Please stop, I don’t want to see any more Dekugo😭 |
| Yeah One Piece takes a lot more episodes or chapters to get totally invested in. Which makes it hard to focus at times. |
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CickNipolla said: One Piece has a high barrier in a sense that a lot of the arcs / sagas start out EXTREMELY slow & lackluster.. which makes many viewers give up on the show or drop it momentarily. We all know the classic " one piece doesnt get good for 400 episodes " meme. While it is an exaggeration, it is partially true. The first few arcs of One Piece are brutal to get through. This trend has continued throughout the series. Skypiea is extremely rough to get through at first, same with Alabasta, and now that im on Thriller Bark im noticing it as well. A lot of these arcs arent even bad! Its just that they suffer from being too drawn out, and as a result have a really ehhh start to the arcs I dont even disagree with you on this. The anime really draws out the arcs by a lot. In fact, I’d even go as far as to say that One Piece should only be having around 500-600 episodes right now rather than 1000 if it had proper pacing. There are even times when the anime drawing out stuff kinda ruins a good arc. Like some filler scenes in Alabasta when they were crossing the desert (this was only a couple chapters in the manga) and in the future arcs, the stretched out stuff gets worse. In all honesty, I suggest you temporarily switch to the manga for certain arcs that you find boring. Then switch back to the anime for the arcs that you expect to be intense. |
| The high barrier comes more from the high number of episodes than the arcs though that's a minor contributing factor. |
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| Sure I guess? But frankly I don't care if people can't get into the One Piece anime. I've always recommended that people read the manga since it's the complete story and the entire series up to this point can be read within a week. But of course there are tons of people who are apparently allergic to reading, or who would rather waste months or even years of their free time watching the anime and then proceed to complain that it's "too slow". |
| Wow, an actual CickNipolla thread/post I agree with. Yeah, some arcs are very slow-paced and lacklustre. The desert walk in the Alabasta arc is unbelievably boring. All of that for them to just say that Blackbeard wasn't hunted down by a small-time bounty hunter which was already very predictable. |
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| bruh, u ar rly irritating |
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Early_Morning said: Sure I guess? But frankly I don't care if people can't get into the One Piece anime. I've always recommended that people read the manga since it's the complete story and the entire series up to this point can be read within a week. But of course there are tons of people who are apparently allergic to reading, or who would rather waste months or even years of their free time watching the anime and then proceed to complain that it's "too slow". who exactly is reading 1000 chapters in a week lol |
| Having watched up to episode 325 so far, the only parts that truly tested my patience hard were the Usopp introductory arc at the beginning and the 2nd half of Skypiea. In particular for the latter, it's a shame because I think it had a huge amount of potential -in terms of ideas and ambition- on its hands, yet it was sadly wasted due to everything being so conceptually underwhelming and a pain in the ass to sit through in the end. |
CickNipolla said: who exactly is reading 1000 chapters in a week lol People who have free time and want to read the series instead of watching the anime and complaining about trivial things like the animation or its pacing issues here on MAL every other day? When I started the manga I was able to read 1 volume in about 30 minutes, and I read about 14 volumes per day. At the time there were only like 52 or so volumes, so I was able to catch up to the manga within about 4 days. So if I could read 50 volumes in 4 days, other people should be able to read 103 volumes in about a week, give or take an extra day or two depending on their reading speed. It's not that hard and I'm a slow reader, so I'm sure other people could read the manga much faster than I can. |
Early_Morning said: CickNipolla said: who exactly is reading 1000 chapters in a week lol People who have free time and want to read the series instead of watching the anime and complaining about trivial things like the animation or its pacing issues here on MAL every other day? When I started the manga I was able to read 1 volume in about 30 minutes, and I read about 14 volumes per day. At the time there were only like 52 or so volumes, so I was able to catch up to the manga within about 4 days. So if I could read 50 volumes in 4 days, other people should be able to read 103 volumes in about a week, give or take an extra day or two depending on their reading speed. It's not that hard and I'm a slow reader, so I'm sure other people could read the manga much faster than I can. you mean unemployed people right? or young high schoolers like yourself lol |
| OP on an anti one piece agenda seen him hate everywhere for like 5 months |
degenerocity said: OP on an anti one piece agenda seen him hate everywhere for like 5 months unfortunately i got no idea who you are ;/ |
CickNipolla said: degenerocity said: OP on an anti one piece agenda seen him hate everywhere for like 5 months unfortunately i got no idea who you are ;/ i just been lurking, watching and i see you my man. if you don't like one piece just don't watch it.. stop making these annoying threads |
| ok, you can keep watching Lycoris Recoil |
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| You gonna hate One Piece post time skip for sure lol |
| nah, read manga if u feel its slow. imo its not. |
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| My suggestion is always to try the manga. I agree that the anime can be very intimidating, especially with extremely poor pacing at times. If you don't enjoy the manga, then it's probably not for you :) |
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