Jan 28, 2024
Overall rating: 6/10
Oh my goodness gracious please read the manga. I love One Piece so much, I believe it has some of the best storytelling ever. But the anime has just so many drawbacks for me. It's not like I hate the anime, there are some things that are great about it, like the voice actors and the suspenseful music. But the pacing. I seriously cannot gripe about anything else but the pacing. It is truly atrocious. It took me a good 2-3 months after watching the first 150 episodes to try and watch anime again. But when I finally did, I was in utter
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shock at how entertaining a show can be when it has even semi-decent pacing. After finishing the manga, I went back and tried to watch the Dressrosa arc in the anime, since I had been told by a few people, that it has some of, if not, the best pacing in the series, and it was still terrible. I do understand that building suspense can impact certain scenes a lot, and I also think that it can be amazing in the right moment, but it reached a point for me where I was wasn't sitting there in suspense, just itching to see what happens, I was bored, because it was taking so dang long for something to happen.
To anyone who is considering getting into One Piece, I personally, would strongly urge you to read the manga instead. If you've never read manga before, I think this could be a decent choice to make your first too. I would also like to note, that reading the manga is way more time efficient. I am a college student and I can definitely take a 10-15 minute break and read a couple chapters, but a single episode will take 20 minutes and most of the time that episode only covered half of a single chapter.
Once again, this is my opinion, maybe you would enjoy One Piece's pacing, but I sure as hell didn't.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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