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Stop advertising your YouTube channel
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i dont have time for that though

literally 15 more years of actual plot coming
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Kaname_Madoka posted...

i dont have time for that though

literally 15 more years of actual plot coming

and how da fuck is 15 more years of greatness bad?
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Feline_Heart posted...

Stop advertising your YouTube channel

Vegy wishes he were SuperEyepatchWolf
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DiesMortis posted...

Feline_Heart posted...

Stop advertising your YouTube channel

Vegy wishes he were SuperEyepatchWolf

thank you
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Vegy posted...

Kaname_Madoka posted...

i dont have time for that though

literally 15 more years of actual plot coming

and how da fuck is 15 more years of greatness bad?

i dont have the time to watch it. i myself am literally 15
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Kaname_Madoka posted...

Vegy posted...

Kaname_Madoka posted...

i dont have time for that though

literally 15 more years of actual plot coming

and how da fuck is 15 more years of greatness bad?

i dont have the time to watch it. i myself am literally 15

are you dying at 16 or something, i don't get it lol
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Vegy posted...

Kaname_Madoka posted...

Vegy posted...

Kaname_Madoka posted...

i dont have time for that though

literally 15 more years of actual plot coming

and how da fuck is 15 more years of greatness bad?

i dont have the time to watch it. i myself am literally 15

are you dying at 16 or something, i don't get it lol

i have enough other stuff to watch man
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one long anime filled with perfect quality>>>>>hundreds other hella short and not as good animes
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Vegy posted...

one long anime filled with perfect quality>>>>>hundreds other hella short and not as good animes

i doubt id ever be able to catch up even if its all i did in my spare time
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Read: yes
Watch: generally no
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Vegy posted...

one long anime filled with perfect quality>>>>>hundreds other hella short and not as good animes

Perfect is one hell of an exaggeration. I love OP and have for the better part of the past decade, but it has a lot of flaws. You can't blame someone for wanting a shorter more focused story with actual character development and such over a near 1000 chapter manga that still has nearly a decade left.
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Shotgunnova posted...

Read: yes
Watch: generally no

Also this. I don't know why I ever watched the anime. The lazy animations often times surpass Super in terrible quality. Pre-time skip was especially bad.
Which sucks considering Oda does so well with the manga
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I tried to keep up with the one piece dub and i got impatient and started watching the sub.

I'm just past the Punk Hazard ark now.
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I have every English translated Manga up to the time skip, but I skipped the Fish-Man Island and Dressrosa arcs since I already read them online and gradually reading the English translated Big Mom arc books as they come out. Later maybe if I have the money I'll buy the arcs I skipped
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If you're catching up solely with anime you're doing it wrong.

Reading is a lot faster with a mix of anime for noteworthy scenes
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Duncanwii posted...

I have every English translated Manga up to the time skip, but I skipped the Fish-Man Island and Dressrosa arcs since I already read them online and gradually reading the English translated Big Mom arc books as they come out. Later maybe if I have the money I'll buy the arcs I skipped

I think I have about half of all of the volumes released in the West. All up until Drum Island, (none of Alabasta because I first watched the movie instead when catching up), all of Skypia/Jaya, parts of Davy/Water 7/Enies, all of Thriller Bark, and all Post timeskip through Dressrosa.
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Read One Piece
Look up the best fights on Youtube afterwards

That's how it's done

ThanksUglyGod posted...

Read One Piece
Look up the best fights on Youtube afterwards

That's how it's done

The anime fights are so hit and miss. Half the animations look like they're in slow motion as it takes Luffy 10 seconds to land a single hit. Or the ten minute monologue between each single punch/sword swipe.
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Kaname_Madoka posted...

Vegy posted...

one long anime filled with perfect quality>>>>>hundreds other hella short and not as good animes

i doubt id ever be able to catch up even if its all i did in my spare time

It only takes 1 month to read all the chapters
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Feline_Heart posted...

Kaname_Madoka posted...

Vegy posted...

one long anime filled with perfect quality>>>>>hundreds other hella short and not as good animes

i doubt id ever be able to catch up even if its all i did in my spare time

It only takes 1 month to read all the chapters

hmm
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Captain_Qwark posted...

Why does the character look like an anime Pinocchio fuck boi?

Are pinnochio fuck bois pirates with bounties of 500 million dollars on their heads?
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A story going on for that long literally cannot be better than decent.

Nobody has that kind of creative talent to keep one going for that many years.
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HaVeNII7 posted...

A story going on for that long literally cannot be better than decent.

Nobody has that kind of creative talent to keep one going for that many years.

It's only gotten better as it's gone on actually. And it's pretty awesome because things and characters will come up later that references past events that just seemed minor at first. It does a good job of tying things together.
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HaVeNII7 posted...

A story going on for that long literally cannot be better than decent.

Nobody has that kind of creative talent to keep one going for that many years.

oh my sweet summer child




its been the best anime/manga for 20 years now for 90% of da anime/manga community lol, i've read every single chapter there is and i don't regret a thing about it. Every chapter is filled with life, and fun, and its sooooo fucking interesting. It will make you CRAVE for more after you reach every last chapter page
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WaterLink posted...

HaVeNII7 posted...

A story going on for that long literally cannot be better than decent.

Nobody has that kind of creative talent to keep one going for that many years.

It's only gotten better as it's gone on actually. And it's pretty awesome because things and characters will come up later that references past events that just seemed minor at first. It does a good job of tying things together.

It's been crappy ever since they reached the new world
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Lies
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Feline_Heart posted...

It's been crappy ever since they reached the new world

You didn't like the Sanji stuff?
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Vegy posted...

its been the best anime/manga for 20 years now for 90% of da anime/manga community lol

You really need to stop with the hyperbole and hyping up any manga/anime you've seen as if they're the second coming of Christ. One Piece is good, but get real. Outside of the Japanese fanbase (and not even there sometimes) it's not even remotely close to being that big for "90%" of any community.

It's really good, but far from the pinnacle of the medium. It does a lot of things right while also doing many things very wrong.
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one piece is too fucking big and i don't like the pirate genre to begin with.
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It's a shame One Piece has such an ugly art style.
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Kaname_Madoka posted...

i dont have time for that though

literally 15 more years of actual plot coming

Never understood this stupid argument. There is always time. I mean is it that hard to find 25 min a day to watch a single episode? Or read a chapter? The longer it takes, the better, you get more enjoyment out of it.
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@LightHawKnight posted...

Kaname_Madoka posted...

i dont have time for that though

literally 15 more years of actual plot coming

Never understood this stupid argument. There is always time. I mean is it that hard to find 25 min a day to watch a single episode? Or read a chapter? The longer it takes, the better, you get more enjoyment out of it.

You say that as if there's 50 episodes or something. You do realize there's nearly 800 episodes and counting, right? That's nearly three years worth even if you watch once per day (not to mention the fact that not everyone even has that much time every day).

I don't see how you don't understand it. You'd have to be pretty ignorant to not see it at all, and you only sound silly calling it "stupid" to say that it's unreasonable for someone with a full time job and limited free time to not want to invest dozens of hours in playing catch up alone.

Seeing nearly one thousand episodes/chapters is most definitely a very viable fear some newcomers into the series could have.
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Terra-enforcer posted...

@LightHawKnight posted...

Kaname_Madoka posted...

i dont have time for that though

literally 15 more years of actual plot coming

Never understood this stupid argument. There is always time. I mean is it that hard to find 25 min a day to watch a single episode? Or read a chapter? The longer it takes, the better, you get more enjoyment out of it.

You say that as if there's 50 episodes or something. You do realize there's nearly 800 episodes and counting, right? That's nearly three years worth even if you watch once per day (not to mention the fact that not everyone even has that much time every day).

I don't see how you don't understand it. You'd have to be pretty ignorant to not see it at all, and you only sound silly calling it "stupid" to say that it's unreasonable for someone with a full time job and limited free time to not want to invest dozens of hours in playing catch up alone.

Seeing nearly one thousand episodes/chapters is most definitely a very viable fear some newcomers into the series could have.

I haven't even watched all of the anime (got up to Water 7 on that). But even then, you're talking about 1 episode a day when hardly anyone these days does that with a show with the Netflix style services people get their media from these days. Sure the length can kind of be intimidating, but my philosophy with a large task is to break it down into smaller tasks. Try to finish a season (arc) in a couple weeks. Watch something else, then come back to it.

But reading it you can easily catch up pretty quickly. Takes like 5 minutes to read a chapter, maybe a little more if it's a particularly eventful one or if you seriously pore over every detail. If people can read ASOIAF in like a month then they can do the same with One Piece.
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WaterLink posted...

I haven't even watched all of the anime (got up to Water 7 on that). But even then, you're talking about 1 episode a day when hardly anyone these days does that with a show with the Netflix style services people get their media from these days. Sure the length can kind of be intimidating, but my philosophy with a large task is to break it down into smaller tasks. Try to finish a season (arc) in a couple weeks. Watch something else, then come back to it.

But reading it you can easily catch up pretty quickly. Takes like 5 minutes to read a chapter, maybe a little more if it's a particularly eventful one or if you seriously pore over every detail. If people can read ASOIAF in like a month then they can do the same with One Piece.

My point is that he literally called it "stupid" to see something nearly one thousand episodes long as daunting. Especially for most adults with full time jobs. Binge watching a show could be easy for a high school or college student, but not for a lot of adults with full time jobs when there's that much ground to cover (episode-wise). Also most "Netflix shows" aren't a third the length of One Piece.

And I just said the one episode argument since that's just the parameters he set, which are incredibly unreasonable (which was the point I was making). No idea what ASOIAF even stands for, but I do agree you can breeze through arcs pretty quickly in the manga. But 900 chapters is still 900 chapters, which can very easily seem like a lot, and thinking that isn't "stupid" or unreasonable in the slightest.
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Terra-enforcer posted...

WaterLink posted...

I haven't even watched all of the anime (got up to Water 7 on that). But even then, you're talking about 1 episode a day when hardly anyone these days does that with a show with the Netflix style services people get their media from these days. Sure the length can kind of be intimidating, but my philosophy with a large task is to break it down into smaller tasks. Try to finish a season (arc) in a couple weeks. Watch something else, then come back to it.

But reading it you can easily catch up pretty quickly. Takes like 5 minutes to read a chapter, maybe a little more if it's a particularly eventful one or if you seriously pore over every detail. If people can read ASOIAF in like a month then they can do the same with One Piece.

My point is that he literally called it "stupid" to see something nearly one thousand episodes long as daunting. Especially for most adults with full time jobs. Binge watching a show could be easy for a high school or college student, but not for a lot of adults with full time jobs when there's that much ground to cover (episode-wise). Also most "Netflix shows" aren't a third the length of One Piece.

And I just said the one episode argument since that's just the parameters he set, which are incredibly unreasonable (which was the point I was making). No idea what ASOIAF even stands for, but I do agree you can breeze through arcs pretty quickly in the manga. But 900 chapters is still 900 chapters, which can very easily seem like a lot, and thinking that isn't "stupid" or unreasonable in the slightest.

I agree, it can definitely seem daunting. But people with full time jobs also binge watch 100 episode series in their free time. Sure I wouldn't expect them to binge watch an 1000 episode series, at least not all at once. But you can make a dent in it, take a break and go to something else, and come back to it is what I'm saying.

But I do agree it's daunting, I wouldnt try to say it's a stupid argument like he said, I'd try to just put it in perspective that if you can binge watch breaking bad in a few weeks (which has hour long episodes, not 20 minutes) you can put a serious dent in one piece at the same time.

Also just FYI ASOIAF is "A Song of Ice and Fire" which is the book series Game of Thrones is based off of. Which is another series with hour long episodes it seems like everyone has binged watched or is up to date on.
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WaterLink posted...

I agree, it can definitely seem daunting. But people with full time jobs also binge watch 100 episode series in their free time. Sure I wouldn't expect them to binge watch an 1000 episode series, at least not all at once. But you can make a dent in it, take a break and go to something else, and come back to it is what I'm saying.

Yeah, I definitely can agree with this. It's just the time sink alone that comes across as daunting to the point of not being worth getting into, which I completely understand. And you mention BB, but that's the thing though. Many consider that a huge time sink as is, and One Piece is about five times as long as even that, which is saying a lot.

I'm just glad I got into the series when I did. The English manga localization was in Impel down and the Japanese chapters were in Fishman island. I ended up skipping around a bit before I even caught up completely, but I think I caught up in a good time considering Punk Hazard is pretty good and not too drawn out like Fishman island before it or Dressrosa after it.
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Terra-enforcer posted...

@LightHawKnight posted...

Kaname_Madoka posted...

i dont have time for that though

literally 15 more years of actual plot coming

Never understood this stupid argument. There is always time. I mean is it that hard to find 25 min a day to watch a single episode? Or read a chapter? The longer it takes, the better, you get more enjoyment out of it.

You say that as if there's 50 episodes or something. You do realize there's nearly 800 episodes and counting, right? That's nearly three years worth even if you watch once per day (not to mention the fact that not everyone even has that much time every day).

I don't see how you don't understand it. You'd have to be pretty ignorant to not see it at all, and you only sound silly calling it "stupid" to say that it's unreasonable for someone with a full time job and limited free time to not want to invest dozens of hours in playing catch up alone.

Seeing nearly one thousand episodes/chapters is most definitely a very viable fear some newcomers into the series could have.

That is just stupid. 3 years, that is a good thing. You have more stuff to watch. No time wasted looking for something else to watch, you have something to watch. And this binge nonsense, who said to binge it, watch an episode or two a day like a normal adult.
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i also dont like the artstyle
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Kaname_Madoka posted...

i also dont like the artstyle

you've never read/watched it how would you know by just googling a bit lol


LightHawKnight posted...

Terra-enforcer posted...

@LightHawKnight posted...

Kaname_Madoka posted...

i dont have time for that though

literally 15 more years of actual plot coming

Never understood this stupid argument. There is always time. I mean is it that hard to find 25 min a day to watch a single episode? Or read a chapter? The longer it takes, the better, you get more enjoyment out of it.

You say that as if there's 50 episodes or something. You do realize there's nearly 800 episodes and counting, right? That's nearly three years worth even if you watch once per day (not to mention the fact that not everyone even has that much time every day).

I don't see how you don't understand it. You'd have to be pretty ignorant to not see it at all, and you only sound silly calling it "stupid" to say that it's unreasonable for someone with a full time job and limited free time to not want to invest dozens of hours in playing catch up alone.

Seeing nearly one thousand episodes/chapters is most definitely a very viable fear some newcomers into the series could have.

That is just stupid. 3 years, that is a good thing. You have more stuff to watch. No time wasted looking for something else to watch, you have something to watch. And this binge nonsense, who said to binge it, watch an episode or two a day like a normal adult.

THIS



none of you will be dying any time soon, don't act like it lol
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I love it, but I don't necessarily agree tbh. Even I have taken a break from it in the middle of Enies Lobby because it can just be too much some time. Doesn't help that they had the shittiest filler of all time right in the middle of it when shit got good either, but it's not flawless and can go on too long for some people.

If you're interested, I'd say just play Pirate Warriors 3 and then wait for a game that covers a ton of shit post Dressrosa. Although I would totally recommend watching Alabasta and Water 7 if you don't want to see the whole show, but want to watch some good shit, Water 7 is one of my favorite anime arcs.
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@LightHawKnight posted...

That is just stupid. 3 years, that is a good thing. You have more stuff to watch. No time wasted looking for something else to watch, you have something to watch. And this binge nonsense, who said to binge it, watch an episode or two a day like a normal adult.

That logic is still abysmal as hell. Not everyone wants to have to wait three fucking years to catch up for a single show. You'd have to be pretty dense to not understand that. If you ask a normal person would they rather watch an ongoing show and be able to converse with others about it or even finish the entirety of multiple small shows, versus solely playing catch up at a snail's pace, anyone with a brain should be able to tell the option most people would likely choose.

The fact that you can't even see something that simple is actually mind boggling. If you're being serious and don't see how someone could think differently from your incredibly narrow minded and unrealistic vision, then something may be wrong with you. You're basically just saying if someone wants to spend better use of their time or prefers not to have to wait THREE YEARS in catch up mode then they're wrong, which is dumb as hell and makes entirely no sense whatsoever.
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WaterLink posted...

Feline_Heart posted...

It's been crappy ever since they reached the new world

You didn't like the Sanji stuff?

I haven't read the new chapters in like 5 months. The stuff with Sanji just felt like a rehash of what happened at Enies lobby
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Terra-enforcer posted...

@LightHawKnight posted...

That is just stupid. 3 years, that is a good thing. You have more stuff to watch. No time wasted looking for something else to watch, you have something to watch. And this binge nonsense, who said to binge it, watch an episode or two a day like a normal adult.

That logic is still abysmal as hell. Not everyone wants to have to wait three fucking years to catch up for a single show. You'd have to be pretty dense to not understand that. If you ask a normal person would they rather watch an ongoing show and be able to converse with others about it or even finish the entirety of multiple small shows, versus solely playing catch up at a snail's pace, anyone with a brain should be able to tell the option most people would likely choose.

The fact that you can't even see something that simple is actually mind boggling. If you're being serious and don't see how someone could think differently from your incredibly narrow minded and unrealistic vision, then something may be wrong with you. You're basically just saying if someone wants to spend better use of their time or prefers not to have to wait THREE YEARS in catch up mode then they're wrong, which is dumb as hell and makes entirely no sense whatsoever.

Catch up? Why do you need to talk to people about a show? You can't enjoy something unless you talk to someone else about it constantly? Makes no sense at all.
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People can't enjoy something for itself anymore. They need to feel superior talking about it to others.
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That's not a superiority thing. Don't know how you came to that conclusion. It's fun to be a part of a community and discuss stuff that you like with others. It's as simple as that.
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