Current Events > If I were to ever watch one piece, I have no idea how logistics would work

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especially if I wanted to watch it with my gf.

Like, one episode a day would take literal fucking years, and I dont feel like ever fucking binging because even binging would take months.

How about two episode per day

I heard theres something called One Pace which is like a guide or something on what episodes to watch which cuts out filler. I heard even that is slow compared to the manga though. The manga is easy to binge and its incredibly fast, compared to the anime where even with a guide to cut the filler its slow

How about 3 episodes a day

If you really want to get caught up in a timely manner, you'll want to aim for at least 5 episodes a day. Still gonna take a long time, but you'll get there eventually.

Rika_Furude posted...

I heard theres something called One Pace which is like a guide or something on what episodes to watch which cuts out filler. I heard even that is slow compared to the manga though. The manga is easy to binge and its incredibly fast, compared to the anime where even with a guide to cut the filler its slow

One Pace is a fan project that reedits the episodes to have better pacing. But that issue doesn't crop up until a few hundred episodes in regardless.

One Piece actually doesn't have a filler problem the same way Naruto does. There ARE filler arcs, but they usually don't last long. Instead, later arcs (starting after Enies Lobby) will stretch a single manga chapter out into an entire episode. Sometimes even more than 1 episode. That's where One Pace is helpful.

I started watching One Piece (NOT One Pace, so I dealt with the pacing issues) October last year and caught up to Egghead part 1 sometime midway through this year. I watched 4-7 episodes most days.

Rika_Furude posted...

I heard theres something called One Pace which is like a guide or something on what episodes to watch which cuts out filler. I heard even that is slow compared to the manga though. The manga is easy to binge and its incredibly fast, compared to the anime where even with a guide to cut the filler its slow

This is what my wife and I did, though they could also wait for the upcoming Netflix edition

Alternatively, there is a reboot of the anime coming at some point (presumably with better animation and pacing). Could just start with that if you don't mind the slow route.

It took me about 9 months to watch 600~ episodes of One Piece back in 2012-13 when it only had 600~ episodes at the time.

pokedude900 posted...

Alternatively, there is a reboot of the anime coming at some point (presumably with better animation and pacing). Could just start with that if you don't mind the slow route.

You mean like DBZ Kai? So its basically One Piece Kai?

Watch the Netflix adaptation and if she likes it, youll have a jumping point for references

Zikten posted...

You mean like DBZ Kai? So its basically One Piece Kai?

More like Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood since they're remaking it from scratch.

tripleh213 posted...

How about 3 episodes a day

Thats a lot of no videogame time for my tastes.while still taking over a fucking year :P

EDIT: but one pace seems like the best bet, while Im into The One Piece thingie, its gonna also take a billion years to catch up.

Reading it is much faster if thats an option for you. Otherwise watching 2-4 a day would get you caught up eventually.

I personally dont like trying to get caught up in a long series with someone, because then watch sessions only happen when youre both in the mood for it. But if the main focus is just to have something to watch with your gf, thats fine.

pokedude900 posted...

More like Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood since they're remaking it from scratch.

yeah but it's completely MIA without even a release year. And even once it's out who knows how long it'll take for that to catch up. Honestly you could reasonably catch up before it even releases

What I did was watch up until around ep-500 and then read the manga, but then again i caught up in 2020

They're remaking the anime. Just wait for that at this point.

You could also just watch the original anime and just accept you will never actually catch up completely, at least not til the anime ends. Just don't worry about being up to date and enjoy at your own pace

Unless you approach it like a job it's going to take years. I started watching on and off like 10 years ago and I'm still only halfway through the Wano arc.

Don't let the volume of episodes deter you though, it's a fun ride

it really dont take that long once you get going

Rika_Furude posted...

I heard theres something called One Pace which is like a guide or something on what episodes to watch which cuts out filler. I heard even that is slow compared to the manga though. The manga is easy to binge and its incredibly fast, compared to the anime where even with a guide to cut the filler its slow

One Pace goes far beyond being a guide. It's an ongoing re-edit of all of One Piece. Toei's filler doesn't just stop at non-cannon episodes. Let's say something shocking happens. In the manga the shocking thing would be a double spread page, and then in the corner or on the bottom you'd have a row of reactions. In the anime, they'll give that double spread like 1m of screentime, and then do every single individual characters reactions one-by-one for 30s each. These are editing choices made to pad out the runtime as much as possible. In addition each episode of One Piece is usually only 15m. It has a 22m runtime. But that's a 2 minute opening, 1 minute ending, 30s eyecatch in the middle, 30s episode preview at the end, and usually 3-5m of recap at the start. One Pace does away with allll of that. And edits the episodes down so they feel closer to the manga's pacing, and cuts out all the actual filler too. It's a wicked cool project, and imo the best way to watch One Piece.

Ok I have to admit, I did actually know it was an edit but I wanted to seem innocent in case it was against the rules >.>

If you cut out the intro, recap, and outro, the average episode is like 17 minutes long. For an 1,100 episode show, it's a relatively easy watch.

Uta posted...

One Pace goes far beyond being a guide. It's an ongoing re-edit of all of One Piece. Toei's filler doesn't just stop at non-cannon episodes. Let's say something shocking happens. In the manga the shocking thing would be a double spread page, and then in the corner or on the bottom you'd have a row of reactions. In the anime, they'll give that double spread like 1m of screentime, and then do every single individual characters reactions one-by-one for 30s each. These are editing choices made to pad out the runtime as much as possible. In addition each episode of One Piece is usually only 15m. It has a 22m runtime. But that's a 2 minute opening, 1 minute ending, 30s eyecatch in the middle, 30s episode preview at the end, and usually 3-5m of recap at the start. One Pace does away with allll of that. And edits the episodes down so they feel closer to the manga's pacing, and cuts out all the actual filler too. It's a wicked cool project, and imo the best way to watch One Piece.

tbh the one issue i have with Pace is that they cut out the good filler too, like some fight extensions and stuff. It's not as much of a problem in say, Punk Hazard or Dressrosa, but Wano and Egghead have a lot of really cool anime-original additions

You'll get to da good parts and will start binging tbh

mehmeh1 posted...

tbh the one issue i have with Pace is that they cut out the good filler too, like some fight extensions and stuff. It's not as much of a problem in say, Punk Hazard or Dressrosa, but Wano and Egghead have a lot of really cool anime-original additions

also the filler arcs i think are pretty good

and G8 is just fantastic better than some canon arcs

Rika_Furude posted...

Ok I have to admit, I did actually know it was an edit but I wanted to seem innocent in case it was against the rules >.>

We're a little more lax on those rules these days. So long as you aren't actively telling people where to find stuff or pushing them towards it, it should be fine. the last line of my previous post might actually cross the line. Come to think of it.

mehmeh1 posted...

tbh the one issue i have with Pace is that they cut out the good filler too, like some fight extensions and stuff. It's not as much of a problem in say, Punk Hazard or Dressrosa, but Wano and Egghead have a lot of really cool anime-original additions

Those moments are pretty contentious in the fandom actually. Wano had problems where some of the additions would actually change the tone of the scene and a lot of the actually important fights wound up horribly undercooked and hard to read. Likely because they blew budget on blowing up a random boat that wasn't even in the manga. The fact that a random boat got treated better than the Gear 5 reveal is wild to me. I'll never not be mad about how butchered Luffy vs Kaido was.

There is one filler arc I do recommend though. G8. It serves as a much better comedy arc than long ring long land. Honestly if it wasn't that LRLL sets up certain key characters and callbacks I'd suggest skipping that arc entirely. It's also the introduction of the most important member of the crew. Condoriano.

Uta posted...

One Pace goes far beyond being a guide. It's an ongoing re-edit of all of One Piece. Toei's filler doesn't just stop at non-cannon episodes. Let's say something shocking happens. In the manga the shocking thing would be a double spread page, and then in the corner or on the bottom you'd have a row of reactions. In the anime, they'll give that double spread like 1m of screentime, and then do every single individual characters reactions one-by-one for 30s each. These are editing choices made to pad out the runtime as much as possible. In addition each episode of One Piece is usually only 15m. It has a 22m runtime. But that's a 2 minute opening, 1 minute ending, 30s eyecatch in the middle, 30s episode preview at the end, and usually 3-5m of recap at the start. One Pace does away with allll of that. And edits the episodes down so they feel closer to the manga's pacing, and cuts out all the actual filler too. It's a wicked cool project, and imo the best way to watch One Piece.

I remember the latter episodes of the Hades chapter Saint Seiya did like 5 minute recap every single episode and binging that shit felt horrendous, I understand that it helped when those OVAs were released like every year or so but still, the fact that they edited all of that shit out makes me want to watch it that way. Im going for it for sure.

EDIT: please do let me know when I can watch G8 if I am watching one pace.

orcus_snake posted...

EDIT: please do let me know when I can watch G8 if I am watching one pace.

G8 takes place immediately after Skypeia. The arc starts off by having the pirates land from skypeia straight into the middle of an impenetrable military base. And the entire navy goes into high alert desperately trying to figure out how the strawhats managed to pull off an aerial invasion. The straw hats in the meantime disguise themselves as marines to avoid detection.

Thank you from letting me know but Im gonna pass on the spopilers because I dont want to be spoiled :P