I think this is pretty smart, the original probably isn’t getting more popular, just the same people who’ve stayed caught up over the years, I’ve tried starting it, but that many episodes is quite daunting. Personally I’m much more likely to watch this as it comes out.
Oh come on, you can’t spend… (doing math) … 457ish hours (19 days) to catch up with it? /s
Took me 3-4 years to even catch up (no one pace or any other method).
It was cumbersome at times but I was invested for old times sake.If some 3rd party does a summary of every arc in ~1h per arc It would be like a very fast movie. But you’d miss even more subtle developments than with anime vs manga.
Absolutely.
I watched the Netflix show, it was fun, so I thought I might check out the animated series. And dropped that idea quickly again.
If I want to reach the newest episode I’d have to watch three hours a day (no exceptions, not even for Christmas or birthday) for 5 (FIVE) months straight. If I was twelve I might try that, but as an adult I don’t want to commit myself to so much time.
One Pace has almost all the arcs edited down to remove filler and keep the pacing consistent with the manga. It’s about 45% faster than watching the original anime.
Oh great, so like only 2 1/2 months of what the person before you just said? Thats… doable?
It’s still a marathon, but a significantly less annoying one that doesn’t have large sticky mud sections randomly throughout (the metaphor breaks down a bit here…)
I used One Pace to catch up recently and it’s very good - downside is a lot of the earlier arcs aren’t complete yet, but the OG anime isn’t quite as bad with those so it’s typically ok to just watch the real one for those arcs.
It’s worth it though. I’ve been watching for about a year and just hit 600. The show’s writing alone is worth watching for, it’s some of the best that anime has to offer. There’s also not a lot of filler, roughly 10% of the show is filler and it’s not all in a row; it’s also stuff you can easily skip since most of the streaming apps organize the show by arc anyway.
As someone who used to talk shit about this show for over ten years, it’s 100% worth watching.
Cut out all the long ass character dialogues during fights and we can squeeze this into 50 episodes
I’m almost certain that at some point most of the time is wasted from extra long intros and recap portions. There were some episodes where there was maybe 10 minutes of actual new scenes.
Currently watching the English dub and it’s in the middle of the brawl with Kaido - you have to skip the first 5:30 of the episode to get to the episode title and then there’s the outtro which cuts a few more minutes off. It’s a 25 minute show in total so there is about 15ish minutes of new content each episode. I’m pretty sure Enis Lobby was even more egregious, if I can remember correctly.
Don’t get me wrong I love the show but damn they really pad out some of these arcs with bullshit like that.
No
50, probably not. Under 1000? Most assuredly.
Did they think over 1000 episodes wasn’t enough to keep up with?
The episodes must flow
So this is the beginning of One Piece airing forever. By the time The One Piece reaches the finale, it will be so old that another studio will start their own adaptation. Maybe Bones will take the 3rd adaptation of One Piece in like 2035-40 or however long this one plans to be.
THE ONE PIECE… is real?
I’m curious how these modern takes on One Piece will deal with the Okama and related characters (assuming they get that far!)
I haven’t read the manga, but the anime at least comes off super-transphobic in how they’re played for laughs at times. I think that’d necessarily be cut from the live action version, but less hopeful about this for another anime adaptation.
Okama are definitely more of a personality trait group similar to drag queens. Some of them being trans is more incidental rather than the purpose of them in the story
Sure, that’s kind of tangential to the point I’m making. Something can reflect transphobic ideas without explicitly being about trans folk.
Yeah, completely ridiculous! Trans people are obviously better known for whining in the Internet about how other people won’t play along with their fetishes.
