Guys!!! It gets good around chapter 1176.

One piece is the definition of "It's the journey, not the destination." Nothing the One Piece could actually be would be worth 23 years worth of content hyping it up.
(I myself am still a fan of the "one-(head)-piece" that make someone a king, but has to be an item that has been around since the first season theory. Gee, I wonder what that head-piece could be?)
- I've only seen the live action series. Are you talking about loofys hat?
  No idea what that theory is.
  
  Yea luffy's hat. It's been a while since I read the Manga, I could have sworn gold d Roger had the straw hat when he got executed but it wasn't present in the live action show.
- The one piece is the friends we made along the way.
  Oops sorry, no, it's the more powerful than God fruit. Still can't swim in seawater tho.
- Gol D Roger had the straw hat way before visiting Laugh tale. That would be worse than "It was all a dream", or "The one piece was the friends you made along the way". Both of which have been debunked by Oda.
  Personally I subscribe to the theory that the World Government is whom split the world into 4 pieces during the Void Century. Whatever the One Piece is - it will have the power to rejoin the 4 oceans.
  It would solve every dream of all the Straw Hat Pirates. It would literally make the world One Piece again.
  
  Favourite theory I heard was that the One Piece refers to all of the oceans being joined by destroying the strip of land in the centre of the cross shaped continent. They foreshadow it by having every character dream about the different types of fish all co-habiting in the same ocean.
  
  Well it has to be something that's "time gated" for lack of a better term, when roger went they were "to early"
- It's definitely a one-piece swimsuit.

It should be illegal to recommend shows with more than 1000 episodes.
If you like it fine, but I saw it and the pacing is straight up horrible even if the worldbuilding is neat.
There are battles that take literally more than 5 hours without counting the intros and recaps. Even my longest D&D battle was shorter, and those are freaking turn based.
- Fuck the animes pacing, it's unbearable. Luckily https://www.onepace.net exists
  
  Thank you for posting this. I gave up on the show a week ago around episode 600. Marineford legitimately felt like they spit in my face and told me my time was worthless with how many cuts of “he’s almost there”. The show looks like it gets interesting again afterwards but Marineford legit just sucked the will out of me to continue watching. I was thinking of looking up a fan edit to just get the cliff notes and this is perfect!
- Not for nothing, but the manga is paced much better and can be read legally, easily, and digitally for a $3/month subscription. Took me like a month and a half to read the whole thing.
  You've made your opinions clear about long recommendations, so take it or leave it. You were interested once before, though, and it might be worth checking out.
  
  Yep it's the same with a lot of these super long series, they are much more digestible and addictive in manga form.
- Read the manga
- This is my same thought with soap operas. Not that I want to but how would you even get into a show that had been running 5 times a week for 30+ years?
- I tried to watch the ocean cut of Naruto, which basically edits each arc down, cutting out unnecessary flashbacks and recaps, along with intros and intros, making it into basically a series of films.
  It's still 40 films worth of content and 3+ hours per film sometimes (I think, it's been a while), and the pacing is still absolutely fucked which is a symptom of basically every episodic anime when binged.
- I had to watch the first 40 episodes on 3.5x and that shit was still boring. I dropped it after 40 lmao
  
  Had to
  Why did you have to?
  Who is forcing you to watch a show you don't enjoy.
- Not that i've seen any of them but 3 others come to mind
  Doraemon, Crayon Shin-Chan, Detective Conan

As a huge #OnePiece fan, I was enjoying it at the get go, but I have to admit that there were some moments where I felt it was slow, but I kept watching because of the way fans talked about it, the moment I felt completely in love with the series was at Arlong Park Arc (ep 31-44), especially with the episode 37, for others is later or early in the story.
I understand it is scary to get started after seeing the amount of chapters and episodes it has, it takes time commitment, it's been almost two years since I watched the first episode, and it has been an incredible experience. You have multiple options to start.
Read the manga. The source material. Official website to read the first saga for free
Watch the anime. Fans complain about the pacing, it was annoying for me at certain moments, but for me, most of the time I didn't notice it. It has the advantage of being more accessible, I would say, most people will likely watch on a streaming service with the dub in their native language. Watch One Piece on Crunchyroll
Watch One Pace. Fan edit of the anime. This is a project that takes the episodes of the anime, and edit them to make them more truthful to the source material by removing filler scene, long reaction shots, stretched fights, fixing certain errors from the original anime (especially from the old ones, like color schemes since they didn't know or errors that made the final version probably because of deadlines of being a weekly anime since 1999) and removing censorship from certain censored scenes. You can download the episodes by torrent or watch through telegram. Their website claims it 45% faster to watch than the original. One Pace official website
Watch One Piece Live Action. Even though it has certain controversial changes that I don't agree with, I loved how it opened the door for a lot of people to read the manga, watch the anime or One Pace. Watch One Piece Live Action on Netflix
OnePace #OnePieceLiveAction #Manga #Anime
- The live action adaptation is amazing
  
  Huh, so they didn't fuck it up like they did with all the other anime adaptions? Neat.
  Edit: so anyway, I started watching it last night and IMO it's better than the anime!
  
  I had a good time watching too, not saying it was bad, just I didn't like certain changes, but I understand why they had to do it, it is a different medium and if I'm not wrong, they didn't have much time.
- Thank you, for this, I'm going to check out one pace
- One Pace is great. Started it in the middle of Thriller Bark and really noticed how much less the pacing annoyed me.

Shonen manga is notorious for having winding stories with no narrative endgame planned.
Even the DBZ anime at 291 episodes is brutally long and drawn out, with a narrative that obviously repeats itself to the point of self-parody.
Everybody is gonna enjoy what they want to enjoy, but cmon.
- I just rewatched Yuyu Hakusho and it became obvious real quick nothing planned from arc to arc. Even when the creators want a clean end, their editor will push for more if it's popular enough. I can respect Demon Slayer for committing to the final villain that was setup in the beginning.
  
  I wonder if that will translate over to the live action netflix YYH.

A lot of these types of media have a really great premise and initial story before it devolves into every Shonen stereotype ever and way the hell too long and specific arcs.
Like One Piece's original formula of sea travel, pirate action, and island story worked great. It only suffered from Toei's asanine pacing for the Anime.
Now it's basically 99% Island and nothing else. No one even acts like pirates anymore, and each Island lasts so long it actually gets boring to watch or read.
The real crime here is that each chapter is about 15 pages, with currently 1101 chapters, yet the each anime episode is 24 minutes long and there are currently 1087 episodes.
Toei has milked this content harder than their infinite stalling in DBZ.
- Want to watch a show thats Luke that and doesent have 1xxx Fuller eps watch wiki

One Piece is great, but it is a big investment. Worth it IMO. If you're not sure, watch the Netflix live action. It's only 8 episodes and is pretty faithful to the original.
- I was laid off, and in my 13 months before getting a new job, I didn't watch a single episode.
  
  Same, except the getting laid off part
- And it's a high risk investment at this point. I hope Oda stays healthy to see through his masterpiece.
  
  3 more years tops. Iirc he mentioned he has one more arc in him. Historically they're 2ish years long give or take. So just a bit longer and we'll get to see how the one piece was the friends we made along the way.
  Jk I know he said it wasn't that.
- I loved the live action One Piece much more than I thought I would. Just realize that it's goofy and go along with it and you'll have fun.
  
  Plus if you like it enough to watch the anime you can skip like 50 episodes
- That thing is like the least faithful adaptation of anything.
  
  Ding dong you are wrong
  
  Yeah “faithful” isn’t what I would call it but your comment is a huge exaggeration and I hope you know that. I’d struggle to find western adaptations that change less stuff than what the OP LA did.

Things "One Piece" means in Scotland -
An unfashionable all in one ski suit
A sandwich
- In America its most notorious usage must be a woman's bathing suit that is connected from bottom to top in some way.

You haven't read Detective Conan it seems. At least with One Piece the plot is progressing.
- I vaguely remember there was an old line in Conan about how the de-aging poison would kill Shinichi if not reversed soon. Guess they had to conveniently forget that to preserve their commercial mascot.
- Omg it's still ongoing? I remember being a kid, when the anime was on TV. That means the manga should be even older.
  
  I checked a few months ago and they still haven't caught a single man in black
  
  I bought volumes 1-40 when I was a kid until I moved out of Asia in the early 2000s... don't want to look up how many are out now
- the plot is progressing
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I think it's more like a soap opera to the Japanese, that's a guess though. It started in 1998 or 99, which means if you were 5 when you started watching it, you're in your upper 20's which is wild. I think there are people that cut out all of the filler of the anime that you can watch and the netflix adaption is about 4 years' worth.
- It's called One Pace, it's a fan edited version that takes out filler and overly long panning shots etc. to make the pacing of the anime match the manga more closely.
  
  I realize that’s something I really like about unvoiced JRPGs, and manga; my reading pace dictates the scene’s pace, and I’m a decently fast reader. I’m not going to rush delivery on a dramatically impactful line, but I also won’t linger on some duke blabbing about the history of his house’s conflict with the weekend’s villain.
  
  And most importantly, the flashbacks.
  So. Many. Flashbacks.
  
  Thanks for the heads up, that looks great.
- The Netflix Live action One Piece didn't even cover all of the East Blue Saga, which ran from 1997 to 1999 originallly.
  
  Yeah I haven't seen the OG but the live action was still a blast
  
  In the manga you mean? I thought one piece anime was '98 or '99 and I'm going off of that.
  
  From what I've read, they are framing out 12 seasons.

INB4 they jump the shark, finds One Piece, but now all of a sudden there's a Second Piece.

Like the Bible, I maybe haven't read every single word, there was the title, something something with a ship and a cross, then a damn long register, but I think, I got the essence. It's a boring antediluvian scam, kinda like Elon has written it...
- First time I've seen the word antediluvian used in a context that wasn't referring to the ancient super vampires from Vampire the Masquerade.
  
  Wait, that's not what they meant here?

Chapter 1176?
The quality of the anime has some serious dips, but the manga is absolutely god tier from start to finish (or current latest chapter).
- Nah, the manga has its issues too. They are just minimal compared to the anime. Oda will sometimes easily spend 10 chapters moving characters around just to setup some specific scene he wants to draw, then spend another 10 moving them back to where they need to be to continue the story. Half of wano was just moving chairs.

When I had a kid at home who liked one piece I learnt that the show has no end. You can watch it while you want to and you'll get a little story progression. You don't need to start at the start, you don't need to watch to the non existent end
It was fun to watch the first twenty or so episodes then jump to the current state (current state circa 2007)
- I mean the end is coming, that said it's gonna be like 3 more years probably.

Biggest media I've followed must be Jojo, and that's because each part changes the characters and setting, keeping it fresh.
- Sounds basically like doctor who

If you're not reading right now, then you're missing out on the story of the saddest family in existence.
- Great, definitely a pass.
- When did they sail to Roshar?

It gets good around chapter 81.
Then later you realize it was always good.
- I agree completely, don't get me wrong, I was liking it so far. But that episode was what made me realize what story I was getting into and made me fell in love with #OnePiece.

I'm somewhere around 350 episodes I think. My least favorite would be the episodes with a lot of screaming. I know it's Anime and a bit of that is expected but some get to a whole new level.
- The anime has been in production so long it's extremely hit or miss, depending on where in the show's run you look. The effort put into the production falls of a cliff several times. It's part of the reason I personally can't stand it in comparison to other anime series or even the manga.
  It's a pity, some of the OP movies are excellently produced and I'd really like it if a version of the whole story with FMAB level production quality existed. But that'd be a massive undertaking at this point, so it is unlikely to happen.
  The episodes airing currently have pulled their shit together on the animation, but they are still re-cycling the same old OST recordings and SFX samples, making the anime unwatchable for me.
  
  Soooo basically, The Simpsons? As of late, some real banger episodes. Not a fan that they retcon'd Marge being in high-school in 1999.
- I don't know about you but I watch it at 1.5% with a heavy hand on skipping all recaps. Also yes it reaches near dbz-levels of screaming