Thread 213558910

>over 1000 episodes
Why? Fucking why? Watch guide anyone? No way I watch 1000 eps

One Piece is garbage. Watch Trigun or Vampire Hunter D or Baccano.

I've watched more episodes of this than any other anime. I'm still not even half way through.

>>213558910 (OP)
There was one pace some years ago that removed filler or some shit but dunno if it's a thing anymore

>>213558910 (OP)
Why is Lord of the Rings 1000 pages? Why is The Simpsons 36 seasons? Why are there 11 mainline Mega Man games and people complaining they want more?

>>213559376
>Why is Lord of the Rings 1000 pages?
because it needs that many pages to tell the complete story
>Why is The Simpsons 36 seasons?
because they didn't know when to stop and kept going long past the point of diminishing returns
>Why are there 11 mainline Mega Man games and people complaining they want more?
i don't know

seems one piece is more like the simpsons

>>213558910 (OP)
>Why? Fucking why?
Because the story is that good and warrants over 1000 episodes.
>Watch guide anyone? No way I watch 1000 eps
Just consume it one arc at a time. Spend the weekend going one by one, 1000 episodes seem daunting, but not so much if you simply divide them by arcs.

>>213558910 (OP)
Here you go
https://onepace.net/en/watch

>>213558910 (OP)
Read the manga

>>213558910 (OP)
Read guide: start at chapter 1, you'll finish it in 3-4 months at most. Only watch your favorite moments

>>213559420
The Lord of the Rings didn't need every single page to tell its story, as evidenced by how the movie did a find job adapting despite cutting out so much stuff. The reason why it was 1000 pages is because Tolkien wanted it to be. That's it.

In the 80s, it was normal for a successful manga to last 4 or 5 years, then end, and the author would move on to something else. This happened with Fist of the North Star and Shueisha regretted it since it was so popular. So when other series like Dragon Ball, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and YuYu Hakusho started making them money, they asked the authors if they could keep the series going. Dragon Ball went on a few years beyond its intended stopping point and declined in quality. The author of YuYu Hakusho told them to fuck themselves and abruptly ended the story. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is still going right now, and thank God, since the best part of the story happened like 15-20 years into its serialization. These series, especially Dragon Ball, were a huge inspiration for new manga in the late 90s and early 00s, and their authors all got into the magazine hoping their series could last as long or longer. Nowadays, this sentiment has died out. The popular zoomer shounen (My Hero Academia, Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer) all ended in just a few hundred chapters, while One Piece is still going.

Weekly manga aren't written to be a single cohesive story. A guy doesn't show up and say, "This character shows up, does this, then this happens, and the story ends, and that's it, call me in a year to see if I have a new idea." If they were going to write something like that, it'd probably be better as a book or graphic novel. The point of a weekly manga is to be there every week for people to read. As such, there isn't any reason for it to ever end, other than a decline in readers. There is a single narrative, but it's in the background. What you really read it for is the individual story arcs which make up the whole.

>>213559679
didnt read lol

>>213559679
This. It's a sum of its parts and the core format of the story lends itself to how long it is.

>>213558910 (OP)
>mfw currently going though Egghead

>>213559376
>1000 pages
Hold my beer

>>213558941
>Vampire Hunter D
I played the ps1 game. Does that count???

>>213558910 (OP)
One Piece: Defeat the Pirate Ganzack! (1998)
One Piece (1999) E0001-E0018
One Piece: The Movie (2000)
One Piece (1999) E0019-E0053
One Piece: Adventure in the Ocean's Navel (2000)
One Piece: Django's Dance Carnival (2001)
One Piece: Clockwork Island Adventure (2001)
One Piece (1999) E0054-E0130
One Piece: Dream Soccer King (2002)
One Piece: Chopper Kingdom of Strange Animal Island (2002)
One Piece (1999) E0131-E0138
One Piece: Dead End Adventure (2003)
One Piece: Take Aim! The Pirate Baseball King (2004)
One Piece: The Curse of the Sacred Sword (2004)
One Piece: Open Upon the Great Sea! Father's Huge Dream! (2003)
One Piece (1999) E0139-E0206
One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island (2005)
One Piece (1999) E0207-E0219
One Piece: Protect! The Last Great Performance (2003)
One Piece (1999) E0220-E0228
One Piece: Giant Mechanical Soldier of Karakuri Castle (2006)
One Piece (1999) E0229-E0284
One Piece: The Detective Memoirs of Chief Straw Hat Luffy (2005)
One Piece: Romance Dawn Story (2008)
One Piece (1999) E0285-E0429
One Piece Film: Strong World (2009)
One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0 (2010)
One Piece (1999) E0430-E0492
One Piece 3D: Straw Hat Chase (2011)
One Piece 3D: Racing! Trap Coaster (2011)
One Piece (1999) E0493-E0578
One Piece: Episode of Luffy - Adventure on Hand Island (2012)
One Piece: Glorious Island (2012)
One Piece Film: Z (2012)
One Piece 3D2Y: Overcoming Ace's Death! (2014)
One Piece: Adventure of Nebulandia (2015)
One Piece (1999) E0579-E0750
One Piece: Heart of Gold (2016)
One Piece Film: Gold Episode 0 - 711 ver. (2016)
One Piece Film: Gold (2016)
One Piece (1999) E0751-E0896
One Piece: Stampede (2019)
One Piece (1999) E0897-E01030
One Piece Film: Red (2022)
Monsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation (2024)
One Piece (1999) E1031-E1120+
One Piece Fan Letter (2024)
One Piece: Heroines (TBA)

Or wait for the remake.

>>213558910 (OP)
It's worth it for this moment alone.

>>213558910 (OP)
Read the manga. If a scene is particularly cool you can look it up on youtube.

>>213558910 (OP)
Skip filler. Each ep is like 20 min. You can watch 3 in 1 hour. Anyway just read manga. You can stop after marineford if you don’t think it’s worth continuing.

>>213559980
>One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island (2005)
If you dont want to start this juggernaut at least watch this movie. Its really good

>>213558910 (OP)
One Piece goes to shit after timeskip

>>213560159
I mean it doesn't really hit the same punch if you haven't experienced the story up to that point and you're not aware of how the Straw Hats treat each other.

>>213560189
Bullshit:
>>213560004
>>213559774

>>213558910 (OP)
>No way I watch 1000 eps
Then dont. Its not mandatory to watch.

>>213559679
>A guy doesn't show up and say, "This character shows up, does this, then this happens, and the story ends, and that's it, call me in a year to see if I have a new idea." If they were going to write something like that, it'd probably be better as a book or graphic novel.
To add some nuance to this:

Some mangaka don't even seem to have any story thought out at all, and only have the first 5 chapters thought out then wing it.
Some mangaka have a story thought out, but then bad ratings or editorial meddling force them to change the story drastically. Sometimes they manage to steer it into a long-running series after drastic changes, and sometimes they still get cancelled. A good example is Katekyo Hitman Reborn, which starts out as a pure gag manga and then suddenly turns into a full battle shounen (with a mostly nonsensical plot).
And then there's some mangaka who have a story thought out (probably not at the start, but at least relatively early on in its run), and then it ends but the manga continues running. I think JJK is a good example, everything after the Shibuya arc is a shitshow and it seems like nothing after it was thought of beforehand. Was there even an original plan for the Shibuya a

In all of these, One Piece is truly unique in that it has a story that was mostly sketched out from rather early on in its run, has a set endpoint is and is (very slowly) going to it over an insane amount of runtime.

>>213559376
lord of the rings is like 600 pages without the huge ass appendices