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2021-04-02 at 12:04 AM UTCI watched a few espisodes years ago when it was on TV, but it honestly seemed to be mostly kid-oriented even if some of the characters were hyperviolent
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2021-04-02 at 12:55 AM UTC
Originally posted by aldra I watched a few espisodes years ago when it was on TV, but it honestly seemed to be mostly kid-oriented even if some of the characters were hyperviolent
I've watched enough to know it definitely isn't kid oriented. It goes pretty hard story-wise. It's just too much IMO and I can't stand animes where the whole purpose is fighting. The main character always has that goku attitude and this insatiable vigor for life (and food) that is just so fucking predictable after you've watched a few animes. It's like they're all the same people from anime to anime. A lot of the times they even have the same voice actors. I'm pretty sure the English Zorro is also Piccolo and like 10000o00000 other things too. But even if it's not literally the same, they always have the same kind of voice. It's so boring.
Regular non-anime TV is like this too, I'm just picky as fuck. -
2021-04-02 at 1:36 AM UTC
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2021-04-02 at 1:39 AM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-04-02 at 1:50 AM UTC
Originally posted by Data I've watched enough to know it definitely isn't kid oriented. It goes pretty hard story-wise. It's just too much IMO and I can't stand animes where the whole purpose is fighting. The main character always has that goku attitude and this insatiable vigor for life (and food) that is just so fucking predictable after you've watched a few animes. It's like they're all the same people from anime to anime. A lot of the times they even have the same voice actors. I'm pretty sure the English Zorro is also Piccolo and like 10000o00000 other things too. But even if it's not literally the same, they always have the same kind of voice. It's so boring.
Regular non-anime TV is like this too, I'm just picky as fuck.
If you give it just a bit you'll see it isn't really about fighting very much, although climaxes are centered around fights.
The thing is that the entire East Blue Saga is literally an introduction. They essentially gather up the core of the pirate crew in this saga. That is the first 100 chapters or ~55 episodes (or 27 OnePace episodes + 14 official episodes for Baratie)
So basically the series doesn't even really get started with what 90% of it is about (the adventures of the crew) until after the first saga, which is about introducing the core crew members.
At minimum Luffy cannot really be compared to Goku at all aside from some stereotypical shounen protagonist traits (like loving food).
Even those types of traits are never taken for granted, for example eating is a big part of actually forming his personality and relationships rather than some stupid gag.
You should watch until at least Baratie (third or fourth main arc, where they acquire their chef, Sanji), to understand. But then this same relationship is not just done once and ignored, it is brought back and done in mind-blowing fashion in the Whole Cake Island arc (episode 780 or some shit!)
That's the thing, it is fucking long but there is a reason, it does storytelling right. -
2021-04-02 at 1:52 AM UTC
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2021-04-02 at 2:16 AM UTCthe fucking lollipop tho
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2021-04-02 at 2:19 AM UTC
Originally posted by Joseph R. Biden Jr, 46th President of the United States of America If you give it just a bit you'll see it isn't really about fighting very much, although climaxes are centered around fights.
The thing is that the entire East Blue Saga is literally an introduction. They essentially gather up the core of the pirate crew in this saga. That is the first 100 chapters or ~55 episodes (or 27 OnePace episodes + 14 official episodes for Baratie)
So basically the series doesn't even really get started with what 90% of it is about (the adventures of the crew) until after the first saga, which is about introducing the core crew members.
At minimum Luffy cannot really be compared to Goku at all aside from some stereotypical shounen protagonist traits (like loving food).
Even those types of traits are never taken for granted, for example eating is a big part of actually forming his personality and relationships rather than some stupid gag.
You should watch until at least Baratie (third or fourth main arc, where they acquire their chef, Sanji), to understand. But then this same relationship is not just done once and ignored, it is brought back and done in mind-blowing fashion in the Whole Cake Island arc (episode 780 or some shit!)
That's the thing, it is fucking long but there is a reason, it does storytelling right.
This is basically what my friend keeps telling me. I refuse to watch any cut versions though. I want the full show. It's just incredibly daunting to start like a 1000+ episode show that will probably never end. I think also maybe I watched too many episodes while super fucked up and now some backend part of my brain associates One Piece with being smashed drunk and stoned and smoking cigarette butts. -
2021-04-02 at 3:38 AM UTCThe story of the manga is like 70-80% done. The anime is something like 1 year behind the manga.
The reason I recommend the OnePace version is because it really helps to actually match the pacing up in the early parts.
During the early parts Toei wanted to avoid catching up with the manga so there are many filler and reused scenes and filler arcs.
They did a good job in places such as Baratie and most of Skypiea. Also no matter what, after Skypiea there is one excellent filler called G8 you should definitely watch.
However for shit like Dressrosa, you will reduce like 120 episodes into 50 and it is bloody helpful to just have normal pacing without shit being stretched out, specially since you won't need to skip as many intros.
Again it is fine if you don't care, still a great show to watch uncut but it's far from the incredibly well paced and executed story of the manga. -
2021-04-02 at 3:43 AM UTC
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2021-04-02 at 3:53 AM UTC
Originally posted by Joseph R. Biden Jr, 46th President of the United States of America The story of the manga is like 70-80% done. The anime is something like 1 year behind the manga.
The reason I recommend the OnePace version is because it really helps to actually match the pacing up in the early parts.
During the early parts Toei wanted to avoid catching up with the manga so there are many filler and reused scenes and filler arcs.
They did a good job in places such as Baratie and most of Skypiea. Also no matter what, after Skypiea there is one excellent filler called G8 you should definitely watch.
However for shit like Dressrosa, you will reduce like 120 episodes into 50 and it is bloody helpful to just have normal pacing without shit being stretched out, specially since you won't need to skip as many intros.
Again it is fine if you don't care, still a great show to watch uncut but it's far from the incredibly well paced and executed story of the manga.
To be honest I'd rather read the Manga. I can probably absorb the story faster that way. Where do you go to read it? -
2021-04-02 at 3:54 AM UTCI've never read a Manga before but I just cannot get into a crazy long show. I barely watch TV as it is.
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2021-04-02 at 4:02 AM UTC
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2021-04-02 at 4:02 AM UTCOr many other manga sites, just Google "read one piece" or "read manga" then "one piece".
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2021-04-02 at 10:56 AM UTCThe music of the show is really great though. Not a bad show to watch at all by itself even in uncut form. Just on a rewatch or something OnePace will help a lot.
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2021-04-02 at 1:11 PM UTC
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2021-04-02 at 1:43 PM UTC
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2021-04-02 at 1:49 PM UTC
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2021-04-02 at 2:17 PM UTC
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2021-04-02 at 2:18 PM UTCIt's not even that you gotta watch 100 episodes to get it, it's already good from the start.
It's just that yes, the first 100 manga chapters are literally the intro saga and that's not how most of the story is structured. The story of how the pirate crew formed, in itself, is awesome. Everyone in East Blue is important and has great stories. But that's literally the first saga to setup the grand trip around the world and you haven't even seen the full core cast yet, you are literally giving up on the immediate backstory section of the first like 2 or 3 important characters.
They are properly well told stories and yeah you can't do that and also make it all short. These individual stories are not just like some ride the protagonist walks through, each one has a key storytelling purpose. For example all of East Blue is literally one by one introducing the crew members in proper fashion, each with their own great motivations and backstory. You really couldn't understand the crew in the same way if their stories were rushed into like 3 episodes. Each one gets an arc and each one actually establishes a different kind of relationship with the protagonist and other characters.
For example note that the protagonist's goal is never "to be the strongest" in any form, he never says or thinks "I want to be the best fighter", it is to be the King of The Pirates i.e. the freest person in the world.
But his understanding of strength is embodied through his relationship with the first mate and resident swordsman, whose goal actually is to be the strongest swordsman in the world, and the rest of the crew. Because while he doesn't really want to be the strongest guy, over the course of the story he understands the relationship between strength and protecting the freedom he wants to exercise. And there would be no way to really convey that in short effectively without losing the actual depth and meaning of that understanding.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
