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Partner and I have been working through One Piece, about to hit episode 600. Aside from that, mostly we've been watching season three of Resident Alien and a lot of Sorted Food on youtube.
Ugh i aught to start in on onepace... The animation and pace of the first couple hundred episodes has me dead on the water after the first 10 or so. Just can't bring myself to keep watching. Hopefully something more to the point will help.
Yeah tbh when we started it we were sort of just giving it a shot because we didn't have anything else to watch at the moment. For about the first 30 episodes we kept saying "this is fine, we'll probably stop it as soon as we have something better to watch." But then boom, Arlong Park happens from episode 31 through 45, and basically as soon as we finished Arlong Park we understood something had changed and that now we were gonna see it through to the end.
Honestly it's hard to recommend One Piece to anyone, because it is insanely frustrating at times, especially in terms of pacing, and it's a legitimate commitment to get into... But goddamn, once it gets going, there's just nothing like it. The only thing I could even remotely compare One Piece to is not any other anime, it's literally the goddamn Odyssey by Homer. That's the kind of scale we're dealing with here. We're only halfway through and I already feel like One Piece is one of the greatest and most important pieces in television or animation history, but it is not without effort.
Oh regarding the art style and animation, yeah, One Piece is fucking ugly at time, especially in the first 100 episodes. It does genuinely get a lot better, especially the animation (later fight scenes go crazy), but I have to admit that as much as I genuinely love One Piece, the art is absolutely not one of the selling points. There are hundreds of better-looking anime out there, no doubt.
Nice! Thanks for the write up! I appreciate this a lot more than the "it's the best ever and i won't soil anything fur you" response that's so common.
Good to know about Arlong Park!
I've seen the animation style later in the series and that's just fine. Just have to get past the 4:3 480p stuff