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One Piece fans lmao.
This week's episode is actually really good. You just have to watch the other 1071 episodes first and I swear you'll like it.
I think that's just called Stockholm Syndrome.
Just spend a month’s free time doing nothing but reading manga and you’ll be fine. Wait shit that was how long it took 8 years ago when I was last caught up
I can't deny this lol. Sometimes you like it from the start, but the start is very corny since it was made in the 90s, so it doesn't grab everyone right away, but it matures really well over time and becomes more timeless. But even then I have to admit it can be an acquired taste with its cartoony style and wacky characters/world.
It's a typical shounen with all it's troupes and cringy narrative. The start shouldn't shock people. It actually manages to grab people quickly enough compared to other shounens at their beginning.
Over the years the story matures and develops accompanying their audience. The beginning was for teens and now it still has the same fans and followers that are in their thirties.
It's hard for shows that are so long lived to maintain their engagement.
Unfortunately it will always still suffer from the shounen curse of reared in stakes and development. Certain mainstay characters simply won't grow anywhere but in power and no one is ever allowed to die or leave. Everyone simply has their personal story "on hold" perpetually till they get rushed near the end.
I do not watch One Piece. But I did start to play One Piece Odyssey. Every character in the crew there was already present in a One Piece Musou game I played in the early 2010's. That tells me all I need to know about how much the story progressed for real. That's Why I scoff and laugh whenever I see people not list out which large chunks of a long runner to skip, or when directors like FF14's states it's all worth it and you should not skip to HS. I'm a human with basic pattern recognition. I've seen that bullshit before and recognize it for what it is.
You're right and wrong, but the way you said it makes me think no one likes talking to you or much less holding a conversation with you. Which is why that's all I'll say.
I'm not really sure why it's such a bad thing. The fact that they're there and alive doesn't necessarily detract from the story. They interact with so many other characters that get a lot of screen time compared to the main crew, and those characters eventually leave or die. And it's fine. I'm not looking for the crew members to die and be replaced.
Tf are you doing trying to critique a show you've never watched or read based on random video game versions of them, neither of which are accurately placed in any part of the canon timeline and are just for fun. That's the stupidest shit I've ever heard. That's like judging a series based on nothing but the McDonald's happy meal toys based on them. There's so much wrong with what you said I'm not even gonna bother trying to address it seriously.
I've watched Dragonball, Naruto, My Hero, etc. etc.
Shit's all the same, one sniff, it smells. I got no reasons to watch the LONGEST of all shonen, it's all the same.
I think what you're smelling is your own farts my dude. Nobody's forcing you to watch it, in fact I'm glad you won't.
My GF loves One Piece, she started me at just one episode quite a ways in - the one with Bink's Sake - basically just to say "hey look, this story is actually going somewhere". Then we started at like episode 60 or so and kept watching from there - it's definitely a lot rougher, but I'm hooked enough now to watch it with her!
It's unfortunate that it is true. No going around it - the first 25 or so episodes are cartoonish and the old drawing style kept a lot of people away. I tried to convince people to stick with it but most of my friends left it around episode 2 or 3.
It's also evident that it is perceived as a dumb teens series since producers brought it to TV to a channel named 4Kids. And then they quickly realized by the second batch of episodes that kids definitely shouldn't watch that.
That's why I'm hoping the live action becomes a success. One piece has a lot of amazing things, but the anime adaptation is just shat out of someone's ass every week. I can't recommend that to anyone.
If Netflix is successful in recreating the one piece experience - and so far it looks like they are - I'll finally have something to show people why I like this story so much.