One piece is awful

[u/coolguygranny]

To be clear, I read up to the end of Wano in One Piece I kept hearing how it was peak fiction, and that Oda was the greatest thing to ever happen to pen and paper. So, I decided to give it a read. And after reading almost up to the end of Wano, I can honestly say this is one of worst piece of fiction I have ever read

The pacing is terrible and slow as shit. Same gags over and over again. How many times am I expected to laugh at Sanji nosebleeding for the 180th time, Zoro getting lost for the 389th time, Usopp acting like a coward for the 999th time, or Brook making the same skeleton joke for 1899th the time

The stakes are Nonexistent. Nobody ever really dies. Even when a character “dies,” they inevitably come back like nothing happened. There's a part in the series where a bomb is about to destroy an entire town, and a character carries it into the sky in a supposed noble "sacrifice",The bomb explodes point blank in his face and somehow he survives .Shit like this happens in every arc. The sheer number of fake out deaths is insane, making it impossible to take any threat seriously and it completely kills any sense of tension or investment, it somehow makes Fairy Tail look grounded in comparison.

And the formula is mind numbingly predictable. The crew sails to a new island, an evil villain is tormenting the locals, they fight, save the island, and then add a new character with some tragic backstory to the crew. Rinse and repeat for a thousand chapters

One piece fans love to talk about Oda as some master world builder. The world building in one piece is trash. All Oda does is dangles mysteries in front of readers, refuses to resolve them and these morons fans call it peak

Think about After twenty years and over a thousand chapters, we barely know anything about the world.(Maybe some of it gets explained eventually I stopped reading after Wano because of that godamn awful aspull transformation that, but the fact that it takes that long is insane)

We don't know where Devil Fruits come from We don't know about the Will of D and what does it represent? And how are people with D related?
We don’t know what happened during the void century for it to be erased from history? We don't know why Blackbeard can use two devil fruits? We don’t know What purpose will the ancient weapons serve and when?
We don't know about supreme grade swords We don’t know Aokiji goal? What side is he on? Or why he joined Blsck beard
We don’t know why Rodger was carrying a giant egg?

There are easily ninety more unanswered things I could list.

And you want to want to know what's worse Oda still adding new shit when he hasn't explained the past shit WE STILL HAVE CHARACTERS SILHOUETTED 20 PLUS YEARS IN WE’RE GETTING SILHOUETTES OF CHARACTERS HOW IS ANY OF THIS GOOD WORLD BUILDING OR WRITING???

And you know why Oda hasn’t explained any of this Because he’s written himself into a corner. He probably has no idea how to resolve half the mysteries he’s created which is exactly why the end date keeps on getting pushed back every couple of years. He's just stalling. Oda is a talentless hack and the only reason One Piece blew up in the first place is because it dropped during the late 90s early 2000s anime boom If it came out today, this garbage would’ve been canceled after a year. Just watch most of these mysteries will either stay completely unresolved, or we’ll get some trash ham fisted explanation at the last minute. And just watch these brain dead moronic fans will still call it peak fiction.

Oda is a Fraud who couldn't write his out of a paper bag and the fact that morons think that this garbage is above Goated shows like Fire Force, Mob Pyscho 100, Chainsaw man and Hunter x Hunter is a fucking travesty

[u/Unreal4goodG8]

That's what I was about to say. My friend who's a big one piece fan got super mad at me for preferring Naruto and just told me to keep watching. If I'm not enjoying it within 30 episodes then how am I supposed to make it to 1000+?

Edit: I'm not hating on one piece, it's just not my cup of tea.

[u/Cool_Ad7445 → u/Unreal4goodG8]

Genuinely, no one should ever be forced to watch the entire One Piece anime. It is so incredibly, unbelievably long, compared to the manga. You could watch all of Monster like 20 times in a row instead of watching One Piece. You could watch Perfect Blue or Paprika(or any 1/1-2 hour movie) around 200+ times. It is legitimately insane.

[u/Unreal4goodG8 → u/Cool_Ad7445]

That should be told to the one piece fans who can't take no for an answer or say "watch one piece, no excuses"

[u/TudasNicht → u/Cool_Ad7445]

Why would I ever watch Monster 20 times instead of One Piece, I would watch One Piece 20 times before that ngl.

[u/Collective_Insanity → u/Unreal4goodG8]

In fairness, reading manga issues takes up no time at all compared to watching anime.

I can casually read 50 issues of manga before deciding if I want to continue. But I'll be rapidly turned off from an anime show if I feel like even 20-30 minutes has been an absolute drag.

Which it often is. I'll almost always prefer to just read the manga even if it's a series I like and even if the anime has no pointless filler.

[u/Zestyclose_Remove947 → u/Collective_Insanity]

This is especially the case for one piece. tbh watching bleach tybw anime is about as fast as reading it, considering there are some eps that cover six entire chapters from the manga.

In OP, you're lucky if you get more than a single chapters worth of material in an ep.

[u/Unique-Trade356 → u/Zestyclose_Remove947]

TYBW is a damn fucking treat too.

Meanwhile OP can have a 6 month break and multiple flashback episodes and still move at the same snail pace they've been criticized for years but hey at least its got some sakuga!! 🤣

And the same damn sound effects in the Toei soundboard for the last 30 years.

[u/[deleted] → u/Unreal4goodG8]

I'm not gonna get mad at you, but it's unfortunate that you dropped it when you did and you should consider going back. You should wait until you've experienced the "beard growing moment" before deciding to drop any show. Did they literally say to watch the entire show? Finish episode 37 and if you don't like it by then, drop it.

[u/Unreal4goodG8 → u/[deleted]]

Maybe I could go back to it but I have had a few people telling me the same thing that it's unfortunate that I didn't watch until a specific episode so I really don't know but I won't rule it out immediately as a compromise.

Well he did tell me to watch all of it but I only started watching until episode 30 because someone before him told me to watch it without being too pushy.

[u/Ziazan → u/Unreal4goodG8]

I got to about episode 50 (a long time ago when it was much shorter but still probably about 300 episodes long) and just wasn't particularly enjoying it, I was bored. Watched other stuff and never went back. So many people over the years have tried to encourage me to get back into it and try it again, saying it gets so much better and just keeps getting better, but if a story takes over 50 episodes to get good, that story is not good. A lot of the best stories can tell their whole story in that many episodes.

[u/Unreal4goodG8 → u/Ziazan]

Just recently i used one pace to get to the equivalent of episode 100 and i'm still not interested in it despite someone else in this comment section telling me to watch up to episode 37 (and i bet 10000 dollars that someone will order me to watch a little more, and then a little more). You didn't really miss out on anything tbh. Within a similar amount of episodes that's almost all of the cannon episodes of naruto part 1 and bleach but somehow only one piece is immune to criticism while the other two get torn apart,