One day, they’ll find out that in Japanese, wanpīsu simply means dress, and then everyone will go home in shame.
Unpopular opinion: 99% of anime is garbage.
I love anime, and this holds true. (There is lots of anime)
Most of One Piece is in the 1%
I tried watching one anime to see if I was wrong. Watched high school of the dead, was met with crazy bouncing boobs between a sniper rifle shot. Regretted my decision immediately. All of it screams pedophilia to me.
It’s one thing to have a cool shot, but it went on for 10+ seconds of bouncing animated tits. Just not interested in animated porn. Maybe if i was 12.
Would probably help if ya watched some Seinen which is generally of a higher quality. May I suggest Hellsing Ultimate and Black Lagoon? Just be ready for some proper ultra violence, also pretty sure all the characters are of age.
I did try chainsaw man, but just couldn’t get into it. I thought the idea was interesting though.
Yeah that’s a rough one to get into, it’s good don’t get me wrong but fuck. But you are kinda on the right track, just approach anime like you would different art mediums with similar properties, anime is to western animation what bronze working is to stone working. Best suggestions I can give is like I said Hellsing and Black Lagoon but I’d also add Ghost in the Shell (1990s version), Netflix Castlevania, and fuck it I’ll toss in Star Wars Visions since it is anime. Really stay away from Shonen unless it’s basically Jojo or Attack on Titan since they are just kinda doing their own things and don’t follow the tropes all that much.
Edit: Also Fullmetal Alchemist brotherhood worth a watch by itself.
Bruh if you see that scene as porn rather than absurdist humor and satire, you might have some weird repressed kinks. Which, not saying that’s a bad thing necessarily, just that you might wanna look at things through a different lens
I just care for it. Also all the other anime that seem to worship girls that look 9.
Yes I would call that unpopular indeed
And the 1% that isn’t was made before 1980.
I dunno, The Boondocks was pretty good.
I really liked Avatar and it’s spinoff
There’s been great stuff since the 80s. Even some of the stuff that became popular outside of the typical anime fandoms, you have things like Cowboy Bebop, which oozes style, and the 2 FMA series that have solid storytelling and complex characters with great music and animation.
The one piece was the friends we made along the way.
And the gigantic boobs that got way bigger along the way.
Hold on a minute, I might be more interested
Lmfao that “now” photo is like 15 years old.
I settled on this after getting hit with endless r34 images.
Thank you for your sacrifice
I just calculated if you try catch up with all 1180 episodes today, then you need to watch for 12 hours per day without a single second of interruption for 38 days, to get to today’s most recent episode.
Sometimes it can be nice to have a consistent ongoing side project tbh. I started one piece when it had about 800 episodes, took ages but its far from a slog, killer story all the way through.
Sometimes I binged 10 episodes straight sometimes only 3 or 4.
Caught up within 6 or so months watching everything (including fillers) until the Punk Hazard Arc.
Since then I am following the show live (more or less)
Did you take into account effective watch time? I would exclude intro and outro… also some animes spend 3-5 minutes repeating the last 3-5 minutes from last episode (almost verbatim, super cheap imo).
Edit: according to this source, it’s between 18 and 20 minutes of actual watch time. Not bad at all.
1179 episodes, 20 min per episode, 12 hs max a day… 32,75 days
And watch the entire thing at 2x speed; no one needs that extremely slow editing.
New anime speedrun tech, only watch the recaps.
Probably only one recap each 5 episodes for some animes
Edit, only watching recaps, it would be
1179 ep, 2 min per episode, 12hs max a day: 3,27 days
There was one anime where an episode ends with the protagonist barely winning a very bloody fight. I made a snap judgment “He’s probably going to need to spend an episode recovering from his injuries, so I’ll just skip one.”
I think I got it dead on and it honestly didn’t seem like I missed much. But I have no idea what that guidance should be for One Piece.
But I have no idea what that guidance should be for One Piece.
Just watch the One Pace fan edit
Wonder how much the One Pace series eliminates from the watch time? Lmfao I watch it when I need to catch up and it honestly helps a lot.
Last time I checked (about a year ago) it’s ~40% of the original run time.
For anyone not already aware, One Pace is a fan profect to re-edit the series to reduce runtime like overly long shots, repeating animations, and recaps. It also condenses 3-6 episodes into one hour super episodes to reduce how often the intro/outro credits run because they also take up a lot of time
Maybe wait for next year, there will be a remake that should compress the episodes published by Netflix.
If you have not started, I’d recommend waiting for “the one piece”, a remake of the anime that will be much shorter, it will probably be a much more reasonable commitment to see it. It should start airing in february 2027.
That’s my plan also. I wish they did that with all shounen, streamlined, no fillers, consistent animation. I’d pay for a Naruto like that.
That would be nice, Bleach too
AFAIK it’s going to be at the same-ish pace as the live action version
Ooo. Thank you. I think I’ll do just that. Wait until it starts in February.
naruto, bleach, one piece has been going on since the early 2000s, i assume most seasons are just fillers or slop. because animes from japan usually have an end.
Until the last decade or so, anime based on manga would run mostly weekly while trying not to overtake their source material. If the anime got too close to where the manga was, they’d do filler arcs/episodes or just stretch the material out.
On some occasions, the anime would just do something completely different from the manga. Fullmetal Alchemist is a good example. The first anime more or less matched the manga until around the Laboratory Five arc. At that point, the anime went in a completely different direction so it wouldn’t have to go on hiatus or do filler.
the anime went in a completely different direction
“We’ve had too much nuanced exploration of war crimes and religious conflict, time for magic literal Nazis.”
Naruto may be the exception because both series actually have an ending. Boruto was shit, however.
At least One Piece looks close to finishing. I’m also waiting on Case Closed and I can see that one going for another 10 years…
They wont let it die. Look at Boruto.
Prepare for Two Piece.
In ‘5 years’.
I’ll wait for the complete series special edition once they finish Red Piece and Blue Piece.
I thought they announced that it was ending soon-ish (current geologic age at least(.
I was up to date on One Piece ….in 2015….
Don’t even want to know how far behind I am nowi was following one piece up until 2013 manga only. started watching the anime couple years ago and still hasnt catched up until now
Didn’t they get the One Piece and just find out it’s actually just one piece (1/8th) of the real McGuffin they thought they were looking for?
I’m guessing there’s good jumping on and off points for these types of shows. Like, if you don’t want to watch 1000 episodes, start on episode X and watch till episode Y to get a good complete(ish) story.
One piece is best experienced starting from episode 1. If you don’t want to watch over 1000 episodes the manga will always be an option.
Definitely. The “seasons” of the show are setup as story arcs.
Are there seasons? One piece IMDB page shows 1201 episodes in season 1
Edit: Serializd app shows actual seasons. Maybe I’ll check out a well rated one.
Try Sandmännchen instead.
I’ve seen a bit of it but I vaguely remember it having very weird looking character art.
