Finally sat down and watched One Piece and so far:
>it's formulatic af: Straw Hats go to island, meet girl, girl is sad because her island or territory is being screwed over by Bad Guy, BG sends his minions after SH, they all battle, Luffy punches BG in the face, SH leave. Rinse and repeat.
>power system is incredibly basic, even by the standards of other shounen at the time
>hit or miss character design
>all the female characters look the same unless their name is Alvida or Robin
>every arc feels painfully dragged out
>forgettable subordinates of Bad Guy who do nothing but drag out the runtime to absolutely unbearable lengths
>Usopp is an ugly-ass bitch and I hate everything about him
>fight scenes are kinda sucky by my standards: no eyecatchin animations, no super dynamic, fluid character movement, no hard-hitting character impacts
Is it really worth continuing? Like, I appreciate that people love it, but it's just not my cup of tea - up to this point anyway. But should I stick it out in faith?
Currently on Skypea, when does it get good?
Never, you simply got MEMED by pissfags.
Chapter 1.
Chapter 1
Also 3000 days
We're meant to believe you sat through hundreds of episodes of something you didn't find interesting and whether you'll spend hundreds more on it hinges on whether someone on a chinese cross stitching forum tells you should?
If you want a real answer. Wait till water 7 starts, the manga is really good and skypiea isn’t bad but it isn’t a good arc for action, it’s more light hearted and “childish.” While water-7/ennies lobby is more serious, mature, and better
nice take, i won't say you're wrong but it- only gets worse. i mean, you might be tempted to keep going in bad faith, under the assumption that those telling you the later arcs are bad liked the early arcs. since even they don't like it. which would mean they are suited to your taste. think about it. but actually, don't even bother doing that. just drop the thing
the anime is shit, everyone who loves one piece reads the manga. Or in my case i read until skypia and got sick of the shit pacing and switched. 1000% times better and i wish thats how i started, im all caught up now and its great. plus reading the manga you get to see all the amazing color spreads oda draws
>power system is incredibly basic, even by the standards of other shounen at the time
>every arc feels painfully dragged out
kek it gets much worse after TS
How can one fanbase live rent-free inside your head for so many years?
Just watch till time skip. Then drop it, because you got some better stuff ahead.
Quit samefagging, multiple devices and Any Forums pass fag.
Now imagine following this series for two decades and Oda still writes with the formula you described. But the writing and art has degraded to the point where most people stopped giving a shit but look at spoilers to see if anything happens (it doesnt)
>no new IP
Cope faggot, Wan Piss sucks
>Hunturd x Hunturd
Kek
>watched
there’s your problem
it's a meme series for normalfags, and no the manga isn't that much better despite what the fanboys will tell you
If you didn’t like it at all by Arlong Park or even Alabasta, don’t bother. The Water 7 arc coming up shortly after Skypiea is the peak of One Piece, but don’t force yourself through over 300 episodes/45 volumes just for that.
As someone who dropped the series after finishing Alabasta, one thing that really annoyed me was Luffy. He is so dumb and loud and lucky. It was especially the fight with crocodile that was finally too much for me, because he was cool and smart and very capable and he lost to Luffy after very thoroughly defeating him multiple times. Then they start on a new journey where everything is pretty much the same as before, but now they have a new crew member, because Luffy felt like saving her. I just generally don’t like characters with these personalities and in the end these are reasons that apply to a great deal of shonen, which I also generally don’t like though.
>watched
there's your problem, the anime sucks and is super slow in pacing.
If you didn't like it by arlong park then just drop it, it's not for you. If you're willing to give it another go, wait for water 7.
You know that both hxh and onepiss sucks right??