this is the one anime I’ve always wanted to get into because everyone loves it and at this point…no, I don’t think it’s possible.
I remember One Piece being on Fox Kids or something when I was in high school or my early 20s, I’m in my 40s now, I don’t think it’s possible to even remotely try to catch up.
I had a psychiatrist once who was a fan of One Piece and when I had him explain it to me, it didn’t sound like he enjoyed the plot as the main course per se but enjoyed that the characters were consistent. That he could pop in around any arc at random and have an idea of what’s going on. Luffy is rubber, Zoro has his sword, etc.
He viewed it more like a soap opera you could tune into, rather than something you view from start to finish.
Try the One Pace fan edit. It cuts out all of the recaps and filler and shortens up long pan shots intended to eat time. It cuts out 40% of the overall time. And it’s even more if you skip the intros of each episode
There’s a version called the One Piece Omnibus Supercut that also eliminates the intros and outros, except for the first time they are shown. It chops the episodes up and stitches them together to make them about movie length each.
I think trying to catch up to the anime would be basically impossible but 1100+ chapters of a weekly manga is just barely doable. Could easily go through 50+ a day.
Anyways, I say this but I also haven’t caught up with One Piece because there’s just so many other manga I’d rather read. Daemons of the Shadow Realm seems cool!
I caught up with the anime last year but its definitely rough. There’s a lot of padding in the older episodes though. They’re going to be slowing down to putting out only 26 episodes in 2026. Reading the manga up to the point the anime is at and watching the bigger fights is probably the more sane choice though as Toei is kinda shit.
The anime is hilariously padded. 24 minute episode with a 3 minute intro, 3 minute outro, 3 minutes of little animation action breaks, 3 scattered minutes of actual plot, followed by 12 minutes of broken up reaction shots from each of the 26 charectors in any random episode.
A charector will kick a guy and the anime will show you shocked faces for 3 minutes.
which are plot, relevant, by the way, and also help create the beloved feeling of the series’ world that it is a world in motion even when we’re not looking. it’s thanks to the cover stories that the supernovas don’t feel like an asspull despite being conceived of the week they were introduced
An article written in February this year said the show currently has 411 hours although their math was questionable with assumed episode length so I bumped it up to 440 hours.
So if you watch 7 hours of one piece per week that would take you just under 63 weeks. Which is about a year and 3 months. Accounting for new episodes let’s call it a year and a half.
Ways to spead it up would be skipping every intro and credits (this was in episode length calculated) and if you watch dub/read fast you can speed up videos anywhere from 1.25 to 2 times speed depending on your comfort level.
this is the one anime I’ve always wanted to get into because everyone loves it and at this point…no, I don’t think it’s possible.
I remember One Piece being on Fox Kids or something when I was in high school or my early 20s, I’m in my 40s now, I don’t think it’s possible to even remotely try to catch up.
I had a psychiatrist once who was a fan of One Piece and when I had him explain it to me, it didn’t sound like he enjoyed the plot as the main course per se but enjoyed that the characters were consistent. That he could pop in around any arc at random and have an idea of what’s going on. Luffy is rubber, Zoro has his sword, etc.
He viewed it more like a soap opera you could tune into, rather than something you view from start to finish.
Try the One Pace fan edit. It cuts out all of the recaps and filler and shortens up long pan shots intended to eat time. It cuts out 40% of the overall time. And it’s even more if you skip the intros of each episode
Why the fuck would they leave in the intros? Do i need to make a nonfan edit and remove them?
Because some people actually enjoy watching the intros? Don’t be an ass by yucking other people’s yum.
Regardless, One Pace gets packaged into 50-60 minute episodes, so you’re seeing intros 1/2 to 1/3 as often per unit of play time.
Ok that’s better. Thought it was like every episode regardless of cut size
There’s a version called the One Piece Omnibus Supercut that also eliminates the intros and outros, except for the first time they are shown. It chops the episodes up and stitches them together to make them about movie length each.
I think trying to catch up to the anime would be basically impossible but 1100+ chapters of a weekly manga is just barely doable. Could easily go through 50+ a day.
Anyways, I say this but I also haven’t caught up with One Piece because there’s just so many other manga I’d rather read. Daemons of the Shadow Realm seems cool!
I caught up with the anime last year but its definitely rough. There’s a lot of padding in the older episodes though. They’re going to be slowing down to putting out only 26 episodes in 2026. Reading the manga up to the point the anime is at and watching the bigger fights is probably the more sane choice though as Toei is kinda shit.
The anime is hilariously padded. 24 minute episode with a 3 minute intro, 3 minute outro, 3 minutes of little animation action breaks, 3 scattered minutes of actual plot, followed by 12 minutes of broken up reaction shots from each of the 26 charectors in any random episode.
A charector will kick a guy and the anime will show you shocked faces for 3 minutes.
Art.
And they like don’t bother animating the cover stories
which are plot, relevant, by the way, and also help create the beloved feeling of the series’ world that it is a world in motion even when we’re not looking. it’s thanks to the cover stories that the supernovas don’t feel like an asspull despite being conceived of the week they were introduced
An article written in February this year said the show currently has 411 hours although their math was questionable with assumed episode length so I bumped it up to 440 hours.
So if you watch 7 hours of one piece per week that would take you just under 63 weeks. Which is about a year and 3 months. Accounting for new episodes let’s call it a year and a half.
Ways to spead it up would be skipping every intro and credits (this was in episode length calculated) and if you watch dub/read fast you can speed up videos anywhere from 1.25 to 2 times speed depending on your comfort level.
It is possible