readrunners
Since: Sep, 2012
01/02/2015 00:00:00
Agreed with this. I can't stand an episode of anime, too slow, unlike any other animes who had decent animation (maybe it's because of the unusual art?) While I can't stop reading the manga. The only thing worth watching is, perhaps the opening sequence and even that is debatable.
Berserker88
Since: Dec, 2010
05/15/2015 00:00:00
I can agree with to an extent. The pacing of the anime gets glacially slow at points, and that makes it really hard to watch individual episodes. However, I've gotten around this problem by watching them in bulk, so I don't think it's all that big of a deal.
Of course, I also haven't gotten to the split-up point yet.
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For the past few years, the anime's been unwatchable
One Piece is by no means a bad manga; far from it. The characters are well-written for the most part (the females are somewhat questionable), the world-building is impressive, and the story-telling is some of the best seen in Shonen. However...what I just described is Oda's manga. The anime, while it's been a very faithful adaptation, is a train wreak nowadays.
I would NOT recommend people to watch the anime of One Piece (at least, not from the point the crew splits up), with its sluggish pacing and questionable filler scenes, just for the sake of sticking to the 1-chapter:1-episode ratio, you get an anime adaptation that can be quite a pain to sit through at times. This is no more obvious then the Marineford arc, which relied on bad comedy filler from Buggy, and loads-upon-loads of pointless reactions from random pirates/soldiers, to fill up each episode.
Point is, stick to the manga. The anime hasn't been doing it justice.