One Piece Is Less than 80% Finished

[CrazyGirl17]

As much as I like One Piece... I'm not sure I could watch the whole thing, as I have neither the time, patience or attention span. Still, at least Oda has an actual plan for the end. Compared to, say, Bleach, which was dragged out for years, and ruined an otherwise-good story. Hopefully with One Piece every plot detail will be tied up...

 

[Soviet Heavy]

This is why editors are needed desperately in Japan. Although editors are probably an alien concept to an industry that considers missing a weekly update an indicator of failure.

 

[chocolate pickles]

Yes, that's it. Milk it for every penny (or whatever currency) you can. That's how manga works.

 

[ecoho]

Hey, one of those moments when I can proudly say I've watched all 701 episodes! Here's to another couple hundred before we reach the end!

ok that takes some skills

I can honestly say ive read all 794 chapters of this manga and still enjoy reading it and that's impressive.

 

[Dead Metal]

Probably the most amazing thing about One Piece is how un-padded it is (the polar opposite of Bleach). The story is constantly barreling forward at deadly speed and has been doing so for 18 years. That it can maintain that pace for so long with so much energy and passion is miraculous. The man is hero.

Are, are you reading an abridged version? Because the One Piece I've been reading is full of padding, as in the kind we know from the DBZ anime when they introduced filler and dragged everything out because they ran out of manga to adapt. Oda pads out every arch, especially fights with named characters. Usop's been blown up so many times just to drag a scene out so it can fill to or more chapters that I suspect him to be immortal, or Superman. Then there are the constant battles that consist of people standing around and shouting about how they have to keep someone occupied for five minutes that drag on for like 10 hours. A couple of the recent chapters were literally just someone counting down for four minutes, the last 20 seconds of which dragged on four almost 3 chapters.

Oda pads his stuff more than Bendis.

 

[ccggenius12]

Probably the most amazing thing about One Piece is how un-padded it is (the polar opposite of Bleach). The story is constantly barreling forward at deadly speed and has been doing so for 18 years. That it can maintain that pace for so long with so much energy and passion is miraculous. The man is hero.

Are you talking about the manga or the anime? Because that's patently untrue of the anime. The second Davyback Fight, Navaronne, The Thousand Year Dragon, The Rainbow Mist; all of those were filler arcs. And the Fishman Island arc certainly didn't need several episodes that were pretty much entirely everyone who WASN'T Luffy beating up random mooks. That being said, I'd argue that some of One Piece's filler arcs are better than Bleach/Naruto's plot-centric ones (especially the later ones). I just wish they'd ditch the filler for the vignettes at the beginning of the Manga chapters. I wanna see animated versions of (a more accurate) Jango's Dance Carnival, Hachi's Undersea Stroll, and Wapol's Omnivorous Hurrah. Little Buggy's Big Adventure and The CobyMeppo Diaries were great, and it bothers me that important world building is being skipped because "reasons".

Usop's been blown up so many times just to drag a scene out so it can fill to or more chapters that I suspect him to be immortal, or Superman.

Spoiler: He's not Superman, he's Sogeking, and the accompanying video clearly proves that all explosions do is make him more awesome.

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OT: How is this news? at around 500 episodes in they said they were about half way. Now that we've reached 700 it's about 70%. Math is hard.

 

[Chaos Isaac]

That's kind a shame. The damn thing get's worse as it goes on, and it's so... hilariously boring.

One Piece has pretty much gotten past the point where I have anything good to say about it anymore.

 

[P-89 Scorpion]

Exactly the reason why I'll never bother with something like One Piece. Not that I think its length is necessarily bad, I just simply don't have the time to spend on one series to deal with all that backlog.

Read the Manga you just need to rent a few from volumes at a time from your local library with each of the 78 volumes taking around 20-25 minutes to read each (the equivalent of watching 39, 1 hour scheduled TV show episodes).

It's hardly taxing, the anime on the other hand just avoid (except film 6 Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island that's worth watching).

 

[lord canti]

I can honestly say that One Piece is the only one of the big 3 that I'm not bored of yet, and while this current arc was dragging on for awhile, it definitely got its act together at the last part. Oda is incredibly talented when it comes to world building.

 

[ccggenius12]

Exactly the reason why I'll never bother with something like One Piece. Not that I think its length is necessarily bad, I just simply don't have the time to spend on one series to deal with all that backlog.

Read the Manga you just need to rent a few from volumes at a time from your local library with each of the 78 volumes taking around 20-25 minutes to read each (the equivalent of watching 39, 1 hour scheduled TV show episodes).

It's hardly taxing, the anime on the other hand just avoid (except film 6 Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island that's worth watching).

But... That was filler... I'd say he'd be fine doing as you say and skipping the anime, except for a few things. I believe Strong world and Z's Ambition are both canon and not in the manga, so those aren't a bad watch. Also, that half hour history lesson OVA that gave us a bunch of backstory on many of the characters that took place right around Roger's execution was neat(I think this one came out around the same time as Z? ). Also, there is the absurdity of the One PiecexTorikoxDBZ crossovers to consider.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

I read this like 2 years ago from an interview with Oda that One Piece plans on going on for 10 more years so we won't be seeing this anime end anytime soon.

I don't watch it personally, but I have checked the filler list and I'm quite impressed that it only has 14% episodes worth of filler (96 episodes out of 700+)

 

[aba1]

Two of my mates actually watch all of this show, all 800 or 900 or whatever episodes.

That was before I had to visit them in the padded cells.

OT: This bloody show started before I was born. Bloody hell.

I have actually been through 7 times XD.

OP: Oda actually said it was a little more than half way at the time skip so it is likely around 65-70% done roughly at this point give or take.

 

[RaikuFA]

Two of my mates actually watch all of this show, all 800 or 900 or whatever episodes.

That was before I had to visit them in the padded cells.

OT: This bloody show started before I was born. Bloody hell.

from experience of marathon it you kind of forget the last time you ate or how much the sun had raised and set or when those cobwebs got there.

OT: I love One piece but the current arc(I think they may have finished it I haven't checked) is really stretching itself out. I hope it can kind of get back on track when it's over

ps. also if you're going to Marathon the series I would suggest actually watching the English dub(or at least what they have so far) because marathoning a sub anime like that would hurt your brain.

From what I've heard they're on the tail end of it.

 

[P-89 Scorpion]

But... That was filler... I'd say he'd be fine doing as you say and skipping the anime, except for a few things. I believe Strong world and Z's Ambition are both canon and not in the manga, so those aren't a bad watch. Also, that half hour history lesson OVA that gave us a bunch of backstory on many of the characters that took place right around Roger's execution was neat(I think this one came out around the same time as Z? ). Also, there is the absurdity of the One PiecexTorikoxDBZ crossovers to consider.

It's anime original which is only filler when it's to waste time for the manga/original source to catch up. Anime original films are different and One Piece film 6 is by Mamoru Hosoda who has made great films like 'The Girl Who Leapt Through Time' and 'Summer Wars'.

Anime original isn't always bad, Mamoru Oshii of 'Ghost in the Shell' fame got started with 'Urusei Yatsura' and his anime original second film of that series is considered a classic.

As they say 99% of anything is shit but occasionally future talents get to shine by showing there ability with anime original stuff.

 

[LazyAza]

Been watching it since the early 2000s. Still has its ups and downs, animation quality has gotten really bad last number of eps but I still love all the main characters and the absurd nature of so much that goes on in the shows universe.

Even so I'll be glad to see it wrap up, I'm getting pretty impatient waiting to see the inevitable fight between luffy and blackbeard and akainu and meeting back up with shanks and his dad and whatnot. Feel like the last season or two has been really uneventful but ah well still one of the best long running animes to date.

 

[Silk_Sk]

Probably the most amazing thing about One Piece is how un-padded it is (the polar opposite of Bleach). The story is constantly barreling forward at deadly speed and has been doing so for 18 years. That it can maintain that pace for so long with so much energy and passion is miraculous. The man is hero.

Are you talking about the manga or the anime? Because that's patently untrue of the anime. The second Davyback Fight, Navaronne, The Thousand Year Dragon, The Rainbow Mist; all of those were filler arcs. And the Fishman Island arc certainly didn't need several episodes that were pretty much entirely everyone who WASN'T Luffy beating up random mooks. That being said, I'd argue that some of One Piece's filler arcs are better than Bleach/Naruto's plot-centric ones (especially the later ones). I just wish they'd ditch the filler for the vignettes at the beginning of the Manga chapters. I wanna see animated versions of (a more accurate) Jango's Dance Carnival, Hachi's Undersea Stroll, and Wapol's Omnivorous Hurrah. Little Buggy's Big Adventure and The CobyMeppo Diaries were great, and it bothers me that important world building is being skipped because "reasons".

I'm talking about the manga. On average, each chapter has about twice as much plot development per page than Bleach or Naruto does. When I'm reading bleach and get to the end of the chapter, I go "That's it?" When I'm reading a OP chapter, I get to about page 7 and I'm overjoyed that there's still more to go.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

18 years? And this isn't some wild goose chase either; they and every other treasure hunter in their world knows exactly where on the map they're headed. Their ocean must be several times the circumference of the earth for their quest to take this long.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

It's a testament to the character. Luffy is such a great likeable hero.

Two of my mates actually watch all of this show, all 800 or 900 or whatever episodes.

That was before I had to visit them in the padded cells.

OT: This bloody show started before I was born. Bloody hell.

from experience of marathon it you kind of forget the last time you ate or how much the sun had raised and set or when those cobwebs got there.

OT: I love One piece but the current arc(I think they may have finished it I haven't checked) is really stretching itself out. I hope it can kind of get back on track when it's over

ps. also if you're going to Marathon the series I would suggest actually watching the English dub(or at least what they have so far) because marathoning a sub anime like that would hurt your brain.

Dub?

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My mates watch the subbed the whole way through just so they can be more caught up than those who watch the dubbed. I don't even know how you do that. I love to watch shows while doing something else, but with subs you have to be watching the screen the whole time and it can distract from scenes. But no. They watched the whole thing in subbed.

I think the Australia wildlife actually just broke them one day. Suddenly they never wanted to do anything but listen to Japanese while staring a letters on a screen.

They might actually be sleeper agents, on second thought.

InB4 people ***** about Sanji eating lollipops like ciggerattes, even though I like that Idea way way way better.

 

[Orga777]

One Piece is the best Shonen Jump series since Rurouni Kenshin ended, IMO. As for what Oda will do afterward, well... I think he will just retire from writing. One Piece is so big in Japan that there is no actual competition. He can live off of it forever, just like Toriyama does with Dragon Ball. Only difference being is that One Piece is significantly better than Dragon Ball.

 

[Obbi]

But wow, 1997! That's a really long time.

Golgo 13 scoffs!

That is quite a while for a series, but it's not that far ahead of some of the more well known Shonen Jump weeklies (Bleach, Naruto). Never figured out how Manga studios can sorta keep operating like that, while the animation studios pick up the slack trying to fill time.