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.

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

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.

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.

I've been watching one piece on and off during my free time. It has taken me 2 years to get to episode 470. I think this is gonna take a while...

28 days. There’s 18 minutes pf material per episode. The rest is extremely long title sequence and recaps to pad out time.

Or read and divide that by at least 5 (chapters are 15 pages adapted individually into 25 minute episodes, the anime's a pretty terrible adaptation for that reason)