That's my plan also. I wish they did that with all shounen, streamlined, no fillers, consistent animation. I'd pay for a Naruto like that.

Ooo. Thank you. I think I'll do just that. Wait until it starts in February.

For an even quicker speedrun, LEGO One Piece comes out on Tuesday.

AFAIK it’s going to be at the same-ish pace as the live action version

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)

Halfway there

i was following one piece up until 2013 manga only. started watching the anime couple years ago and still hasnt catched up until now

That was near the start of Dressrosa, which was a pretty long arc with a lot of fight episodes that seemed to just be the same back and forth stalemate over and over again. It's unfortunately just a few arcs before the Wano arc that does the same thing to an even greater extent, unfortunately. The filler was already starting to wear on me by that point, but those 2 arcs took it to an extreme. Luckily, it seems that the creator has realized this as well, and the arc after Wano is a nice quick pace with plenty of stuff going on.

I've recently been using one pace to watch the anime. I found that is cuts a lot of "shocked face" shots that last a unnecessarily long time and a few others

It might be long, but it's also not great

I had a friend who I saw catching up on the anime in 2023, he texted me a few months ago to say he had reached the newest episode.

Hold on a minute, I might be more interested

Conan I don't even think has a goal anymore. Like it started with wanting to reverse the poison, but how often is that even addressed these days? It's just a fun way to tell crime stories now.

They wont let it die. Look at Boruto.

Prepare for Two Piece.

In '5 years'.

If I remember correctly the author even stated that they had no intent on ever finishing the story and wants to keep it alive/going for as long as possible.

I thought they announced that it was ending soon-ish (current geologic age at least(.

Omg they still haven’t finished Case Closed?! 🫢 I abandoned that as a preteen and literally I’m mid life right now

Definitely. The "seasons" of the show are setup as story arcs.

One piece is best experienced starting from episode 1. If you don't want to watch over 1000 episodes the manga will always be an option.

At that rate, we'll have the full 8/8 "Whole" in around 2230. Even the cut back version would be 1000 episodea.

I love anime, and this holds true. (There is lots of anime)

99% of all media is garbage. Anime is not special in that sense.

Two objectively wrong opinions; all anime is trash, and no anime is trash.

Most of One Piece is in the 1%

Yes I would call that unpopular indeed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

I tried watching one anime to see if I was wrong. Watched high school of the dead, was met with crazy bouncing boobs between a sniper rifle shot. Regretted my decision immediately. All of it screams pedophilia to me.

https://youtu.be/qHD2VFyH4KQ

It's one thing to have a cool shot, but it went on for 10+ seconds of bouncing animated tits. Just not interested in animated porn. Maybe if i was 12.

And the 1% that isn't was made before 1980.

Until the last decade or so, anime based on manga would run mostly weekly while trying not to overtake their source material. If the anime got too close to where the manga was, they'd do filler arcs/episodes or just stretch the material out.

On some occasions, the anime would just do something completely different from the manga. Fullmetal Alchemist is a good example. The first anime more or less matched the manga until around the Laboratory Five arc. At that point, the anime went in a completely different direction so it wouldn't have to go on hiatus or do filler.

Naruto may be the exception because both series actually have an ending. Boruto was shit, however.