Yeah, it took me a while to catch up to where the anime is (haven’t read the manga yet) but, like, I enjoy the show, so it’s not exactly a chore. I feel like a lot of people see long shows and books/comics as something they need to “get through,” like it only counts as enjoying something if you’ve consumed the work in its entirety. The only thought I had when I was so early in the series was “sweet, I still have so much One Piece I can watch.”
I stumbled on DBZ to start my anime journey like a lot of people probably did, so associating big with filler isn’t an unfair assumption.
Seeing something so big in both story size and fan base hyped up all the time also feels unrealistic for most things, but One Piece to me lives up to its reputation.
If you’ve watched it already first, in my opinion I don’t think you need to go back to read it. I can’t think of anything significant they’ve skipped like in some adaptations of manga.
I’ve gone back to reread things like Golden Kamuy where some stuff was too graphic to put in the anime or if the anime was well behind the manga like MHA was, but One Piece is wholesome so nothing got skipped and I imagine it prints money so it’s only one partial arc behind for the most part now.
Yeah, it took me a while to catch up to where the anime is (haven’t read the manga yet) but, like, I enjoy the show, so it’s not exactly a chore. I feel like a lot of people see long shows and books/comics as something they need to “get through,” like it only counts as enjoying something if you’ve consumed the work in its entirety. The only thought I had when I was so early in the series was “sweet, I still have so much One Piece I can watch.”
I stumbled on DBZ to start my anime journey like a lot of people probably did, so associating big with filler isn’t an unfair assumption.
Seeing something so big in both story size and fan base hyped up all the time also feels unrealistic for most things, but One Piece to me lives up to its reputation.
If you’ve watched it already first, in my opinion I don’t think you need to go back to read it. I can’t think of anything significant they’ve skipped like in some adaptations of manga.
I’ve gone back to reread things like Golden Kamuy where some stuff was too graphic to put in the anime or if the anime was well behind the manga like MHA was, but One Piece is wholesome so nothing got skipped and I imagine it prints money so it’s only one partial arc behind for the most part now.