Trails/Kiseki fan reporting in. It’s the same thing with trying to get friends into the series (though the remake of the first game helps tremendously) but there’s so many games and so much dialog and it’s a massive commitment if you want to get through the series. But we have to say the story really only kicks in during the final chapter and the second game.
Still worth it.
Idk about everyone else but One Piece is literally our comfort show (watched all all of it- we think 6 times by now) and we’re rewatching again atm via the One Pace edit and even started reading the manga aswell (in Spanish as we’re learning Spanish rn).
So far in One Pace a lot of small details are removed which we personally dislike, but the overall concessions and it being a faster pace edit it’s pretty good ngl. If your looking for a good run through of the anime, the One Pace gets the job done.
Also we should mention we know the show isn’t for everyone but we personally love it. It’s not for everyone and other people like things we don’t like too.
But like we mentioned if you’re wanting a rough watch and get a good idea of the series in order not to miss out, One Pace is a really good edit to watch it.
“It gets good at season 2”
“Then let’s start there.”
“But then you won’t know what’s going on”
“If it’s good then I won’t have to”
Depends on the individual. I found the game to be deeply moving even in the earliest stages. Though the Limsa and Ul’dah night themes could make passing a tapeworm into a bucket feel moving.
<Insert Anime here> is really good. You just need to cut away <roughly 75% of it>.
sometimes i watch with 4x speed. most times 1.25 or 1.5. they really like to stretch some things out. “go parn. save deedlit. i’ll deal with it.” “are you sure?” “go parn.” “are you sure?” “go parn.” “are you really, really sure?” get in the fucking robot. shinji
You just need to cut away <roughly 75% of it>.
Hey now, there’s no need to bring Farscape into this. (I’m joking. But Farscape was famously adapted into a very watchable re-cut that throws out a great deal of the original film.)
You take that back!
I never knew about the recut, but presumably it gets rid of a lot of the monster-of-the-week content?
I don’t think any of that was actually bad. It didn’t move the overarching plot along all the time, but that wasn’t the point.
You take that back!
I know, right? Sacrilege! Haha.
I never knew about the recut, but presumably it gets rid of a lot of the monster-of-the-week content?
When I watched it, I couldn’t really tell what was missing.
It did flow more smoothly than the original cut, but that’s probably mostly just thanks to not having to hit an exact target length in minutes.
I suspect that much of the cut content was the puppet character establishing side story bits and short side story vignettes. (Which I adore. But I didn’t notice them missing. Of course, that might be only because I’ve already seen them.)
I don’t think any of that was actually bad. It didn’t move the overarching plot along all the time, but that wasn’t the point.
I agree. The cut version is genuinely surprisingly great, but I think that’s mostly due to how great Farscape is, in general.
I actually prefer the fulll version.
The Farscape re-cut wasn’t so much necessary, as an impressive feat of thoughtful editing.
Do you know about how much it cut out?
I want to say a little over half? From memory, I think shows were 18-22 minutes when it was made. And the re-cut got each episode down to around 10 minutes.
Ain’t that the truth. There used to be a shortened version of Naruto on utube that was like a third the length of the full versions, with out lose of any content.
There’s a fan project recutting One Piece like that, and Dragon Ball Z Kai was an official series.
I think anime has switched almost entirely to a seasonal format for related reasons. Filler just doesn’t serve a purpose if you don’t need to regularly fill a time slot on a live channel.
Bad TV apologia is a sure sign I won’t vibe with someone
ARR has huge pacing issues and a lot of stuff that just isn’t that great. However, it’s basically essential for the later on stuff and can’t really be trimmed down that well without losing a lot of stuff. It does get good though :/
One Piece has a 25-episode fight at one point. Here’s a short list of anime shorter or the same length as this one fight:
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The first season of FLCL (6 Episodes)
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Hellsing (13 Episodes or 10 double-feature Ultimate episodes)
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No Game No Life (12 Episodes)
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Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (24 Episodes)
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The first season of Re:Zero (14-22 Episodes depending on cut)
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Devilman: Crybaby (10 Episodes)
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica (12 Episodes)
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Bokurano (24 Episodes)
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Berserk (25 Episodes for the OLM show, 13 Episodes for Studio 4°C, 24 Episodes for 2016)
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Kill la Kill (24 Episodes)
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Ergo Proxy (23 Episodes)
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The first season of Psycho-Pass (22 Episodes)
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The first season of Assassination Classroom (22 Episodes)
One Piece is best enjoyed as a manga. Reading it goes much faster and loses a bit of the anime character tropes.
This is my biggest issue with One Piece, or any form of extended media like this. It’s not that I won’t like it, but how much unique media am I giving up to watch it? It’s the same vibe I got when I was really into an MMO. Love the game, one of my favorites of all time even. But I’m much happier broadening my horizons and playing a unique experience every month or so opposed to the same game for a year straight.
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Parks and Rec. The entire first season is trash. No idea how they were able to turn it around to abruptly.
This has genuinely happened to me
I would not watch 36 episodes or play 150 hours. But…
… don’t dismiss something too quickly. I watched One Cut Of The Dead, and the gimmick of that movie was (I thought) that it was filmed in one take. But holy shit, bad acting, bad sfx, and super cheap production quality. Dropped it after twenty minutes.
And then I read fantastic reviews, thank god spoiler free. So I sat down again, started it, and somehow made it through the first thirty minutes. And holy fuck, it had a brilliant pay off! More than worth it to pay attention this half hour!
With anime I give them three episodes to get me hooked. For games I draw my personal line for 5 hours.
But not 36 episodes. Or 150 hours :)
One Cut is a truly fantastic movie.
Now I need to give One Cut of the Dead another go.
I also stopped 20 minutes in. Twice.
Nice! I hope you can enjoy the hour that follows the first thirty minutes like me! Just a hint: Pay attention in the beginning, the more you have an eye for details the more fun it gets!
To be fair about One Piece, there’s so little unique content in each episode, sandwiched between a lengthy theme song and recap, and next episode preview, that 37 episodes is more like 15 episodes.
And I love all of it.
Honestly pacing is the anime’s biggest weakness. The show simply has dogwater pacing to help it maintain a consistent run since 1999. One Pace, which cuts roughly half of the total run time is a godsend if you ever want to watch the show
I mean, I’m currently already 650 episodes into the main anime already, so I may as well keep going. 😅 One Pace sounds great though, so I’ll probably try that for a rewatch someday. Maybe after reading the manga for comparison.
I’m personally getting caught up, just finished Wano, which One Pace has only covered MOST of and the viewing experience noticeably declined when I went to the official content. Would recommend, even for first view
Kinda late to this thread, but OP is pretty decent for the first 300 episodes, of which I recommend you watch One Pace or read the Manga instead due to Funimation’s absolute shit tier pacing and literal stall frame timing. Seriously you will waste a solid 1/3rd of the time on filler frames and static scenes because they want to make more episodes.
The writing itself is actually pretty smooth, and the filler content (not animation) actually fits so well you probably won’t even notice its filler, because it really adds to the world building and story (and afaik is actually written by the manga author).
Everything after than, just disregard it as a Shonen franchising product designed to make money, like Pokemon.
You’re not wrong about OP but also the rewatchability isn’t great. The power creep for one piece is ridiculous and the early episodes are kind of boring when compared to later episodes that aren’t filler.
One Piece abbreviated as OP is confusing the hell out of my social media brain.
When I was new to anime I watched Naruto. Made it about 150 eps before everything felt like it was repeating itself, and that was the last “endless” anime I ever watched.
Still maintain that an anime over about 100 eps can’t be good–maybe ok, maybe amusing enough that you’ll watch it, but not good good. There’s simply no way to sustain a decent story for that long.
IIRC eps 120-220 are straight up 100 eps of filler and every fan will tell you to skip those.
Sorry for your shitty experience, hope you can give Shippuden’s canon a chance sometime
I think I got to the low hundred mark on naruto. Then someone told me everything after the
spoiler
death of the old dude and kidnapping of super serious emo kid
wasn’t worth watching, because the naruto shipuden basically picked up there anyway. I suppose I’ll get around to shipuden someday and find out.
Didn’t Naruto have a literal entire year of filler?
Two and a half years, actually. They nearly real timed the time skip. Even then they couldn’t get through the next arc without more filler.
Is that total filler or contiguous filler?
Contiguous. That’s why they added “Shippuden” to the name post time skip. To try to bring back the people that dropped it during the filler.
I did watch most of shippuden, too, but it was when it was airing and I never did finish. I never thought it would finish, and when both Naruto and Bleach finished, it was like somebody died, like it was the long awaited end of an era, for each, and I think when one piece eventually ends, it’ll be even moreso, which is wild to think about.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Story and gameplay both get good around the end of chapter 3.
One piece the manga is great through and through
