really from ep1? Isnt one piece like 900eps?
How much time did it take you to get up to date?
I started it from episode one
exactly mid-July and am currently at the Law vs. Doflamingo fight in the Dressrosa arc (fucking hell, Law's backstory was...
damn), sooooo about four months' time. However, I've slowed down this past month because (sperg warning):
- 9anime's servers were acting up (I like it because it goes immediately to the next episode). KissAnime is okay and all, but it's slow on my laptop without AdBlock (and downloading is a hassle with
One Piece). This is why I got into the habit of watching it on the television through the Xbox, although that habit started because we have some of the DVDs, and I had promised one of my brothers I'd start watching it once we got the first several episodes
on DVD.
- My brother keeps bugging me to "Keep watching, you're getting to the good part!" and I'm all "Let me watch at my own pace, dude!" since he just wants to sperg about
One Piece with me
so bad. Back when I first started watching, I went with the "three episodes a day" rule, which was more-or-less actually
four episodes a day, truthfully, which starting around the Arlong Park arc, episode intake increased to the point where I watched 50 episodes in two days just to finish Marineford. I am
really ahead of schedule in that regard.
- I watched it dub, and I just fucking
love the dub. Even though I watched the films as I went along, midway into the Fisher Tiger flashback I had to switch to subs (though if I had waited a few days, I'd have seen the entirety of the flashback dubbed), so the shock of it being basically "permanent" at this point got to me and I started slowing down, though honestly I kinda needed to start taking breaks anyway
(and part of that might be because it's so mentally and emotionally exhausting). Voice-acting really
is fantastic, though, but I was just too used to the dub. (Sonny Strait's Usopp gives me
so much life.)
- Toei Animation being Toei Animation. I
do think people are over-exaggerating things about Toei "ruining"
One Piece, but I
am noticing things here and there that are starting to bother me. A damn shame, too, since again, the voice-acting and the soundtrack are
amazing. It's just the animation has been spread too thin at this point and also the quality in the way it looks seems to have dropped. Really too much of a shame it couldn't have the Water 7-through-Thriller Bark look forever.
- God Usopp has been the highlight of Dressrosa for me, and I'm sad that he's absent after Zou. But at least I'll get more Brook later, I'm missing him way too damn much.
Yeah, I think that covers my journey with
One Piece thus far.
