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If you enjoy the live action you will probably enjoy the manga or anime. The one caveat to that is both versions One Piece suffer the same problem from filler, but in different ways. This problem is best illustrated by an anime about that problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4S9NuI6NKo
but it works both ways for one piece, because it's been running long enough as both a manga and an anime.
TL;DR; It's great but there is filler in both.
I prefer the manga, but I feel like the manga is a little rough until it gets to Drum Island, which is a whooping 130 chapters in, but "only" 78 episodes in... it's one of those "its gets really good 100 hours in" deals.
How does the manga have filler? It's the source material
There's islands where nothing happens like long ring long land, well something does happen there, but its so minor compared to everything else that I'm not really sure why its there at all. I feel like Thriller Bark was kind of filler-y too. That second sentence is an extremely hot take, but that is how I feel.
I think the issue here is simply that you two are seeing two different versions of what "filler" means.
"Filler" in terms of anime often refered to original content that was "filled" between the actual adapted content from the manga. This is from a time where some shounen series were running perpetually next to the manga and once caught up had to do something to fill the time. This lead to very loooong series like Dragonball Z where you had to fill an entire episode just with the content of a 20 page chapter and to filler arcs that were often scourned. The issue was, that nothing there could be of any lasting consequence as to not throw a wrench into the actual story developing from the manga.
Now, you use filler as in stuff that apprently fills time in the source, as stuff that doesn't really advance the story and characters in your view. I am not agree with that, but that's another matter.