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

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.

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.

Hold on a minute, I might be more interested

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

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

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

Most of One Piece is in the 1%

Eiichiro Oda has stated that there is a physical One Piece

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

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

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'.

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.

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