Try the One Pace fan edit. It cuts out all of the recaps and filler and shortens up long pan shots intended to eat time. It cuts out 40% of the overall time. And it’s even more if you skip the intros of each episode
Comment on until next year
rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 3 days ago
this is the one anime I’ve always wanted to get into because everyone loves it and at this point…no, I don’t think it’s possible.
I remember One Piece being on Fox Kids or something when I was in high school or my early 20s, I’m in my 40s now, I don’t think it’s possible to even remotely try to catch up.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Why the fuck would thry leave in the intros?
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Because some people actually enjoy watching the intros? Don’t be an ass by yucking other people’s yum.
Regardless, One Pace gets packaged into 50-60 minute episodes, so you’re seeing intros 1/2 to 1/3 as often per unit of play time.
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ok that’s better. Thought it was like every episode regardless of cut size
Furbag@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There’s a version called the One Piece Omnibus Supercut that also eliminates the intros and outros, except for the first time they are shown. It chops the episodes up and stitches them together to make them about movie length each.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
An article written in February this year said the show currently has 411 hours although their math was questionable with assumed episode length so I bumped it up to 440 hours.
So if you watch 7 hours of one piece per week that would take you just under 63 weeks. Which is about a year and 3 months. Accounting for new episodes let’s call it a year and a half.
Ways to spead it up would be skipping every intro and credits (this was in episode length calculated) and if you watch dub/read fast you can speed up videos anywhere from 1.25 to 2 times speed depending on your comfort level.
It is possible
mika_mika@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I had a psychiatrist once who was a fan of One Piece and when I had him explain it to me, it didn’t sound like he enjoyed the plot as the main course per se but enjoyed that the characters were consistent. That he could pop in around any arc at random and have an idea of what’s going on. Luffy is rubber, Zoro has his sword, etc.
He viewed it more like a soap opera you could tune into, rather than something you view from start to finish.
Unboxious@ani.social 3 days ago
I think trying to catch up to the anime would be basically impossible but 1100+ chapters of a weekly manga is just barely doable. Could easily go through 50+ a day.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I caught up with the anime last year but its definitely rough. There’s a lot of padding in the older episodes though. They’re going to be slowing down to putting out only 26 episodes in 2026. Reading the manga up to the point the anime is at and watching the bigger fights is probably the more sane choice though as Toei is kinda shit.
rainwall@piefed.social 3 days ago
The anime is hilariously padded. 24 minute episode with a 3 minute intro, 3 minute outro, 3 minutes of little animation action breaks, 3 minutes of actual plot, followed by 12 minutes of broekn up reaction shots from wach of the 26 charectors in any random episode.
Art.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
And they like don’t bother animating the cover stories