ALT: a picture of a conversation in Teams between two coworkers. One coworker says:
LOL
You should read One Piece
Its such a good story in such an easy to digest format
Too much "good content" is locked behind like super serious overtones
Shit gets too heavy too much
the other person responds:
not only will I not be reading it, I will not be watching it either
if you contact me again about this, I will seek legal action
I always scoffed at one piece as it looks completely absurd from the outside. However, once I started watching I couldnt stop. It IS absurd, but in a great and genuine way. Worldbuilding is awesome and the characters are hilariously idiosyncratic. Big thumbs up.
If you do watch the anime version, check out the One Pace project, a fan-edit that removes all of the filler and stalling in the animation - it is the definitive way to watch!
They have a website at onepace.net. Their actual site is not working currently, but at least it redirects to their Discord server where you can get the streaming and magnet links you are searching for!
I had been trying for awhile, mind you! I just uh....kept bouncing off. Easier getting into this though than my extremely vain attempts to understand or get into Homestuck.
I think Homestuck has to stay as "Ah yes I heard about that and had a friend who used grey body paint a lot" area.
The end of Wano was such a slog because that was the point where One Pace is not finished yet. Egghead seems less slow (at least for now) but Toei can suck my balls, such a bad adaptation pacing-wise omg
Yep. One Pace basically just uses the manga for the storyboards without the extra bloat (though some exclusive anime segments got kept if they added to the experience), and the whole thing ends up being 40% shorter overall - and more importantly, it's more dynamic and exciting to watch.
Sometimes caving in and watching the popular thing helps you understand why it's so popular, lol. I enjoy so many things that people view as having annoying fans. I've learned to just enjoy what I enjoy but sometimes it's hard to recommend things like One Piece because of stereotypes about the fans.
This is the same experience I had. It really feels like the story is directly from the heart, even if it has some flaws. I particularly liked how the author seemed to gain a deeper understanding and respect for transgender people and reflected that in the series. He writes an island full of essentially awful trans stereotypes initially, but later goes on to write some really wonderful trans representation during the Wano arc.
However the way he draws women in general is so bad to this day, all identical extreme hourglass figures, lol.