Animes to watch?

...How exactly does that point to a pomegranate anime? Even if he was to die tomorrow, there's currently 16 people who cannot only draw it, but have access to the entire story. The illness isn't even anything to worry about because he got some nasty throat infection that simply persisted.

A stalling anime usually causes a lot of lag between the manga and the anime. And luckily the Manga is paced well, though the anime is poorly paced and should probably just be better off catching up with the manga. But as this is related to the Anime purely well discuss the Anime. The manga, on the otherhand, is very good and I enjoy reading it.

I'm saying this because the hours he works on his project alone is insane. He gets very few hours of sleep and no human should have to work to that extent. As the story is limited to that of the manga, the Anime is capped and hurt by the manga alone. Unless they decide to speed up the pace of the Manga, the Anime will stall and start to be filler season after filler season.

Yeah, 20 years of growth, but it takes you less than a month to read. I say that because by the time you're through the chapter with chopper you're WANTING to catch up. How many anime's do you also know about that have books written by uni professors trying to figure out why it's so successful?

Because Shounen = Kid Action Anime directed for boys. But it's really attractive to girls as well. Hell my cousin loves the One Piece manga as Nami is her favorite character. Most of the younger cousins in my family, which is a lot, read a lot of childrens mangas and their top reads are usually One Piece. They've been caught up yes, but there was nothing wrong with the Manga. I'm trying to get on point with the anime so sorry if you think i'm talking about the manga. It's just, attention span kinda goes out the window with the anime. It's too drawn out and it's probably due to the pomegranatety american dubbing and censoring that ruined it for me as a kid. But I still can't get into watching 300+ episode animes. It's longevity kills me. But trust me, I'll read the f'uck out of some One Piece anyday.
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If you want to a quick short story, that's fine but one piece is it's own novel, a story you grow with, that you get attached too because of the detailed world building that no other manga even compares. It has this light hearted attitude with spikes of bad assery, where the philosophies they throw at you, such as slavery, world government corruption, the meaning of freedom, don't make you think, they make you feel those view points. The best way to describe it, Goku was a naturally naive/silly protagonist, although luffy has that same nature, he has this more instinctual method of pushing his emotions. He doesn't try to justify his goals beyond short term simplicity. He doesn't have to give any long speeche's, just quick short liners about how he just has to kick your ass.

Luffy is there to simplify things, while the world around it is indeed dark and complicated. It illustrates whats wrong with our world today. But those kinds of details are too indepth for the anime. One Piece is pretty deep storyline and history based. The fact that Gol D. Rodgers treasure is hunted after is another dark reason behind our world. LIke I said great story, but not really great for anime adaptation. Too much detail for too little time.

Then One Piece doesn't deal with silly romantic tensions, they don't deal with the morality of whether they kill their enemy. When they defeat them, they break them, they break their ideology, they don't have to take their life, which brings so much depth to so many characters. It isn't "Oh, this isn't my final form" each villain has an advantage to his own, one that isn't simply "I over power you". It adds even more depth to the combat, even the female's in one piece aren't useless, in fact Robin is pretty goddamn broken.

F'uck you I like my Slice of Life Romantic Tensions. And most animes that deal with death, or anything like that usually do it in good ways or have good reasoning. Some just do it because of other reasons. Death is dealt differently in every anime.

But the one thing I love about one piece the most, is the foreshadowing. The ultimate goal is to become pirate king, yet a battle, 100x greater than even the Whitebeard war, at the summit, where luffy's strongest ability is turning everyone around him friends. Where usopps lies turn into truth throughout their adventures, how the void century is the key to it all, and lastly, that there is no good or evil, just freedom and peoples perspective to honor it. Ultimately, luffy doesn't want to conquer the world, he doesn't want riches, he just wants to say "I'm the Pirate King, and I can do what I want".

Luffy is something that Children want to strive to be. Someone that can accomplish his goals and be something in the world.

Like I said, I never said the Manga was pomegranate. Just that the Anime is not good for something this paced. The manga is a masterpiece and should stay as such. But if the Mangaka dies, it only hurts it cause the original mind of it all isn't there to guide it. Which has caused cancleations in manga. ex Spice & Wolf (which is great btw).

Don't take this the wrong way. One Piece is an Amazing manga. Just a really Bad Anime. It's being drawn out with fillers due to the Mangas indepth storytelling which is good, but bad for the anime.

I hope that explains my reasoning.

Another example of Novel to Animes bad translations was the AO saga of SAO. AO was an amazing arc in the light novels, but terribly executed in the Anime and was incredibly rushed. But One Piece isn't doing nearly as bad as SAO did.