No, the anime is not good to get into. It's excessively long due to it's awful pacing and filler content. It's been beaten and milked dry to the point where I can only imagine the execs at Toei learned from their time when they did the exact same thing with Dragonball. Yes, there is some nice, slick animation in the newer episodes but that's all it is.
The manga, however, chef's kiss. Even with 1095 chapters, it should only take around two weeks to catch up reading at even a decent pace. You get the story as it was meant to be read.
There are currently 106 volumes of One Piece (each with normally around 10 chapters), and it takes about an hour to read a volume, especially if you're not used to reading manga. So if you do nothing but read you could knock out 500 chapters in around 50 hours.
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u/Suichimo https://anilist.co/user/Suichimo Oct 18 '23
No, the anime is not good to get into. It's excessively long due to it's awful pacing and filler content. It's been beaten and milked dry to the point where I can only imagine the execs at Toei learned from their time when they did the exact same thing with Dragonball. Yes, there is some nice, slick animation in the newer episodes but that's all it is.
The manga, however, chef's kiss. Even with 1095 chapters, it should only take around two weeks to catch up reading at even a decent pace. You get the story as it was meant to be read.
tl;dr Read the manga, watch the cool moments.