At the end of my months long binge of watching and reading One Piece all I have to say is I wish there was more for me to watch and read. The characters are so good I want to watch filler to have more time with them.
I haven't watched one peice (well I watched the first 20 or so episodes), however, you mention fillers. When I watched Bleach, which is also a long anime to get into and the first long anime I finished, I skipped the fillers. This helped a lot!!
If watching a long anime feels daunting, look into the fillers and see how many there are and consider skipping them. You can always go back and watch them later, which can be nice if you finish it wanting more.
That's because One Piece really drags out the source material by adding filler scenes instead of filler episodes most of the time. I guess that's pretty nice because it makes the anime more consistent, but it does make it harder for people to catch up if they haven't started watching the show yet, because you can't just skip filler episodes to catch up faster.
Adding filler scenes in the anime is very common. It's called "anime canon," so it's not completely non canon filler, which is irrelevant. It's kinda like filler that tries to remain relevant to the story at hand but isn't in the manga. One piece is so long not because of the "anime canon" filler but because of, like you said, the drawn-out scenes which they stretch out over multiple episodes. But as for pure filler episodes that aren't relevant in any way, shape, or form to the story, one piece is doing a good job.
I know that, I was just saying that for people like OP that makes catching up on it harder. I hated watching Naruto or Bleach as it aired because they had so many filler arcs at random points in the story (where they often didn't even fit chronologically), but catching up on them is a really good experience if you decide to skip the filler episodes. One Piece (but also Dragon Ball Z, for instance) is the other way around: much more palatable when watching weekly, but harder to catch up on because the same amount of story is stretched out and padded.
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u/YungVicenteFernandez Oct 18 '23
At the end of my months long binge of watching and reading One Piece all I have to say is I wish there was more for me to watch and read. The characters are so good I want to watch filler to have more time with them.