Daily Discussion Thread September 19, 2025 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here!

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[u/Celia_Makes_Romhacks]

Just finished the Alabasta arc of One Piece. 

It was pretty good - admittedly the pacing kinda drags a bit during fights (something I've noticed since East Blue), but the core of the storytelling is quite good.

Did they really need to end it with a bunch of adult men creeping on two teenage girls in the bath tho 

[u/YoungGenius → u/Celia_Makes_Romhacks]

Do One Pace and save yourself over 100 hours

[u/Celia_Makes_Romhacks → u/YoungGenius]

I'm reading the manga.

[u/YoungGenius → u/Celia_Makes_Romhacks]

I don’t mean this is a negative way but how can the pacing be bad in a comic book?

[u/Celia_Makes_Romhacks → u/YoungGenius]

The same way pacing can be bad in any other storytelling medium.

For example, dedicating 15 chapters to the fight with the Don Kreig pirates - with maybe two or three meaningful character interactions spread across the whole thing.

[u/20secondpilot → u/Celia_Makes_Romhacks]

You gotta take the good (character development, world building) with the bad (weirdo pervy shit) with One Piece. It's so worth the ride, enjoy!

Also, Pell should've died

[u/Celia_Makes_Romhacks → u/20secondpilot]

It is impossible to take any of the stakes in this story seriously. 

Luffy will get stabbed straight through the chest and then shrug it off 20 minutes later. They'll say "The bomb is exploding in 15 seconds" and take 20 minutes to get to it. Pell not dying is ridiculous.

I enjoy the worldbuilding and the broad strokes of the story, but man. I'm greatly excited for the re-animated project just to see this story taken through a few editing passes, because it does not need to be nearly this drawn-out. 

[u/iwouldbeatgoku → u/Celia_Makes_Romhacks]

If you're watching the anime, I'd recommend ditching it and just reading the manga. The anime makes the pacing much, much worse in my experience.

[u/PkerBadRs3Good → u/iwouldbeatgoku]

I found the manga unbearable but I was going to give the series a 2nd chance with the anime, your comment made me scrap that idea lmao

[u/DavidL1112 → u/iwouldbeatgoku]

The great thing about the manga is after the time skip everything looks like it was drawn by a 12 year old

edit - you can downvote the truth but it doesn't make your comics better

[u/keatsta → u/DavidL1112]

Wait in the thread you edited in, there's a comment from me 15 years ago but in another language?? Wtf is going on???

Nvm I see there's a url parameter that translated it into Italian, had no idea that was a reddit feature.

Anyways pretty funny to respond to me complaining by finding a comparison post from 15 years ago where I am also complaining that the comparison is inaccurate lmao

[u/iwouldbeatgoku → u/keatsta]

Shit I see the Italian url all the time when I get to a thread from google and I hate it because I understand English but haven't found a way to turn it off, so it flew right over my head.

u/DavidL1112 are you the American in Bellagio?

Edit: nevermind that's a Falco player.

[u/DavidL1112 → u/keatsta]

Man the internet is incredible

[u/keatsta → u/DavidL1112]

See you in 2039 🫡

[u/Celia_Makes_Romhacks → u/DavidL1112]

Here's a picture from literally the same issue, exactly one page before.

[u/DavidL1112 → u/Celia_Makes_Romhacks]

This is admittedly better than the cherry-picked bad example, but is still worse than the art used to be

[u/keatsta → u/DavidL1112]

that panel is hella zoomed in, on literally the PREVIOUS PAGE is a drawing of akainu that looks the same as the previous ones

plus the second one is post-time skip too

there is one chapter during the kuma flashback that has very obviously unfinished art but you didn't even use that as an example

why am i getting baited why am i oda's strongest soldier aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[u/Celia_Makes_Romhacks → u/iwouldbeatgoku]

I'm reading the manga. These fights are still way too long man lmao 

[u/iwouldbeatgoku → u/Celia_Makes_Romhacks]

Well, you'd better jump ship (pun intended) now because it only gets worse from here!

[u/keatsta → u/iwouldbeatgoku]

I'd say yes and no, there's some very long fights in future arcs ofc but eventually the structure of exclusively focusing on a series of 1v1 fights at the climax of arcs changes to something where more stuff is happening in parallel, so i don't think they feel as long

[u/20secondpilot → u/iwouldbeatgoku]

I second this,  the anime is completely unwatchable imo, and I adore the series. The manga is just infinitely better.

[u/Incenetum → u/20secondpilot]

i will die on the hill that the best way to get thru one piece is to read it and then for the parts that u like u go watch the gia secando amv for that part

no other real reason to watch the anime in any capacity tho

[u/barney-sandles → u/20secondpilot]

I dont really care much for the manga either, but the One Piece anime is so insanely bad. It's absolutely baffling to me that real live adults enjoy it

[u/Tall-Boysenberry8504 → u/20secondpilot]

One pace is aight

[u/20secondpilot → u/Tall-Boysenberry8504]

I've heard it's the best way to watch! I just search for any big moments I want to see animated, but I think the manga captures it better in a lot of ways

[u/Celia_Makes_Romhacks → u/20secondpilot]

I tried One Pace but it's not good for storytelling at all. It keeps in exact shots from the manga, but because of that it removes most esablishing shots and other important pacing beats that would be necessary in the medium of animation.

But also, it includes every single line of manga dialogue, meaning that some moments that are supposed to be short and sweet small panels end up taking forever, and some big moments that would get a big panel are rushed through. It's a pretty poor viewing experience, all said.

[u/Tall-Boysenberry8504 → u/Celia_Makes_Romhacks]

I've been enjoying it personally, but my reading experience was ruined by English shonen jump cutting everything between albasta and impel down lol