It gets really good after the first 31 episodes

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One Piece fans lmao.
- This week's episode is actually really good. You just have to watch the other 1071 episodes first and I swear you'll like it.
  
  I think that's just called Stockholm Syndrome.
  
  Just spend a month’s free time doing nothing but reading manga and you’ll be fine. Wait shit that was how long it took 8 years ago when I was last caught up
- My GF loves One Piece, she started me at just one episode quite a ways in - the one with Bink's Sake - basically just to say "hey look, this story is actually going somewhere". Then we started at like episode 60 or so and kept watching from there - it's definitely a lot rougher, but I'm hooked enough now to watch it with her!
- I can't deny this lol. Sometimes you like it from the start, but the start is very corny since it was made in the 90s, so it doesn't grab everyone right away, but it matures really well over time and becomes more timeless. But even then I have to admit it can be an acquired taste with its cartoony style and wacky characters/world.
  
  It's a typical shounen with all it's troupes and cringy narrative. The start shouldn't shock people. It actually manages to grab people quickly enough compared to other shounens at their beginning.
  Over the years the story matures and develops accompanying their audience. The beginning was for teens and now it still has the same fans and followers that are in their thirties.
  It's hard for shows that are so long lived to maintain their engagement.
- It's unfortunate that it is true. No going around it - the first 25 or so episodes are cartoonish and the old drawing style kept a lot of people away. I tried to convince people to stick with it but most of my friends left it around episode 2 or 3.
  It's also evident that it is perceived as a dumb teens series since producers brought it to TV to a channel named 4Kids. And then they quickly realized by the second batch of episodes that kids definitely shouldn't watch that.
- That's why I'm hoping the live action becomes a success. One piece has a lot of amazing things, but the anime adaptation is just shat out of someone's ass every week. I can't recommend that to anyone.
  If Netflix is successful in recreating the one piece experience - and so far it looks like they are - I'll finally have something to show people why I like this story so much.

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