I am proud to say I got to around episode 250. Around cause I don’t want to go look and truly find out. After the first 10 episodes I created a strategy for One Piece, I understood how it would progress. Slow … very slow … retarded slow.
This is the strategy, follow it closely:
STRATEGY 1
1. Jump the 3+ minutes of bullshit introduction and see the first minute or two of an episode. If the story has moved a little, or if it resembles anything close to interesting anime, watch.
2. If the “1 or 2 minutes” of judgement don’t reveal anything interesting, jump to the MIDDLE of the episode, check if anything interesting has developed then.
3. If STILL the episode doesn’t have anything interesting. Jump to THE END of the episode, just before the bullshit closing credits that eat up another 3 minutes of a 25 minute episode and watch 1 or 2 minutes so you know more or less what is going on.
4. Repeat steps 1 to 3.

I managed to see 250+ episodes in 2 days and, get this, I DID NOT MISS ANYTHING. That is just sad! How could I understand the gist of the plot from watching a MAX of 6 minutes per episode? Holy gods!

After episode 100, I followed THIS strategy:
1. Skip 5 episodes
2. Follow STRATEGY 1 STEPS.
3. Rince and repeat.

I guarantee, you will NOT miss anything but worthless fluff or a ridiculous battle with the Foxy Pirates, or the Priest of Balls up in Skypeia.

The only fights I enjoyed were the ones with Enel and Crocodile. Truly fearsome opponents that didn’t look completely ridiculous.

In conclusion, ONE PIECE SUCKS DUNKEY NUTS. It’s so bad so worthless so slow and so moronic, that I can’t recommend it to anyone.

Perhaps the Manga is better, but the anime is disgustingly bad.

You can accept a teenage boy having shinigami powers, a stuffed toy brought to life, a ninja boy with a demon sealed in him as a baby, chakra that gives people equally fantastic and impossible-in-reality abilities but you can’t accept a mythical fruit that gives people powers at a price? That is insane.

One Piece is set in a fantasy world, magic, fictional creatures and races make sense in the story if that is how it’s set up. Naruto and Bleach has it’s own share of fantastic beasts, races, and artifacts too. You don’t seem to have a problem wondering where the giant frogs, giant fox demon, and giant ghost monsters got to their respective setting (assuming my assumption from your nonsensical ravings in caps at the end comparing it to those two shows is correct). That basically boils down to you saying you hate it because it has fantasy elements that don’t exist in the real world. If you have a problem with that you should hate ALL stories with any fantasy elements, Bleach and Naruto included. It’s fiction, it’s only needs to make sense in context. You can make things up as long as you’re consistent and stick to the rules you set up.

How do those characters’ immense power worsen the story? Blackbeard’s powers has been a big driving force in the conflict and is building to something big in the story. The power of the Yonkou and the Navy higher-ups, which includes Shanks and Garp, is part of the dynamics of the main powers ruling the seas. And it’s just plain, shonen-style awesome. Having insanely strong characters are not inherently bad, it’s how the characters and their powers are handled. Great stories have been written featuring far more powerful characters.

What does having a dream have to do with intelligence? Your reasoning that because Luffy wants to find a treasure he can’t act stupid is poorly presented. I agree Luffy’s an idiot, but I don’t agree Luffy is completely dumb. The story shows there’s more to his character than that, he’s competent enough when it matters, but that’s a whole other debate.

Pirates wanting to find a treasure is the premise, not the entire plot, neither does that sum up what the whole story is about. Simple premises aren’t inherently bad, it’s what the writer does with it. Saying it’s dumb because it’s about pirates looking for a treasure is vague.

I can’t fully make sense of your last point. All characters get equal screen time? You mean the main characters? Yea, they do. Each crew member is treated with equal attention from Oda and contribute to the story. None are left to feel like a 3rd wheel. What does this have to do with the number of characters from other shows?

One Piece does have flaws, as someone who watches and reads it as much as me I’m quite familiar with them, your reasons though make no sense.

I can see where you are coming from for not liking One Piece, because you only watched probably the first 40 episodes. I’d just like to comment that it’s really sad that you gave up on it so early, because it really does get a lot better later, as many one piece fans will (sometimes over-zealously) attest to. The villains become a LOT more badass, and the story becomes a lot more epic than just “let’s look for treasure!”. The story literally evolves to one involving a global scale crisis.

If you’re concerned that Luffy will constantly be a retard if you continue watch it, then i will safely assure you that his one-mindedness eventually becomes a great addition to the crew’s battle prowess, instead of being a liability.

I think the difference in perception of One piece is not a cultural one (oh Japanese love this sort of stuff; no), but really a just a difference in opportunity. Because, when Japanese buy and read Weekly Shonen Jump, they are exposed to every single manga that is published in the book, whereas in every other country, you have to first buy/download the manga to be exposed to it. That’s why there are a lot more Japanese who love One Piece; because they are able to contrast and compare them. And with the recent development in the One Piece storyline, it is no wonder so many more Japs have converted to a One Piece fan.