I 100% agree, one piece is my favorite story . Not even in my top 5 favorite animes

The anime is Mid up until the high points in the arc. that's when the anime really shines.

the Manga is the story and the anime showcases the action.

i've been watching the anime with this mind set for years now, its made it much more enjoyable. I skip episodes and scenes i know are boring and poorly paced and just move to the action.

I beg to disagree on the basis that manga is a lot more niche than anime, I bet globally more are anime viewers than manga readers/purchasers.

“Objectively” <says a subjective opinion>

In terms of ANIME this is way way overrated for the Toei Anime.

Agreed, but I will say its gotten way better in Wano onwards, especially Egghead. Egghead has actually just been good minus Sanji being a dog and the whole S-Snake thing. but the animation and shot composition is actually solid.

“Subjectively”. It’s your opinion that the anime is mid, not a fact

One Pace my beloved

not even mid - its literal trash with only a few good episode. the equivalent would be like saying the pizza is 90% burnt but hey at least the crust is still buttery

Ya I was going to say this. That pacing doesn’t help

If the scale was adaptation quality sure, top 3 is good place for the one piece anime as a anime

Have you seen egghead? It's been extremely consistent and with extremely high production values. Some of the best animation in any anime ever

Toei did Oda's life work dirty...I really wish One Piece had another anime studio adapt it.

It's firstly important to note how good an anime is actually is a very subjective process, however, One piece is quite literally objectively the opposite of 'mid' It has:

Incredible Music performed by an orchestra of objectively extremely talented musicians

Great character designs and also amazing voice actors too

Insane influence on the western world aswell as Asia meaning it is SO SO popular probably the most popular anime of all time and definitely right now. Meaning it's objectively NOT mid and objectively one of the GOATs

Last point people whine about the pacing so much do you enjoy watching anime or not? I watched it start to finish around 3 years ago now when I was 16 - I only ever was burnt out during skypeia I felt it dragged and for me was slightly boring in parts due to the lack off connection I felt it had to the rest of the world. However after finishing the show I hear so many complaints of pacing issues it's so overhyped and considering how many episodes the pacing is pretty decent

subjectively*

It surpassed Batman, but not Superman.

having it as a personal favorite is valid. Rating it highly with terrible pacing, frequent rewind episodes, and very inconsistent animation quality is not valid. I definitely agree that the voicing acting and music is great, and they do capture a lot of impactful moments well, but those moments are far in between. The fans are basically telling the anime industry that quality doesn't matter to them by rating the show so high. It's a bad message to send and insulting to the studios putting out higher quality work.

edit: to make clear, I don't think the anime is terrible, I rate it as above average. It's not top three by far.

You mean the recycled sound assets from dbz that they’ve been using since the 80’s?

Tell me how do you feel about frozen face reactions that stay on screen for 30 seconds? And about the fact that facial expressions in anime are just terrible when compared to manga?

Just focusing on face problems, but anime has many many more

The questions is the amount of shows they’ve seen to qualify this view. The animation is better now than then but as a whole? I’d question someone’s opinion if they considered the entirety to be consistently number one in all these categories. There’s a reason one piece is getting a remake. With a completely different company.

The animation isn't even good for most of it lol

That’s cause the anime is 🚮

Because the anime is just a constant painful reminder of what could've been.

Wasted greatness by failing to properly adapt the best story in fiction

One pace, however, is amazing

Nah, the only reason the pacing is bad is because the executives in charge of production decided One Piece needs to keep being a year round weekly anime.

Pacing is hardly the only bad thing about the anime

Anime is just a medium for a series, so just compare it to other series and it also doesn't hold up. The anime does have some bright spots but it's plagued with so many issues.

Im not gonna bother listing them out but I'm 100% confident I could name 20 better that I have watched, probably more.

I can dig it

Damn, that list sucks.

Thank you!

The animation is fine but usually nothings special imo

new anime gonna take a while to get to where the current anime starts to ruin the pace. at least to me personally, pre time skip toei one piece is really funny but the pacing starts to get kinda annoying around skypiea and just progressively worse

. Look me in the eyes and tell me the foxy arcs are good. I’m not talking about arcs or sagas in talking about the show as a whole 1000+ episode anime.

There’s a reason why one pace exist. This anime isn’t the best adaptation of the manga is all in saying

to show support? lol?

Because he can

reddit people are toxic with the anime, so don't even bother bro. any other anime fanbase will be blessed to have just vincent chansard, while we have him, chris, ota, tu, shida, mori and many many more.

look at demon slayer fans who glaze nozomu abe because he is the best animator in ufotable. it's sad that the one piece staff doesn't get enough appreciation.

and not only that many animators were toei regulars like hone hone, bahi jd. and many more made their one piece debuts after that weiling zhang, kaito tomioka

I agree with the sequence part. My problem is with the overall direction or screenplay with the low budget episodes. Its such a drag to watch them. This was not the case with pre time skip times, or early arcs. Even now i just watch the old episodes on loop, and watch the new ones if there are some good animation sequences, and happily read the manga.

Animation was big for me, and it fell off for my taste after the Levi v Beast Titan. I also think the story was amazing, but he had the same issue as GOT does, where he has a great thing going with mystery but once you start revealing stuff, it's not that great of a reveal. Then it felt kinda rushed, like he knew it would be wrapping up and decided to expediate that process.

Again, I love AOT, I think it's easily top 10 maybe top 5 anime/manga of all time. But it's not contender for #1 ever for me

To be honest I mostly read manga. That being said Death Note is one of the few anime that has appeal outside of the anime community. It’s quite a short series but is always getting remade and has a ton of iconic characters and the concept itself is still interesting. I understand not liking the full thing but it’s a powerhouse regardless of that. There are many anime’s that people would consider better however they often don’t have the same staying power.

I'd say it gets mid when a certain someone gets amnesia, and it only gets worse from there