Onepiece...is it worth it?

[arccie]

Hello folks,

Just dropping by for some advice...

Anyway, OnePiece started on commercial TV the other day, looks interesting enough (though some of the dubbing is killing me and I've heard that the dubbing company did an excellent job of mangling it), so I was wondering if it was worth it to download the sub?

I am of course, slowly working my way through the manga, but yeah...

Advice Please.

Comments

[windyhurrice.livejournal.com]

Download the sub and never the dub.

Personally if you love adventure, and I mean really love adventure, you'll love One Piece.

The thing about the anime is that they stretch one episode as long as they can, meaning if you want to know the story faster, you should read the manga (It's like, 1 manga chpater = 3 anime episodes) that's what it's like. But since they made the artworks in the anime look better, it's still worth it. You won't get bored with One Piece's ideas(In comparision to HxH, Pot and Naruto) because there's always something new going on. And the anime fillers in One Piece is quite good IMO =)

[arctic-dragon.livejournal.com]

Yeah...my current exposure to the dub has definitely turned me off the dub.

What do you mena by "really love adventure"?
As in, am I fanatical about it? Or do I enjoy a good treasure hunt?

I've noticed that entirely stupid trend in some animes *cough*hunterxhunter*cough*. They really don't need to add a lot of the touchy-feely emotion stuff in to fluff out episodes. I mean Bleach is good and it has 2-3 chapters (at least) to every episode.

Thanks for the help.
^_^

[windyhurrice.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should say, 'If you love exploring places and unknowns'. Not necessarily hunting for treasures, exploring places, unknowns and their history is more accurute, despite it's a pirate story.

One piece has a lot of emotion stuff (And sometimes if you look back you'd think they overdid it :lol:)

Or put it this way, if you like RPG, you'll probably like One Piece.

The thing about One Piece is that it may appear boring at the start(Since it's finding crew members) but later on they finally mention where they go(And it didn't take them forever to get into the first step which is a good thing, HxH mentions his goal was to find his father and it took forever. While One Piece mentioned the main character is to become the Pirate King, we know for a fact that he has to obtain the treasure 'One Piece', which is located in the last island of the Grand Line. Right now they've made it to the Grandline, so to speak it doesn't feel that it takes forever to obtain it(Which well, it did take so many chapters right now))

Just give it a try, I definitely recommend it. Just be prepared the anime did stretch the storyline a bit ^^;;

[arctic-dragon.livejournal.com]

Well...I think I'll put somne hard effort into acquiring and reading the manga...and if the first few eps of the sub interest me I'll continue with that.

I know it's reeeally bad, but characters are just more alive for me if they're on the tv screen or I read them in an actual "book". For some strange reason manga characters just aren't as alive for me...I think it may be the fact that they'r ein black and white and they already have set parametres as to what they're like, so my imagination can't just work randomly to create the characters.

...I've heard there are over 270 episodes...

That was an exaggeration? Riiight?

[windyhurrice.livejournal.com]

No, that's not an exaggeration last time I heard they had around 300+ manga chapters.

Actually, I'd recommend the anime as well, it's just that they take a bit longer(they've currently made it to 300 episodes I think)
While the anime does seem lively(And their fillers are quite nice to watch, and that you may find the characters to be a bit too lively in the future) the manga does the same job of making the characters seem lively as well.

But do try them out, don't let the artworks put you out, the colour scheme of the anime is quite good(Especially the blue seas)