Asking about the one piece anime is a good litmus test for potential friends. If they hate it, they have decent taste. If they like it, they’ll probably accept my extended, meandering tangents.

https://onepace.net thank me later

I've seen 46 anime series and movies in the time it would take me to get 2/3 the way through One Piece

The pacing is completely fucked most of the time, production quality varies over time (mostly because it's spanning a decade now) and I wouldn't recommend the show over the manga (which has none of these issues) aside from some key highlights, but I don't think I'll ever understand the disproportionate hate for the actual story of One Piece. Of the popular, long-running shonen series it has an original setting, a ton of world building and a romantic atmosphere. It's not for everyone, but it does take an edgy contrarian to act like it's dogshit with no redeeming qualities.

If I say this outside of shitpost subs, I get attacked.

One Piece is the anime on every TV in purgatory.

One summer in college I watched the first 500 episodes in an extreme binge session. Probably 18 hour days of nothing but one piece day after day. Then I ran out of episodes. I keep thinking I'll watch the rest someday, but I struggle up even remember most of what I watched back then. And now watching 1000 episodes feels like an impossible challenge

All they do for 99% of each episode is talk about how they gonna defeat this enemy who is standing on the other side of the screen staring menencly at the protagonists

Just started it last week. Enjoying it so far.

Is the main character autistic or something? He seems kinda oblivious to social queues

Yeah, total waste of time.

goes back to playing DCSS

honestly I'm almost halfway through the anime and it's pretty good

the latter half of Naruto Shippuden or Bleach be like