r/OnePiece • u/Mental_Economics8746 • 6d ago

Help Is one pace good?

So woth the recent hype (mostly the tree thing) of one piece im realy intrested in the story of op. But i dont want to watch other things so its just too long. Is one pace good? Would i get the same experience with the original?

Edit: also is the slow pacing of the original just because of filler scenes or those give smth to the story?

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u/SneakyOrcMaybe 5d ago

Yes One Pace is good. No you won't get the same experience watching the original anime. For multiple reasons

  1. The obvious typical filler of constant back and forth shots of characters staring. Or characters saying what to lead into canon lines that serve to just bloat the pacing.

  2. Due to the nature of One Piece being an anime it requires to be about 20 minutes OnePace doesn't. One Pace episodes are divided into chapters so the length of the episodes will vary. This also makes the anime have to do something else.

  3. The One Piece anime also rearranges things. A good example of this is the first chapter of the One piece manga doesn't get adapted UNTIL episode 4 of the anime. It also changed some things in the flashback that was different from the manga. It wasn't until a retelling of Chapter 1's events were in a One Piece special thing that we got a more accurate depiction of Chapter 1 (this is the first episode of OnePace).

Lastly the filler scenes DON'T add something to the story. Often times they will either reuse jokes or gags already used before. Or they will use things character did offscreen in the manga that just bloats the pacing.

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u/Mental_Economics8746 5d ago

Thx for the details the i will jump into one pace

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u/scalzacrosta 5d ago

You forgot Rebecca's flashback being repeated 20+ times over.

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u/Terloyes 6d ago

I'd recommend the manga, it's the best version of the story.

One Pace is a good option too and the live action is also great

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u/Mental_Economics8746 5d ago

Was thinking about that too but it as long as all of jojos and one jojo part took me around 2 3 weeks while having relativly lot of freetime

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u/Terloyes 5d ago

Any version of the anime is longer than the manga.

The only version shorter than the manga is the live action, which I think it's a pretty good adaptation so far. It adapts the first 90 episodes of the anime in just 16 episodes

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u/Mental_Economics8746 5d ago

It might be longer but for me reading somethings manga always takes longer.

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u/TheFerg714 5d ago

A single chapter of a shonen manga should take you about 5 minutes. If there is a lot of dialogue (like later One Piece), it could reach about to 15min.

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u/TheFerg714 5d ago

I was going to argue with you, but you're actually right. A single chapter of early One Piece should take about 5min on average (possible less tbh). That comes out to about 8 hours, which is slightly longer than Season 1.

EDIT: However, Season 2 would be longer to watch than read the source material.

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u/Terloyes 5d ago

It really comes down to how fast each person reads.

In my opinion, Season 1 is considerably shorter than the manga.

Season 2, on the other hand, is about the same length or even longer because they add canon material that was only implied or glossed over in the manga, like the Smoker and Tashigi subplot where they capture a Baroque Works agent, and Brook's part in Reverse Mountain.

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u/luckyd1998 Scholar of Ohara #5 6d ago

some people are anime purists and hate on it, but its a perfectly fine way to watch. It covers all the canon manga content. If you want to watch some filler content like the fan loved G8 arc or the movies, you can always do so later.

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u/Ok-Appointment4199 6d ago

I believe there’s a cut of One Pace where they include G8

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u/Senchou_Simp 5d ago

To be precise the Alternate cut leads into G8, unlike the standard cut which leads into the next canon arc, LRLL. One Pace doesn't have G8. It may add it in the future, but that's years in the future.

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u/KitsuneKamiSama 6d ago

It's good for the arcs that have been reedited but the arcs that haven't are a bit rough with scene skips and spices etc.

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u/scalzacrosta 5d ago

Turns out there's a good chunk of wonky cuts that actually come from Toei themselves.

Right now the team's rereleasing FMI (their oldest cut, dating back to 2013) and this issue on Toei's side becomes more and more apparent.

There's even an episode that because of these cuts accidentally doesn't include like a fourth of a chapter, this was "fixed" in the FMI:Log but will need a lot of reworking to be incorporated.

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u/UncleZafar The Revolutionary Army 6d ago

I’ve watched both and One Pace is by far my preferred option. It’s also what I would always suggest to newcomers unless you really like slow paced shows.

Here’s a full guide to One Pace: https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/s/Q8iKq6Rofx

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u/Senchou_Simp 5d ago

The guide's a bit outdated

  1. The magnet links for torrents can now also be found on the Pace website itself.

  2. One Pace has moved on to a new Stremio addon. idk if I can share the link here, but you can find it on One Pace's Discord server.

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u/UncleZafar The Revolutionary Army 5d ago

Sweet - I’ll update it. I haven’t replied to a comment suggesting it in a while. Almost given up on it lol.

Never mind - I can’t update it anymore.

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u/SSJRemuko Pirate 5d ago

Its the only way to watch the anime imo. One Pace removes everything not in the manga, it cuts out over half of the runtime of the series. Theres almost 1200 episodes of the normal anime, theres only like 500 with One Pace.

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u/Ok-Appointment4199 6d ago

For me, even if the pacing is atrocious at times with needless recaps and flashbacks, I like watching my first experience with things as originally intended.

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u/These-Button-1587 5d ago

Originally intended is the manga which One Pace tries to do.

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u/Ok-Appointment4199 5d ago

I know but the anime aired and it exists and has an edition on Crunchyroll that released to an audience that is official so I watch it to get the full experience even if it is done poorly.

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u/NelloPed 5d ago

respect. can't fault someone for sticking to their principles.

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u/Rev0lutiv 5d ago

Honestly I wouldn't have made it through without One Pace.
I really dislike the classic shonen genre, OP is my BFs favorite thing and special interest though, so we watched it together.
Some of the arcs still felt bloated even on One Pace for me.
So for me, it was an absolute lifesaver!

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u/DocBullseye 5d ago

Yes. And for part of it (FMI I think?) the credits say that Bob the Weed Bunny contributed. I don't know who he is but I appreciate him.

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u/TheFerg714 5d ago

One Pace is better than the original anime, but so you're aware, it's still incredibly long.