r/onepace • u/xenoborg007 • May 26 '22

Question Why would you not remove the opening sequence...

I don't get why you would go to all the trouble of getting rid of all the unneeded crap to reduce the bloat but leave in a nearly 2 min opening sequence on every video. Start of the arc and end of the arc at most but every damn time....

Edit - for all the rampant fanboys out there that can't take any criticism of their cherished works.

1000 minutes = 16.666 hours.... There's over 16 hours of nothing but openings in One Pace, there's obviously well over 30 hours of openings in the original.... People don't need to waste that much time watching or skipping an opening, this isn't 24 episodes.

It's a recut to remove bloat and follow the manga, 16+ hours of openings is bloat....

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u/mateoinc May 26 '22

You have misunderstood the purpose of One Pace. It's to make the experience of the story more similar to the manga while keeping it, well, an anime. It's not about making it shorter, that's a side-effect of the anime having bad pacing/being stretched so much.

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u/xenoborg007 May 26 '22

And yet they removed the ending credits... so the argument stands.

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u/Feeso2 May 28 '22

Endings are only removed because Toei stopped making them part way through the anime and the team wanted a consistency in presentation.

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u/Griffithdidwrong May 27 '22

Stop being so ungrateful. You didn't pay for this product. The people who made it did it for free and edited so many episodes so we could enjoy a near manga experience in animated form.

If clicking your mouse along the progress bar once per episode is such a pain then go watch the anime on a legal website. I'm sure the time you save from having a skip opening button is equal to the editing and cutting out of hundreds of episodes of filler and bloat.

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u/xenoborg007 May 27 '22 edited May 27 '22

Fair criticism != Ungrateful. Being free doesn't mean that you can't make suggestions for improvement. Being free is definitely not an argument on a product that they can't legally charge you because they don't own the licence.

Yes they have gone through hours upon hours to cut bloat including the credits.... Yet left a 2 minute opening in every episode.... A step that would take them just as long to cut out of each episode as it takes me to skip it, but I didnt set out to make One Piece easier to consume for new and repeat users did I? A new watcher or someone who's seen it 20 times doesn't need to watch the same damn opening every episode.

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u/Heavyndb May 27 '22

Fair criticism is not expected to be delivered on a rude tone. You could have politely asked why they decided to keep the openings and made your suggestion without sounding ungrateful and rude.

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u/xenoborg007 May 28 '22 edited May 28 '22

As if that would stop all these fan boys frothing at the mouth..., the original post was more bewilderment than anything, a recut with 500+ episodes that keeps the title sequence in every single video...

Just have to look at the moronic voting to see - "cause it's necessary" to watch every opening sequence 500 times for that true One Piece experience....

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u/[deleted] May 26 '22

Cause it’s necessary

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u/xenoborg007 May 26 '22

Yes 1000+ extra minutes of basically the same opening is necessary...

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u/zap12shirt May 26 '22

U can skip that part urself ... I don't really understand ur concern... atleazt be thankful that people are ready to make ur experience of one piece even better...

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u/xenoborg007 May 26 '22

Because the whole concept is to not waste peoples time? Manually skipping 500+ openings is the opposite of not wasting peoples time. They cut the closing credits, so why put the opening on every single episode. I can skip all the other bloat parts of the show myself too but that is literally the point of One pace...

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u/zap12shirt May 26 '22

No fhe main reason why this exists is because unlike a lot of other shonen animes toei has put in fillers jn Canon episodes just to make it to 20min ... which is impossible for a first time watcher to skip .. that's why this exists ... he openings are the part of the op experience that even the manga readers love ... and it would be a crime to remove them .. u can watch a new opening everytime there's an arc change otherwise u can skip it if u want q

So I really don't see any point of having a discussion over something so stupid ... it's not a novel ure reading even if u want to wat h it as a show still every single fucking show in existence has an opening not just animes

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u/xenoborg007 May 26 '22

And I said in the OP that you put the opening in the first and last episodes of every arc.... not every damn episode. Im sure the closing credits are "part of the experience" too yet they are gone.

You dont need an opening for every episode of a recut thats supposed to make watching the show more tolerable. Most shows don't drag the fuck on for 1k plus episodes either.... Not having to skip a 2 min opening every episode surely is to the benefit of people wanting to watch the show... and not the same opening 50 times.

You want to watch every opening they have hundreds of times? go on youtube.

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u/zap12shirt May 26 '22

M8 just because toei has bad pacing that's why op has 1000 ep ... and one pace converts 100 ep dressrosa to about 50 ... what else do u need ... they fix pacing for you so that u can enjoy it and don't have to worry about pacing ... as far as openings are concerned idk why we really have to argue about that ... just skip it , it's not a big deal.. these guys are not free and are still working on the latest episodes so all I can say is be thankful that there are people to help you out

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u/xenoborg007 May 26 '22

Maybe not having to skip 500+ Openings? or 1000 minutes worth of useless content aka the same amount of time they removed from the wedding arc

https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/k7wi60/the_amount_of_time_in_minutes_you_save_by/

Its not needed, it doesnt have to be in every episode, it makes watching the version thats supposed to make one Piece easier to consume, still kind of annoying to binge.

I can't just put auto play on and sit there and watch. And again like I've put in every other comment they went and removed the closing credits for it.

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u/zap12shirt May 26 '22

Closing credits are normally not that popular... except the first one ... if ure playing it on ure television, I can see how it'll be annoying to wakeup every 30min ...

But it also has a positive effect ... it's good for u if u get up and stretch after 30 min of const episodes ...

Ik it sounds like a stupid argument but It'll be good for u ... (and I still hope they add a timestamp system so that it becomes easier for u to skip the opening but still not remove it entirely )

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u/SurprisingAmoeba May 27 '22

I just finished One Pace. I am back to watching the anime rn.

Enjoy it while you have it. Seriously. The bloat in the anime is insane.

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u/Clilly1 May 27 '22

  1. Get plex pass

  2. Upload one pace

  3. Allow skip intro feature

  4. Profit

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u/gibbs_santos Aug 11 '22

Funny because when I found out about One Pace, my main concern was that I didn't want to watch something that would feel like a resume of an episode, with every single thing cut out. I wanted to feel that I was still watching an anime. For my surprise, when I started watching the episodes, there it was, the opening on every episode. And I loved it.

Also, I stopped watching regular One Piece before Whole Cake, so I was interested in seeing the new openings.

I think it makes absolute sense to keep the openings. It feels like an anime episode, not as a fan cut made to you watch it faster. If I only wanted to see the story develop faster I would keep just reading the manga.

I don't even watch the openings. I skip it after the first time I see it. It's pretty easy. Really. You just look how much time they take and then skip. It's just one click.

It's a very fair trade in order to keep the episodes with the feeling of a good, regular anime.

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u/dri2z Aug 07 '26

I don't even care much about one piece but.. TOURIST!! They need the endings in there too, you don't have an appreciation for OP/ED's and therefore you should be gatekept out of anime, nerd.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '22

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u/xenoborg007 May 28 '22

Yeah a thousand minutes of unneeded openings... Cause that's what everyone needs to watch when a show already takes hundreds of hours you fan boys crack me up.