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I finally caught up on One Piece after 3 years of watching
Started the Fishman Island arc back in 2021 and it took me until last night to finish through Wano. The animation quality jump between those arcs is honestly wild, like completely different studios worked on them. Does anyone else feel like the pacing got way better around the Whole Cake arc or was that just me?
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danielhenderson22d ago
Wait, is the animation jump really that big of a deal? I feel like people just get hyped because Wano is flashy, but Fishman Island had its own style that worked fine for the story they were telling. @hayden709 brings up a good point about Dressrosa dragging, but Whole Cake had some slow spots too if you really sit through it. Honestly, it's all the same show with a bigger budget by the end, not some totally different series.
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hayden70924d ago
Three years? Man, I thought my pace was slow but you really took your time with it. That Fishman Island to Wano jump is no joke though, the animation in Wano is almost too clean compared to the older stuff. The pacing shift you noticed around Whole Cake is real too, it felt like the story finally started moving at a steady clip after some of those earlier arcs dragged. I still think the Dressrosa arc could have been trimmed down by like 20 episodes and nobody would have complained.
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jordan_young24d ago
Oh man, I feel you completely! I started around the same time and it took me even longer because I kept taking breaks during Dressrosa. The animation jump from Fishman Island to Wano is like night and day, and I agree about Whole Cake - that's when I felt like the show finally found its groove. Everything just clicked into place around then.
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