Just checked my MAL stats and saw something wild

I was looking at my MyAnimeList profile yesterday and noticed I've completed 437 episodes of One Piece without ever actually watching the full first arc. I skipped around for years just picking random fights and arcs. Has anyone else's watch history turned out way weirder than they thought?

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mila3954d ago

437 episodes is actually a weird number since One Piece only had around 430 something episodes total by the time most streaming services carried it. You might be mixing up your numbers or counting filler arcs twice. But yeah, skipping around in One Piece is honestly super common because the early pacing is brutal. I remember jumping from Arlong Park straight to Enies Lobby once and being so confused about who Robin was. The real trick is figuring out which arcs actually matter for the main plot versus which ones are just long boat rides.

henry_martin564d ago

Honestly gotta push back on that a bit. 430 something episodes is way off, by the time streaming really picked up on like Crunchyroll and Funimation, One Piece was well past 500 episodes. It hit 500 around 2011 or so. And skipping from Arlong Park straight to Enies Lobby is a wild move, you missed like two hundred episodes of buildup for Robin and the whole CP9 thing. Better to just watch the important arcs in order, maybe skip the filler like the Warship Island or the Foxy stuff, but jumping ahead like that just kills the emotional payoff. Long boat rides are part of the charm too, lets the characters breathe before the next big fight.