You must hate the Skypia arc then.


Anyway, it's hard to believe that it's been like 3 years since I started downloading Fansubs. I started with Naruto because people on an EQ forum I frequent were raving about it. But also, I occasionally heard people talk about One Piece.

At first I didn't care for it. As has been mentioned, the animation is really...wierd. And I have at least one friend who won't watch the show because he can't get past it. It also seems a little childish at first. But the more you watch it, the more it grows on you. Even though it's still childish alot of the time, there periods of real seriousness, and that way it incorperates both is part of why it's so impressive.

And of course, it's very unique. That's the main reason I watch it. It's unique in the way Miyazaki movies are. There's alot that is just so out there. And it always catches you off guard.



Plus, it's got some of the least crappy fillers of any anime. It's got plenty of them, sure, but some of them are actually good. I've heard from several people that the G8 filler arc(not subbed by KF yet) is just as good as any real anime arc. And part of that is because of one thing, time. Rather than hotshotting a bunch of 2-3 episode arcs, they actually make full story arcs. It's amazing how much just giving a story time to develop improves filler. Like the Apis arc. Rather than being a real piece of shit, because it's given time, it comes off as simply a slightly dull story arc.


So now, I'm at this point now where, One Piece is my favorite download. Sure, I still love the parts of Naruto that aren't filler, and I always will. But taken as a whole, One Piece is better to me now than Naruto.