Can someone explain to me the appeal of One Piece? How is it this popular?

Can someone explain to me the appeal of One Piece? How is it this popular?

I enjoy battle shonen and decided to give it a try but ended up dropping it after 200 chapters. It's boring, extremely drawn-out and repetitive, every arc I read had the same recycled plot. The fights are bad, there's ridiculous amount of plot armor and gag tier asspulls and they involved no strategy at all. And last but not least the art is just... Terrible, probably the worst designs I've ever seen in manga. It's just too childish.

How come so many people enjoy it and say it's literally the best thing ever? I'm not even hard to please but I hated my experience with this series.

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and I hated my expetience with FMA

One Piece gets good 400 chapters in at shabody.

Guess you just hate fun

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Don't forget the author's inability to show emotions

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>shitpost thread got deleted
>"better make another one"
Just post in the OP general if you're that obsessed with it.

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Oda is the absolute best at showing emotion. Maybe try posting a page where a character is actually supposed to be showing an emotion instead of passing out.

Cope. Not the OP. many people are just aware of oda's failings

>Oda is the absolute best at showing emotion. Maybe try posting a page where a character is actually supposed to be showing an emotion instead of passing out.

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I'm gonna try to ignore things like art since thats objective.

Cons:
>picks up a little later (best early on arc starts around chapter 40, doesn't mean the content before sucks)
>long length making it harder to catch up fast
>two big arcs stretch too long (namely, dressrosa and wci)
>shit anime (anime is actually great for upto the halfway point, after that the art drops and pacing goes to hell, the ost/va/etc is great though)
>oda takes a 1 week break every 4 chapters (4 weeks)
>female designs

Pros
>terrific worldbuilding
>usually long arcs (most arcs aren't long in a bad way, they thoroughly explore the contents of the villain, islands, etc)
>character designs
>SBS
>takes on big issues like racism
>master storytelling and adventure
>immense foreshadowing, some of them date back hundreds of chapters
>backstories are often complex and well thought out
>no overpowered as hell thus leading to bs power ups characters
>minor characters appear in their own cover story and are never forgotten, even if they are in no way related to the current plot
>characters remain relevant despite being a decade old
>etc

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holy mother of shitty ass mangaka

that's not an edit.

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And what failing is that? do you unironically think Oda isn't good at showing emotions? when he's made some of the most emotional moments is shounen

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Based page.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

That's a really nice contrast between Luffy's exaggerated screaming face and Sanji's reserved emotion.

I wonder what brought these 12 yo olds to seethe and shitpost over OP recently? Is it because KNY ended?

Luffy is literally made of rubber. Find a scan of the whole page so you can see how kino some of the emotional faces are.

Tl;DR you literally can't use the one character made of rubber as a benchmark for realistic expression

Many people are also aware that the OP is copypasta.

>proves his point by posting a picture that expresses the emotion the character portrays accurately

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I think so. Every day after KnY ended when I search "One Piece" in the catalog, a retarded "criticism" thread is also up. Literally every day. Someone is dedicated to talking about it without being in the actual generals, probably because they want non-OP fans to shitpost along with them.

I would add that oda hates killing characters,even when it would add a lot of weight on some parts of the story.

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Because it's fun unlike most manga

It gets good at arlong park

Unironically can't think of a more soulless joyless and emotionles manga than bleach. Kubo gave 0 fucks throughout

Arlong is too retarded to enjoy

Did someone manage to cap that hunterfag's one piece rant from a recent thread that had like 30 (you)s?

Holy shit I thought it was a wojak edit.

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it's probably in the archive

Hunterfag's really got btfo in that thread.