When you guys honestly drop One Piece. Me when the fishman island arc

>wan piss

I drop One Piece every chapter.

Warm piss

How does that work?

Huge One Piece fan. Thriller Bark was the first arc I really didn't like- though even that there were still plenty of parts I liked.

Then Marineford happened which I enjoyed.

But it feels like everything has been shit since then. I still read it, hoping I'll feel the love I used to have for the series. I still re-read the earlier parts of the series pretty frequently.

Enies Lobby was incredible but its where the series peaked, imho.

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When he's done reading it, he goes do something else.

based, what's your least favorite post-ts arc? I stopped at Dressrosa, so I have no context for the later arcs, but your tastes seem to match mine for the most part.

>read a chapter
>drop it
>read next chapter
>drop it
>read next chapter
>drop it
>read next chapter
>drop it
>900 chapters later
The true "I dropped One Piece" experience.

This. Just so many characters and it's all just a big mess.

Dressrosa's main sins are being way too long, overloaded with side characters, and recycling a lot of the themes from Alabasta but I don't hate it.

I've seen people on here praising WCI but I don't know why- a big part of it felt completely unnecessary to the overall story and I hated only having a section of the crew present (also a complaint I had with the end of Dressrosa).

Fishman Island is maybe the worst, though. I just can't think about it without remembering the shitty, sloppy, racism metaphor stories that felt like the least subtle writing Oda has ever done.

Feels bad, man. I feel like everything post timeskip has just been drawn out so that One Piece can be milked as a money making franchise and go on way longer than it needs to. I'm hoping the close of the series will still be based.... Though, on the other hand, I'll be so sad when it ends even if I haven't been enjoying it as much as I used to....

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I guess possibly what people liked about WCI is that pre-timeskip felt like it was mostly about establishing the crew and showing their growth and bond among each other.

Post timeskip the story's aims have definitely shifted and its much less about the crew and more about the grander OP world and the powers that hold control in it.

WCI is the only arc we've had that's been focused on a crew member's backstory and relationship with the crew.

But that being said, I sort of felt like it was unnecessary to have this much backstory for Sanji and it felt like a bitch move for him to abandon the crew and fight Luffy when he's already gone this far with him and seen other crew members leave and come back under similar circumstances. I just felt like a lot of it was an unnecessary detour and wanted the crew to be back together again.

Dressrosa

I didn't read WCI, but from the very little I heard about it, it gives me dark flashbacks (no pun intended) to the Luffy flashback in between the timeskip introducing Sabo and shit, which I thought was unnecessary and felt like a retcon (Even if it technically probably wasn't, since I don't think it actually had any contradictory stuff in it, but I also just hate how Sabo felt like "Ace 2.0: A revolutionary this time, since I don't actually want to kill anyone" by the time Dressrosa was over). I believe I read Sanji gets something like that too.

EXACTLY how I felt.

I read somewhere that allegedly Oda had intended all along to kill off Ace as soon as he introduced him but with the late in the game introduction of Sabo complete with convenient memory loss and then Sabo EATING THE SAME FRUIT AS ACE.... Just felt like he killed off Ace and then immediately replaced him with Ace 2.0.

That was way before I was feeling real disillusionment about One Piece but even then I read the entire Luffy flashback thinking "seriously...?"

Crazy to me that nu OP fans seem to love Sabo

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Curious about this too.
Does sanji get a new pseudo-retcon backstory and is it like the sabo shit?

It doesn't feel as much of a retcon to me. There'd always been some very minor hints that we might get more Sanji backstory but to me... I actually liked Sanji less after we got through his new backstory.

I don't like that he's an ACTUAL prince I always thought it was cooler of him to just be some tough restaurant punk who wants to be princely.

It doesn't even make sense that he would go around calling himself Mr.Prince when according to WCI he hates his family and 'renounces' his royalty so it feels inconsistent.

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>he's an ACTUAL prince
Fucking hell

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to clarify, it didn't feel like a 'retcon' but it felt like it was unnecessary. Like maybe Oda had always had some of the parts from it (like Sanji's relationship to his mother) in his notes about Sanji and his characterization but then ended up making a whole entire arc about it and adding brother characters and all this shit to make it a complete story arc and use it as a way of bringing in Big Mom.

We really didn't need to know that much about sanji, he was more compelling when he was a nobody in my opinion.

Already anticipating the back story we'll get on Zoro being a secret son of a famous samurai in Wano and Nami having been adopted from a war torn country where she's actually a chosen one goddess with hidden magic powers. It just felt like that and it felt like it cheapened a character we all already know and love.

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Thanks for the insight. Seems like Post-TS One Piece still suffers from the same things that made me drop it.

I genuinely would love to know what happened to Oda and what exactly, or who, I have to blame. The Oda #1 #2 shit is obviously just a silly meme, but man, it almost really feels like its a different author

About a dozen chapters in. The art is horrid, cheaply done, and the story is just generic shonenshit.