When did you start losing interest in One Piece?

>Now that we have the battle, finally, it still feels slow paced and borin
Oda is literally rushing this arc if anything, retard

timeskip/FI
One Piece has threat escalation problems. After introducing CP9 as the government's elite forces, Oda had to introduce CP0 to keep the government a threat. Instead of dividing the NW into Shanks-Whitebeard territory, he had to introduce Kaido and Big Mom so there would still be a major pirate threat that wasn't Blackbeard.
Once you've trampled the impregnable prison, snuck into the Marine capital twice, fought equally with Vice Admirals an other pirate top tiers, the manga starts to feel filler when Luffy either isn't facing the next weight class up or steamrolling enemies.
So in this respect, FI and Punk Hazard were a colossal waste of time. Doflamingo you could get away with as the strongest Shichibukai surpassing a Marine Admiral. But WCI was also a waste of time and Wano introduced the retarded prophecy that removed all tension or stakes from the confrontation.
Add to this that the new arcs follow similar plot schemes to older ones, and One Piece feels stagnant, like Bleach after Soul Society or Naruto before the Shinobi War.

What exactly is 'rushed' about this arc you unbelievable moron? It's has been going on for 2 years and we're not even close of reaching the conclusion

>everything before [when i got tired of the manga] is good
>everything after [when i got tired of the manga] is bad
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Everything past the timeskip is terrible and even before the timeskip things started going downhill.
The absolute fucking meme of the marines being pure evil but apparently being on the side of 'justice' is just too fucking much. you can count the amount marines that are even passable human beings on one hand. Akainu is one of the shittiest anime villains ever.

I agree with this user. Also, why is it that you are more likely to find genuine criticism outside of the general?

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I just started and am enjoying it, they just got done with Arlong Park. I keep hearing from long time fans that it only gets worse? Should I just stop before I’m too deep in?

After the timeskip.
I mostly agree with , but also what I loved about One Piece was the adventure/exploration side, the sense of wonder it made you feel as it showed you different aspects of its world and its vastness as the Straw Hats got to a new island and explored it. Skypea was probably the best arc for this, as it showed you an entire culture and history of a place in the world as the Straw Hats got more involved with its current events - I wish it lingered more in that instead of them going immediately to the Upper Yard trials.

Also after the timeskip there's been a big power creep issue, before the fights were mostly situational with people using their powers, now everything's about Haki and who has the biggest and longest Haki, it's kinda boring that the Devil Fruits and special powers don't really matter much anymore and they're just flavor.

After they reached the grand line and fucking nothing happened.

Been reading sicne 2003.

I liked Water 7 but it didn't end like I hoped.
Like many people reading it weekly, I thought Usopp was going to upset the formula and become a top-tier, since Yasopp is in Shanks' inner circle of strength. Having Usopp shooting a flag as his 'step forward' cucked the fans and allowed Oda to keep Usopp as a gag/joke character, which is retarded considering Sanji and Zoro have similar fights and interactions with the opponent.
I also, legit, thought Robin would fall in love with Luffy after W7 ended. Robin-Luffy had a personal connection since Alabasta that wasn't shared with the others. Namely, the others never fully trusted her while Robin healed Luffy with the antidote to Croc's poison. Robin's development never reached a natural conclusion to me.
Naturally, I found Hancock offensive. She had a very similar tragic backstory to Robin, similar age, some physical similarities to her but was more overtly sexualized and became a gag character. Luffy did less for Hancock than he did for Robin. Hancock felt introduced as a disconnected love interest that could be splashed in at any time (just like Pudding).
So I guess I'm saying I agree. Water 7 was the best arc in One Piece but it also fell short, and was really the beginning of the end.

When Oda keeps wanking his golden boy zolo and always embarrass the main character Luffy and always made him look like a weakling

>now everything's about Haki and who has the biggest and longest Haki, it's kinda boring that the Devil Fruits and special powers don't really matter much anymore and they're just flavor.
Haoshoku is also retarded. It's supposed to be the rarest and most powerful Haki, yet it's the most situational and generally useless given the power level of the NW.

Dressrosa.

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Every time when I reach ongoing chapters. I catched up with Totland and Wano few weeks ago after long break and it's really good. Battle with Katakuri - best fight after time-skip and Wano to this moment probably best time-skip arc.

Yeah. Oda did a poor job introducing Haki.
I understand that you need something to keep DFs in check otherwise people with OP power like Law, Kuma, Boa would unstoppable.

>Battle with Katakuri - best fight after time-skip and Wano to this moment probably best time-skip arc.
Katakuri fight was shit and so is Wano

Honestly, it would be better if they were unstoppable but they somehow could be beaten if they get outsmarted, by chance, or because of some carefully crafted plan with teamwork (teamwork which I really haven't seen in One Piece in so much, maybe before the timeskip?)
Jojo does this in a very entertaining way, if there's a broken power it just finds a way to beat it that doesn't involve leveling everyone out with some shared secondary power - inb4 asspulls, Jojo sucks and whatever, I'm not arguing about the quality of the fights, but rather the methodology

That's how you feel it when you read it in ongoing. I dropped Totland because it was shit, but when you read it when arc is finished it feels completely different

I don't think post-TS will ever be good until we get to Blackbeard, but even with Blackbeard I think Luffy doesn't have enough reason to hate him yet.
He knows that Blackbeard was complicit in Ace's capture but he wasn't directly responsible for Ace's death. Blackbeard would need to kill Shanks in front of Luffy to make the final showdown at Laughtale truly personal.

one piece has been about asspulls since Alabasta. Remember when Zoro could hear the "breath of all things" and that allowed him to cut steel, but not Bushoku-enhanced weapons or bodies?
Haki seemed like an evolution of Rokushiki, Mantra and "Bloodlust" you usually see in manga but it was only retroactively applied to Mantra. Had Bushoku been retroactively used to describe Tekkai, Shigan and Zoro's breath hearing, I might have accepted it more and it would have smoothed over the CP0-CP9 retcon.