I can’t tolerate anime noises for hours. Put the entire game in the trash. *gaham*
I get it. Anime noises killed my interest in the Final Fantasy 7 remakes.
<Insert Anime here> is really good. You just need to cut away <roughly 75% of it>.
Ain’t that the truth. There used to be a shortened version of Naruto on utube that was like a third the length of the full versions, with out lose of any content.
There’s a fan project recutting One Piece like that, and Dragon Ball Z Kai was an official series.
I think anime has switched almost entirely to a seasonal format for related reasons. Filler just doesn’t serve a purpose if you don’t need to regularly fill a time slot on a live channel.
Bad TV apologia is a sure sign I won’t vibe with someone
You just need to cut away <roughly 75% of it>.
Hey now, there’s no need to bring Farscape into this. (I’m joking. But Farscape was famously adapted into a very watchable re-cut that throws out a great deal of the original film.)
You take that back!
I never knew about the recut, but presumably it gets rid of a lot of the monster-of-the-week content?
I don’t think any of that was actually bad. It didn’t move the overarching plot along all the time, but that wasn’t the point.
You take that back!
I know, right? Sacrilege! Haha.
I never knew about the recut, but presumably it gets rid of a lot of the monster-of-the-week content?
When I watched it, I couldn’t really tell what was missing.
It did flow more smoothly than the original cut, but that’s probably mostly just thanks to not having to hit an exact target length in minutes.
I suspect that much of the cut content was the puppet character establishing side story bits and short side story vignettes. (Which I adore. But I didn’t notice them missing. Of course, that might be only because I’ve already seen them.)
I don’t think any of that was actually bad. It didn’t move the overarching plot along all the time, but that wasn’t the point.
I agree. The cut version is genuinely surprisingly great, but I think that’s mostly due to how great Farscape is, in general.
I actually prefer the fulll version.
The Farscape re-cut wasn’t so much necessary, as an impressive feat of thoughtful editing.
Do you know about how much it cut out?
sometimes i watch with 4x speed. most times 1.25 or 1.5. they really like to stretch some things out. “go parn. save deedlit. i’ll deal with it.” “are you sure?” “go parn.” “are you sure?” “go parn.” “are you really, really sure?” get in the fucking robot. shinji
Wat? FF14 is good like immediately.
ive heard them tell me it gets good after 100 or so episodes. and there is a lot of filler you gotta skip in between.
then, the 1000+ episode series gets good lol
I agree with this statement, I dropped it for 6 or 7 months during the alabasta arc cause I just couldn’t binge it further, but once that arc is done, is slowly starts picking up the pacing and is really good
ARR has huge pacing issues and a lot of stuff that just isn’t that great. However, it’s basically essential for the later on stuff and can’t really be trimmed down that well without losing a lot of stuff. It does get good though :/
And then turns to garbage at the 400 hour mark. Dawntrail actually made me quit due to some of the worst writing I have ever had the misfortune of experiencing in a game. Serious whiplash coming off the fourth expansion.
It was a pretty rough start for the new arc admittedly. The actual expac MSQ itself was decent, beyond love all the FF9 stuff
: : :spoiler Especially since it’s essentially FF9 2, being set in the same world just many years in the future : : :
but the patches have left me so disinterested I haven’t been on to do them for the last two or three at least
I didn’t actually finish the 7.0 MSQ (I quit shortly after the awful “western” storyline), but the actual writing was painfully bad at every point leading up to that. For example, the way we know Wuk Lamat has grown as a person is because they say “Wuk Lamat has really grown through this adventure”. Most characters appear to have the motivation of dong things because the plot needs it to happen.
Finally, the prior expansions had strong themes, from Heavensword’s take on cyclical violence, SB talking about oppression and so on. Dawntrail doesn’t seem to have anything to say (or maybe it’s all at the end, idk). It was just really disappointing and I just couldn’t deal with it. It’s like it was written for children except it deals with dark themes. Like the worst of the YA section.
By contrast, I was a blubbering mess at points in ShB and EW. Especially the 5.3 stuff, holy shit.
Yeah it’s definitely the weakest point of the story, I agree with you there. It wasn’t IRREDEEMABLE though. I’d say it’s worth going back to finish. I mean I didn’t expect it to be EW quality since that was the climax of EVERYTHING and this is just the introduction to a new thing. But it very definitely could have been done better. For what it’s worth, if it wasn’t immediately obvious, it’s based off of the Americas, so the southern half is Brazil and such, and then they had the wild cowboy shit as soon as you cross the border into the north. Made me laugh, not gonna lie. Keep playing, it does get a lot better, I promise you that. ESPECIALLY if you have played FF9
Parks and Rec. The entire first season is trash. No idea how they were able to turn it around to abruptly.
You can pretty safely ignore that first season, though.
No different from “it gets better after 35 episodes”
Not really. For most series, you miss important characterization, backstory and story elements if you skip ahead that much. For Parks & Recs, the first season doesn’t matter at all.
“it gets better after 35 episodes” generally implies that you have to actually sit through those episodes, or at least read summaries of them.
I could start watching Friends in the last season and not have missed a single thing.
Friends episodes are very self-contained anyway. There is very little context that can actually be missed if you skip forward. You can pretty much watch whatever amount of Friends episodes starting from whatever episode you want.
One Piece has a 25-episode fight at one point. Here’s a short list of anime shorter or the same length as this one fight:
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The first season of FLCL (6 Episodes)
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Hellsing (13 Episodes or 10 double-feature Ultimate episodes)
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No Game No Life (12 Episodes)
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Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (24 Episodes)
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The first season of Re:Zero (14-22 Episodes depending on cut)
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Devilman: Crybaby (10 Episodes)
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica (12 Episodes)
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Bokurano (24 Episodes)
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Berserk (25 Episodes for the OLM show, 13 Episodes for Studio 4°C, 24 Episodes for 2016)
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Kill la Kill (24 Episodes)
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Ergo Proxy (23 Episodes)
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The first season of Psycho-Pass (22 Episodes)
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The first season of Assassination Classroom (22 Episodes)
This is my biggest issue with One Piece, or any form of extended media like this. It’s not that I won’t like it, but how much unique media am I giving up to watch it? It’s the same vibe I got when I was really into an MMO. Love the game, one of my favorites of all time even. But I’m much happier broadening my horizons and playing a unique experience every month or so opposed to the same game for a year straight.
One Piece is best enjoyed as a manga. Reading it goes much faster and loses a bit of the anime character tropes.
I never watched one Piece but there’s no way you need over a thousand episodes for whatever story they are trying to tell. I can’t wrap my head around that.
It’s cause they’re turning 16 page chapters of manga into full episodes. If you made a succinct version, you could probably tell the whole story so far in 200 episodes. Much smaller than that and you’d really start cutting into the story being told.
Wasn’t there a project aiming to recreate the anime but without any filler?
One Pace, yes. It’s the only way I’ve consumed the anime. It’s good but occasionally the site goes down. Also it is not up to date with the current stuff because it can’t be, it’s all volunteer.
nyaa, if only there was some way to grab it without the site being up. Si, that would be very nice indeed.
Or what I guess I’m trying to tell you is that you can download it from nyaa.si
One Piece but it’s made by 5secondfilms
After a while you need to stop caring about the overall plot (which is pretty interesting on its own, but that is like drip fed to you) and start enjoying the arcs individually. Usually the structure is that they get to a new island, get to know the inhabitants and their culture and individual characters, the crew finds a mystery, problem or conspiracy, and they help the inhabitants. Quite often there are also multi-island plots that tie up all the plots of each individual island.
Admittedly the solution is always inevitably “Luffy punches the bad guy really hard in the face” while the rest of the characters are usually busy punching the bad guy’s underlings, but since you end up liking both the main characters and the characters they meet in each island (and the relatively rare but much beloved recurring characters), you don’t mind it as much.
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Kinda late to this thread, but OP is pretty decent for the first 300 episodes, of which I recommend you watch One Pace or read the Manga instead due to Funimation’s absolute shit tier pacing and literal stall frame timing. Seriously you will waste a solid 1/3rd of the time on filler frames and static scenes because they want to make more episodes.
The writing itself is actually pretty smooth, and the filler content (not animation) actually fits so well you probably won’t even notice its filler, because it really adds to the world building and story (and afaik is actually written by the manga author).
Everything after than, just disregard it as a Shonen franchising product designed to make money, like Pokemon.
One Piece abbreviated as OP is confusing the hell out of my social media brain.
You’re not wrong about OP but also the rewatchability isn’t great. The power creep for one piece is ridiculous and the early episodes are kind of boring when compared to later episodes that aren’t filler.
🐒 The One Piece is REAL! ⚓
All episodes up to Episode 37 showcases well of what the entire series is all about.
If you are not into it by 37 episodes in, I don’t think One Piece is for you.
I’ve also seen one too many haters turn their tune by then.
I no longer watch the series at release, instead I watch with other reactors that I feel like calling my Nakama.
🥹 Beware: prepare to cry & bring a towel to catch those tears. This series can & will draw raw emotion out of you.
#onepieceIdk about everyone else but One Piece is literally our comfort show (watched all all of it- we think 6 times by now) and we’re rewatching again atm via the One Pace edit and even started reading the manga aswell (in Spanish as we’re learning Spanish rn).
So far in One Pace a lot of small details are removed which we personally dislike, but the overall concessions and it being a faster pace edit it’s pretty good ngl. If your looking for a good run through of the anime, the One Pace gets the job done.
Yeah, Heavensward and Shadowbringers are undoubtedly the best bits. Endwalker isn’t far behind.
But then MMOs aren’t typically played for the story anyway.
I remember buying Final Fantasy XIV on Steam some years ago, and something about doing that made it so I completely missed out on the free trial. So now I’m not sure if I want to try to disassociate my Steam account from my Squeenix account and make a new one for the latter and see if that gives me access to the free version; or wait until I’m either comfortable paying the subscription or if a private server gets off the ground.
Final Fantasy XI private servers are alive and well in the meantime, and that’s a game I still need to experience as well. Also PSO Blue Burst.
The FFXIV free trial let’s you play like the first 3 expansions (heavensward, stormblood, shadowbringers) without paying a dime and with no time limit (there are some limitations like how much in game currency you can amass and who you can private message). The downside is that if you buy the game you don’t qualify for the free trial anymore.
Sadly the Steam version can’t be disassociated from your account so you’re screwed there. But if you really wanna try out the game then just make a new trial account, you just need an email address for it and that’s it. Just make sure you don’t buy the game on that account as that will void the free trial and ask you for a sub.
The free trial is worth it for the content it provides with such little commitment.
Edit: I forgot to say that the free trial gets updated so they add in a new expansion to it whenever they release the newest one. So for example when they release the expansion after Dawntrail the free trial will be updated to contain the first 4 expansions (heavensward, stormblood, shadowbringers and endwalker).
Depends on the individual. I found the game to be deeply moving even in the earliest stages. Though the Limsa and Ul’dah night themes could make passing a tapeworm into a bucket feel moving.
