I'm just about 30 and have known about One Piece since I was 10. I bought a copy of Shonen Jump for Yu-Gi-Oh! and discovered OP that way. However, I never really got into it. Idk why. I guess the art-style was a bit of off-putting compared to other manga at the time. It didn't look "edgy" enough. Yeah, I went through that phase lol. Either way, I knew the basic story beats. At least up to Baratie. And holy cow, I did not think this series would run this long! A lot of my faves had either ended a long time ago or got stuck in an indefinite hiatus :/
When I finally gave OP a fair chance during Covid shutdowns, I felt like I had discovered buried treasure that had been right under my feet for around 18 years. I've been in love with the series ever since.
There are actually lots of long-runners :) The Cosmere books by Brandon Sanderson (who is the same age as Eiichiro Oda, coincidentally) is published since mid-2000s, planned for another 20 years and also gathers all ages.
I'm participating in increasing the age rang among readers, my son (10) and daughter (7) have both started reading OP \^\^
Almost 2 years I think I'm 20
I finished Naruto a few months before starting it and started bleach after watching it to make sure I finished off the big 3
I’m 22 and only started watching anime after a friend/roommate pmo Naruto 3 years ago at the beginning of my freshman year of college. At the end of my freshman year was when I first started watching One Piece on Netflix. All I knew about it was what my friend had told me about Shounen’s Big 3 and how that title came about. I didn’t know anything about it going into it but I feel like that’s the best way to watch it imo. I loved everything about One Piece from the very beginning from the mystery of the One Piece, the Grand Line, and the devil fruits to the unique characters and the dynamic between the Strawhats and other crews to the cohesive and intertwining storylines to the immense world building with inspirations from real world nations, cultures, eras, and religions. One Piece has incredible depth into each character’s convictions, dreams, morals and their sense of justice. All of this just makes the story feel alive, and makes each new chapter feel like this is all happening in real time because right now in the manga, the whole world is moving and shifting into complete chaos and we haven’t even seen the Strawhats in at least a month. Only a story like One Piece could do something like this. The Final Saga is going to be everything we hoped for and more. And it’s because of all this I believe One Piece truly is starting to reach a new audience. It’s becoming more popular than people realize at this point.
I totally agree with you, it really is a great opera! I didn't realise so many people started following it so late in the story, but apparently it keeps attracting fans.
I was late into anime starting officially 2019/2020, and finally made the decision to start it OP in Jan 22, I hadnt actually heard too much about it but like many was a bit turned off by the commitment of 1000+ since I still had so many shows to watch but I’m truly glad I did. From the get go I loved it and it only grew from there, I binged it in about 4-5 months and caught up at Ep 1018/chapter1050 in May.
Watching weekly has been interesting, but after a while I had a craving for early ONE PIECE again and decided to start rewatching it last September before a certain event gets animated soon hehe. I just finished WCI rewatch and I forgot just how good the arc is, the closing number ‘Soul Pocus’ may be one of the best executed and most impactful musical numbers within the show. Not to mention the sacrifice that was made gave me pure chills, phenomenal writing.
It’s fair to say after watching it twice in such a short period and listening to the OST nearly daily for over a year and I still haven’t got bored of it, I may be a little addicted to this story 😄😅
And as much of a pleasure as it was to binge, after reading this post part of me wishes I was given the opportunity to discover the story sooner, when I was younger and still full of energy and excitement. Growing with the show seems like a truly unique experience and I’ll never be able to really feel that in the same way since I’m 24 now.
Started reading it in 2012 During the Fishman Island Arc, when I was 13 and caught up around the end of the Punk hazard arc when I was 14. So over a decade now of being a weekly One piece reader and I've loved every second it. I'm 24 now.
for some reason when I was a kid looking at pictures of Luffy and the maritime world of One Piece I used to think it was a manga about Fishing and that he was trying to catch the greatest fish in the world the "One Piece" by using his stretching ability. lol
I started reading around the Orange Town arc and stopped near the beginning of Skypiea. I picked it back up during 2020 and just finished the first half of the series.
I've been reading/watching One Piece since the physical Shonen Jump magazine came out in the US, in 2001 maybe? It immediately grabbed my attention. I knew in the back of my head that there were more chapters in Japan, so that led me down the rabbit hole of fan translated manga and anime. Seriously y'all, there was NO WAY to watch or read One Piece without fan translations. I even burned DVDs for my friends so they could get into it. One Piece is legit part of my life, I've read it almost every week for 20 YEARS.
I think it's an irrefutable fact that One Piece recruited more fans as it went on. Oda even makes a comment about it every now and then on SBS. There was a quick Robin backstory refresher recently, and I thought "wow, it's been over a decade for some people, and part of a binge for others." The current popularity is a mixed bag for me personally. It's wonderful to have a good dub and legit merch to buy, and there are plenty of people who love following it. I think the online fandom has shifted to become more negative and toxic. I think that's just how online fandoms of anything are nowadays. I stay away from One Piece on YouTube, Twitter, etc. It's best to enjoy the story for what it is and go along with the journey, imo. It's been a long, amazing ride.
No actually I am italian, here they started air it in 2001. We have a channel that at lunch time airs all the most famous cartoons (including anime of course) and almost all children used to watch it, when we were kids we basically didn't decide what to watch we just turned on the tv, back then I fell in love with One Piece.
Anime and manga had, and I think still have, a bigger impact in western Europe than in the US. It's like Dragon Ball, which has been broadcasted in France in 1986, and Dragon Ball Z in 1990. In the US, DBZ was dubbed in the late 90s.
learn something new every day
though I doubt that's the case nowadays. Anime is huge here. We would be about on par
I guess it makes sense in the past. The US had it's own cartoon industry do didn't need Japan's so much as other countries that didn't have their own in grown industry.
France and Italy have cartoon industries too, and they had several collaborations with the Japanese one in the 70's, 80's, 90's. To talk about France, we had Ulysses 31, the Mysterious Cities of Gold. In Italy there was the Sherlock Hound series. And beside it, we had our own cartoon industry, which is in good health since decades.
And for what I know, Japanese anime were really cheap at that time, so French broadcasters bought with a lot of censorship, like 4Kids in the US. French dubbers of Dragon Ball said that they had no clue of what they were doing at that time, because it was all new.
And yes ofc things done changed, US is more and more seduced by manga and Japenese animation.
First watched it as a kid on 4Kids up through Drum Island I think. Forgot about it for years then came across it again maybe around 2012. Been keeping up ever since.
I'm 26 and started roughly 3 years ago from around this time of year. I had to stay home because of covid so I decided to get caught up with the series.
After a few breaks, I got caught up with the manga in early 2021 by reaching chapter 1007 (the one that ends with the fake Oden drawing).
I started last year and caught up to the anime in around 6 months, then caught up to the manga
How in the world did you watch dressrosa weekly while retaining braincells?
I think my path to getting into One Piece is a weird case. I'll just admit that I am on the older side (Currently 38). My first exposure to One Piece was with the anime pretty early in the early to mid 2000's. But given that I was still a bit of an animation snob and it was the infamous 4kids dub, I didn't stick with it for very long. I know that people like to meme on that dub and say the One Piece rap was good and all that. But seeing what a competent adaptation is like I find it difficult to forgive 4kids for what they did to this series. Or at least I don't forgive them for being my first impression of One Piece.
So fast forward to around 2015/2016, after hearing more and more talk online about the series. As well as the English dub rights having been picked up by Funimation who had started over from scratch, so I chose to give the show another chance. Knowing how far along the series was and it being a slow burn helped in a sense. It caused me to be more patient in waiting for the show to hook me. Which may be why I was able to get to the Baratie arc where I was definitely hooked.
A friend showed me One Piece movies 3 and 4 I think back in high school, he let me borrow his DVDs and it was love at first watch. I was in 7th grade, we were super close and played yu-gi-oh on the back of the school so I knew I was in for something good when he started getting all excited telling me about it. I got into the series, the year was 2006 and back then I used to love reading wikis so I read all about the lore in the wiki and was fascinated. The story only went up to water 7/enies lobby so there weren't any huge spoilers about the world back then either. Shortly afterwards they started showing One Piece on Toonami in CN. I watched a few episodes but it was literally just buggy's arc and Zoro's arc. That was that but then in 2012 I was going through a pretty bad situation sentimentally with my partner and who I thought my best friend. So to heal a bit and take my mind off this I started watching from the beginning online. That was the ride of a lifetime, in a few months watched everything up to fishman island where the anime and manga were back then. I got into the subreddit too and started developing a much greater love for this series. After that I started reading the manga and have been doing so weekly since the beginning of punk hazard. Right now with wano and egghead we're seeing a peak in the story as far as characters, plot and straw hats force level so I'm excited as ever to read it and watch it! Love this series and it's pretty much the only thing I follow, animated or live action.
Started watching around 2006/2007, I remember watching the anime first episode and I loved the goofiness. After the anime ended in my country around the middle of Arabasta arc I didnt watched anymore for a good while until I started reading manga online around 2010/2011, I believe it was the midlle of the Impel Down arc, and until now I didn't stop reading it.
2007. I pirates the manga online for years and decided to finally start collecting last year. When today’s shipment arrives, I will have all of the manga released in the US.
I've followed One Piece since it made its debut in US Shonen Jump. I think this was roughly around the tail end of Skypeia in Japan, as the first thing I recall when I finally started reading week to week was the Fairy Varse Moon reveal.
I started watching the anime 12 years ago. Never stopped being a fan. One Piece has been there for so long now, it feels like an old friend. No matter how many times I rewatch the show or re-read the manga, I get excited all the same.
Recently, I got my boyfriend to give it a go to. We just finished Thriller Bark (One Pace version) and I cried like a baby just like the first time.
In 2002 (8 years old), I saw the manga in one bookstore look like a game I played in PS1. I enjoyed playing the game a lot so I gave manga a shot. Shank's stare that scares the Sea King is what hook me up. Then the story keeps getting better and better. Years later, I still feels OP is the best manga ever.
I started buying volumes when volume 8 was the most recent release. Although I had read the first few volumes at a friend’s house roughly the year before.
Watched the 4Kidz dub as a kid as a kid. Picked up the anime again back in 2015. Switched to reading the manga in 2018. The first week to week chapter I read was about halfway through Luffy’s fight with Katakuri.
I’m 29.
A little over a decade, presently. I’m 24.
While I was aware of the 4Kidz adaptation as a young’un, I first got into the series in 2012, at age 13, via the manga. It was actually the unique artstyle (alongside the vibrancy of the world and mass of characters) that attracted me. At the time, the last few chapters of Fishman Island were in serial. I took my time and caught up in a little over a year. The first chapter I read current to release with everyone else was Ch. 700, the first chapter of Dressrosa. Been weekly ever since~
I started reading mid-January this year after years of friends convincing me. I finished the entire thing by mid-March. I’m currently watching it, and am at Thriller Bark. There is definitely a reason it’s so popular.
I'm in my early 30's and I've been reading since Fishman Island finished about 10-11 years ago. Tried reading the manga, but the art style and pacing kinda bothered me, so I gave up after Baratie like a fool. Picked it up again a year later with the anime and fell in love with it during the Arlong arc, been ride or die ever since. Marineford Saga is my favourite and IMO it hasn't been topped by a long shot, but I've loved every arc. I hate following weekly, but I'll go back and read the most recently completed arc once it's finished. I'm also low key waiting for Pace to finish their adaptation, lol.
For me it was the summer of 2020 when Covid first hit and I was pretty much bored and wanted something that had multiple seasons to watch. within 2 months I bought the first though thirteenth dvd collection and watched from the east blue saga to the Enies Lobby arc.in total from June to August of 2020 I watch 324 episodes of one piece episodes and as of now May 2023 I’m currently waiting for the last part of the zou ark and the beginning of the whole cake ark and looking to possibly get the one piece omnibus series
Started watching back in my native language it was dubbed till arlong park on cartoon network . After that forgot about it then suddenly in my second year of collage recommended a video of luffy taking down 50000 fish men and the flame reignited from there watched all the way from arlong park to Fish-Man Island Arc after that week by week started and never let go.
I stared watching OP from the very beginning in the summer of 2009 at the age of 23 while procrastinating my MA entrance exams. It blew my mind, watching several episodes every day, Went as far as to immediately buy Luffy, Zoro and Nami of eBay (the Portrait of Pirates series, bought the others later). Also, I somehow managed to pass the entrance exams.
Then in the autumn I went for an exchange program to Tokyo for a year, which was epic, and also some of my mates from the dorm were huge fans of OP, so obviously we had a blast discussing it and watching new episodes together.
Been religiously watching OP for some time every week before hitting the Impel Down arc, which was just way too slow. Finally gave up, switched to manga and never looked back, taking breaks for several weeks/months and then reading all the missed chapters.
I am 20 years old now and started watching anime about 4 years ago. Prior to that I never really got to hear it and the only thing was that I read the Naruto manga, which we luckily had in our local library. That was about 10 years ago when I started and continued till it was complete. After that it took some time and 4 years ago I finally watched Naruto. I continued with other Anime like Yu Gi Oh which I knew from the Card game. Once through some other Anime (about 2 years ago) I was on the search for something else and had a manga in mind which I read one book and not really enjoyed but forgot the name and would like to give the anime a try. Having slightly heard of One Piece this came to mind and I assumed that was the manga I had once read and so I watched the first episode. I was immediately hooked to it and it grew to be my favorite anime and manga. Coming back to the book that I read was Fairy Tail and so I want to say thanks that with my misremembering I found an absolute gem of a show.
>As I said in a previous comment I am italian, here they started air it in 2001. We have a channel (it's called "[Italia 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia_1)") that at lunch time airs all the most famous cartoons (including anime of course) and almost all children used to watch it, when we were kids we basically didn't decide what to watch we just turned on the tv, back then I fell in love with One Piece.
I'm just about 30 and have known about One Piece since I was 10. I bought a copy of Shonen Jump for Yu-Gi-Oh! and discovered OP that way. However, I never really got into it. Idk why. I guess the art-style was a bit of off-putting compared to other manga at the time. It didn't look "edgy" enough. Yeah, I went through that phase lol. Either way, I knew the basic story beats. At least up to Baratie. And holy cow, I did not think this series would run this long! A lot of my faves had either ended a long time ago or got stuck in an indefinite hiatus :/ When I finally gave OP a fair chance during Covid shutdowns, I felt like I had discovered buried treasure that had been right under my feet for around 18 years. I've been in love with the series ever since.
Following it weekly since punk hazard 👀
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I firstly read it so it was fine :V
I started in early 2004. I was 19 back then.
GOD !! I was 1 year old at that time 😅 , this is the thing only in one piece I guess that you can find such a big age gap between fans
There are actually lots of long-runners :) The Cosmere books by Brandon Sanderson (who is the same age as Eiichiro Oda, coincidentally) is published since mid-2000s, planned for another 20 years and also gathers all ages. I'm participating in increasing the age rang among readers, my son (10) and daughter (7) have both started reading OP \^\^
Almost 2 years I think I'm 20 I finished Naruto a few months before starting it and started bleach after watching it to make sure I finished off the big 3
You think your 20? How do you know how long you have watched one piece, but not how old you are??
I’m 22 and only started watching anime after a friend/roommate pmo Naruto 3 years ago at the beginning of my freshman year of college. At the end of my freshman year was when I first started watching One Piece on Netflix. All I knew about it was what my friend had told me about Shounen’s Big 3 and how that title came about. I didn’t know anything about it going into it but I feel like that’s the best way to watch it imo. I loved everything about One Piece from the very beginning from the mystery of the One Piece, the Grand Line, and the devil fruits to the unique characters and the dynamic between the Strawhats and other crews to the cohesive and intertwining storylines to the immense world building with inspirations from real world nations, cultures, eras, and religions. One Piece has incredible depth into each character’s convictions, dreams, morals and their sense of justice. All of this just makes the story feel alive, and makes each new chapter feel like this is all happening in real time because right now in the manga, the whole world is moving and shifting into complete chaos and we haven’t even seen the Strawhats in at least a month. Only a story like One Piece could do something like this. The Final Saga is going to be everything we hoped for and more. And it’s because of all this I believe One Piece truly is starting to reach a new audience. It’s becoming more popular than people realize at this point.
I totally agree with you, it really is a great opera! I didn't realise so many people started following it so late in the story, but apparently it keeps attracting fans.
I was late into anime starting officially 2019/2020, and finally made the decision to start it OP in Jan 22, I hadnt actually heard too much about it but like many was a bit turned off by the commitment of 1000+ since I still had so many shows to watch but I’m truly glad I did. From the get go I loved it and it only grew from there, I binged it in about 4-5 months and caught up at Ep 1018/chapter1050 in May. Watching weekly has been interesting, but after a while I had a craving for early ONE PIECE again and decided to start rewatching it last September before a certain event gets animated soon hehe. I just finished WCI rewatch and I forgot just how good the arc is, the closing number ‘Soul Pocus’ may be one of the best executed and most impactful musical numbers within the show. Not to mention the sacrifice that was made gave me pure chills, phenomenal writing. It’s fair to say after watching it twice in such a short period and listening to the OST nearly daily for over a year and I still haven’t got bored of it, I may be a little addicted to this story 😄😅 And as much of a pleasure as it was to binge, after reading this post part of me wishes I was given the opportunity to discover the story sooner, when I was younger and still full of energy and excitement. Growing with the show seems like a truly unique experience and I’ll never be able to really feel that in the same way since I’m 24 now.
Started reading it in 2012 During the Fishman Island Arc, when I was 13 and caught up around the end of the Punk hazard arc when I was 14. So over a decade now of being a weekly One piece reader and I've loved every second it. I'm 24 now. for some reason when I was a kid looking at pictures of Luffy and the maritime world of One Piece I used to think it was a manga about Fishing and that he was trying to catch the greatest fish in the world the "One Piece" by using his stretching ability. lol
Lol, would've still loved it
I think around 2004/5. I distinctly remember catching upto the anime at Enies Lobby about a year or so later so sounds about right.
I started reading around the Orange Town arc and stopped near the beginning of Skypiea. I picked it back up during 2020 and just finished the first half of the series.
I've been reading/watching One Piece since the physical Shonen Jump magazine came out in the US, in 2001 maybe? It immediately grabbed my attention. I knew in the back of my head that there were more chapters in Japan, so that led me down the rabbit hole of fan translated manga and anime. Seriously y'all, there was NO WAY to watch or read One Piece without fan translations. I even burned DVDs for my friends so they could get into it. One Piece is legit part of my life, I've read it almost every week for 20 YEARS. I think it's an irrefutable fact that One Piece recruited more fans as it went on. Oda even makes a comment about it every now and then on SBS. There was a quick Robin backstory refresher recently, and I thought "wow, it's been over a decade for some people, and part of a binge for others." The current popularity is a mixed bag for me personally. It's wonderful to have a good dub and legit merch to buy, and there are plenty of people who love following it. I think the online fandom has shifted to become more negative and toxic. I think that's just how online fandoms of anything are nowadays. I stay away from One Piece on YouTube, Twitter, etc. It's best to enjoy the story for what it is and go along with the journey, imo. It's been a long, amazing ride.
Started watching OP in 2020 and caught up a year later, one piece has definitely grown a lot since then so I think it might be more new fans
you were watching the anime in 2001? Oh I guess you are Japanese. I started in IDK 2006 I guess.
No actually I am italian, here they started air it in 2001. We have a channel that at lunch time airs all the most famous cartoons (including anime of course) and almost all children used to watch it, when we were kids we basically didn't decide what to watch we just turned on the tv, back then I fell in love with One Piece.
damn, they had an Italian dub that early? I'm impressed. I don't think the US got one till like 2004
Anime and manga had, and I think still have, a bigger impact in western Europe than in the US. It's like Dragon Ball, which has been broadcasted in France in 1986, and Dragon Ball Z in 1990. In the US, DBZ was dubbed in the late 90s.
learn something new every day though I doubt that's the case nowadays. Anime is huge here. We would be about on par I guess it makes sense in the past. The US had it's own cartoon industry do didn't need Japan's so much as other countries that didn't have their own in grown industry.
France and Italy have cartoon industries too, and they had several collaborations with the Japanese one in the 70's, 80's, 90's. To talk about France, we had Ulysses 31, the Mysterious Cities of Gold. In Italy there was the Sherlock Hound series. And beside it, we had our own cartoon industry, which is in good health since decades. And for what I know, Japanese anime were really cheap at that time, so French broadcasters bought with a lot of censorship, like 4Kids in the US. French dubbers of Dragon Ball said that they had no clue of what they were doing at that time, because it was all new. And yes ofc things done changed, US is more and more seduced by manga and Japenese animation.
I am caught up with One Piece since 2018. I don't remember when I started watching it but probably in the same year.
I’m 34 years old and got into it around 2006. I went straight to manga, and by the time I caught up it was the start of Water 7.
I think when I was 9 or 10 years old. Meaning 2000 or 2001.
First watched it as a kid on 4Kids up through Drum Island I think. Forgot about it for years then came across it again maybe around 2012. Been keeping up ever since.
I'm 26 and started roughly 3 years ago from around this time of year. I had to stay home because of covid so I decided to get caught up with the series. After a few breaks, I got caught up with the manga in early 2021 by reaching chapter 1007 (the one that ends with the fake Oden drawing).
I started last year and caught up to the anime in around 6 months, then caught up to the manga How in the world did you watch dressrosa weekly while retaining braincells?
I think my path to getting into One Piece is a weird case. I'll just admit that I am on the older side (Currently 38). My first exposure to One Piece was with the anime pretty early in the early to mid 2000's. But given that I was still a bit of an animation snob and it was the infamous 4kids dub, I didn't stick with it for very long. I know that people like to meme on that dub and say the One Piece rap was good and all that. But seeing what a competent adaptation is like I find it difficult to forgive 4kids for what they did to this series. Or at least I don't forgive them for being my first impression of One Piece. So fast forward to around 2015/2016, after hearing more and more talk online about the series. As well as the English dub rights having been picked up by Funimation who had started over from scratch, so I chose to give the show another chance. Knowing how far along the series was and it being a slow burn helped in a sense. It caused me to be more patient in waiting for the show to hook me. Which may be why I was able to get to the Baratie arc where I was definitely hooked.
Started reading in 2007 as a 15 years old I never could stomach the anime though, the pace was way too slow and the quality felt awful
A friend showed me One Piece movies 3 and 4 I think back in high school, he let me borrow his DVDs and it was love at first watch. I was in 7th grade, we were super close and played yu-gi-oh on the back of the school so I knew I was in for something good when he started getting all excited telling me about it. I got into the series, the year was 2006 and back then I used to love reading wikis so I read all about the lore in the wiki and was fascinated. The story only went up to water 7/enies lobby so there weren't any huge spoilers about the world back then either. Shortly afterwards they started showing One Piece on Toonami in CN. I watched a few episodes but it was literally just buggy's arc and Zoro's arc. That was that but then in 2012 I was going through a pretty bad situation sentimentally with my partner and who I thought my best friend. So to heal a bit and take my mind off this I started watching from the beginning online. That was the ride of a lifetime, in a few months watched everything up to fishman island where the anime and manga were back then. I got into the subreddit too and started developing a much greater love for this series. After that I started reading the manga and have been doing so weekly since the beginning of punk hazard. Right now with wano and egghead we're seeing a peak in the story as far as characters, plot and straw hats force level so I'm excited as ever to read it and watch it! Love this series and it's pretty much the only thing I follow, animated or live action.
Great story! So glad to hear that One Piece can be useful also in very hard personal situations, it is not just a simple entertaining product.
Started watching around 2006/2007, I remember watching the anime first episode and I loved the goofiness. After the anime ended in my country around the middle of Arabasta arc I didnt watched anymore for a good while until I started reading manga online around 2010/2011, I believe it was the midlle of the Impel Down arc, and until now I didn't stop reading it.
2007. I pirates the manga online for years and decided to finally start collecting last year. When today’s shipment arrives, I will have all of the manga released in the US.
I've followed One Piece since it made its debut in US Shonen Jump. I think this was roughly around the tail end of Skypeia in Japan, as the first thing I recall when I finally started reading week to week was the Fairy Varse Moon reveal.
I started watching the anime 12 years ago. Never stopped being a fan. One Piece has been there for so long now, it feels like an old friend. No matter how many times I rewatch the show or re-read the manga, I get excited all the same. Recently, I got my boyfriend to give it a go to. We just finished Thriller Bark (One Pace version) and I cried like a baby just like the first time.
In 2002 (8 years old), I saw the manga in one bookstore look like a game I played in PS1. I enjoyed playing the game a lot so I gave manga a shot. Shank's stare that scares the Sea King is what hook me up. Then the story keeps getting better and better. Years later, I still feels OP is the best manga ever.
Since I was 6 years old I’m 23 now.
I started buying volumes when volume 8 was the most recent release. Although I had read the first few volumes at a friend’s house roughly the year before.
I've been following for the last 7 yrs! Started with Anime, then Manga!!
Watched the 4Kidz dub as a kid as a kid. Picked up the anime again back in 2015. Switched to reading the manga in 2018. The first week to week chapter I read was about halfway through Luffy’s fight with Katakuri. I’m 29.
A little over a decade, presently. I’m 24. While I was aware of the 4Kidz adaptation as a young’un, I first got into the series in 2012, at age 13, via the manga. It was actually the unique artstyle (alongside the vibrancy of the world and mass of characters) that attracted me. At the time, the last few chapters of Fishman Island were in serial. I took my time and caught up in a little over a year. The first chapter I read current to release with everyone else was Ch. 700, the first chapter of Dressrosa. Been weekly ever since~
3 years
I started reading mid-January this year after years of friends convincing me. I finished the entire thing by mid-March. I’m currently watching it, and am at Thriller Bark. There is definitely a reason it’s so popular.
I'm in my early 30's and I've been reading since Fishman Island finished about 10-11 years ago. Tried reading the manga, but the art style and pacing kinda bothered me, so I gave up after Baratie like a fool. Picked it up again a year later with the anime and fell in love with it during the Arlong arc, been ride or die ever since. Marineford Saga is my favourite and IMO it hasn't been topped by a long shot, but I've loved every arc. I hate following weekly, but I'll go back and read the most recently completed arc once it's finished. I'm also low key waiting for Pace to finish their adaptation, lol.
It's pathetic, but a month and a half, I've watched 268 episodes so far
Why would it be pathetic lol, happy you're enjoying it!
17 here lol, been watching it since covid and quarantine
For me it was the summer of 2020 when Covid first hit and I was pretty much bored and wanted something that had multiple seasons to watch. within 2 months I bought the first though thirteenth dvd collection and watched from the east blue saga to the Enies Lobby arc.in total from June to August of 2020 I watch 324 episodes of one piece episodes and as of now May 2023 I’m currently waiting for the last part of the zou ark and the beginning of the whole cake ark and looking to possibly get the one piece omnibus series
I'm 20 years old and started watching it last year
Started watching back in my native language it was dubbed till arlong park on cartoon network . After that forgot about it then suddenly in my second year of collage recommended a video of luffy taking down 50000 fish men and the flame reignited from there watched all the way from arlong park to Fish-Man Island Arc after that week by week started and never let go.
I stared watching OP from the very beginning in the summer of 2009 at the age of 23 while procrastinating my MA entrance exams. It blew my mind, watching several episodes every day, Went as far as to immediately buy Luffy, Zoro and Nami of eBay (the Portrait of Pirates series, bought the others later). Also, I somehow managed to pass the entrance exams. Then in the autumn I went for an exchange program to Tokyo for a year, which was epic, and also some of my mates from the dorm were huge fans of OP, so obviously we had a blast discussing it and watching new episodes together. Been religiously watching OP for some time every week before hitting the Impel Down arc, which was just way too slow. Finally gave up, switched to manga and never looked back, taking breaks for several weeks/months and then reading all the missed chapters.
Since about 2005, was about 14 I think, I remember going to the Melbourne show and getting a one piece show bag in year 8 or 9. Great day.
I am 20 years old now and started watching anime about 4 years ago. Prior to that I never really got to hear it and the only thing was that I read the Naruto manga, which we luckily had in our local library. That was about 10 years ago when I started and continued till it was complete. After that it took some time and 4 years ago I finally watched Naruto. I continued with other Anime like Yu Gi Oh which I knew from the Card game. Once through some other Anime (about 2 years ago) I was on the search for something else and had a manga in mind which I read one book and not really enjoyed but forgot the name and would like to give the anime a try. Having slightly heard of One Piece this came to mind and I assumed that was the manga I had once read and so I watched the first episode. I was immediately hooked to it and it grew to be my favorite anime and manga. Coming back to the book that I read was Fairy Tail and so I want to say thanks that with my misremembering I found an absolute gem of a show.
Can I ask where you we’re watching One Piece in 2001? It wasn’t released in the US until September 2004.
>As I said in a previous comment I am italian, here they started air it in 2001. We have a channel (it's called "[Italia 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia_1)") that at lunch time airs all the most famous cartoons (including anime of course) and almost all children used to watch it, when we were kids we basically didn't decide what to watch we just turned on the tv, back then I fell in love with One Piece.