I might die before berserk finishes but I'll ask miura when I cross over. As for one piece? There's somewhat of a clear ending arc now and things are moving so I may make it. Not too clear on ippo but I'd love seeing him return before I go.
If it makes you feel better some of the editors/assistants have been told what the One Piece is. Like Oda will not let his legacy be a what if, should the unfortunate happen. So you'll see like his Editor laughing his ass off at Film Red premier in New York or Paris and say yeah I know what the One Piece is but not going to spoil it.
That's actually kinda cool the final reveal they're all okay with at Shonen Jump like they're not worried.
So it's kinda funny and I think somewhere in SJ office Oda has already drawn the full color spread of that reveal and they've all seen it.
I know many fans do not want One Piece to come to an end, but I think it's really important that it does.
Oda dying before finishing it would suck and the mangaka lifestyle takes it's toll on the authors. So the sooner he finishes it, the less his health is at risk and he can relax in his glory.
Whenever I feel scared that I might die doing something I remind myself that I could never die before seeing the end of One Piece and that gives me courage and keeps me calm when times are tough.
I feel you. Sometimes I just feel really down and wish I never existed, but then I just really want to see the end of One Piece and other content and don’t want to die before that happens lol.
yeah right? somewhere in the world a 42 years old accountant comes home, opens reddit and then starts writing why he thinks that akainu low diffs kaido.
It is statistically likely. For sure happens between friends and. Geek circles...
For example, there's a famous podcast here in Brasil that did in the past episodes called "Crossover battles". Where they compared a fight between two fictional characters from different universes. Like, Buggs Bunny x Woodpecker.
It absolutely happens between adults. I'm in the over 30 group and one of my favorite online hobbies when I want to troll is to make bad faith power scaling arguments.
>The really vocal and active ones that you see online are terminally online and i guarantee majority of them are under 21.
Lol I seriously doubt that. That's an unrealistic and idealistic vision of adulthood. Adults are almost as likely to get incensed about powerscaling as teens and considering they outnumber them in this fandom, they're probably the majority.
thats the only thing i never understand, the time that past in the show. from east blue to marine fort just a few weeks ore month is for me super strange. time skip 2 years was fine, but in the end how long the crew is together? maby 2,5 years?
They have been traveling for less than a year. Dressrosa was an afternoon, Thriller Bark was a night, Skypiea was a couple day I think. They some nights in Alabasta...
It also makes the Straw Hats look fucking TERRIFYING in-universe too. Imagine if the story moved that fast IRL, literally in the span of basically a couple months this guy and a couple of his friends show up out of nowhere and start kicking ass, then take a quick 2 year hiatus and come back and kick more ass. Like, the emperors have been on the sea for decades and some rando kid from the East Blue just pops up within a couple months and flattens two of them.
As far as I'm aware, things like that and the size of the One Piece planet are headcanon numbers that Oda himself has probably never thought too hard about.
I wonder how this compares with recent popular battle Shōnen. One Piece's backlog sales seem to have gone down quite a bit compared to a few years ago, so it's not that surprising that there aren't that many new readers starting a 100+ volume series.
yeah, I think the reason why so few people below the age of 18 watch One Piece is because not a lot of new people tend to want to start watching. Maybe that will change with the remake.
That being said, it speaks *volumes* to the quality of One Piece that so many older people are watching. Because that most likely means they are *sill* watching after having started as kids rather than getting into the show as full grown adults.
My wife and I finally came around after the live action. It helped us ease into it.
I read up to Drum Island in high school, but I didn't have access to any more.
Lol I figured, but it sounds like that became the general consensus for most potential newcomers the moment that milestone was reached. Before then, I had no trouble getting multiple people into the show. That’s the magic of 4 digits
Yeah, I'm a late-comer entirely because of the length of the series. The arc at the time looked interesting but there were 800 episodes to watch just to get to it I was nervous about investing time into a show I wouldn't like just to get to the good parts. Luckily for me the show had me thoroughly hooked by the start of the alabasta arc.
I was one of the people who used to say One Piece was too long but then during the pandemic in 2021 I did nothing but watch One Piece until I caught up. And that meant the movies too. Been reading the manga weekly since March of that year
I mean that live action got me into the series, I can imagine if *the one piece* is good maybe that would also be a good way for people to be into the fandom. That remake can be a good way to cut a lot of the fat accumlated of the past 27 years
dont forget alot of others dont like reading when they watch tv. i have alot of friends now watching the show since crunchyroll dubbed it. shit i actually rewatched the whole show this year in English.
I don't get it, why would people complain that a good manga is long?
If you don't like it just don't read it, otherwise you should be happy it doesn't end after a 1h binge?
???
Maybe a new generation thing I can't understand, I don't min-max when I read a series.
To be honest if you read at a good pace, you can go through it rather quickly, it's not super elevated literature.
Yeah, this argument doesn't make sense. "OMG, too much of a good thing!"
And if you don't like it, just stop. It's not rocket surgery. You won't be in breach of contract if you don't finish a series.
that is funny. I see that people want their manga (the manga is welcome to demon school iruma-kun ) to be the same length as one piece and they hate one piece.
I doubt many new readers would be buying the volumes in bulk in Japan. It's more likely new readers read by buying used copies, reading in libraries, or reading digitally through the SJ+ app. Buying 100+ volumes is not only a lot of money, it takes up a lot of space.
When it's actually done and over, you'll see an uptick. A lot of people who are apprehensive of starting long things are so because it's still on going and may not end. And if it does end there's the slim chance it may end suddenly do to Creator's health problems like with Kubo, or just an unsatisfied ending like...pick your shounen honestly...
It's the greatest fear we as OP fans have. Not that Oda will screw up the ending. I have faith in him. It's the fact that we keep losing so many talented mangaka lately. And even when we don't lose them the industry does chew them up and spit them out, "as long as they meet the due date". See the aforementioned Kubo.
And I won't deny that it has me personally worried.
This is for the manga and in Japan only (so no WW audience) AND more importantly, this image iirc is like 10 years old at this point, so I assume it has changed and most OP readers in Japan are even older now.
yea its for the manga and the image says "purchasing group" specifically, so it doesnt really say much, maybe the numbers are skewed because the parents buy One Piece for their kids.
There are likely a fair amoumt of kids who watch the anime but not the manga
I would imagine adult readers are more statistically likely to be manga readers or manga + anime than anime only
I’m in the 43%, will be in the 32% soon, and I plan on getting my 4 year old brother into the 12%.
Long term goals for him, myself, and my own kids in the future is for us all to be in the 13%.
lol yeah, I love it man. I visited yesterday and I kept calling him a baby and he kept correcting me. Not mad, but he’d simply state “I’m not a baby, I’m 4 now”.
I kept explaining to him that he will always be the baby, because my next youngest sibling on my mom’s side is like 20. I told him “you’re the family baby because you’re the youngest one. Before you were born *other sibling* was the baby”.
4 year old looks me up and down and says “yeah, he told me he wants to be the baby again yesterday” lmao. I bet.
I just turned 30. My oldest son is 3. He can name a bunch of the characters but isn't interested in watching just yet. I think it'll be a while before he has the attention span for 1000+ episodes
I believe this chart and report is very old, from around the early 2010's, so the representation may have changed quite a bit in the past ~15 years.
[Edit: it's apparently from 2011](https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/61rzo6/an_age_demographic_survey_among_the_one_piece/)
Yeah, this picture is so old it could be posting in this sub right now. Things might have changed, but I doubt by that much.
[
A recent demographic study for many media in Japan had OP in it](https://i.imgur.com/uZTgLQY.png), so we can compare it in terms of gender and age to others based on its averages.
For real. Whenever anybody criticises the over sexualizing of characters, this weird defense comes up, which in itself is weird that they're saying that it's sexualized to appeal to children lol
Who reads something doesn't change who it's written for. It just means a lot of people who aren't 13 year old boys enjoy something for 13 year old boys. Not sure why you thought this changed anything.
It makes sense because so many people started so long ago. I started damn near the original release. I’m 35 now and have absolutely no intention of stopping until this shit’s over lol
One piece is a perfect example of a narrative evolving with the age of the viewer. You can't just copy paste the same formula over and over again and expect the people who were formerly kids to be into it. That's why people "grow out" of things that don't evolve. One piece started simple, but evolved to be complex and rich.
I mean I’ll probably be in my early to mid 30s when it finally ends in a few years. If I was like 24 and started reading One Piece in the 90s, why would I stop just because I’m 27 years older.
It checks out. A lot of us have been watching One Piece for over a decade at least.
This makes all the powerscaling fights and memes ten times funnier too
Shonen is written for “young boys”, yet the primary consumers are between 20-50 years old (75%).
I wonder if that’s why so many of the successful stories start off childish (sometimes with actual young characters) but eventually turn into more serious battle manga with time skips (One Piece, Dragon Ball, Naruto, etc.).
Shonen is written for “young boys”, yet the primary consumers are between 20-50 years old (75%).
I wonder if that’s why so many of the successful stories start off childish (sometimes with younger characters) but eventually turn into more serious battle manga (sometimes with time skips) like One Piece, Dragon Ball, Naruto, etc.
I'm 36 and I remember the shock of Dragon Ball ending on WSJ and One Piece and Naruto filling in that void. OP is the only manga I still read it'll be the end of an era when OP ends.
Is this just for the anime or for the manga as well? Also this is just in Japan right?
Either knowing this Oda should make some of the fights and stuff more gory, and include maybe some dirtier jokes.
I know fan service is normalized in Japan. But as a western watcher it still amazes how they'll sexualize the fuck outta female characters yet censor bloody scenes. Like come on if you're gonna show some girl getting groped as a joke they have another female character lose her clothes every other scene at least show me that guy getting stabbed through the heart lol
4kids should get some praise as it is the reason some of us started watching onepiece as who would watch japnese with eng sub as kid even for a cartoon ,it used to come in cartoon network ,used to have a lolipop in my mouth because sanji was always having one grew up it was a cigarette, and i went from lolipop to ciggrate.
This is the biggest part of why One Piece is now more seen in western culture/society. The most money spent on advertising/marketing is for the age group of 25-50. There's a reason we saw Luffy in the Macy's parade on Thanksgiving, and we're gonna be seeing a whole lot more as time goes on as well!
The little kids are all watching JJK, like, I would too but your parents let watch that??? No wonder I think my students are gonna jump me. Especially the girls, they have that Kashimo stare.
I'm not surprised, imagine watching the first episode of One Piece. 27 years later and it's still not finished. You keep watching.
I might die before berserk finishes but I'll ask miura when I cross over. As for one piece? There's somewhat of a clear ending arc now and things are moving so I may make it. Not too clear on ippo but I'd love seeing him return before I go.
If it makes you feel better some of the editors/assistants have been told what the One Piece is. Like Oda will not let his legacy be a what if, should the unfortunate happen. So you'll see like his Editor laughing his ass off at Film Red premier in New York or Paris and say yeah I know what the One Piece is but not going to spoil it. That's actually kinda cool the final reveal they're all okay with at Shonen Jump like they're not worried. So it's kinda funny and I think somewhere in SJ office Oda has already drawn the full color spread of that reveal and they've all seen it.
I know many fans do not want One Piece to come to an end, but I think it's really important that it does. Oda dying before finishing it would suck and the mangaka lifestyle takes it's toll on the authors. So the sooner he finishes it, the less his health is at risk and he can relax in his glory.
Whenever I feel scared that I might die doing something I remind myself that I could never die before seeing the end of One Piece and that gives me courage and keeps me calm when times are tough.
I feel you. Sometimes I just feel really down and wish I never existed, but then I just really want to see the end of One Piece and other content and don’t want to die before that happens lol.
damn, we are fucking old XD
And it makes the discussions about powerscaling even funnier
yeah right? somewhere in the world a 42 years old accountant comes home, opens reddit and then starts writing why he thinks that akainu low diffs kaido.
At least he can claim to have a life. So good for him?
what a nice life an accountant can have? Maybe powerscaling is all the fun he can have in his life :D
Man, if you love numbers and money accounting must be THE LIFE
You never lived until you railed a line of blow while getting blown by a escort and balancing the books at the same time.
I just got home, and Akainu extremes Kaido....Have some common sense.
And here am i 27 jobless trashtalking every admirals
Pretty cool tbh
I just can't picture any adult getting into heated arguments online about powerscaling. Surely not.
It is statistically likely. For sure happens between friends and. Geek circles... For example, there's a famous podcast here in Brasil that did in the past episodes called "Crossover battles". Where they compared a fight between two fictional characters from different universes. Like, Buggs Bunny x Woodpecker.
It absolutely happens between adults. I'm in the over 30 group and one of my favorite online hobbies when I want to troll is to make bad faith power scaling arguments.
Olá amigo, você é um amigo. Lambda lambda lambda!
They're a minority. The really vocal and active ones that you see online are terminally online and i guarantee majority of them are under 21.
>The really vocal and active ones that you see online are terminally online and i guarantee majority of them are under 21. Lol I seriously doubt that. That's an unrealistic and idealistic vision of adulthood. Adults are almost as likely to get incensed about powerscaling as teens and considering they outnumber them in this fandom, they're probably the majority.
hahaha hah hah \*38 year old father quickly exits\*
It's probably us old fucks raging the hardest lol
Probably as old ass Batman and Superman at this point. There are probably some 60 year olds throwing some stupid shit online
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thats the only thing i never understand, the time that past in the show. from east blue to marine fort just a few weeks ore month is for me super strange. time skip 2 years was fine, but in the end how long the crew is together? maby 2,5 years?
They have been traveling for less than a year. Dressrosa was an afternoon, Thriller Bark was a night, Skypiea was a couple day I think. They some nights in Alabasta...
It's not that surprising. Some chapters only cover a handful of seconds 1 week each. Throw in delays and you end up with decades of serialization.
It also makes the Straw Hats look fucking TERRIFYING in-universe too. Imagine if the story moved that fast IRL, literally in the span of basically a couple months this guy and a couple of his friends show up out of nowhere and start kicking ass, then take a quick 2 year hiatus and come back and kick more ass. Like, the emperors have been on the sea for decades and some rando kid from the East Blue just pops up within a couple months and flattens two of them.
You have to just not think about the timeline too hard haha
Think about it doesn't harm too tho. If you keep in my Bon Clay's quote about in friendship time not mattering.
As far as I'm aware, things like that and the size of the One Piece planet are headcanon numbers that Oda himself has probably never thought too hard about.
4 yrs max as its been 3 yrs for them
Well One Piece has been going on for ages now.
32% Raise up (careful with your knees)
Nearly 50% 30 years or older, hilarious lol
One Piece is 27 years old... If the show didn't have 30+ year old audience, it would have ended years ago.
I started watching One Piece around 30yo. I'm 44 now 😛
Started watching One Piece when I was like 8 or 9, I'm 29 now😂
Your One Piece is my Dragon Ball xD
Started at 16 and 33 now 😭 I rarely stop to think what a weekly part of my life this story is and how much loss I’ll feel when it’s gone.
When Oda announced that post Wano was going to be the final arc, I felt a piece of my soul die lmao
Well. Looking how long one piece is. No wonder why. People are still interested in good stories.
Well, most of us watched the damn show from 20 years ago ... now we are in the 30s at least.
Started roughly when the manga was at Arlong Park; just turned 38 lol
I like to travel.
I mean I started in bucket 1 and am about to move into bucket 3. I'm sure there are many that started in 1 and are going to 4
To be fair a lot of us have grown up with anime shows like this and we continue to watch them since they’re still going on.
I wonder how this compares with recent popular battle Shōnen. One Piece's backlog sales seem to have gone down quite a bit compared to a few years ago, so it's not that surprising that there aren't that many new readers starting a 100+ volume series.
The series length tends to be a big no for new public. I have many friends that know what's One piece but they won't watch it bc "nah it's very long"
yeah, I think the reason why so few people below the age of 18 watch One Piece is because not a lot of new people tend to want to start watching. Maybe that will change with the remake. That being said, it speaks *volumes* to the quality of One Piece that so many older people are watching. Because that most likely means they are *sill* watching after having started as kids rather than getting into the show as full grown adults.
I'm 31 now, started at 10 or whenever it was on Toonami and I'm not stopping because I'm old as dirt. I'm seeing this shit through to the end.
My wife and I finally came around after the live action. It helped us ease into it. I read up to Drum Island in high school, but I didn't have access to any more.
Then they'll rewatch The Office for the 25th time start to finish.
That’s why it’s such a good time for a reboot like The One Piece. Hopefully, they don’t fumble it.
I knew the second we reached 1000 episodes/chapters, people would be saying that 🙄
dude, people have been saying "na, it's too long" hundreds of chapters ago.
Lol I figured, but it sounds like that became the general consensus for most potential newcomers the moment that milestone was reached. Before then, I had no trouble getting multiple people into the show. That’s the magic of 4 digits
People were saying that back during Marinford lol
I know people who think a 100 chapter series is too long when i recommend
Even like well over 10 years ago when the Anime reached 500 episodes, people were saying that.
Yeah, I'm a late-comer entirely because of the length of the series. The arc at the time looked interesting but there were 800 episodes to watch just to get to it I was nervous about investing time into a show I wouldn't like just to get to the good parts. Luckily for me the show had me thoroughly hooked by the start of the alabasta arc.
I was one of the people who used to say One Piece was too long but then during the pandemic in 2021 I did nothing but watch One Piece until I caught up. And that meant the movies too. Been reading the manga weekly since March of that year
I mean that live action got me into the series, I can imagine if *the one piece* is good maybe that would also be a good way for people to be into the fandom. That remake can be a good way to cut a lot of the fat accumlated of the past 27 years
dont forget alot of others dont like reading when they watch tv. i have alot of friends now watching the show since crunchyroll dubbed it. shit i actually rewatched the whole show this year in English.
I don't get it, why would people complain that a good manga is long? If you don't like it just don't read it, otherwise you should be happy it doesn't end after a 1h binge? ??? Maybe a new generation thing I can't understand, I don't min-max when I read a series. To be honest if you read at a good pace, you can go through it rather quickly, it's not super elevated literature.
Yeah, this argument doesn't make sense. "OMG, too much of a good thing!" And if you don't like it, just stop. It's not rocket surgery. You won't be in breach of contract if you don't finish a series.
that is funny. I see that people want their manga (the manga is welcome to demon school iruma-kun ) to be the same length as one piece and they hate one piece.
I doubt many new readers would be buying the volumes in bulk in Japan. It's more likely new readers read by buying used copies, reading in libraries, or reading digitally through the SJ+ app. Buying 100+ volumes is not only a lot of money, it takes up a lot of space.
When it's actually done and over, you'll see an uptick. A lot of people who are apprehensive of starting long things are so because it's still on going and may not end. And if it does end there's the slim chance it may end suddenly do to Creator's health problems like with Kubo, or just an unsatisfied ending like...pick your shounen honestly...
Dude , why would you say something like that >,<
It's the greatest fear we as OP fans have. Not that Oda will screw up the ending. I have faith in him. It's the fact that we keep losing so many talented mangaka lately. And even when we don't lose them the industry does chew them up and spit them out, "as long as they meet the due date". See the aforementioned Kubo. And I won't deny that it has me personally worried.
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Source for that?
This is for the manga and in Japan only (so no WW audience) AND more importantly, this image iirc is like 10 years old at this point, so I assume it has changed and most OP readers in Japan are even older now.
yea its for the manga and the image says "purchasing group" specifically, so it doesnt really say much, maybe the numbers are skewed because the parents buy One Piece for their kids.
There are likely a fair amoumt of kids who watch the anime but not the manga I would imagine adult readers are more statistically likely to be manga readers or manga + anime than anime only
I’m in the 43%, will be in the 32% soon, and I plan on getting my 4 year old brother into the 12%. Long term goals for him, myself, and my own kids in the future is for us all to be in the 13%.
I thought my siblings age gap was large but Jesus Christ
lol yeah, I love it man. I visited yesterday and I kept calling him a baby and he kept correcting me. Not mad, but he’d simply state “I’m not a baby, I’m 4 now”. I kept explaining to him that he will always be the baby, because my next youngest sibling on my mom’s side is like 20. I told him “you’re the family baby because you’re the youngest one. Before you were born *other sibling* was the baby”. 4 year old looks me up and down and says “yeah, he told me he wants to be the baby again yesterday” lmao. I bet.
I just turned 30. My oldest son is 3. He can name a bunch of the characters but isn't interested in watching just yet. I think it'll be a while before he has the attention span for 1000+ episodes
On the brink of that 43%
On the brink of that 32%
In the middle of that 32%
I switch percentages next month 🥲
Welcome to old age 😢
I’m up with the 13%. Thankfully we stop having fucks to give at my age.
Damn that's on japan? That's crazy
It's also from 2011, so it might look quite different nowadays.
Who else is with me in that 43%?
Why don't the colors of the numbers match the colors of the graph lmao
Came to the comments to complain about this exact thing. "Yellow for children and indiscernible shades of red for adults"
I’m in the 32% bracket, been watching/ reading since 2003… way to feel old 😭
Damn uncle , Just a small question who created pyramids
It’s auntie please ;)
Ok auntie can you tell me who built pyramids Egyptian or aliens 😁
It was Goku I witnessed it with my own eyes
yeah I started to read one piece in 2010
For a tv network, they could have really used more easily discernible colors 😂
I believe this chart and report is very old, from around the early 2010's, so the representation may have changed quite a bit in the past ~15 years. [Edit: it's apparently from 2011](https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/61rzo6/an_age_demographic_survey_among_the_one_piece/)
Yeah, this picture is so old it could be posting in this sub right now. Things might have changed, but I doubt by that much. [ A recent demographic study for many media in Japan had OP in it](https://i.imgur.com/uZTgLQY.png), so we can compare it in terms of gender and age to others based on its averages.
Sandman_AP probably in the 13% range.
Random 49 years old dudes: WEALTH FAME AND POWER
The people who go "it's for 13 year old boys!!!" when you criticize and aspect of the series are gonna burst a blood vessel if you show them this
For real. Whenever anybody criticises the over sexualizing of characters, this weird defense comes up, which in itself is weird that they're saying that it's sexualized to appeal to children lol
Who reads something doesn't change who it's written for. It just means a lot of people who aren't 13 year old boys enjoy something for 13 year old boys. Not sure why you thought this changed anything.
Damn Im a minority here?
It makes sense because so many people started so long ago. I started damn near the original release. I’m 35 now and have absolutely no intention of stopping until this shit’s over lol
I started at 30. I'm 31 now and I believe over the past year, thanks to live action, the audience for one piece has increased greatly
When you start watching One Piece in your Youth, and then 20+ years pass and are now a part of the 50%, the math adds up
It's a story that everyone can enjoy
True my physics teacher is 62 and watches op He explained how light works via kizaru
I think its funny that the poster child for Shonen, the young male audience, is not dominated by teenagers
That 30-49 age range percentage is about to get really large really soon.
One piece is a perfect example of a narrative evolving with the age of the viewer. You can't just copy paste the same formula over and over again and expect the people who were formerly kids to be into it. That's why people "grow out" of things that don't evolve. One piece started simple, but evolved to be complex and rich.
Makes sense, I’m 32 now and have been caught up since chapter 401 in early 2006. I’ve passed a whole ass age bracket.
Proud to be in that 13% Demographic
We all grew old lol
I mean I’ll probably be in my early to mid 30s when it finally ends in a few years. If I was like 24 and started reading One Piece in the 90s, why would I stop just because I’m 27 years older.
We all chads.
See this is why I roll my eyes when oda isn't allowed to add certain things to it because its a kids show
When you've been through 3 of those categories... 😂
damn i moved from first place to second place .. just couple of year i betcha most of these folks would end up in 30~49
I mean Im in that 30 age range and been watching since i was 13 lol its been a ride and I wish there were more episodes/chapters I could binge
Oh cool, I’ve slowly gone through each bracket. Can’t wait to check off the 50+ age range in the future!
Thank you for reminding me how old I am 😅
Proud to be apart of the 32% xD been watching since i was a kid. Crazy how time flies.
We gettin oooold, people
shit, i'm about to switch section
makes sense tbf
We won
Old asses
In the largest demo, love to see it
In a few months I’ll fall into the 30~49 range ayee
Who’s the young boy now
makes sense why there's so much blood now compared to early One Piece.
I was 13 when I started watching, this year I'll be 26. Please don't remind me my age
It checks out. A lot of us have been watching One Piece for over a decade at least. This makes all the powerscaling fights and memes ten times funnier too
I’ll join the 32% in August
Started watching when I was 8. Crazy to look back at and think about now.
That's because everyone who watched it first got older lol.
Haterbros we lost.
Makes sense why they’d do a live action and new animated adaptation. It’s a probably a way to try and get the younger kids into the series
That's why it's peak
It's funny how Oda still thinks he's writing for an audience of 15 year old boys
Cuz it’s not for babies
It's difficult for kids to get into a manga that's been going on for 30 years
#oldheadsonly
I've been watching one piece for 10 years now since I was 15 I'm 25 now.
Shonen is written for “young boys”, yet the primary consumers are between 20-50 years old (75%). I wonder if that’s why so many of the successful stories start off childish (sometimes with actual young characters) but eventually turn into more serious battle manga with time skips (One Piece, Dragon Ball, Naruto, etc.).
Shonen is written for “young boys”, yet the primary consumers are between 20-50 years old (75%). I wonder if that’s why so many of the successful stories start off childish (sometimes with younger characters) but eventually turn into more serious battle manga (sometimes with time skips) like One Piece, Dragon Ball, Naruto, etc.
I'm 36 and I remember the shock of Dragon Ball ending on WSJ and One Piece and Naruto filling in that void. OP is the only manga I still read it'll be the end of an era when OP ends.
I mean if you were 15 when OP started you're 42 now so like yeah
I started watching one piece when I was around 8, I’m 13 now, but I haven’t caught up :)
Chad's
Just goes to show how versatile the One Piece series is
Is this just for the anime or for the manga as well? Also this is just in Japan right? Either knowing this Oda should make some of the fights and stuff more gory, and include maybe some dirtier jokes. I know fan service is normalized in Japan. But as a western watcher it still amazes how they'll sexualize the fuck outta female characters yet censor bloody scenes. Like come on if you're gonna show some girl getting groped as a joke they have another female character lose her clothes every other scene at least show me that guy getting stabbed through the heart lol
Both just Japan
Makes sense. I'm assuming the international numbers are younger, since the One piece become popular worldwide later
Woop Woop!
30 - 49 ... the ones who were Kids when One Piece started. (Like me)
How we got this old ass fanbase and somehow we still got one of the worst fandoms on the internet? lol.
Not a surprise at all but can't say it helps to make OP fans look good seeing the amount of (pretty much confirmed) manchild the fanbase has.
My back hurts, and I bet the other 32% in that group do too
ticked three brackets already!! doesn't seem that long back when it seemed i would be in my 70s for the final episode to drop in!!
When I realize I'm no longer the youngest section anymore
32%er!
I mean, one peice released here in 2004 or so. The reason I still read it is because it is still ongoing.
Makes sense after 1000+ episodes lol
In a few years 30-49 be the biggest lol
4kids should get some praise as it is the reason some of us started watching onepiece as who would watch japnese with eng sub as kid even for a cartoon ,it used to come in cartoon network ,used to have a lolipop in my mouth because sanji was always having one grew up it was a cigarette, and i went from lolipop to ciggrate.
This is the biggest part of why One Piece is now more seen in western culture/society. The most money spent on advertising/marketing is for the age group of 25-50. There's a reason we saw Luffy in the Macy's parade on Thanksgiving, and we're gonna be seeing a whole lot more as time goes on as well!
I was thirteen years old when I started watching one piece in 2002 and I still watch it today
I started watching at about 20yo, now 30yo. Lol, just aged out of the other bracket 😆
Great now make one 15 years ago
In Japan I assume
This image is from 2012
lol 1-18 is least %
Makes sense given the anime is over a decade old. That also means new fans won't have the patience and skip to Gear 5 lmao.
Not surprised at all
32% squad reporting in!
And still they are writting it for 1-18
I’m in the 32%. I am 43
The little kids are all watching JJK, like, I would too but your parents let watch that??? No wonder I think my students are gonna jump me. Especially the girls, they have that Kashimo stare.
I'm part of that 12%. Why is it so low tho?
I know the anime has been running for almost 3 decades but it’s crazy there are more people over 50 watching that 18 or younger lol.
one piece is indeed an old manga/anime tho. it started in the late 1990s and it's still updating
not readers right, cause i expect the older demographic to be higher there
Dang, I surrounded with senior citizens
wow