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One Piece - A recent surge in quality? *spoilers*

Really? In my opinion, the only arc that has been "meh" to me was Skypiea, and even that picks up near the end. Immediately after East Blue when they first go to the Grand Line it does get a little slow (but Little Garden and Laboon DO have a point) but it picks up again on Drum Island.
What do you think is meh about it? My only real complaint is how long the bigger arcs are, but because they're long there's so much detail put into them.

population_tire wrote:

Really? In my opinion, the only arc that has been "meh" to me was Skypiea, and even that picks up near the end. Immediately after East Blue when they first go to the Grand Line it does get a little slow (but Little Garden and Laboon DO have a point) but it picks up again on Drum Island. What do you think is meh about it? My only real complaint is how long the bigger arcs are, but because they're long there's so much detail put into them.

To be honest, I found Alabasta Drawn out & just plain boring at times, and as for the others, They just didn't do anything for me, I didn't think they were bad, just didn't really find them all that entertaining either, on top of that aside from luffy,Chopper & Sanji, I don't find any of the other characters in the series that interesting. don't get me wrong zoro's a cool guy, just don't care for him much. Not to mention all the female characters are bascially just eye-candy. sure they can fight, but not much in the personality department. Cept maybe Nami, but she's getting sort of cliche as well. Again I don't hate OP or anything, just don't see the appeal. Its a good serries, just not my cup of tea.

After listening to way too many "it gets better in the next arc!" I pretty much dropped One Piece at the Thriller Bark.

I really don't care what I a lot of people say, if a series fails to entertain you sufficently after a few hundred chapters, it's a failure, no matter what may happen afterwards.

spoiler[As previously mentioned, not much has been said about the revolutionaries, two of the yonkou are pretty much unknown, and there are still a lot of mysteries left to solve, like what's the deal with Kuma, Moria's status (almost guaranteed to survive though, no one dies in one piece!) what did the government ask Buggy and so on. ].

Shenl742 wrote:

After listening to way too many "it gets better in the next arc!" I pretty much dropped One Piece at the Thriller Bark. I really don't care what I a lot of people say, if a series fails to entertain you sufficently after a few hundred chapters, it's a failure, no matter what may happen afterwards.

I actually agree with you, at least the part about "it gets better in the next arc!" sort of stuff. I clearly love One Piece but if something doesn't get your attention then don't read/watch it. In fact I'm impressed you got all the way to Thriller Bark before giving up. Personally, if I read more then 20 or so chapters of something I couldn't stand I would think I was crazy. The idea that you need to read more of something you don't like before you can appreciate said thing is annoying. This idea comes with the assumption that the manga or whatever in question is so incredibly awesome that there is no way anyone can't like it, so the issue has to be you need to read more of it. These are commercial products after all, if the first chapter didn't get your attention you'd have the right to drop it.