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Alright, I finally made it through the first chunk in One Piece. That's almost 600 chapters!

My verdict right now is that I liked it... but it also depends. I think it's at least fair to say One Piece isn't the best shonen of all time. It's not inconsistent at least in a way that *fucks* like Hunter x Hunter, or weird in a way that *hits* like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

This isn't to say that One Piece is bad, but rather that it's wildly inconsistent. It's often the case where a really good arc will be followed up by a bad arc, and these extreme spikes in quality can happen within the same arc as well.

Thriller Bark was the main victim of this because it had some of the best comedy in One Piece, it had great character moments for basically everyone, and the art is amazing and perfectly executed the genre blend it's going for... but then the pacing shat itself and it didn't pick up again until the very end.

I'll say for the time being that one of the greatest strengths in One Piece were its main characters and if an arc was really good, it was usually because it was featuring the Straw Hats themselves as one of its main focal points. That's the big thing that I would want it to hone in on moving forward.