LogFAQs > #980005018

Dressrosa had some pacing issues but nothing there felt wasted. It was a long arc that maybe dragged at points, but it set up and paid off so many different things at once. I have no problems calling it one of at least top third islands. Then after that was Zou. Even as a furry, Zou was kind of dull. At least it had the only girls in One Piece I ever found cute >.> Whole Cake Island might be one of the best arcs period, and then we get Wano.

Had all the right ingredients to do everything perfect, and then spends a shitload of time doing the one thing One Piece has always sworn to not do. Waste our time with a damn training arc. It was also just, way too scattered, the characters who needed screentime the most hardly got anything, and by the time we got to some of the greatest moments in the series' history the anime had pissed away its budget and left us with little more than ugly smear frames and glitter bombs to hide how bad the animation was.

But hey. Egghead is shaping up to be another greatest of all time. Even if you're an anime only, I would recommend just skipping Wano and reading the manga instead. You'll get through it in a few days versus weeks and since you won't have to wait on chapters the pacing problems will sting a lot less. Once you get to Egghead you can probably go back to the anime. Well. Maybe. I guess we'll see. I still haven't forgiven them for glitter bombing the Kaido fight to the point you can't even see what's happening. Gear 5th was so bad people spent weeks trying to re-cut those scenes to make any amount of sense. Even ms paint amateurs on Youtube had stuff that looked better.