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I'm a Naruto fan, not really a One Piece fan. I want to start watching it, but
I don't have any time to do a marathon.

Just a little summary would be nice.


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Can someone please give me a total recap on One Piece


Here's an answer to such a question on
[Yahoo](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110309170733AALLR0e):

> First off One Piece started as a manga in 97 in weekly shonen jump. A new
> chapter is updated every week and they're currently on chapter 617. The
> anime started a couple years later owing to the success of the manga and is
> now on episode 489.
>
> NOTE: One Piece is not 'a couple of episodes to get into' type of anime.
> While you can be hooked from the get go most agree that a big alienater is
> that the show takes a bit to get into. The first saga of One Piece is The
> East Blue Saga (east blue is 1 of 4 'lesser' seas where the Strawhats start
> before making their way to The Grand Line (the big league sea). The East
> Blue Saga is a divided up into a few arc with a few filler. I'd say once you
> come to The Baratie arc (~ep.18) the show will really start to hit its
> stride. If not Baratie then definitely by the end of The Arlong Arc (arc
> after Baratie). You see The East Blue Saga is about 61 episodes and pretty
> much sets the groundwork for the series. The Baroque Works Saga afterwords
> is the real beginning of the world of One Piece because the crew is in The
> Grand Line and you can see just how insignificant the world was in the east
> blue. The East Blue Saga though, while less exciting is still fun and
> interesting with some cool battles and quick development of the characters
> and recruitment of the crew.
>
> What really makes One Piece shine is the idea of dreams that's prevalent
> through the series and the bonds of friendship and loyalty amongst the crew.
> You only really see Luffy as a lovable idiot who has a freakish rubber body
> through the first dozen episodes. It's not until The Captain Kuro Arc
> (ep.9-17) that you start realizing that the reason he's considered a monster
> is not because of his rubber powers but, because he's just unbelievably
> strong. Zoro, the 3 sword style swordsman and unofficial first mate is also
> ridiculously strong too and is often confused as the captain. Zoro's tough
> as nails and often serious but like Luffy he's pretty much an idiot. Nami is
> the brains and while definitely a b!+
>
> The crew is tight nit and willing to do whatever for each other. That's
> actually my favorite thing about One Piece. You just seem to care about the
> characters in One Piece more so than other animes. Maybe it's because you're
> following the small crew everywhere while other animes just keep introducing
> more and more characters so because the anime is stretched the characters
> tend not to get as much attention. That aside, there are plenty of laughs
> but some tears as well and it only gets darker later on. Many of the crew
> have some sad pasts as well. However, no matter how dark and serious things
> get in One Piece, there's always the sense of balance with humor and action.
> All in all I don't want to say too much more because every time I write a
> sentence I realize it has too much spoiler and end up erasing it. So just go
> ahead and watch the show. Even if it moves a bit slow for you in the
> beginning since your best friend loves the show it'll be easier to get
> through that but, chances are you'll end up loving it before you know it.
>
> A few warnings though. 1) If you watch the anime you only have 2 choices and
> both involve funimation.com. DO NOT WATCH THE 4KIDS DUB NO MATTER WHAT!!! It
> was so bad I don't want to even talk about it. However, if you prefer dubbed
> versions you are more than welcome to watch the funimation dub because
> funimation actually has a pretty good dub of One Piece. That horrible 4kids
> dub really, really hurt One Piece when it first came over to the U.S. The
> other option is to watch the subbed version. Either way you'll have to watch
> the subbed version from (as of this writing) ep.193 onward since they
> haven't dubbed all the episodes yet. In any case, funimation subs the new
> episode in japan within a day of it coming out which makes One Piece the
> most up-to-date of all animes. 2) Be careful looking stuff up on the
> internet because the manga is further ahead than the anime and you may get
> spoilers. 3) In general, anime fans do not like filler. Filler are episodes
> added to the anime which weren't in the manga for the purpose of delaying
> the anime from catching up with the manga since 1 episode is usually
> equivalent to 2 chapters. One Piece, according to most fans, tends to have
> better filler than most other animes and suffers from less filler as well.
> That being said if you want to skip the boring fillers you can find a yahoo
> answer question about which ones should be skipped.

It was written 3 years ago but is actually a pretty good summary. For more
information you can check out the: [One Piece
Wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page) for any specifics, but it's
not going to give you a couple of paragraph summary to get you started on the
show.


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