User blog comment:Pacifista15/Discovering One Piece/@comment-3401636-20110208071613

Well, for me, i started watching the Dragonball Z repeats on television when i was younger (idk, maybe during 2000?). I liked it, it was cool, like everyone else.

Then, a few years later (say 2005?), Naruto was being televised on tv, so i started watching it, it only got until the chuunin exam bit, but that was enough to get me hooked. But unfortunately, i wasn't able to watch any more of it, and simply forgot about it after it stopped being broadcasted. Luckily, right after Naruto had stopped broadcasting, the show we all know as One Piece was on. Unfortunately it was the Dubbed version, but hey, because of it, i became fascinated about pirates. But, after it stopped showing One Piece (roughly the time when 4Kids stopped dubbing One Piece episodes), i became bored with tv, and forgot all about it.

Luckily, a few years later (2008 or so), when i started High School, i went over to my friend's house, where he showed me Bleach, and reminded me about Naruto. When i went home, i immediately started watching the Bleach, and somehow got my brother hooked... lol. Then, when i had caught up with the current Bleach episodes at the time, i turned my attention to the manga, where i tried to find where it was up to in the anime, and began reading from there. Once i was up to date with the manga, i began watching naruto and naruto shippuuden episodes until i was up to date. While i was being kept up to date on Bleach and Naruto, i felt that Bleach was starting to get boring, and couldn't keep up the action packed pace it had after a certain fight.... so i stopped watching the anime and reading the manga altogether (this happened during 2010).

Soon after, another friend of mine was talking to me about animes and mangas (still 2010). As I talked about how i was watching Naruto and had watched Bleach, my friend told me about One Piece, and talked about the Straw Hat crew being separated and the whole Amazon Lily arc. While he was saying this, all these images and memories which i had forgotten just came back to back in a large bang. With my fond memories of the show, i began watching One Piece the moment i came home. Then, as with Bleach and Naruto, i began reading the manga where the latest anime episode finished off. And soon, i found myself here with my other One Piece friends.