User blog comment:Joekido/Archetypes in One Piece/@comment-1940096-20140104173955/@comment-2226235-20140105204951

You can't give 4kids too much blame for the popularity now since they dropped the license 7 years ago. The main reasons (that I've observed) that people don't want to try One Piece are the length and the fact that it seems pretty weird to non fans. Look at Funkfreed: a sword ate a fruit and gained the ability to turn into an elephant. That's pretty weird out of context, and there are plenty of other things that seem weird out of context.