User blog comment:Kraykan/What do you not like about one piece?/@comment-3986064-20110627101951

I don't hate anything about OP, in the beginning I hated the fact that it took so much, but now I understand that and love it more than the actual fights I've waited for before! The essence of OP is that you have to love the amount of characters, they are very many to show JUST HOW BIG THE WORLD IS! imagine, even the name: GRAND LINE, it contains the word Grand, all those rookies, went through so many places....can you even imagine what would've happened if we could see everybody's story, its too much then, that shows more realism since we in the real world as well, the life of one person, of only 1 person is more than a book of 1 million pages...Luffy's life, even his is not completely depicted, only the important moments are shown and in the present time, every other bit of his life is also shown, his jokes, behavior, it's like we're really passing the time with him and his crew, it makes it feel more like we're in the OP world as well since we can see everything thats happening! so its normal that there should be allot of characters, I mean how many people do you think live in the Grand Line? They are all shown when they meet the SH on the Grand Line!

And the marines can do something, remember not everyone is as strong as the SH's, thats why in the end the SH fought with the CP9 and didn't fight with he Marines, since the marines have a huge number and if you make a 30 million fight with 30 marines that can beat a 5 million, who wins? the marines of course, its like quantity beats quality when it comes to the marines on the Grand Line.... but if you think thats all, don't forget there are marines that can beat a 30 mil with ease, not even breaking a sweat. The 3 admirals! Kizaru! he could've killed all of the SH on the spot if they weren't saved by Kuma, the vice-admirals, Luffy coul barely beat one since they use the same kind of techniques as the CP9 AND ALSO! they can use haki as well, I think that even Luffy could've lost to a vice-admiral at Marineford if he would've fought with someone like Onigumo, Stwarberry, one-on-one.... they are some of the strongest marines and fight in the New World against some of the strongest pirates there are....

Having 9 or even 10 people in a crew is pretty normal and not having your favorite character on the screen at all time isn't that amazing, you need to learn to enjoy OP even if your fav character isn't there anymore, I mean Buggy couldn't have even appeared anymore, but he did! My favorite pirate of all times(excluded from the SH) is Gol D. Roger and I barely even saw his face the first time, and until now I think his face was clearly shown only 2 times... so you're right, some people like it like this XD