User blog comment:Norman Fong Ochoa/Anything New Which Could Stand to One Piece Now?/@comment-4401815-20170723162414

I don't think any anime is going to challenge One Piece. It just has a terrific amount of everything - colorful and likeable characters, complex battles with intimidating enemies, a world structure that has lots of variety, feels magical, yet at the same time feels organic, and when it introduces so many new characters in all the islands they go to, whether they're relevant to the plot or not, the world feels even more organic.

The only big flaw it has (beside the anime's pacing) is that Oda overcomplicates things sometimes, like when Luffy's Gear 4 ran out against Doflamingo, and then we get chapters of dead action.