User blog comment:Joekido/Is One Piece getting tiring?/@comment-71.13.82.190-20140123141710/@comment-53539-20140123154638

The trouble is with the "correct" ideas is they are still only an opinion. An opinion is just that, one person's perception against another which may or may not be the same as that person. And having know quite a few animes and mangas in my lifetime, compared to some others out there OP's weaknesses as a series is nothing to complaint or hold against.

I once had a Boyfriend who said the entire OP East Blue sga could be summed up and rewirtten to last a mere 5 minutes if you "cut out all the fluff and panning". I said "yes, but its whats missing that is the point". Miss out one detail and it comes back to smack you later on in this series as Oda has a habit of reference old plot points you didn't think were important.

The trouble is, One Piece is set in a make believe world, which opens up many doors for issues from the word "go". If it was based in reality, we wouldn't have things like Devil Fruits though, so you have to give any series like it some room or it is merely a swallow, broken story with a lot of emptiness and lacking in life.