User blog comment:JustSomeDude.../What Are Your One Piece Reading or Watching Habits?/@comment-24850639-20150114220445

I was 4Kids kid as well lol. I got my exposure through dubbed version they showed. Can't remember the exact year, but definitely between 2003-2005, I was between 13-15. I remember not understanding what the hell was going on, but I was immediately amused by Luffy's "Gum Gum ____" and seeing him stretch, I was like what the hell lol. It was during the Syrup Village arc because I remember seeing Kuro with his sword fingers exposed. I stopped somewhere randomly during the Arlong Park arc. But yeah back then it was a saturday morning only show, and I had no clue what the hell a manga was. I'd heard the term before reading up on random Dragonball Z stuff, but didn't understand that THAT was the actual storyline, and not everything in the anime actually happened.

Anywho, I didn't see One Piece again until like my sophomore year in college (2010) and I picked up at Sky Island. So I completely missed Alabasta saga, Loguetown, Orangetown, and a good chunk of Jaya in between. At this point I became a binge watcher of the anime, and watched it all the way up through right before Marineford. Gave it a huge break, and binge watched again up through like the first few episodes of Fishman Island. Binge watched one more time up until I was current right as things were ending on Punk Hazard.

I didn't learn what the hell the manga was, and how mistaken I was until I was current at that point and started looking things up on the wiki. I was noticing that there were things on the wiki past what I had watched up to, and then I had my great epiphany lol. So I didn't start reading the manga up until like chapter 740-something. But back when I was binge watching, because I had missed so much earlier stuff, things like the Will of D, the Ancient Kingdom, the weapons really just went completely over my head. When I realized just how much I missed out on, I started the anime over at episode 1, and now I'm back to the Enies Lobby arc. Things are so much clearer now, and I'm glad I did it. I now follow both the anime and manga up to date.