User blog comment:JustSomeDude.../What Are Your One Piece Reading or Watching Habits?/@comment-10543621-20150115003522

I've knew all along that One Piece was a really good anime to pick up. Several friends while growing up followed it. I watched a few dubbed episodes many many years back during the Sanji recruitment arc and I thought it was pretty shitty because of the dubs. Years later, when the plot of close to marineford arc, that's when I decided to binge watch the entire series.

Not sure if I should mention this here, (it's technically piracy?) but I basically downloaded fan-subbed versions from episode 1 all the way to the latest one, watched everything all at once, then continued with the manga from where the anime stopped simply because I needed know how it went on. Finished up the manga and ever since, I've ritualistically continued to watch and read every new anime and manga episode/chapter released every week.

At some point, I convinced my partner to start One Piece as well, and as she binge watched all the episodes from the beginning, I joined her and rewatched everything a second time. She also continued with the manga like I did and now a good part of our lives revolve around waiting for new chapters and episodes to be released.

I purely go with fansubs and translations because well.... I'm cheap.... The episodes that I keep for collection sake, I download from Yibis. Watching wise, I usually go with whoever releases first. At some point, I will rewatch Yibis' releases just for the heck of it. It might seem childish, but I've always really liked how Yibis subs the different attack names as the characters use their attacks in different fancy fonts. Manga wise, usually mangastream. Sometimes, I get tempted into reading mangapanda when they release first, which I usually cringe and get confused as hell until mangastream releases theirs and I reread it.