User blog comment:Joekido/Archetypes in One Piece/@comment-1940096-20140104173955/@comment-972068-20140105000038

Another turn-off is the length. A lot of people don't want to watch a 700+ episode anime. Sure, some others have gone longer like Pokemon, but the thing with that is that all the episodes of Pokemon are independent. You can pretty much pick it up and drop it off at any time.

I think the main reason people aren't into One Piece is because, at the surface, One Piece seems like a really stupid show. A lanky kid made of rubber in a treasure hunt? Why watch that? It doesn't help that the world looks random, too. Weird talking reindeer, weird long-nosed freak, a skeleton with an afro?! What kind of drugs are they on?

That's sort of what I thought when I first saw the show (Well, Brook wasn't introduced yet, but that's still a common turn-off with haters today). At first glance, One Piece is a random drug-trip. When diving into it, it's not like other shows that are still random drug trips (*cough*cough*), but it's a big adventure that's really not that different from other animes such as Dragon Ball.