User blog comment:Joekido/One Piece Polling: Is the series declining? 70% said no/@comment-34981281-20160512232402

There's really no long-running series with the same story structure as One Piece. Most of them tend to be episodic, lots of starting and stopping points. As a result, they usually suffer from repeating too much of the same story, or going so unrecognizable different that they lose key elements that made you like them in the first place.

One Piece continues to build the same story, so we feel like we're seeing something new and exciting without losing any of the original charm.