I actually tried out watching One Piece way back when, but unfortunately that was before I was wise to the evils of 4Kids and I watched the dub. Oh dear God... I mean I see the appeal to it in that it's pirates, adventuring, absolute spaztic crack, and there's a lot for fans to infer but some of the cast is just unbearable, the story is God-awful long, and there seems to be a lack of direction to it.
I hear and get the argument that the lack of pairings is detrimental to it's appeal and agree. While personally I don't like having pairings shoved down my throat it is nice to see nuances between characters that could be jumped on or rejected.
Consider this is coming from someone that's only scratched the surface and might, one day, try to go further in depth but at first glance and a few episodes (regretably done by 4Kids) it didn't capture my interest right away.
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