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I just finished the Enies Lobby arcs in the One Piece anime.
To those who’ve suffered through the glacial pacing, should I just swap to the manga? I really like 1p, but it has this terrible habit of killing all tension by putting the stuff I care the most about at the end of a comical amount of tedious shounen battle sequences that each go on for way too long, and flashing back way too much all the while. I skipped like 5 episodes and the only thing that actually changed was that the big threat actually appeared on the island, and I kind of hate that.
Yes, I would recommend reading the manga instead.
I have watched like 500 episodes and then read like 700 chapters of One Piece. I think content-wise one episode equals one chapter. But in reading the pacing feels way better to me.
Part of that is that dialogue can be read faster than the lines are spoken in the anime and that you can look at the individual panels of fight sequences for however short or long you like.
It takes me like 10 minutes to read a chapter.