How caught up do I need to be to watch it?

RizzardKing69 said:
So I haven't watched One Piece in awhile (like roughly more than half a year), and the last episode I watched is 140. So I was wondering how far in one piece I need to be in order to understand what's happening in the episode while also not spoiling myself because I've read people's comments on how this episode has a very impactful meaning. Please provide me estimated amount episodes I need to be caught up with, thank you.

Azuchi said:
Well you should at least have watched episode 522 I think it was. The 25th story arc, Fish-man Island starts at episode 523 so watch at least episode 522 before watching this. Otherwise, you'll get spoiled quite heavily.
That is my opinion.

Ruthless_Lord said:
Upto "Return to Sabaody Arc". 522 Episodes, I think

Azuchi said:
Well you should at least have watched episode 522 I think it was. The 25th story arc, Fish-man Island starts at episode 523 so watch at least episode 522 before watching this. Otherwise, you'll get spoiled quite heavily.
That is my opinion.

Awt-ne-he said:

Between ep 522-533, essentially the start of post time skip. The episode covers three arcs, sabotory arc, marine fort and the start of post time skip. Which all of these are between ep 410 to 533 give or take.

Memowynekromanta said:

If you want return to One Piece, I recommend mamga more. Anime is to stretched. I watch 73 episode of anime, and it was already like that. When I heard that is even worse further, I switched to the manga.

Memowynekromanta said:

140 is filler, so you should start from chapter 218. If you choose manga.

Memowynekromanta said:

140 is filler, so you should start from chapter 218. If you choose manga.

Soumodip_wraf said:
well you have a long journey, this episode occurs just before the start of fishman arc, Good luck

RizzardKing69 said:

guess imma have to watch 12 EP a day to catch Up fast 😬

Imacd24 said:

Nah no need to catch up fast. I told myself that I wanted to catch up as fast as possible when I started my One Piece journey because I wanted to to be caught up when episode 1000 aired but I started watching over 3 years ago and just hit episode 1000 a few weeks ago and am now dreading being caught up because I don't want to have to wait for new episodes like everyone else. I assure you that you will feel like you have to watch the show as fast as possible when you first start but I cannot stress enough to just take your time and enjoy the adventure.

I also disagree with alot of the comments about pacing, not only is all the pre time skip pacing perfectly fine in my opinion, even the arcs that do have serious pacing issues aren't nearly as bad as everyone make them out to be when you have every single episode at your disposal. I can agree the pacing would've been unbearable had I been watching some of these arcs on a weekly basing but being able to watch as many episodes as you want at whatever pace you want really negates alot of the pacing issues in my opinion. That's just how I felt watching it anyway, I'm sure lots of people will run me down to tell me I'm wrong and the pacing is in fact dog shit but I really didn't notice it for the majority of the series.

Skylar-whoo said:
I got to episode 1000 in like 7 months, so once One Piece start airing again you should be starting Whole Cake or even Wano. You only need to watch like 4 episodes a day. Im not that good at math, but hear me out; correct me if Im wrong:


1 ep = 20 min (with out op, recap, ending)

3 ep = 1hr

1k ep / 3 ep = 333.33 hr

333.33 hr / 24 hr = 13.90 days

13.90 days / 6 months = 2.31 hr

so basically, if Im correct you should need approximately 6 ep a day to around mid of Wano arc.

(If Im wrong I will instantaneously delete this post, so that this info doesn’t spread misinformation)

Imacd24 said:
@RizzardKing69 That's totally fair. I have since gone back and read the manga as well, I even bought all the box sets. So I can say that experiencing the story through the manga is just as fun and entertaining as watching the anime. I hope you enjoy it as much as me and so many others have and good luck to you on your One Piece journey.

Imacd24 said:
@Skylar-whoo I mean you are mathematically correct I think, but I feel like if I have to spread sheet the optimal amount of episodes to watch per day like that then to me personally watching the show is gonna end up feeling like more of a chore then the actual fun adventure it's meant to be. Like I said in the post above, I think if you're new to One Piece you shouldn't worry about trying to get caught up as fast as you can and just enjoy the journey at whatever pace you personally enjoy watching it at.

Vinsmoke__Abid said:
Seems like everyone has already answered your question!!