I think trying to catch up to the anime would be basically impossible but 1100+ chapters of a weekly manga is just barely doable. Could easily go through 50+ a day.

Anyways, I say this but I also haven't caught up with One Piece because there's just so many other manga I'd rather read. Daemons of the Shadow Realm seems cool!

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I caught up with the anime last year but its definitely rough. There’s a lot of padding in the older episodes though. They’re going to be slowing down to putting out only 26 episodes in 2026. Reading the manga up to the point the anime is at and watching the bigger fights is probably the more sane choice though as Toei is kinda shit.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The anime is hilariously padded. 24 minute episode with a 3 minute intro, 3 minute outro, 3 minutes of little animation action breaks, 3 scattered minutes of actual plot, followed by 12 minutes of broken up reaction shots from each of the 26 charectors in any random episode.

A charector will kick a guy and the anime will show you shocked faces for 3 minutes.

Art.

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And they like don’t bother animating the cover stories

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago

which are plot, relevant, by the way, and also help create the beloved feeling of the series' world that it is a world in motion even when we're not looking. it's thanks to the cover stories that the supernovas don't feel like an asspull despite being conceived of the week they were introduced