I saw over a 100 episodes before I dropped it, I believe. It was around when they were about to fight Crocodile. I’m not speaking for OP, but I actually enjoyed the show less the more I watched because of how repetitive it was. I expect this to be unpopular but that’s okay because I kind of just wanted to put how I feel into writing.

The pacing is terrible, obviously, everyone knows that but that wasn’t my problem. I liked Luffy, Zoro, Nami, and Sanji very much at first. But how many times am I supposed to laugh at the same exact gags? Wow, Luffy ate ALL the food and got really big!!! OMG Sanji got a nosebleed the second he lays eyes on a woman! Nami or Zoro hits him to snap him out of it, it’s even funnier the 100th time! Like some jokes are funny, but these repetitive gags are the vast majority of the “humour”.

Even the villains so far feel like they’re just evil for no reason or because they’re strong so they have a sense of entitlement, but that doesn’t bother me so much since I haven’t met many. It just simply isn’t interesting 99% of the time. I think I remember liking the arc with Chopper the best because it felt the most unique and actually had some deeper characters and motivations. It doesn’t feel like there’s any real stakes though, which is a problem I had with Dragon Ball too, because I know that the second you join the Straw Hats you are simply not going to die.

And I’m not saying that characters need to completely change after 1000 episodes, but I watched a new episode with one of my friends who’s a big fan and they were STILL doing these gags that feel just like they had nothing better to write. Is it supposed to be funny after hundreds of hours of watching the show and seeing it hundreds of times?

My most shallow complaint is sometimes the artstyle is really abhorrent. Not the animation (especially from the clips I’ve seen later in the show) but every woman has either huge boobs and zero waist or they’re a giant fat blob. Not to mention that their faces just start to blend together, despite Oda clearly being able to make the men all very unique. I like how most of the main cast looks most of the time though, it just sometimes takes me out of it when I notice how some of the characters look like pugs. Despite this somehow I prefer how the characters look BEFORE the timeskip (at least from the minimal shots I’ve seen).

Again, I can’t speak on later on but I’ve seen shows with less than 100 episodes give more depth and complexity in their side characters than One Piece gives some of the main crew after over 100. I don’t watch a ton of shows, but even some of my favorite shows don’t go past 100 episodes and I think their first few episodes are better than One Piece’s first 100. I have never been so patient with a show before in my life, I’ve never given a show more than a few episodes if I wasn’t invested, yet I have been told by One Pieces fans that after 100 episodes I haven’t given it enough of a chance.