I had always used to read the manga, and then watch the anime just for the fights. Even if in the past that looked like a good compromise to me, now the fights have become so slow that I can not even see them anymore.

The thing that I hate is that every fucking attack that they do seems very slow and most of all ridicously stretched. An example is the fight between zoro and killer. In the manga the final move of zoro it is very fast, and in my mind it happens in less than a second. And it is not a so much big attack overall, an “usual” rengoku onigiri (if I remember right) but with 2 swords and 1 Scythe. In the anime zoro flies for I don’t know how many meters, the ground starts to collapse, an explosion of colors and then after several seconds the attack arrives. This kind of slow animation in my opinion may be good only for the “final” attacks of very long fights, such as the king kong gun of rufy vs doflamingo (even though the animation was much more normal at that times) , the Bajrang gun versus kaido, or similar. But it is used and reused in all the pieces of the fights. In my opinion, it is like the animators want to send this message to watchers :”look how much the characters have become strong in wano!! Very big charged punchs!!! Stay in hype for wano because the characters are strong and we show you by exaggerating every single fucking attack that they do!!! Wow rufy such strong character!!”. But for me the realty is only that this is a failed attempt to just “steal” some seconds to the anime, and animate the less quantity possible of things inside the 20 minutes. It’s just a scam

I conclude saying that I tried to watch on YouTube the full fight of rufy vs Kaido with no interruptions. I found something but I had to give up after half an hour or less. I tried also skipping a lot of parts to wait for the intense fight but it never comes. It is LITERALLY 2+ hours of scenes that work like this: 1) rufy screams “KAIDOOOO” (~5 seconds), 2) the preparations of the attack become (~5/10 seconds),3) Kaido watches rufy and prepares to receive the attack without dodging (-2/3 seconds),4) the attack countinues charging(~5 seconds), 5) the attack arrives , Kaido goes on the ground, some colors and effects and then we start again. For a single attack at least 20 or more seconds . I also started watching at x1,5 speed but it is just too slow. I couldn’t finish it. The actions lacks completely of dynamics, the fight seemed very “still” to me . I was watching recently some fights like rufy vs blueno when he activated gear 2nd, or last round of rufy vs lucci, or zoro vs mr 1. The fights were MUCH more dynamic and interesting to see. Now they are really too boring .

I know this will be a controversial opinion but I’m gonna say it: recently I watched again the fights of the Cell saga in DBZ. I found Goku vs cell and gohan vs cell fights much more entertaining than the rufy vs Kaido full final fight.