Finally I am done: I truly watched all of One Piece, One Piece at a time. Episodes, Specials, movies, OVAs - I watched exactly one and only one per day. I started November 16th 2022. Today, 2026, June 4th, I am done, there are no more pieces yet out to see. I have seen literally everything.
I am DONE.
(This first part was written in Feb 2026 when I caught up to the main series but had not exhaustively watched every movie, every special, every commercial, ect.)
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I am thrilled beyond what you might think possible for all that I did was watch a series - even One Piece. But this, this I am genuinely proud of. So the way I did it: You may only watch exactly One Piece at a time. One film counts as One Piece. One episode counts as One Piece. One OVA counts as One Piece.
Every single day without fail I watched a complete episode of One Piece, and never any more.
This was not difficult, but I feel accomplished for doing this. I've gotten a degree, learned art (to a certain extent), and other things I'm proud of - this is a much smaller accomplishment, but I feel really satisfied I got here.
This took just a little spark of discipline and commitment - there were some days the story got good and I reaallly wanted the next episode - Alabasta after Luffy confronts Crocodile is one, generally a few of the conflicts just had me so much I wanted more. But I never broke the course - One Piece per day. You just gotta commit. More even than your determination, this is just what you do, and we always do it like this, never fail. That is how you do anything. You commit and do it.
The rules: you must go in a straight line through the episode. You have to watch it all, and you can't go back. If you do accidentally see the episode before (which happened about 3 times), watch that one all the way through, and then watch the next one - to keep the narrative line going so you never break chain. I watch it one sitting too - I don't get up ever once it starts, I find a way to keep the episode rolling once I sit down and start (this is a fun one I like - it adds a little intrigue for me - in truth, you just have to watch One Piece per day, and only one episode for this journey to be complete - the real lesson is, only 1 new episode per day, and exactly new episode must be seen per day. Do not go back either. (Until you're done with this, do not rewatch any episode previous in the series) All these extra rules keeps the story flowing.)
About where was I at any particular month, ~around, during our little journey
East Blue: Nov and Dec 2022 I was enjoying East Blue, lotsa stories and has a charm. They don't have a concrete ship, they don't know what they're doing, they're just three kids out sailing around, trying to figure out what to do and how this works. I love these times - I really wish the would have continued... but I suppose that would have made this a different story than One Piece wanted to be.
Alabasta: January to ~Spring 2023 - I love Vivi. 100% needed to join the Strawhats along with Robin. Vivi in each arc would be soooo fun to see. Alabasta is, still to this day, one of One Piece's most solid arcs - Oda outdjd himself in proving his story could work here (he did this was Arlong's Park too, but really came into his own with Alabasta. Also we see the Grand Line isn't really like how the other seas describe it. I mean it is - but people also just live there and try to live the best they can.
Skypeia: ?After Alabasta, I kinda lose this arc because we lost Vivi, and I wanted to keep her </3 (I also was under the impression Zoro's childhood friend actually was still alive and she would be joining us. People actually dying in One Piece is always a shock to me.) The waverunner is ♡ and the characters are fun, also the jungles and conflict of the plot being about anti-imperialism. This one... it never really hits as well for me, I am not sure why - the elements are there.
So I was thinking here and I realized: there would probably be about ~15 to 17 arcs in total out now. That was about what it was.
Long-long Island and the few filler plots: Fun fact, I thought Long-Long island was canon to the manga, then I was convinced it was filler because they use the villians of this arc in another filler arc, and then I found out this one *was* canon. I wanted to see more of how Long-Long island worked, rather than have some traveling pirates have a game here ^]^
Waters Seven: This one goes on and on - we enter in later 2022, and literally only leave in 2023 August. And it's connected with
Enies Lobby, which takes months and months. To be honest this arc, I thought Waters Seven was going to be a three episode arc to get the Merry fixed, not a 300 ^%^ We meet Franky - I actually thought we were done adding crew members after Robin. We hadn't added after what felt like like several arcs, Robin came in at 120, so I thought, even though Luffy wanted a muscian, I never thought he was getting one. I really like Franky ^]^ Glad to have him abroad
The Icy filler arc: August and September 2023 Most of the filler arcs I do not really remember (there are severa filler episodes that are keyed into my heart, like the one where Zoro meets his new family in Water's Seven, you cannot convince me this is not canon.) I really like the dynamics of the characters here, namey that of the big sister and little sister villian here.
Our floating island of spookyness: Later 2023, we have an adventure.
Shabody: Late 2023, At this point the concept of arcs breaks down. This is one my fav arcs, esp for the characters, from our dear first mate to our mermaid.
Disconnected crew: Late 2023 into Early 2024 wanted to see each crewmember get a full part of the arc. The point is to show how Luffy feels during this, though, the sheer isolation and anxiety. It works.
Prison: Early 2024 One of my favorite arcs - shows an amazing set of plans. We also get to see an entire society crafred into the walls of the prison. Top tier ^i^
War: Feb to late March 2024 ...
Timeskip: The timeskip happens for me On 2024 April 15th, about a week aftet the eclipse.
Fishman Island: April 2024 to Summer 2024 I love this arc ^&^ Nami, Chopper, and Ussop needed to kee their character development they showed right after the timeskip. Even against New World threats, I did want to see progression. I love Fishman Island, the best place in all the One Piece world, just so vibrant and wonderous, and such a unique society.
Punk Hazard: After Fishman Island abruptely ends waaay too soon like a month after we get there, to later Summer 2024 (that did not last long - I wanted an epicly long Fishman Island and Sabody saga, especially exploring the city, but we just moved on to Punl Hazard, which is just a barren cold wasteland, and we send most of the time not in the dangerous part but in the subtely dangerous part, as cold is brutal. Law comes on boars here so it's alll ok. (I did not ever think Luffy would take this deal. That he did shows me Oda can craft a masterful story, and is taking us somewhere good.),
Dressrosa: Around September 2024 I was in Dressrosa. Also one of my favorites - the New World arcs get good and keep getting better. I love the Gladitorial Areana - Rebecca is ♡ Her story and her father's parallel so well, the stories connect so nicely. Genuinely I felt betrayed by the outcome of this arc - this arc might be studied by historians for falling so hard at the end and not delivering well on the storylines established. The fight at the end is epic, we meet God Ussop, strongest of all pirates, and there is a lot in this arc - the setting just feels amazing. Also Luffy got a crew in Long-Long island - I wanted him to keep them and have them sail away. Now he *does* have a crew, of 5,500. Thiiis is what I wanted! The new world arcs keep going and getting better and better - like all One Piece they have terrible pacing problems, a lotta filler, and don't connect with me as other shows that are better paced do - One Piece needs about 1/4th to 1/3rd as mant episodes, packed well this is a 400 to 500 episode series, expanded out and out.
Elephant: Just a little arc after Dressrosa in ~Dec 2024.
Whole CAKEYYYYYY Island: December 2024 to April 2025. We actually do lose half the crew here. Brooke, Nami, Chopper, and Sanji appear in Dressrosa, but the rest of the crew don't appear at all. Genuinely I was waiting for them to come save them - my lifetime of storytelling experience doesn't work for authors who know what they're doing and are crafting their own tale. This entire arc is so fun to see the world of Big Mom and her children. Just the masked brutality, Big Mom being the 'nicest' of the evil Yonkō... for those who live in her realm, or pay her protection fee perfectly without fail, they are allowed to live dignified lives. But the cruelty is just as intense as someone like Blackbeard, even if much more veneered, though with Big Mom at least you almost always have some way, even if insane (like not fearing death, or paying exorbitant protection fees, or even just giving a literal month of your life to her as your payment to stay, this might the arc that elicits the most emotions we don't normally feel. Also the songs and amazing way of ending the arc
Wano: Summer 2025: Just an epic journey. This destroyed land, people living in sheer depravity, and we see the entire society. All the events that happen, and we then transition to the second part at Kaido'd Island Castle. The ine thing: this arc reaalll drags hard at middle to end. It felt like we were in a taxing battle. Kaido's downfall down feel quite a bit satisfying when we see him go down after all this epic arc lasting 200 episodes, literally the length of one of the moderatly ' long ' animes.
Egghead: September 2025 to Today -> This one starts off a little weak when we get into the lab, and I wanted to see a lot more of what Egghead had to offer. Show me this society - literally let me see the society for half the arc, and interact with it as we introduce the conflict. This arc redeems itself hard, and all the backstories, side stories, and the ending plight just is amazing. Really did not expect an arc to have such a strong conclusion, that One Piece is coming together to be much much more than what we thought it was going to be, IE a story where a kid goes and finds some treasures and helps out a few lands here and there, the characters get ultra powerful, and they get the treasure - that not being how this ends, we can see now, is amazing to see.
That is what I have found through my journey - the way I watched it impacted how I reacted to it and what I felt. This really is a nice way to watch One Piece.
How long will this take? Where will I be sailing at, during any particular day of any particular month?
~June, August 2025? That's about how long I roughly estimated it would take to catch up. Then I was in September 2025 to January 2025 and I realized, I was still waaaaay off, in Dressrosa and Whole Cake-EY Island at the time, respectively. I realized it was optimistic to think I was getting to Wano and that take the entire summer - it would probably be more like late summer, August. Reverie turned out not really be an arc 💔 so Wano started in May.
I was finally getting into episodes that when I started this had not premiered at around September 2025 - and I was thinking all this time "No way we're getting to see 4 years, no way"
So January rolled by and we're still in Egghead.
This series goes and goes and keeps on going. A human cannot correctly comprehend how big ~1,100 anything is.
And it should have taken me far longer. During a lot of this time the series was on hiatus?, I think, and releasing remake episodes and series, and releasing things that were not new episodes, because the manga has Oda needing a slow down for his physical health to not deteriorate any further.
Should you match up the dates how long it would take to watch 1155 episodes, you'll find I should have finished about a month ago - from 2022 November 16th to 2026 Febuary 14th is 1187 days. All the days past 1155 I watched a film or ONA or something else One Piece that day. I realize in ~December 2025 to January 2026 I would finish up sometime close to Valentines Day, within a week or two - why not fill in the gaps with a few ONA, films, extras, and finish on Valentines Day? Middle of the month at end of the Year to middle of the Month at the beginning of the year - 13 seasons apart.
I am still going to keep watching One Piece per day until I exhaust literally every film, every ONA, every OVA, every commercial, every crossover -> anything One Piece. I thought this would last me, including all of these, to ~September 2025 - it looks more like this will be closer to June 2026. That's a rather epic tale, especially for the fact this is not yet even the last of the Pieces.
Spoilers I knew about the series going in (only a little sprinkling, and not the big ones either - well one of them, a meta one) I knew shockingly little about the entire story. I came in knowing there were going to be giant sea monsters that, by the end look pretty small compared to the bigger threats, I obviously knew Luffy was going to rise and keep rising (just obvious how any adventure story, any of these typsa epic shounen work), and I had a vague idea of a few hints of some of the Strawhats outside Luffy.
I didn't know the arcs, I didn't know the plot progression: I did know about the timeskip, I did not know where it was or why, so I was waiting for a really long time, I thought it might happen starting in the late 100s episodes - it took a little while longer. I did not know a few departures of some of dearly beloved friends. Like really epic, almost everyone in the fandom has this spoiled by someone who was not being considerate of another person's enjoyment of the tale - always be respectful of anyone around, even those who can overhear you.
I did know there was a three eyed group of people, and a lotta different peoples in this world. I did not know I she is ♡♡♡ Also that this world was filled with a lotta reallt diverse cultures and people - that's pretty expected for a good adventure story though.
For taking so long to complete this and then having context to understand spoilers if they came up, I managed to evade things surprisingly well.
I did actually see a few images of Gear 5 Luffy - just because everyone was posting and I was not being as careful as I would be to avoid social media and YouTube, to enjoy the experience fully. I did NOT know the much bigger parts of that, and all the Egghead related arc (I did know Egghead existed due to the promo material - I do wish I had caught up during Wano to have seen these parts of the story without that knowledge).
Calculations - a journey like this gets you numerical
So in the last few months, I was calculating - if One Piece is releasing a new episode weekly, every week I gain 6 episodes net - so I thought about ~200 episodes would be released by the time I caught up, so it's be around 1250 to 1300. So I'd watch those 200 episodes, and another 28 will have come out, and I watch those 28 and another 4 will come out, and then I can catch up that week. It was slightly easier to catch up this way, and I was not 'chasing' a moving target with more epsiodes to watch the longer I went, with no end in sight.
From a Wikipedia article I saw a long time ago, when the show was (I thought) 850 episodes, and it said that was the half way point, about. I am sure I must have read those numbers wrong, because the 800s didn't come out until the 2020s. When I read this, the 600s must have been coming out, and they were talking about the time skip and directly after. So I'd probably at most only ever have to watch ~1600 to 1700 episodes given that note I read, but given how the series seems to be wrapping up, I think it'd have been only around ~1300 (to be honest pretty low end) to 1500 (really high end now honestly - I think it'll wrap up before 1400 episodes). Now that One Piece has gone seasonal and will have about half as many episodes as we had before, so we might actually finish up around ~1300. A fine number for a pirate's tale of revolution.
All following parts are written today, 2026 June 4th.:
So, I watched the entire series up to Egghead, watching a few of the specials, all the crossovers, a few movies inbetween the episodes (I would only ever watch one article per day - one episode, or one movie, or one OVA, or one commercial. Sometimes this meant I had 30 seconds of something to watch that day, sometimes it meant I had 2 hours to watch. I sat down and stayed in my seat the entire time, not getting up till that video is done).
My thoughts: Some of the films were legitimately really fun! I refuse to believe One Piece: Red is not canon in some nebulous way, it just feels like an amazing arc. All the specials have amazing environments, and especially the movies have these incredible islands. I highly recommend any artists into anime, probably at least skim through the films, watch Clockwork Island, watch Chopper's Kingdom, watch all the early One Piece movies and OP Film: Red.
There are a shocking amount of these films that I could not find. Surprisingly, I couldn't find the Long-Long Island recap (which is ok, it is just a recap, I did wanna watch all I could, but this one seems fairly lost). Also One Piece Planetarium, somehow even the Star Wars crossover I could not find. Sometimes, even entire multi-part series like One Piece Characters Logs (recap episodes of each character's story and how they joined) are currently lost.
I did actually find a few of these videos that were thought lost on a few online video directories, scattered about. I do wish we could just allow posting of videos anywhere, so that we always have the records of that video, and we handle anything about copyright and resources a separate way and don't have takedowns, I think we'd have a much broader spectrum of videos we'd have posted.
The recaps and retellings of the story, like Episode of Merry, Episode of Alabasta, ect. oddly tend to have the opposite problem One Piece has: they show too little. They need to be about 1.5x to 5x bigger (the Fishman Island Saga needed about 30, maybe pushing 36 episodes to best be shown without filler. That's about in line with a longer typical Shounen arc. For reference, the Fishman Island Saga, which is one of the shorter arcs, takes 60 episodes in the main series. If the entire series was scaled this way, it would likely end up around 400 to 550 episodes total. So, definitively something for future editors of a less filler-filled One Piece version (somewhat like we're seeing with Elfbaf pacing).
Some of the specials are cute and fun, like the Soccer and baseball episodes ^^ Also there is a cute series of episodes where the One Piece characters give a PSA.
A lotta these are recaps. I think I have watched the same scene of Luffy meeting Shanks, Luffy eats the fruit... -> Shanks saves Luffy, Luffy gets his strawhat, about 6 times over the One Piece main series, and the side series and recap episodes, it just keeps being shown so many times ^7^
If you want me to tell you which of these were worth watching, Nebulandia, Fan Letter, Gold, Red are good. Glorious Island ; 3, even Jango Dance Carnival is fun, One Piece: Protect! The Last Great Performance are fun.
All the movies in general are good, from One Piece: Defeat the Pirate Ganzack! to Dead End to Adventure in the Ocean's Navel to Open Upon the Great Sea! A Father's Huge, HUGE Dream!, all so good!
This is my journey, and now I am going to keep going~! I am going to keep saying current on One Piece, and I'm going to watch One Dragon Ball episode per day. Best Days to you all!
