User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 686 - Death & Strawberry (End of Bleach reMIX)/@comment-24769684-20160818150944/@comment-3423279-20160819005020

I guess my "point of view" is wanting a story about something to actually be.... about the thing it is about and not random events.

To put it in video game terms (oh boy) One Piece feels like Minecraft, its interesting to me and I enjoyed it for a time, but eventually the lack of actual direction just sucked me out of the experience. In One Piece the direction is "Go wherever."

For a manga I generally go for one that has a goal which is overarching and the characters can be seen moving towards it, maybe that's why I like Fullmetal Alchemist so much because the goal of "restore our bodies" is never actually dropped and is constantly a thing, it just becomes one of their two goals, the other being "Stop the Homonculus"

I think that manga took 100-ish chapters to complete and I do in fact enjoy it a whole lot more than the "big ones"

A journey is fine to have but are you honestly saying that every other arc in One Piece being about something entirely unrelated to both the one before or after and rarely related to the main goal is interesting?

Also.. breakneck speeds? The Wandenreich War took some time to pull off but the goal of "Defeat Yhwach because he is trying to destroy a world" was never dropped by a suddenly needed epic journey to get someone's cash back.

One Piece, to me, is bogged down by its characters just... not doing the main goal that was set up in the title, or only doing it veeeeery slowly.

A Journey becomes uninteresting to me if the amount of detours gets too excessive, tell me the arcs that deal with either the treasure or revolutionary army vs world government (which seem to be the two major plot points of the series) versus the number that don't.