A little question for everyone who is up to date, or has seen at least a few hundred episodes - how did you get up to speed on the anime, and how long did it take?
I think it's fair to say the anime has A LOT of episodes, so watching 600+ episodes plus a new one every week is no small commitment. Does/did anyone have any kind of strategy for doing this?
I started watching One Piece online around mid-2011, though as my PC at the time was an ancient Windows XP computer and I had no laptop, I could only watch it sparingly. I stopped for a bit around episode 60, because my ancient computer was prone to switching off randomly. I had a plan, however, for getting up to date once I was able to carry on watching.
Christmas 2011 I got my first laptop. One of the first things I did? Carried on watching One Piece, of course. I got to episode 100 and that's when I started my plan for getting up to speed;
I would watch 10 episodes a day, every day, until I had seen another 100 episodes; this generally meant 5 episodes in the morning and another 5 in the afternoon/evening. Laziness often overtook me and some days I would only watch 6 or 7 (which would mean the next day I would only watch 3 or 4 - I was also watching it in blocks of 10 so I could easily keep track of where I was up to) and some days I would just not watch any, but I was aiming to keep watching them in blocks of 10 until I had seen 100.
When I had seen 100 episodes, I would have a week's break where I'd just either watch other things or nothing at all. After that week, I would carry on watching 10 episodes a day until I had seen another 100, then I would have another week's break, and so on and so forth until I was up to date.
This got me up to speed in a few months. Was it arduous? Yes, but not as much as you'd think. I was speeding through it, but I was also doing it at my own pace. By the time I was up to date, it was the Fishman Island arc, so ever since then I've just been watching it weekly. It was a lot to do in a short space of time, but it got the job done :)
Anybody else got any similar stories?