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Why is One Piece more popular now that the anime is 25 years old? We asked around and found out
Great characters, an epic storyline, and nearly limitless episodes to binge certainly help.
25 years is a long time, especially in television, so seeing the One Piece anime reach that milestone this month has been special. 25 years of adventures, of sailing the Grand Line and back, and watching Luffy surprise us with how he never changes (not that we want him to). But what is it that keeps One Piece fans coming back over and over again, for 1100 episodes and counting? Why is this fandom still fascinated with Eiichiro Oda’s world 25 years after it first appeared on our TV screens? This week's Popverse Jump is our attempt to answer that very question.
“The music, the storyline,” explained Angelo from New Jersey when I pressed him on the subject of One Piece’s ability to stay on our screens for two-and-a-half decades on the show floor of NYCC. “Oda has made an amazing world.” More than
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