u/Cool_Cell24

After years of hearing good (and bad) things about One Piece, I finally decided to see what it was like. I decided to do it by reading the colored manga, since I personally can't stand watching anime for very long, and I only watch it if I've already read the manga and really enjoyed it.

(I'm on chapter 24 of the manga btw)

This question has probably been asked a lot in this sub, but if anyone has any recommendations, I'd love to hear them.

I also want to say a couple of things:

• The beginning seems a bit boring to me, but it's not surprising; it's a manga from many years ago, so I have no complaints, it's normal.
• I was pleasantly surprised by the art from the beginning; it looks nice and cute. I'm not a big fan of One Piece's style, but it seems simpler and cleaner than what I've seen online. I suppose Oda will modify his art as the chapters progress, which is also normal in manga, especially such long ones. I also suppose that reading it in color makes it more beautiful; it seems that One Piece is a manga that benefits from the color version. ((The same thing happened to me with Jojo's; it felt strange reading it with that art style, but in the end I got used to it and ended up liking it. I suppose the same will happen here.))
• I already have spoilers for several things I've been reading online all these years; that Luffy's fruit is actually that of the sun god, that Gold Roger is related to Luffy (or so I think, because I always saw him mentioned with the D. as his last name, I suppose that being from Luffy's family, but at least for now they only call him Gold Roger, so I guess that's another spoiler I have), some of the characters who die (and not die), etc... so some things won't surprise me too much. But I think that with how extensive the manga is, there are a thousand things I don't know.

I hope to enjoy one of the most famous manga in the entire world.

It doesn't explicitly state there will be a hiatus, but it's a very real possibility. And honestly, PTJ deserves a huge break. And from what it looks like, it will be at least a month, maybe longer.

Maybe there won't be a chapter this week, maybe this week's chapter was already prepared and will be released, maybe the same thing will happen next week and the hiatus will be the following week, maybe at the end of this arc... we don't know, and for now we can only wait to see if there's a chapter this week or not.

But whatever happens, I hope PTJ gets better!