You're OG boss..I myself started reading around 2006-7
And every week but lately I used to think that I'm getting older and what if after 30 I still watch anime and read manga. I thought it would be embarrassing, but seeing you seniors I am soo happy and comfortable😌
39 here, I used to watch and discuss it with my friends around 2001-2004, but got out of it until the live action was released. After I watched the live action, I picked it back up and caught back up.
A friend of mine that was 3 years older had a dvd burner and would download individual episodes onto dvds for me haha. Had so many. I forget which website I used to read manga on but it loaded very slowly cause dial up. It was also shown to me by said friend
I am currently 42 years old.
I started reading scanlations (OP amongst others) at the time those became a thing around the year 2000 - when I just turned 18. Back then the manga must just have been in the midst of the Alabasta arc, I guess.
Those were the dark ages, when one had to download those scanlations by the chapter as ZIP files. In resolutions that today would be considered Thumbnails. But it was necessary, because broadband internet just started to become a thing, most people still had 56k dial-up connections. Good times. LOL
Early 2001, the first volume of One Piece was officially released here in Germany, the Anime in 2003. Read and watched both from the beginning.
I am 27 years old and I think I started when I was maybe 8 or 9 years old :D
Everytime my mom would go to this one mall, I was so happy and just told her: "Mom, I will be on the 4th floor at the book corner". And then I was just sitting there and reading through the mangas of One piece. Some day she would then buy one for me, that was amazing.
Funny is, that during my teen years of 16 to 18 I stopped with One piece and lost a bit of sight... Somehow I then got back at it... Luckily!
Also 27 except I used to watch the 4Kids dub occasionally. But same deal as you, got into for real in my late teens and now I’ve been a weekly reader & watcher for a decade. Glad I got into it later in life and not back when it was on 4kids, otherwise I might not have stuck with it
I'm 26 and started with the 4Kids dub also. Honestly, since I was only 6 when I started watching the 4Kids dub I didn't understand what made it "bad". I just remember laughing my ass off and loving it.
Yeah same here. Saw the show when it aired on Toonami or whatever and was hooked. Binged so much subbed One Piece on YouTube 2004-2005ish until I had to start reading the manga as I watched all I could find lol
I was born that year lol; it’s truly neat seeing so many travelers of varying lives and era’s united under one inexpressible journey. One Piece is truly an experience :).
Started reading 3 years ago and have enjoyed every moment sailing since 🌊🌊
That must be really special. To have a piece of media that you've followed constantly for more than half your life...
I was born in 97 - so you have been reading One Piece my whole life!
27 and same thing for me. I was watching every week until about ep 650 then i stopped. Just got back into it and doing a rewatch to catch up. Just finished Water 7.
I’m 25!
I started reading from the beginning back in 2012, when I was 13, and Fishman Island was wrapping up serialization at the time. I took a year to catch up, and the first manga chapter I read concurrent with everyone else was ch. 700, the first chapter of Dressrosa, in 2013. Been weekly ever since~
I'm almost 43. Started watching the anime on tv on my 20s and found it too silly. Then on my early 30s I got interested again and read the manga all the way to Dressrosa and became a true believer. It's been like 10 years now, phew!
I'm 42 and I have almost an identical experience. First exposure was the English dub on tv, didn't like it. Then about 10 or 11 years later after a break up, decided to pick up the subs and binge watched until I caught up at PH, then started reading the manga afterwards. I was manga only for a while until sometime in Wano when I started watching every week again.
38, I started One Piece when it first came out in Italy in 2001. I was 15 back then. When I think of everything that happened in my life in these 23 years it feels nostalgic to think One Piece has always been there.
30. Started back in '09 with the anime and watched until the time skip. Restarted the series with the manga in '21 and have been a weekly reader since Chapter 1035!
I discovered One Piece at the worst possible time at the age of 19 in 2011. That was my first year of university and suffice to say I passed through the skin of my teeth. Countless hours meant for studying in the library was used to catch up to Fishman Island instead. What can I say? The library WiFi is just way faster than my home haha.
34. First came across it when Shonen Jump started a monthly print magazine in the US in 2002. That ended in 2012 for the online version, but 22 years later, I'm still sailing the seas.
I'm 31 I first saw the 4kids dub when I was a kid, forgot about OP, then rediscovered at commuter center in college while on YouTube. Right after the time skip.
I was born the same week the One Piece manga debuted in Shonen Jump. I’m only 5 days older than One Piece. Watched the 4Kids version growing up in the early to mid 2000s. Wouldn’t get back into it until the late 2010s where I rewatched it from the beginning, this time with the updated Funimation English dub.
19, started the anime in march last year, caught up 7 months later, after that I read what the anime had not yet adapted and now I've been reading weekly since chapter 1094
37. I've been a O.P fan since I was 17.. There were no channel in my country that shows O.P... Btw I first started anime with Dragon Ball. Not Z. Little Goku was fun to watch. I still can't believe O.P. continues. New animation styles and the story is making me want more. It makes me sad this is gonna end.. It's like, what now?
27, started watching 7 months ago as an excuse to procrastinate with my postgraduate's assays lol. Caught up and have no excuse anymore except of every Sunday and Thursday (manga).
37.
Started with the show in 2001, took a few years off and jumped back in 2010 and reading the new chapter each week since.
Now I'm waiting for my eldest son to read well enough to watch the show again from the beginning cause I can't stomach the V.A in my second language.
20. I remember Naruto being my favourite anime for years and me saying I’d never watch one piece ever. My ex introduced one piece to me and I instantly fell in love. Safe to say one piece has become my new favourite anime
I’m 28 and started watching the anime 10 years ago. Within a year I had reached Thriller Bark and was disappointed at how many episodes were still left (and I kept seeing spoilers everywhere), so I took a break that ended up lasting until last year. The live action series came out and watching it made me really want to watch the anime again, so I went back to Thriller Bark, watched up the the timeskip within the next two months, switched to reading the manga, and I just got caught up last month.
37 started watching One Piece when the 4kids dub came out, after a while figured something was wrong with it and started reading the manga. Caught up during the start of Thriller Bark.
32 started with the big three in 2004 and then began reading on onemanga, then i usually took breaks for 2-3 years and caught up when big arcs were done.
Recently trying to read weekly because we are in the endgame. Tbh my manga/anime taste has fallen off the past years, but not one piece, no no.
Started watching in 2014 and stopped after little garden. Picked it up again at 26 y/o last summer and completely caught up to manga in December of 2023. So took almost 10 years to catch up lol
33!! I started watching it in Telecinco around 2004, fun to watch but didn't was my favourite. Then I discovered it again in Jetix during Arabasta arc and since then I am in love with the series
27. Started watching when the 4kids version came out. Then stopped for years. Then around covid time I felt like watching some nostalgic shit. So I watched about 10-15 episodes of naruto til I realised it's not as good as when I was a kid lol. Then one piece popped in my head and since then I've watched every episode minus filler arcs and finally got caught up around episode 1000
Almost 40.
Was first introduced to it by my ex when I was about .. 21-22 or so? Quite early in the manga, maybe about 150 chapters released (edit: volumes, in English). But I couldn't get past the art. Tried it again a year or three later; ex cheated, became single, had time, figured "if there's all these raving reviews about it, maybe I should just stick to it", so I did. Then kept reading weekly!
Also, around the year 2003, I started buying DVD-Bootlegs from Hong-Kong off eBay. Partially with hilariously bad translated English subtitles. Back then, I didn't knew those were pirated knock-offs, learned that years later. But even if I had known, I'd probably would not have cared.
I'm 21, close to 22 at the moment. Started reading One Piece a year ago, and I'm fully caught up as of a week ago. It's become my favourite thing like ever, and I'm so glad I got into it!
22
I've got vague memories of the 4 kids dub but I didn't really start watching and reading untill 2018 made an excellent distraction from the revision I was and still supposed to be doing
37 here, started in 2012 with the anime and 2013 i started reading the manga until today. Oda’s work helped me through a rough period of my life. I can proudly say that I love One Piece and is the best thing ever created on planet earth.
Turning 34 this year. Watched the 4kids premier, then in 2005 started watching Kaizoku-fansubs. Watched up until the end of Marineford subbed when it came out, took a break and started catching up in 2022. Caught up at the end of 2022 and have been watching it and reading it weekly since. Joined this sub after reading gear 5 and before it aired.
All nakama here.
60
It's a fun show. After 1000 episodes I'm more invested than ever. Mid 40s here.
Mid 40s here as well. I’m all caught up with the episodes. This show is one of the only shows that can make me laugh and smile.
17, and over halfway caught up
41 myself, been reading week to week since fall of 2004 on chapter 339
You're OG boss..I myself started reading around 2006-7 And every week but lately I used to think that I'm getting older and what if after 30 I still watch anime and read manga. I thought it would be embarrassing, but seeing you seniors I am soo happy and comfortable😌
So you would of started during Enies Lobby and Thriller Bark? Great times, I loved reading week to week through both arcs!
39 here, I used to watch and discuss it with my friends around 2001-2004, but got out of it until the live action was released. After I watched the live action, I picked it back up and caught back up.
30, started watching and reading fan subs/translations in 2000
Man, I wasn’t even allowed on the computer when I was 6.
Yahoo groups?
A friend of mine that was 3 years older had a dvd burner and would download individual episodes onto dvds for me haha. Had so many. I forget which website I used to read manga on but it loaded very slowly cause dial up. It was also shown to me by said friend
I am currently 42 years old. I started reading scanlations (OP amongst others) at the time those became a thing around the year 2000 - when I just turned 18. Back then the manga must just have been in the midst of the Alabasta arc, I guess. Those were the dark ages, when one had to download those scanlations by the chapter as ZIP files. In resolutions that today would be considered Thumbnails. But it was necessary, because broadband internet just started to become a thing, most people still had 56k dial-up connections. Good times. LOL Early 2001, the first volume of One Piece was officially released here in Germany, the Anime in 2003. Read and watched both from the beginning.
I turn 42 this summer! Let’s be two fantastically happy 42-year olds who enjoy OP together!
I am 27 years old and I think I started when I was maybe 8 or 9 years old :D Everytime my mom would go to this one mall, I was so happy and just told her: "Mom, I will be on the 4th floor at the book corner". And then I was just sitting there and reading through the mangas of One piece. Some day she would then buy one for me, that was amazing. Funny is, that during my teen years of 16 to 18 I stopped with One piece and lost a bit of sight... Somehow I then got back at it... Luckily!
Also 27 except I used to watch the 4Kids dub occasionally. But same deal as you, got into for real in my late teens and now I’ve been a weekly reader & watcher for a decade. Glad I got into it later in life and not back when it was on 4kids, otherwise I might not have stuck with it
I'm 26 and started with the 4Kids dub also. Honestly, since I was only 6 when I started watching the 4Kids dub I didn't understand what made it "bad". I just remember laughing my ass off and loving it.
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Happy Birthday One Piecer!
Same! Also happy cake day!!
The kids are gonna be alright
happy cake day perona girl :D
Happy cake day
Happy Birthday fellow One Piecer 🎉 :)
Happy cake day
Happy cake day lil man
34, first time i read the manga was 01 but really got in to the show around 04-05
Yeah same here. Saw the show when it aired on Toonami or whatever and was hooked. Binged so much subbed One Piece on YouTube 2004-2005ish until I had to start reading the manga as I watched all I could find lol
Same here. I am also 34 and started around the same time.
We are many!
We are Legion
Me too! I started with the 4kids version on Fox Kids!
32, boarded the Merry-Go in 2006 and haven't looked back east since...
Meanwhile, Dragon:
lmaoooo
Hey, be nice to my boss!
My bad lol
Also 32, but only jumped on the One Piece hype train last year. Absolute loved catching up!
32gang
I was born that year lol; it’s truly neat seeing so many travelers of varying lives and era’s united under one inexpressible journey. One Piece is truly an experience :). Started reading 3 years ago and have enjoyed every moment sailing since 🌊🌊
40, hooked on it since 1997
That must be really special. To have a piece of media that you've followed constantly for more than half your life... I was born in 97 - so you have been reading One Piece my whole life!
Same it's been a long run so much fun though
Same!
26, been watching on and off for about 11 years now. I say on and off but i did like a 6 year break lol. But watched first 300 ep at 15 yrs old
27 and same thing for me. I was watching every week until about ep 650 then i stopped. Just got back into it and doing a rewatch to catch up. Just finished Water 7.
I’m 25! I started reading from the beginning back in 2012, when I was 13, and Fishman Island was wrapping up serialization at the time. I took a year to catch up, and the first manga chapter I read concurrent with everyone else was ch. 700, the first chapter of Dressrosa, in 2013. Been weekly ever since~
I'm almost 43. Started watching the anime on tv on my 20s and found it too silly. Then on my early 30s I got interested again and read the manga all the way to Dressrosa and became a true believer. It's been like 10 years now, phew!
I'm 42 and I have almost an identical experience. First exposure was the English dub on tv, didn't like it. Then about 10 or 11 years later after a break up, decided to pick up the subs and binge watched until I caught up at PH, then started reading the manga afterwards. I was manga only for a while until sometime in Wano when I started watching every week again.
15
Yep 16 here
22 began in 2014
Boarded when Usopp was fighting Mr 4 in Arabasta.
31, started watching a year ago and I just got to ep 1105 last night!
20, comitted in 2020
Same here! 👋 It helped me get through Covid
27 tomorrow! Started reading when I was 11
Happy early birthday! 🥳 Here’s to many new chapters from GODA 🍵🍵
I’m actually turning 26 tomorrow so we share the same birthday, cheers to that🥳
Can you please summarize all the answers in one graph?
I'm 17.
28 reading manga since 13 years
24 started watching around 04/05 went on to have no tv for a view years and got back in 2011. Can’t rly remember a live wo OP
Just turned 40 last week! I was in my 20s when I started One Piece!
34, started one piece in 2020.
I’m 35, started reading it when I was 11, I think I bought the tankobon 1-4 at the same time to catch up with the beginning
38, I started One Piece when it first came out in Italy in 2001. I was 15 back then. When I think of everything that happened in my life in these 23 years it feels nostalgic to think One Piece has always been there.
Started in 2009 and now I'm 30
26, started the anime last October and just finished whole cake
27
29 😁
30+
30. Started back in '09 with the anime and watched until the time skip. Restarted the series with the manga in '21 and have been a weekly reader since Chapter 1035!
36. Got caught up during marineford.
28 started in 2005 when alabasta aired on tv
I discovered One Piece at the worst possible time at the age of 19 in 2011. That was my first year of university and suffice to say I passed through the skin of my teeth. Countless hours meant for studying in the library was used to catch up to Fishman Island instead. What can I say? The library WiFi is just way faster than my home haha.
31 started in 2008 ish
33
33. Been here since they first started getting translated into English in 02
80
23, started 2014
Just turned 30 but I just got into one piece last year
Same as luffy
29, first seen the show in 2004 then boarded in 2008 and never looked back
34. First came across it when Shonen Jump started a monthly print magazine in the US in 2002. That ended in 2012 for the online version, but 22 years later, I'm still sailing the seas.
21. Started at 7.
38, started at 23 for Luffy's personality, stuck for the story
When One piece started, I was 13-ish. I started One piece at 15.
30, since 14 years old. (Though unpopular opinion my least favorite arc is Wano and lately I've been big into the live action development)
Almost 39, been following since 2000.
30, watching OP since 2008
20
now 32, first saw it when it was aired here in our country way back 2002
I'm 31 I first saw the 4kids dub when I was a kid, forgot about OP, then rediscovered at commuter center in college while on YouTube. Right after the time skip.
37, started reading scans in 2004, it was skypedia
45 here
I was born the same week the One Piece manga debuted in Shonen Jump. I’m only 5 days older than One Piece. Watched the 4Kids version growing up in the early to mid 2000s. Wouldn’t get back into it until the late 2010s where I rewatched it from the beginning, this time with the updated Funimation English dub.
16yo started 2021
20, I started watching OP back in 2018
32... i was 10 yo when i first read it...
107
Damn that’s pretty old
Same age as Jinbe or Kuma, about.
5 days to 40! Following One Piece weekly since 2006 (Ennies Lobby battles)
27, started the anime mid 2022 caught up 10 months later. And now weekly viewer/reader
24, started 2019
28. Started watching the anime in 2015 i think, caught up at the end of dressrosa, been reading the manga weekly since then.
29
21
4 months
36
36 - started watching OP around 2006
33 have been watching anime since the olden days of Sailor Moon and Samurai Pizza Cats.
24
19, started the anime in march last year, caught up 7 months later, after that I read what the anime had not yet adapted and now I've been reading weekly since chapter 1094
29. Started watching about 21/22 years ago since one piece used to run on television every day after school.
18
I'm 20.
37. I've been a O.P fan since I was 17.. There were no channel in my country that shows O.P... Btw I first started anime with Dragon Ball. Not Z. Little Goku was fun to watch. I still can't believe O.P. continues. New animation styles and the story is making me want more. It makes me sad this is gonna end.. It's like, what now?
27, started watching 7 months ago as an excuse to procrastinate with my postgraduate's assays lol. Caught up and have no excuse anymore except of every Sunday and Thursday (manga).
25, started reading at the library in 2005. It is soon 20 years of one piece for me.
Im 17 turning 18 later this year
32
Almost 19 I started reading the manga mid-late last year after realizing I will never actually catch up to the anime
20, soon 21, and have been watching - then reading - for 10 years
21
39 here. Been watching for the last 12 years
34 yo. Started a while before covid and then completely caught up during covid after I finished Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
I am 24!
34, been watching since like 2012. Friend showed me the 100 million berri punch and I was hooked since then.
34
37. Started with the show in 2001, took a few years off and jumped back in 2010 and reading the new chapter each week since. Now I'm waiting for my eldest son to read well enough to watch the show again from the beginning cause I can't stomach the V.A in my second language.
29. Im a Fan since my childhood
Currently 36, I've been watching one piece since late 2015
20. I remember Naruto being my favourite anime for years and me saying I’d never watch one piece ever. My ex introduced one piece to me and I instantly fell in love. Safe to say one piece has become my new favourite anime
44 - been reading and watching for 14 years now - my life has changed so much over this time. But I am still obsessed with OP!
I'm 25 and i started watching One Piece day one
23
37, this would be an interesting poll for this subreddit.
I’m 28 and started watching the anime 10 years ago. Within a year I had reached Thriller Bark and was disappointed at how many episodes were still left (and I kept seeing spoilers everywhere), so I took a break that ended up lasting until last year. The live action series came out and watching it made me really want to watch the anime again, so I went back to Thriller Bark, watched up the the timeskip within the next two months, switched to reading the manga, and I just got caught up last month.
24
27, started watching in primary school
31 soon. Started with OP in high school, so it’s been with more for a little more than half of my life I think.
18 - 20
31. Started reading in 2013 when I saw a picture of Doflamingo.
23 started watching arround 2015
30!
37 started watching One Piece when the 4kids dub came out, after a while figured something was wrong with it and started reading the manga. Caught up during the start of Thriller Bark.
32 started with the big three in 2004 and then began reading on onemanga, then i usually took breaks for 2-3 years and caught up when big arcs were done. Recently trying to read weekly because we are in the endgame. Tbh my manga/anime taste has fallen off the past years, but not one piece, no no.
37, bro introduced me to the series before Alabasta anime, then when I ran out of anime I folded and started seeing leaks asap
30; just began reading earlier this year, done with Dressrosa!
29 as of last month
31. I started reading the manga when I was around 19 or 20. The straw hats were on Punk Hazard.
31, watching since the first german release 2003 as a kid. watched till episode 200 and then switched to fansubs
24
20+
33. Stumbled on it in my home country. Got into it properly after I moved countries. Been my fav ever since.
45. Been reading it since the US version of Shonen Jump came out in 2003
Started watching in 2014 and stopped after little garden. Picked it up again at 26 y/o last summer and completely caught up to manga in December of 2023. So took almost 10 years to catch up lol
Started watching when I was nine, they were fighting Don kireg at the time in the 4kids dub
33!! I started watching it in Telecinco around 2004, fun to watch but didn't was my favourite. Then I discovered it again in Jetix during Arabasta arc and since then I am in love with the series
21, started in 2022
25 😅 wasn't even born when One piece started
27. Started watching when the 4kids version came out. Then stopped for years. Then around covid time I felt like watching some nostalgic shit. So I watched about 10-15 episodes of naruto til I realised it's not as good as when I was a kid lol. Then one piece popped in my head and since then I've watched every episode minus filler arcs and finally got caught up around episode 1000
Almost 40. Was first introduced to it by my ex when I was about .. 21-22 or so? Quite early in the manga, maybe about 150 chapters released (edit: volumes, in English). But I couldn't get past the art. Tried it again a year or three later; ex cheated, became single, had time, figured "if there's all these raving reviews about it, maybe I should just stick to it", so I did. Then kept reading weekly!
Lmao Im amazed but not surprised most people here are 21+ years old. Also its criminal this post wasnt a poll... This really shouldve been a poll
27 started watching one piece when I was 7 🥰
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Also, around the year 2003, I started buying DVD-Bootlegs from Hong-Kong off eBay. Partially with hilariously bad translated English subtitles. Back then, I didn't knew those were pirated knock-offs, learned that years later. But even if I had known, I'd probably would not have cared.
28, started in 2015
24 started in the 4th grade
turning 32 this year, started following when I was like 11-12 and it ran after DBZ on TV
I thought I was old at 28, but man some of these answers surprise me
31
I was introduced to it when I was 10-11 and now i'm 22
Guys One Piece has over 1,000 episodes search how much episodes One Piece has if you don't believe me then search it up.
34. I was exposed to one piece in 2011. But didn’t really get into it until last year 2023
28
I'm 21, close to 22 at the moment. Started reading One Piece a year ago, and I'm fully caught up as of a week ago. It's become my favourite thing like ever, and I'm so glad I got into it!
I am 30 and have been following one piece since I was 12 :)
18 started at 13
Mid 30s
35 this year, started in 2001.
24, started watching in 06 and started reading in 08.
28, started one piece in high school. It’s been a few years 🥲 since those days.
22 I've got vague memories of the 4 kids dub but I didn't really start watching and reading untill 2018 made an excellent distraction from the revision I was and still supposed to be doing
21
19. Started reading during pandemic and infected my friends with one piece (I was never able to infect anyone with anything else)
38, I started when Shounen Jump first released the manga in the USA around 2003. Been hooked on it since.
37 here, started in 2012 with the anime and 2013 i started reading the manga until today. Oda’s work helped me through a rough period of my life. I can proudly say that I love One Piece and is the best thing ever created on planet earth.
What are you? The government??? Ahhhhhh
38 and been reading since I was a kid
28, thanks to my older siblings I have been a fan as far as I can remember (so basically since the beginning of One Piece 😁)
Turning 34 this year. Watched the 4kids premier, then in 2005 started watching Kaizoku-fansubs. Watched up until the end of Marineford subbed when it came out, took a break and started catching up in 2022. Caught up at the end of 2022 and have been watching it and reading it weekly since. Joined this sub after reading gear 5 and before it aired. All nakama here.
15, caught up at 12
Mid 40’s. Started reading the manga in November after the Netflix series. Just started volume 86.
23
20
19 for me started watching when i was 15-16