The One Piece anime tries to bring out the absolute best in its characters. However, it can get too caught up in the animations most of the time. On the other hand, the manga gives an in-depth understanding of the personalities of all characters and the overall plot.
There's a one week break for every 3 chapters so that's 3 chapters and 4 episodes a month for the One Piece manga and anime respectively. Even if the anime catches up to the manga, the studio simply adds more filler so that it doesn't catch up.
The anime is always 6 months to 1 year behind the manga. This is to allow the Manga author to publish more material so that the anime studio can work on them. There's a one week break for every 3 chapters so that's 3 chapters and 4 episodes a month for the One Piece manga and anime respectively.
Even if the anime catches up to the manga, the studio simply adds more filler so that it doesn't catch up. As of now, in the anime, the Roger Pirates have reached the last island Laugh Tale. This is as of episode 968.
Till this day, One Piece had the most consistent and detailed world building so far in anime history. One factor that helped is its ability to explore more is because of its high number of If you ask any one piece fan, they would give you tons of theory of what one piece is. Theories became an inside joke in One Piece community.
One Piece Anime is quite far behind the manga right now (about 50-75 chapters). The manga is now in the Wano Arc, while the previous Punk Hazard arc just started in the anime (as of this answer).
They stop airing One Piece for a year so the manga catches up. They start airing the episodes every 2 weeks. They do what Game of Thrones will do/did and continue with a separate storyline. They start writing the story for the anime and make the manga based on that.
Below is a brief summary of the filler arcs you can skip from One Piece without worry:54-61: The Warship Island Arc. This is the series' very first filler arc.135-135: The Post-Alabasta Arc. ... 136-138: The Goat Island Arc. ... 220-224: The Ocean's Dream Arc.
Gear 5 ("Gear Fifth") is a transformation resulting from the awakening of the Gomu Gomu no Mi. It was first seen during Luffy's final battle with Kaidou on the Skull Dome rooftop.
So hear me out. Gear 5 is a very popular theory in the community and Oda himself has hinted towards it in an SBS. However, while many people believe that Luffy will transform into Gear 5, I believe that he will actually "consume" it.
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