To be fair, I haven't read the Game of Thrones books yet and have been a One Piece fan for almost 20 years now. I've also liked Game of Thrones a lot though, especially the seasons before the last ones, but my One Piece love still creates some bias towards it.

So I will only focus on the One Piece Anime in comparison with Game of Thrones as the TV show.





Games of Thrones was created by George R.R. Martin, who is an extremely acclaimed author and also helped out on the production of the TV series. Martins storytelling and character development are extremely good. The first couple seasons of Game of Thrones were the most addicting show, I probably have ever watched in my life. The interest, which I had for the characters were comparible to the ones, Oda had created in One Piece. Also, in Game of Thrones, it was almost impossible to predict what would happen. Especially because the series had an open end to it. In addition to that, a lot of main characters died over the course of the show and many new ones came on, which was something that never happend before.

The unfortunate part for the TV show of Game of Thrones was though, that George R.R. Martin parted ways with the creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss along the way and the quality of the show dropped slowly but surely. I remember thinking in the first couple of seasons that some things didn't really make sense to the show, but they still kind of did. Like some deaths of some characters or how people acted. But after Martin left, some things happend, which still didn't make sense and there was no but. They just didn't make sense and were never adressed again. Also storytelling went to a bad place and as the episodes of the last season aired, many others and I were just disapointed. Even though my expactions were already pretty low, after seing the previous season.

Lets jump to reasons, why the One Piece Anime is better than the TV show Game of Thrones. First of all, let us not forget that One Piece has over 900 episodes (still ongoing), had way more time to portray characters, story etc. and Game of Thrones were only 8 seasons. But let us also not forget, that the creators of Game of Thrones had all the money in the world to create another season or at least shoot some more episodes for the last season than they actually did. Especially the last season, everything was rushed and there was barely any explanation on why things happend, in the way they actually did happen. Also as I stated before, most things stopped making sense at all. They just took George R.R. Martins gold and made it to wood.

To be fair though, the expectations for GoTs last season were higher than any other TV show ever before. So the chances of people being disappointed, especially because the show was going to end, was unavoidable. But they still topped it. It wasn't just like 'okay it wasn't what I expected', but more like 'this is just bad'. I could write books about it, but lets focus on One Piece.

The Anime of One Piece also has its cons, especially in the animation quality. In some episodes the animations don't look finished or are badly made. Also the pacing sometimes is bad and there are a lot of fillers, but that is just the case, because the Manga isn't released weekly anymore, but the Anime is. And they have to consider that the Manga story is further advanced in the story than the Anime. But other than that, the Anime is amazing. Fights are usually well made, the story is insane, characters are sometimes even more lively than in the Manga and the voice acting in One Piece is off the chart.