One Piece is both one of the most popular shonen anime of all time and one of the longest-running. Given its immense length, most audiences would feel intimidated to finally jump into the anime, which totals hundreds of episodes now. But if one decided to curl up and catch up with the now-legendary show, how long would it actually take to get through?
How Many One Piece Anime Episodes Are There?
Based on the ever longer-running manga by Eiichiro Oda, the One Piece anime first began airing in October 1999, making the show over 20 years old. Throughout the years, it has amassed just as many seasons, with a current total of 990 (and counting) episodes. Unlike many anime, the One Piece movies are also part of the ongoing story, with the 895th and 896th episodes that encompass the "Carbonic Acid King" arc tying in to the most recent movie, One Piece: Stampede. Even with this extensive episode list, committed viewers should be able to watch the entire series so far... eventually.
How Long Would It Take to Watch All of One Piece?
One Piece would likely be up to its 991st episode, at the time of writing, by the time a viewer would reach anywhere near the point of being up-to-date with it. The episodes all ranging between 22 and 24 minutes long. Using the latter as the norm and multiplying it by 927, binging the series would therefore last a total of 23,784 minutes. This would equal 396.4 hours or 16.52 days.
That's, of course, if they watched it without ever sleeping or taking a break. If viewers were to spend the eight hours a day that would usually be reserved for work consuming the anime instead, it would take them 49.55 days to catch up with all of One Piece, provided they did this process every day, including weekends. That would be two months' worth of continued viewing -- a pretty arduous task and one that will take viewers into the holiday season.
Removing two and a half minutes from each episode for the intro/outro, the 927 episodes last a total of about 21,307 minutes. This is 355.1 hours or 14.8 days, putting it right over two weeks, though that still would require consecutive viewing without any breaks for other shows or activities. The still-continuing (but soon ending) manga also means that many more episodes are still on the way, too, making the catch-up line even further away as the weeks pass.
While it's still by no means an easy-to-digest chunk of programming, there's never a bad time to set sail with One Piece.
