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[ SECRET POST #3206 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3206 ⌋

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Wow, you gave it that many chances? I probably would've given up after the first shot. (Unless you were just saying so to get him off your back, in which case I totally understand.)

Don't let anyone pressure you into spending your time on something you don't care about; there are too few hours in the day.

And honestly, your friend sounds pretty irritating; he doesn't seem to know when to give up, so I think you need to flat out say, “I'm not going to try this thing because I don't want to."

Honestly, I just read it in the US version of Shonen Jump (I had a physical subscription to it back in the day) and saw a few episode of the 4Kids dub (also back in the day). I said the rest of the stuff just to shut him up. I've got too much anime backlogged as it is.

He's a great friend, so I guess I just don't want to hurt his feelings because he loves that damn series so freaking much.

while he's a dick for not accepting "I don't like it" as an answer...lbr anon if you only read the shitty Jump translation back in the day (Zolo, for real????) and the 4Kids dub, you haven't discovered why this is his favorite series.

I may be a hardcore One Piece fan but I also recognize that people don't like things and that's okay. But as someone who once hated it and now doesn't, I can also say that you haven't experienced the story correctly yet.

Different anon here.

I experienced One Piece with subs, and I gave it 30 episodes. I started off neutral and ended up despising it.

I found the art terrible, but wasn't put off by that. It was the story. Guy has a dream and won't let it go. Even though it's dangerous. Even though it's damaging his health. Even though he's putting others at risk around him, and might kill all of them. Not to mention it's a stupid dream anyway and it will be impossible to tell even if he's achieved it.

Sometimes people just have different tastes. No matter how I'd experienced One Piece, I'd have hated it because the central storyline is something I despise and it's repeated every ten minutes in case we've somehow managed to forget. No superior version is going to change that.

Or maybe OP just doesn't like it regardless of crappy translation or whatever. I've tried watching/reading One Piece and the reasons I don't like it have NOTHING to do with the translation work.

While I can appreciate why it's such a popular series, there was really nothing about the series that clicked with me. Not the story, the characters, the art, nothing. I do read summaries just so I know what my friend's talking about, but I feel like if I liked it, it would've grabbed me even with the lousy translation because then I would've been motivated to seek out some good subs. Lord knows I've had enough links thrown at me.

I had a Shonen Jump subscription too!

...Still never read One Piece lol.

While I understand not wanting to hurt your friend, unless you want him to hound you about it forever you're probably going to have to be blunt about it. His inability to let it go is not good for your relationship, even if it is a relatively small matter. (If all he wants to talk about is One Piece despite your objections, that's a step too far. Dude needs to back off and respect your opinion.)

Agreed hard. He may be a great friend but he's not really acting like it on this issue.

I know the feeling of not wanting to hurt a friend, but there are times where you just have to stick to your guns and say "sorry, but enough. I'm just not interested in the series" and he needs to respect your opinion on the matter, or else he's just going to keep nagging you to enjoy something you don't like.

Edited 2015-10-15 01:22 (UTC)

4kids has a deservedly bad reputation in the fandom for screwing up the anime release of OP. If you watch it now on Crunchyroll you'll get a much better experience TBH.

I just lost most of my sympathy for you. You actually didn't watch or read the real thing, and then you lied instead of just saying you're not interested? Boooo.

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Nah no one's entitled to persist with something they don't want. Maybe this friend is the sort who won't take no for an answer within a fandom friendship so OP thought it was politer/less resistance to say they'd tried it and didn't like it rather than "sampled a little bit of it, got bored, could not be fucked trying to sample it any further to please this person"

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* entitled to have someone else persist

Yes, because lying to your friends is always the answer. I personally always feel very embarrassed when I suggest something to a friend, they try it, and don't like it at all. I would be much happier if they just said they're not interested in that kind of thing instead of lying about watching/reading a lot of it and still not liking it.

Just to make things clear so you understand; it's the lying part I take issue with, not OP not wanting to give One Piece a chance.

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Whatever, you feel embarrassed, maybe this person in the secret is super rude and pushy. Sometimes it's a valid strategy depending on personality types and energy levels. Friends aren't always ideal, or close, and sounds like OP painted themselves into a corner without meaning to.

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