One Piece has long since established itself as one of the greatest anime of all time, and for good reason. The story consistently finds ways to outdo itself in terms of action and massive lore drops, and with the significant evolution of the animation in tandem, nearly every episode is a sight to behold.
One Piece is a phenomenal anime, but unfortunately, its incredible quality comes at a price. One Piece has been consistently running weekly since 1999, with the only significant break being a sudden six-month hiatus from late 2024 to early 2025, and because of that, One Piece is one of the longest-running anime with over 1000 episodes to its name. Because of that, anyone who isn’t already invested in One Piece would have to put in a lot of work to catch up, but at the end of the day, it would be more than worth it.
How Long Would It Take To Binge All Of One Piece?
The Full Length Of The One Piece Binge Explained
At the time of writing, there are 1136 episodes of One Piece, each one running for about 23 minutes on the average streaming site. That comes out to a total of 26,128 minutes, which, divided by 60, would be about 435.47 hours, and when that is divided by 24, it ends up being that a person would need about 18.14 days to binge all of One Piece.
That figure does include One Piece’s filler episodes, so removing them does change the total, but not by much. Despite its length, One Piece has only 96 filler episodes, making the total number of canon episodes 1040. As such, by using the same math from above, One Piece takes about 16.6 days to binge without the filler, and while two less days is great on paper, it doesn’t mean much with such a daunting task at hand.
Surprisingly, the One Piece movies don’t play a significant part in those figures, either. With only 15 movies in One Piece’s film catalog, the longest of which isn’t even two hours, the movies only add about an extra day of bingeing, with or without filler, so they can be skipped if someone simply wants to get through the series as fast as possible, but it won’t matter much in the grand scheme of things.
How One Piece’s Binge Time Compares To Other Big Shōnen Anime
How Long Are The Other Big Names In Shōnen?
It would take a person a long time to binge something like One Piece, especially compared to other big shōnen anime. Naruto and Bleach, for example, are comparatively shorter at 720 and 406 episodes, respectively, so using the same math as above, it would take 11.5 days to binge all of Naruto and about 6.5 days to binge all of Bleach, although it’s only 6.76 and 3.8 days without their filler episodes.
Other big shōnen anime also fare far better than One Piece. As long as shows like Jujutsu Kaisen and Demon Slayer: KImetsu no Yaiba have been running for, their short seasons give them only about 50 episodes each, so they could each be finished in about a day, and while My Hero Academia is fairly lengthy at 159 episodes, even that pales in comparison to One Piece and could be binged in far less time.
Surprisingly, One Piece also stands far above Dragon Ball in terms of length. As long as Dragon Ball might be, Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z only come out to a total of 444 episodes, less than half of One Piece’s episode count, meaning that it would only take someone about 7.1 days to binge the original Dragon Ball, 6.13 days when discounting Dragon Ball‘s filler.
The figures do become a little closer when including the entire Dragon Ball franchise, though. When including Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Z Kai, Dragon Ball Super, and Dragon Ball Daima, there are a total of 826 episodes of Dragon Ball anime, which works out to about 13.2 days of bingeing. That figure is far more representative of Dragon Ball’s length and legacy, but in the end, One Piece still surpasses it by a lot.
Why One Piece Is Worth Watching, Despite Its Massive Length
Why Everyone Needs To Watch One Piece
There’s no denying that it would take an incredibly long time to watch all of One Piece, but doing so would be more than worth a person’s time. The great action and animation is one thing, especially in recent years, but above all else, One Piece excels as a story thanks to its great character work and how effortlessly it balances comedy, drama, and worldbuilding, and it’s easy to see why it’s held in such high regard.
If anything, One Piece’s length should be a selling point for the series. So many stories don’t run long enough to give their characters and worlds proper development, especially in recent years, so with One Piece’s incredible length, people can go into it knowing that there will be time for everything to have a satisfying conclusion, even if it takes a while.
Even that might not be for everyone, but it still means that One Piece more than earns its length, and it will continue to do so for years to come.
One Piece
- Release Date
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October 20, 1999
- Network
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Fuji TV
- Directors
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Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou
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Mayumi Tanaka
Monkey D. Luffy (voice)
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Kazuya Nakai
Roronoa Zoro (voice)
