I’ll tell you rn I’m also not into pirates AT ALL and it took my friends 4 years and me 3 attempts before I got to episode 300 of one piece then steam rolled to the end and now it’s my favorite piece of literature and I keep up with the manga weekly as my only manga lol tldr just trust but also wait until your ready the straw hat family is always there but also add Frieren and Cyperpunk Edgerunners to your list they are S+
Add to your list Gurren Laggan (don’t skip openings and closings cuz they’re amazing and the entire anime is about pumping up the vibes) and Eureka 7, both are masterpieces that stand alongside Code Geass & FMA Brotherhood, the apothecary diaries are good too. That and HxH are the ones from your list I would prioritize. Oh shit, also Spice and Wolf. Gotta squeeze in some romance! 😅
from what ive heard the manga is wordy as hell but it's still good af and honestly there's a lot in the manga that hasn't been animated (small disclaimer: the author has been sick for a VERY long time so there's essentially no ending rn but there is a pending ending incase he passes away before he can finish writing)
i watched clips and i really really don’t like the animation of one piece and i just really hate pirate themed things bc sounds silly but my ex bf was extremely emotionally abusive during a pirate event thing we have in tampa fl and since then anything pirate is kinda triggering. sounds stupid i know.
it’s called gaspy ! but since then anything piratey i’m not really into…it just brings back bad mems. i watched the first ep and ngl i don’t really wanna watch something that’s 1000+ episodes either, i know myself and i really wouldn’t enjoy that. i love a good ending and prefer shows with 6 seasons max.
The early episodes yeah I don’t love the style, and I get the topic being a trigger, but if it’s any conciliation, even though it’s about like a pirate crew… it has all of these loving pieces. But quite literally I had very similar reasons to putting it off aside from the personal trigger about pirate related things. It’s such a unique anime cuz normally I wouldn’t give 2 shits about pirates, but it has brought out all the emotions more than a lot of anime’s I’ve seen
If you do give it time I recommend balancing it with other anime. I started with a few episodes at a time and then watched something else cuz yes the pacing is a little bit slow in the beginning, but after a certain point I started watching more and more. I started last year and I’m in the 700’s now.