I was wondering people got into One Piece. I got into 8 years ago when I watched an episode on cartoon network. It was the one where they were fighting arlong's men. It peaked my interest and I started reading the manga. Well, I think that's how I did if I remember correctly.

I knew it was popular and asked my younger brother if he thought it was good.

I watched it years ago on TOONAMI(Cartoon Network), then about a year ago my friend kept bugging me to read it. And now I read it every week.

The same thing applies to Naruto and Bleach.

Been reading OP since I was 12. I am 22 years old today. Just picked it up by a whim after I read DragonBall.

Saw how popular it was on onemanga and decided to give it a read/watch, don't remember if I checked the anime or manga first, gave up but could not resist retrying some times later and I don't regret having done so.

I was at a frinds home, and partied
Then before going to sleep i stumbled over some volumes of one piece and began reading, and became hooked

Toonami, which also introduced me to every other mainstream anime lol...ah...good times...oh wait, it's back XD come to think of it, I wonder if there's a toonami thread...TO THE SEARCH ENGINE!

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Was reading an article on Dragon Ball which said it had inspired many popular works such as Dragon Ball, Naruto, etc.... OP's rating and Naruto's popularity made me read them later on.

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Got hooked when it aired on CN... didn't even know what an anime was... at that time

i was bored, saw one episode from kaizoku fansubs... 90 or something went to anidb to read a review found it had a manga and downloaded 1st vol (a lot faster than anime as my connection is kind of weak)

I was in Germany, and all alone at home during the day. Only things worth watching were documentaries on ProSieben and Anime on RTL II.

It introduced me to Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Shaman King, Monster Rancher, Detective Conan, Hamtaro and of course One Piece (Pokemon too, if you want to count that).

Got back to the Netherlands and got interested in continuing Anime (they had this awesome Anime called Shinzo .
When discussing this wonder with my Chinese friends, they introduced me to Manga such as DN Angel and Rave Master which later brought me to the scanlation scene, starting with SnoopyCool and this awesome #Lurk database (IRC was so cool to learn) and the anime from Dattebayo

I've stopped watching anime though

watched the one piece marathon on cartoon network
when i was a kid

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Smiles Conceal Knives - Lynn Flewelling.
There is No Such Thing as BAD Words.

stumbled on the manga at my cousin's house.
Since I was bored,I decided to read it
and here I am now, still following the manga

It was airing on TV, so I started watching and couldn't stop

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98/00 something
someone recomended it over at Toriyama World[i think] in a kenshin thread
[since i loved kenshin i just had to try it out]

I tried it
it was awful[the first volume is just ...BAD]

2k1 or so i gave it another try
and pretty much right after volume1 it start to get funny/good
i have been a fan since