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One Piece. I was interested in it (the manga), but it's way too long.
That's just a barrier of entry though. I've never seen anyone read the whole thing and then come out thinking it was just a waste of time. You either enjoy it or give up.
One Piece is kinda different from other long shows because it's not being stretched artificially, but in a more natural way. Like, comparing it to Dragon Ball, it's not a case of "and now we need to find the 7 dragon balls again" but a case of "turns out that finding 7 specific items that may be hidden anywhere in the world is actually fucking hard". In that analogy, the story is at the "we just found out who has the seventh" stage. So now all that's missing is getting that last one, making the wish and seeing the outcome of it.
The first segment of the series was quite linear, but after some point each country they visit has its own story, almost like an Isekai. Some of those stories are incredible, some are extremely boring and others are just fine. Then once Naruto and Bleach ended, OP kinda shifted into trying to absorb the fans of those two series and it became a lot less interesting to people who enjoyed only OP out of the big trio.
Half-truth take. It's not stretched artificially in the fashion you describe. It is still rife with artifical stretching. Rife with filler. An absolutely obnoxious amount of screaming. Several minutes in each episode wasted explaining what happened last time. And so on. It is garbage that needs to end, but for those who absolutely want to dive into it, I'd at least recommend canning the anime shit and just read the superior manga.
Oh I was only talking about the Manga.