Yeah yo, yeah yo, oh oh, set out for one piece,

Setself a One Piece!

Hey, how's it going everybody?

It's Animak here from Anime Opera and welcome to the very first episode of the One Piece Virgin podcast if you're not familiar with this concept.

Basically, I'm a guy who's been a fan of anime for over a decade.

I've seen hundreds of series, seen, and or read.

However, I've never gotten into One Piece.

And one of the reasons for this is that I used to watch the old Four Kids version,

like way back in the day, I never it i didn't get into it and then i

just i was intimidated by the length and i decided oh there's no way i'm going to ever read one piece

but thanks to the incredible persistence and borderline annoyance of my friends i've decided that i

have to read one piece otherwise i will never live it down. My own brother

loves One Piece. All my best friends love One Piece.

I like to think that Briggs is the persistence and I'm the annoyance.

Yes. And there he is my annoying best friend, Noxtaku, and also my less annoying best friend

all day anime, who are going to be,

who are going to be co-hosting this podcast with me because they both are big One Piece stands.

They love it. They talk about it all the time. So what we decided we do is, as I start reading

One Piece finally, we're going to be doing a weekly podcast where I'm going to be talking about what I've read so far and you can follow along.

And if you've never read yourself and you've been looking for a reason, you can read along with me.

And if you are an existing One Piece fan and you're already caught up and you want to relive the glory through the eyes of someone who hasn't read it, you can follow along with this podcast as well. And we have the experts here, you know, big One Piece fans like Nukstaku and

old anime. We're going to have other people like Decking 101, going to try to get Rogers base,

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