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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/gothiquecacti on 2026-01-13 00:28:04+00:00.
Backstory: I always pick one meme-able New Year’s resolution (NYR).
I told my fiancé that one of my NYR was to watch (you guessed it) One Piece in its entirety by SUMMER. It’s one of his favorite animes, and I kept seeing it referenced everywhere so I decided to bite the bullet. I knew it was a long/on going show, and I had calculated that I could reach my goal if I watched about 6 episodes per day, or binged it on my days off. I WFH and my boss does not care if we have a show/podcast playing while we work.
I’m already failing miserably. I’m only thirty five episodes in, so I’m definitely behind my goal, and I feel like I’m going crazy. He keeps reassuring me that the first story arc is a lot of world building and eventually the pacing does become more tolerable. Don’t get me wrong- overall I do see the appeal of the show and there’s a lot of interesting things that have already happened. To me it just seems super predictable at the moment.
I don’t know how I’m going to do this. I swear if I have to hear “I’m going to be king of the pirates!” One more time, my ears are going to start bleeding. Fiancé gets so excited when he sees me watching it and asks me questions, but sometimes I get so zoned out during an episode I can’t even give him an opinion of a minor character.
If I give up it will be the first meme NYR that I’ve failed since I started the tradition. It will also feel in some way that I’ve let him down- or worst case scenario, he’ll constantly poke fun at me for not being able to sit through over a thousand episodes of one show. I’m going to at least finish arc 1 and start the second, but I’m not sure if I’ll even be able to finish it out of spite.
TL;DR: I told my fiancé I’d finish One Piece in 6 months and I’m regretting my life choices.