My first experience with One Piece was the 4Kids dub, almost dropped it completely, then one day at a big name book store, I picked up the first volume and read it on a whim. Bought it and kept buying them, eventually I jumped ahead and started reading the scans while buying volumes, DVDs (once Funimation took over) and haven't turned back since.
I agree the anime is the inferior version if you are going for the story but yeah, it starts slow and is more humor based but grows into a monster and worthy of its massive success.







