"I'll just scroll to the Wano section," he told himself.
He landed on the Wikipedia page. It was beautiful—a vast, color-coded table of two decades of pirate adventure. He saw the columns: Episode number, title, direction, original air date.
But later that week, his professor asked the class: "Who knows the longest-running story-driven anime of all time?"
He opened his phone. Just a quick check.
By 1:23 AM, he wasn't just scrolling—he was cross-referencing. Wikipedia had in italics. "G-8 Arc" (Episodes 196-206). Widely considered the best filler in anime history. He argued with a stranger in a forum he found through the Wikipedia footnotes.
But he passed by the . Episode 4: "Luffy's Past! The Red-Haired Shanks Appears!" He remembered watching that on a scratched DVD. Then the Alabasta episodes. The iconic moment when Vivi screams from the clock tower—Episode 126.