One Piece Live Action TV Series Under Development by Hollywood

[Sawasdee1983]

Originally Posted by BluGalaxy

It'll be fun to see how it all pans out, but more than likely it'll be canned after season 2 because Netflix is gonna Netflix

At the moment there is a big Social Media Hype about this show. My wife said One Piece is Nr. 1 in 84 Countries.

[Waboman]

I had a big Luffy grin at the end of episode 4 when the Hopes and Dream score played as the Going Mary set sail to sea.

[Shingster]

Originally Posted by BluGalaxy

I have questions for those who watch the anime. How many episodes of the anime does this season go into storywise? Is Usopp a lying coward as he's portrayed here? And if so does he improve? He's the weakest of the crew in my eyes so I hope he has some character development.

6/10 so far, and they make a season 2 I'll watch it too

The comic's been running for over 20yrs, all one story, all written by one man. There is a tonne of character development for them to draw on. The biggest problem with adapting One Piece is figuring a way to cram it all in and also realise the scale of the world without a hollywood film budget, because where the TV series is right now is peanuts compared to where it needs to go. It's basically like taking something on the scale of s1 of agents of shield and ramping it up to infinity war.

This might sound exciting, but what it means is that this series is going to be a humongous money sink for Netflix and will need to be a humongous hit for enough years to make it even remotely viable. That means it ha to be treated with more respect and dignity than something like The Witcher, which made waves with s1 but was so horrendously adapted that you knew the wheels would fall off very quickly if the writers didn't have a clue where to take their new bastardised story.

[Sawasdee1983]

Yeah like for example the battle against Kaido and Gear 5, that alone would be so expensive like that season alone, or the Battle at the Marine Fort with that amount of Charakters. Hey even the Battle for Alabasta won't be easy

[Thunderleg]

Originally Posted by Sawasdee1983

Well that won't be easy, there are some arc that are very important, because during that arcs they get some new Crew Members, there are still some few missing or some for very important character development, like for exampe the Impel Down and Marine Fort Arc (they belong together and together alone they have 60 Episodes)

Why is this story so important?

[Show spoiler]This is the first Time Luffy really not just really lost a fight, he lost also a person.
A fan favourite Person died.

Okay Luffy lost some fights before, like against Capt. Crocodile or CP9 but this time, it was the fast time he found out, he isn't strong enough

After that the Anime had a two year Time Jump, and every character had a big change.

Okay the anime has some filler arcs, which are not in the mangas, that they can definitly skip, but thats about 10% of the 1100 Episodes

Yes. I think the only canon arc that could possibly be skipped is Foxy. But even there, it has the concept of

[Show spoiler] "Davy Back fight" - if Oda is ever planning on having a second DB fight then the first needs to stay in so the concept doesn't get abruptly introduced later. It does also further integrate Robin into the crew which is needed before Water 7, but that can be achieved just as well by strengthening her role in Skypeia. If we could get the filler G8 arc in live action by losing Foxy I'd press that button

Also I think a better way of seeing how much of one piece the live action has covered is by manga chapters, because past episode 300, instead of doing as many filler episodes the anime mostly just stretched out canon episodes so it doesn't get caught up with the manga. So 1000+ episodes looks impressive, but if the anime had been following the manga at a proper pace it might only be at like ep 600 right now.

Manga wise, the live action covers up to chapter 96. The manga is on chapter 1091, so it's covered about 9% of One Piece.

[tcripe]

So is this actually a good Netflix anime adaption? They've seemingly failed every time so far. Thats why I've been hesitant to watch this.

[Thunderleg]

Originally Posted by tcripe

So is this actually a good Netflix anime adaption? They've seemingly failed every time so far. Thats why I've been hesitant to watch this.

It's pretty good. The 5 main actors are great, most of the supporting cast are great, and the adaptation of the arcs covered are mostly good. Some have been changed up, I assume due to a mixture of:

-the originals not being very good or running to long to begin with (Syrup & Baratie)
-desire to bring forward things from later arcs to give them a better grounding
-having to speed things up because they originally had 10 eps and it was cut to 8

The last arc kinda suffers from the speed up but it's still good imo. This was the best shonen to live action adaptation I've seen. The showrunner very obviously loves One Piece.

[Sawasdee1983]

Yes it is pretty good especially the cast did a great job. I read the showrunner asked Writer Oda if he can Skip Don Krieg and does some changes with Arlong.

The Luffy Actor watched the whole Anime Series after he got the job and one of the Camera Women has seen the whole series with her kid.

So yeah they did a good job and their research

My wife and I are big One Piece Fans, especially me and I really had a lot of fun with the Live Action Version

[Waboman]

One Piece is currently #1 in 86 countries on Netflix. Surpassing it's previous record of #1 in 84 countries.😊

I’m really digging this. My concern is after this arc the battles only get bigger, with more characters and even crazier powers. It’s going to be expensive.

[Sawasdee1983]

On a german News Site I read one Episode One Piece costs 16 Mio Dollar. Oh man and thats just the beginning, with the easy Action.
Even the Alabasta Story with the Fight against Crocodile and the Baroque Crew will made the Episodes so expensive.

[BluGalaxy]

Originally Posted by tcripe

So is this actually a good Netflix anime adaption? They've seemingly failed every time so far. Thats why I've been hesitant to watch this.

It's not bad for what it is. Just don't go in with super high expectations and you should have a good time. Way better than that Cowboy Bebop abomination from last year.

[FubarFrenzy]

I had no idea about this show's background, just went in blind. I'm pretty impressed with the production values as well as the acting. Story after 2 eps is holding my attention with is saying something these days.

I'd recommend.

[blakstealth]

As someone who's only watched the first 100 or so eps of the anime many years ago (basically a newcomer at this point), I really enjoyed this adaptation. I think the live action has the advantage over the anime in its action scenes. The anime's animation is pretty average, so it's nice to see fights with some proper choreography. I liked the show enough that I started watching the anime again (which is also on Netflix conveniently enough).

I'm glad to hear it's doing well and apparently beat Stranger Things and Wednesday numbers?

[InuYashaCrusade]

Season 2 officially confirmed

https://twitter.com/onepiecenetflix/...11899806392613

[spider-neil]

I absolutely LOVED IT.
This, Alice in Borderland, and Battle Angel are my three favourite live-action anime of all time. I'll so far as to hate I've hated the others I have seen. I cannot believe One Piece and Cowboy Beebop are from the same studio, I couldn't even get through the first episode before dropping it.

[sandboxgamer]

After hearing a lot of good word of mouth about this show, I decided to check out the first episode and I really enjoyed it. They clearly spent a lot of money on this and it looks great. The cast is a lot of fun. I really like the character Roronoa Zorro, played by Mackenyu. He's a total badass with his three swords. What has impressed me most about this show are the fight scenes. They’re choreographed very well with nice wide shots so you can see all the action.

I’m looking forward to continuing the series, but I’m only going to watch one episode a night because I don’t want to burn myself out by bingeing. It's definitely quirky and I can see that turning some people off, but it's working for me.

[El_Fez]

I have been an anime fan for-EVER. Like as Speed Racer in '72 was my first anime ever, although it was really Star Blazers where I identified these as cartoons from a place called "japan".

So as a fan of the genre, I've certainly known the name - it's one of the 800 pound gorillas of anime, one of THE names that everyone will know, like Gundam, or Macross. But despite having heard of the series, I never watched until last Christmas where I went "Ah what the hell." and watched the first 8 or 10 episodes.

I enjoyed it, it was a fun evening's entrainment, but I wasn't in the mood for getting into an 900+ episode series. And so I kind of drifted away, intending to get back, but never quite finding the time.

And then, I'm finishing up the live action Zenigata series and saw that "Hey, they adapted One Piece". Sure, what the hell. And holy crap, I'm having a blast with it!

Like I said, I know nothing about the series and only vaguely remember the show beyond the basic premise from my 8 episodes (and honestly, I had smoked a bunch of Jazz Cigarettes, so it didn't really stick), but the characters are fun, the plot moves along at a nice clip, the action is solid, the fights are all well choreographed, and I'm just having a good time with it over all.

Once I finish up, I'll have to go back and check out anime. At least until I catch up where Netflix finishes off.

[ps3bd_owner]

I finally watched the pilot episode, and holy sh*t it's actually really f*cling good! Netflix surprisingly didn't screw this one up like they did with Cowboy Bebop and Resident Evil.

Moreover, I'm glad NF OP got its own opening though I sure would have liked to have heard a remix of the original during a scene or something:

YouTube

[ps3bd_owner]

Finished the first season and wow, it's actually superb! I loved the cast, but especially the guy who plays Luffy, he really feels like he's a real life version of him.

Is there anything I disliked? The battle against Arlong was a bit underwhelming, liked the earlier ones better.

Hope a Season 2 is in the works.

[Regulas314]

Originally Posted by ps3bd_owner

Finished the first season and wow, it's actually superb! I loved the cast, but especially the guy who plays Luffy, he really feels like he's a real life version of him.

Is there anything I disliked? The battle against Arlong was a bit underwhelming, liked the earlier ones better.

Hope a Season 2 is in the works.

I do wish they could’ve included Hachi, but I get a six-armed swordsman would be a budgetary nightmare.