![]() ![]() Showrunners Matt Owens and Steven Maeda deliver an opening salvo of a premiere that does a remarkable job of bringing Oda’s work to life, introducing an uncanny world where just about everyone is a pirate or pirate adjacent, and each of them has a gimmick of some kind. Unlike Cowboy Bebop, which had to juggle all manner of stylistic shifts and existential malaise present in its source material, One Piece really only has one goal: making Luffy’s quest, and the many friends and foes he meets along the way, as interesting as possible.Īt first, the show delights in the job. Luffy’s (Iñaki Godoy) quixotic journey to become King of the Pirates with nothing but the clothes on his back and the powers he obtained as a boy when he ate a mystical fruit that turned his body into rubber. Tonally, One Piece is a far more straightforward work - much like the source material, Netflix’s One Piece follows Monkey D. If your first question about the live-action One Piece is about how it compares to the live-action Bebop, the answer is that it’s easily better, but also that maybe that’s an unfair comparison. Nami, Zoro, and Luffy in Netflix’s One Piece. There’s the normal weight of immense fan anticipation, but there’s also all manner of complicating factors by which One Piece will be judged: as an American adaptation of a Japanese work as the latest in a string of usually disappointing live-action takes on manga and anime and, most importantly, as Netflix’s latest attempt to bring a beloved anime to live action following the disappointment of Cowboy Bebop. With 1,090 chapters published across 106 volumes telling a continuous story begun in 1997 - accompanied by an equally long-running anime adaptation with 1,073 episodes under its belt, multiple animated feature films, video games, and a handful of stage plays - One Piece’s volume is matched only by its popularity as the top-selling manga of all time, by a huge margin.Īs a result, Netflix’s live-action One Piece adaptation has a litany of expectations to address. Luffy, a boy with stretchy powers and a dream of finding the mythical treasure One Piece and becoming King of the Pirates, One Piece is equal parts Looney Tunes and fantasy epic at an incomparable scale. An over-the-top action-comedy about Monkey D. It’s certainly one of the most comics ever made. The series is executive produced by Matt Owens ( Agents of SHIELD) and Steven Maeda ( Lost), and produced by Tomorrow Studios, the same studio behind 2021’s Cowboy Bebop starring John Cho, Mustafa Shakir, Daniella Pineda.Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece might be one of the greatest comics ever made. Still no firm release date or trailer as of yet, but the arrival of the latest take on Eiichiro Oda’s beloved pirate adventure manga is well within sight. ![]() Netflix announced the cast for the adaptation of One Piece back in November 2021, and revealed a tour of the series’ sets last summer during the streamer’s annual Geeked Week event. It shows Luffy with both of his arms raised in the air, standing on the shore of a beach and staring out at his ship, the Going Merry, while flanked by members of his Straw Hat Pirates crew: Sanji (Taz Skylar), Nami (Emily Rudd), Usopp (Jacob Gibson), and Roronoa Zoro (Mackenyu Arata). rQES39Gkmk- ONE PIECE(ワンピース) Netflix January 30, 2023Īnother behind-the-back look at the cast of the live-action One Piece is now on the Netflix website. Adventure is on the horizon! ONE PIECE sets sail in 2023. ![]()
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