What the actual fuck.
This show is good. Its got a few issues on an objective level such as some dialouge and some of the fight choreography and adaptation level some of which really stands out because of how crazy accurate they have been with everything else.
But the writing is mostly consistent, acting is on point. Visuals are mixed with amazing sets but the cgi is mostly fine and some character prosthetics dont look great.
As far as Adaptions goes this might be one of the most accurate true to source material adaptations ever made putting it alongside the likes of The Lord of the rings. And easily the best anime LA adaptation to exist
Finished the first episode. I’m absolutely super positively surprised. I had 0 hope this would go well and it really works. Really digging the Luffy actor. I’m glad they didn’t try to make it realistic in any way.
Finished the series. As an adaptation I thoroughly enjoyed it and thought they handled lots of things really well. I think people watching the show but never having read the manga/seen the anime won’t get as much enjoyment but it’s still campy fun. I would be happy for it to receive a second season one day.
Character wise Luffy was good, Zoro was good, Usopp was good. Nami and Sanji didn’t feel quite right, although the Sanji back story was top notch.
I didn’t like Sanji’s actor. I didn’t think he captured Sanji’s character and he looked older than the rest of the crew.
I thought everyone else in the crew was pretty good though. They did a great job capturing their essence.
I think Usopp got the short end of the stick by essentially not doing anything worthy of being on the crew except for hitting a few pans with his slingshot.
About halfway so far and I’m pleasantly impressed. I think the crucial balance between manga/anime and live action has been done quite well. It’s also interesting to see how they’re condensing some arcs, removing entire sections to make it flow better. I can almost imagine someone making a cut of the anime that is paced the way the live action is.
As far as anime adaptations, this has been great. I really want to see how they’ll handle some characters like monster-point chopper, brook and Franky and whether they’ll actually run long enough to have us see arcs like WCI and Wano get adapted to live action.
I haven’t seen it yet (planning to start binging tonight), but I’m stoked at all the positive reviews online.
My wife and I are currently binging the anime series because she’s never seen it before and she wanted to have a sense of the show before diving into a live action adaptation.
We’re watching it in Japanese though. I lived in Japan for a few years, so watching anime in English is just weird to me. It loses some of the cultural context when it gets translated. I hope the English live action show isn’t too jarring compared to the original Japanese anime.
EDIT: I went to a convention cosplaying as Luffy a few years ago and I ran into Colleen Clinkenbeard. She was excited to see my outfit and I got a bunch of pictures with her, but I had no idea who she was. Found out later she was the English voice of Luffy. I’ve never seen One Piece in English, so I didn’t recognize her at all.
