Hah. Like Netflix is ever going to approve a third season of anything ever again.
They have twenty to go, tops.
I mean, One Piece is kind of famous for it’s breadth. I feel like they wouldn’t greenlight it if they weren’t prepared to follow through.
I don’t trust capitalists and I don’t trust Netflix. It is a safer bet they will cancel than continue this show after 3 seasons.
It’s about $17 million dollars an episode and there are about 1059 episodes to adapt. If they keep pace it will only cost about 18 billion dollars to adapt the current anime series.
Well, it’s not like an anime episode is the same as a live action episode though.
An anime episode is like 20 minutes of content after you remove the opening and recap and ending. And if you remove all the filler and repeating scenes, it’s maybe 5-10 minutes of actual content. They adapted like 45-50 episodes into 8, and the first saga is probably one of the most dense in terms of content.
For the future, I fully expect a 10:1 ratio between anime episodes and live episodes. Maybe even more.
That would still mean more than 12 seasons to go, before catching up to now, with who knows how many more before the series ends.
And they’re only allowed to age 2 years during shooting.
Most actors would kill for job that stable.
More like 500 if we skip the filler and keep good pace unlike the anime which is and has been complete bullshit for close to a decade now.
More like 200 if with fillers you cut on all the bullshit episodes made it to take time, the flashbacks and side-bosses not relevant for the whole story. (I don’t believe anyway in more that 50)
Based on my research, the first season of the Netflix live action show (8 episodes) covers the first 61 anime episodes. At this rate, the live action show could still continue for 17 more seasons.
In all seriousness, the more I think about it, the more perfect this anime was for adaptation. There’s a ton of filler in the anime, but otherwise good story beats and character development. When you condense that down, you get all the good and leave out the cruft.
I watched all of the live action show this weekend, and really enjoyed it. I figured the anime tone and goofiness that they clearly baked right into it would work against it like all the other live action anime adaptations, but it feels like it’s a lot less of a quick cash grab than the others. Some real love and attention went into it and it’s a lot of fun.
When you condense that down, you get all the good and leave out the cruft.
Let’s hope they’ll keep Little Buggy’s Great Adventure. That filler was hilarious.
Buggy got his body back already so I don’t think we’ll be getting that :(
