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I'm curious to know what fans of the anime/manga think of this. As an outsider to the franchise, this looks kinda awful. It seems really low-budget, even for Netflix these days. I worry that it'll suffer the same fate that Cowboy Bebop did.
I'm really worried. I want to love it, but Luffy's fighting style is so cartoonish; things like the kick in the trailer just don't look good in live action. The implied physics of the real world seem to make everything in the fights feel floaty and corny. You don't fix that by throwing money at CG, the entire fight sequence has to be built around it, it reminds me of this nerdist video.
Also a few of the bits like the Nami scene during Arlong Park came off as cheesy.
Hopeful, but this'll probably end up like the live movie of ATLA
Fan here. One Piece in live action cannot be anything but awful. The source material is too cartoony. There are fishmen, giants, cyborgs, superheroes, a skeleton with Afro hair, talking animals...
Yes, the one thing I love about One Piece that I really love is that its an anime that embraces being a cartoon as well. The protagonist, Monkey D. Luffy, is clearly inspired by Popeye and there are all sorts of blatantly cartoon moments in one piece like characters having their eyes pop out of their heads, etc that are just impossible to adapt to live action. It's not just like taking a very high fantasy setting and making it live-action, it's like making Popeye or Mickey Mouse or Nemo in Dreamland live action.
There are only a few very cartoony anime out there actually and most of them are older like one of my personal favorites like Lupin the III.
I think Mickey would work in a similar style to Detective Pikachu, at least the more realistic stories where he is just a police helper for investigations.
I was actually going to go on another tangent about how Lupin III could be done in the same style as roger rabbit in live action and work but I stopped myself. I think Mickey would be great for a PG Roger Rabbit type toon-meets-real world thing.
Nothing like that would work for One Piece though, it's completely unadaptable in every single way.
I’m a huge fan here. My expectations for live action anime adaptations are rock bottom. The bar is to simply not make me cringe the whole time.
That said the casting looks great, especially Luffy.