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 watched the whole thing and I really enjoyed it. They really tried to translate it to people unfamiliar or uninterested in anime/manga and I think they did a great job of it. I think the flow was okay. 8 eps to cover all of East Blue is not much time.
I think the thing that got me the most hyped before it was out was Oda’s seal of approval. It’s a good series and they already introduced a heap of characters.
Once thing that keeps coming up in my small circle is the amount of screentime
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Garp and Koby
have. I was okay with it - maybe it’s the Hollywood direction/way while others felt it detracted from the story. I didn’t event click
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Django was left out of it. But there is still hope for him to pop up down the track.
I guess it’s difficult to balance when there are so many important characters that have been introduced and you don’t want to overwhelm new fans.
Edit: I’m bad at spoiler tags
