It’s out? Guess I’ll watch it today evening after work.
All of the episodes on day one as Netflix usually does or are they doing a weekly schedule?
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.
Watched less than 10 mins last night. Try again today. Seeing mihawk and shanks in real life is jaring. Looks bad but time will tell. I had low expectations going in. The anime works because it’s animation it doesn’t really lend itself to real life. It’s casrtooney and that’s the point.
I’ll try watch the whole thing
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.
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.
