One Piece - I'm Gonna Be the Pirate King!

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Duncan Hills Coffee said:
One Piece is like the one anime series that could never translate to live-action. For one thing it has a very distinct art style and you would lose a lot of its charm if you translated it to live-action. Not to mention the series is still ongoing after 20+ years. What will be the endpoint for a live-action show? You can't just condense everything into a handful of seasons, not for a world as sprawling as One Piece (4Kids did that which would have created massive plotholes if their hands were still on the property).

Everything about this is unfeasible and stupid.
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If they couldn't get Death Note, a series about proportionate realistic humans in an urban enviroment interacting with relatively tame supernatural elements right, they have no chance with One Piece.
 
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Uncanny Valley said:
I am so glad the one attempt to do live action JJBA flopped
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Thing is I think that adaptation actually nailed the visuals. The hair and outfits actually look pretty good, and the stands looked way better than I expected. Their main problem is that they tried adapting it as a movie instead of as a long TV series, which means a lot of shit needs to be cut.
 
Isn't this an anime for like, really young kids? Why sperg out so much over something meant for 8 year olds?

Edit: lol don't ever question weeb shit. The autists take it as SERIOUS BUSINESS!!!
 
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Make a drinking game.

1 shot for every forced racial diversity character

2 shots for every forced plotline that badly mirrors current political topics

2 shots for every character who now randomly has a special sexually that they constantly mention. (Bonus shot if there's a drawn out coming out/explanation/acceptable scene)

3 shots for every new Trans character and half a shot for every new gender special one

Then round off with one shot to the head to erase the pain.
 
Duncan Hills Coffee said:
No, I'd say it's more for pre-teens to teenagers. It can get pretty violent at points.
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One Piece is considered a family show given it airs on Sunday mornings, which is typically reserved for families, and readers are known to range from grade-schoolers to middle-aged housewives, perhaps even grannies.
 
Sperghetti said:
Netflix already tried to adapt my favorite anime and fucked it up, so sucks to be you guys. Can't wait to see what they do to Cowboy Bebop, since that one's pretty popular over here.
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Autumnal Equinox said:
Isn't this an anime for like, really young kids? Why sperg out so much over something meant for 8 year olds?
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Shonen is intended for pre teens and teenagers. More intense series like Death Note, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Deadman Wonderland are also shonen. Think of it like PG and PG 13 rated movies.

Kodomo series are for really young kids. Pretty much all of the good 4kids dubs were in this demographic.

 
Duncan Hills Coffee said:
Not to mention the series is still ongoing after 20+ years. What will be the endpoint for a live-action show
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The reason I didn't watch it in college is because at the time it was at like 300 episodes and counting.

Wikipedia says it's now at 919 episodes and STILL GOING.

How the hell do you do a 10 episode season out of this? The first season of the anime according to Wikipedia is 61 episodes.
 
mindlessobserver said:
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Hey man, I don't pay $8.99 a month for these guys to turn my husbando into a waifu. If I have to deal with this shit, you other weebs do, too.
 
Why out of every possible manga/anime would you try to adapt One Piece? Are they going to make it super edgy, because I don't see the cartoony/more shounen aspects translating well into live action.
Pizza Time said:
If anyone is going to get blacked, it's going to be Nami.
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Nami is definitely going to be the one who gets blacked. Red head females in tv adaptations seem to always be the ones that tv execs choose to become blacked. Starfire in Titans and Triss Merigold in The Witcher, even though Ussop would make the most sense being black, given how Oda himself says "Africa" when asked where each character would come from irl.

Pretty sure this is going to be One Piece, but with more edge. Luffy is some poor immigrant/south american who turns to piracy, Nami is black and abused by fishmen in the way rule34 likes to think and there will be an overarching "fuck government" themes. It's the only way these Netflix speds can imagine One Piece adapted to live action. It's the only way I can imagine adapting something as shounen and whimsical in design as One Piece to live action without it being a stupid kids series.

Look at how Death Note was adapted, and that was a series set in the 21st century.
Salubrious said:
The reason I didn't watch it in college is because at the time it was at like 300 episodes and counting.

Wikipedia says it's now at 919 episodes and STILL GOING.

How the hell do you do a 10 episode season out of this? The first season of the anime according to Wikipedia is 61 episodes.
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Its going to be all OC content or heavily watered down/cut. Maybe do Alabasta with all the build up and cool shit eliminated. Just have this evil westerner/mob boss guy (Crocodile) take over these poor sand people and fake terrorist attacks. and have the Straw hats land and fight/screw around with them. They even get to shove in a trans character to play Bon Clay. Either that or they do what the Witcher did and jump around, but that makes no sense.
 
Pizza Time said:
If anyone is going to get blacked, it's going to be Nami.
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I don't give a shit about One Piece but I honestly can't wait to see the inevitable fallout this causes.
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I'd like to think modern casting agents are dyslexic.
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Also how the fuck can you do a live action One Piece, the characters are so cartoony and stylised they make Looney Toons look the The Animals of Farthing Wood! Just make a new Pirate ID inspired by One Piece.
 
Fluoxetine Man said:
Also how the fuck can you do a live action One Piece, the characters are so cartoony and stylised they make Looney Toons look the The Animals of Farthing Wood! Just make a new Pirate ID inspired by One Piece.
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You can't and have people take it seriously at all. You can't adapt it without stripping a lot of the charm because it's looney toons cartoony, Japanese in it's gags and references, is its own world, and yet deals with some very heavy/dark themes in a cartoon/shounen context. This isn't like capeshit where we can imagine a Gotham city or New York with superheroes flying around, it's its own unique fun world.

The only ways I can see them adapting it to live action is either make it very childish/kid friendly, which will suck, or accentuate the darker themes (slavery, torture, Buster Call/Exterminatus on whole islands etc), make it very edgy, which will suck even more. Being Netflix, it will probably go for the latter.
 
Pizza Time said:
If anyone is going to get blacked, it's going to be Nami.
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I don't give a shit about One Piece but I honestly can't wait to see the inevitable fallout this causes.
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I've always thought it was a retarded anime, but it has some crazy die hard fans. It's going to be hilarious to see how much hate Netflix gets over this, when they black it.
 
There is one clear reason why they are choosing One Piece, people go fucking autistic over pirates in the US and a good chunk of the world.
Doesn't matter how bad it is, people will watch it because pirates. They won't even know what a One Piece is, they won't realize they are only at the beginning of a grand work of serialized stupidity.

OP is about the worst manga/anime to choose for a live-action show. The only ones I could think of that would be worse would be because of the budgetary restraints to CG fantastical fairy looking robots.
 
Of all anime out there, that could be adapted into live-action, anime such as Monster, Paranoia Agent, Berserk, Fist of The North Star, Legend of The Galactic Heroes, etc. all of them have a semi-realistic art style and are somewhat down to earth, those could be adapted into live-action, but they choose to adapt the most cartoonishly shonen out there, this is going to be a trainwreck, but that's probably what they're going for, something like "People are going to watch this to see how bad it is, right?"
 
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