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NEWS: Netflix's Live-Action One Piece Series Reveals Cast Members

Which makes me think people don't really know what they want from live action anime remakes.

Exactly. Why adapt One Piece, the most outlandish and cartoony world in manga/anime, when they could go for something like Gunsmith Cats or Baccano?

I dont know why they keep going after these difficult to adapt properties. Black Lagoon is RIGHT there begging for a holywood adaptation. I think hollywood could succesfully adapt anime and manga, they just need to choose things thats in their wheelhouse

Exactly how I feel. One Piece always felt like such a difficult anime to adapt to live action for multiple reasons, even if it was under the best circumstances and creative team. There are a bunch of other properties out there that I could see translating well into live-action, and that's not even just limited to easy go-to picks that are super realistic and grounded or those that would allow for more western-centric or global casting right off the bat.

People do know what they want from these remakes: to be respectful to the source material. That ranges from getting the casting as accurate as posible (not asking for Usopp's actor to have his cartoon nose, Nami's to actually have giant breasts, or Sanji's to have his curvy eyebrows, but still), to follow the story, not to the letter, but at least without doing too much artistic license and trying to work out the weirdness that made us love the source material. That's why The Umbrella Academy and the Locke & Key shows on Netflix are so subpar compared to the comic books they're based on, and the Jupiter's Legacy TV show and the live action Death Note bombed so horribly.

The Not so Chosen One wrote:

People do know what they want from these remakes: to be respectful to the source material. That ranges from getting the casting as accurate as posible (not asking for Usopp's actor to have his cartoon nose, Nami's to actually have giant breasts, or Sanji's to have his curvy eyebrows, but still), to follow the story, not to the letter, but at least without doing too much artistic license and trying to work out the weirdness that made us love the source material. That's why The Umbrella Academy and the Locke & Key shows on Netflix are so subpar compared to the comic books they're based on, and the Jupiter's Legacy TV show and the live action Death Note bombed so horribly.

But what does it mean to be "respectful to the source material" when every fan has their own interpretation of the series and their own individual expectations of what it should look like? And we literally just have the casting and not even any costumes or set props or anything. They're not going to look exactly like this in the actual filming when they have costumes and make up on.

KitKat1721 wrote:

Exactly how I feel. One Piece always felt like such a difficult anime to adapt to live action for multiple reasons, even if it was under the best circumstances and creative team. There are a bunch of other properties out there that I could see translating well into live-action, and that's not even just limited to easy go-to picks that are super realistic and grounded or those that would allow for more western-centric or global casting right off the bat.

The argument people use is that there is not enough of a fanbase for BL or Baccano. However, by that logic, John Wick, pre MCU marvel, and other series that don't have the biggest fanbases would bomb. Personally, Baccano or BL sre pretty cheap series.(baccano could easily be a lower cost Netflix or HBO like show. The biggest worry would be the writing.) I feel your could market the series or movie solely on some type of star power or great direction that would sell it better than focusing on it being the adaption of an anime.

Cardcaptor Takato wrote:

The Not so Chosen One wrote: People do know what they want from these remakes: to be respectful to the source material. That ranges from getting the casting as accurate as posible (not asking for Usopp's actor to have his cartoon nose, Nami's to actually have giant breasts, or Sanji's to have his curvy eyebrows, but still), to follow the story, not to the letter, but at least without doing too much artistic license and trying to work out the weirdness that made us love the source material. That's why The Umbrella Academy and the Locke & Key shows on Netflix are so subpar compared to the comic books they're based on, and the Jupiter's Legacy TV show and the live action Death Note bombed so horribly. But what does it mean to be "respectful to the source material" when every fan has their own interpretation of the series and their own individual expectations of what it should look like? And we literally just have the casting and not even any costumes or set props or anything. They're not going to look exactly like this in the actual filming when they have costumes and make up on.

Exactly my point. We just got the cast, and all of sudden it's a harbinger for things to come without even seeing the costumes or anything? It honestly sounds like a quadruple knee-jerk reaction and use every excuse in the book of why we should be pessimistic.

Matros wrote:

Not with that kind of attitude. Y'all should stop being so miserable all the time.

The casting looks horrible (except for mayyyyyyyyyybe Mackenyu), and we all know Netflix's track record with their horrible live-action adapts. We have a right to complain.

You see these reactions because there's a history of poor live action anime adaptations. While past performance isn't always indicative of future success (especially since there are multiple studios involved), it's Netflix's job to convince the consumer that this will be worth their time. It's going to be an uphill battle precisely because we all know what once piece is. One Piece has a goofy look to it and it's hard to imagine how they will portray that with live action actors. Honestly I think this is going to be a way harder sell than cowboy bebop.

09jcg wrote:

You see these reactions because there's a history of poor live action anime adaptations. While past performance isn't always indicative of future success (especially since there are multiple studios involved), it's Netflix's job to convince the consumer that this will be worth their time. It's going to be an uphill battle precisely because we all know what once piece is. One Piece has a goofy look to it and it's hard to imagine how they will portray that with live action actors. Honestly I think this is going to be a way harder sell than cowboy bebop.

We've already had Alita and Edge of Tomorrow which were well liked by both fans and critics. How many more live action adaptations have to come out before fans stop nitpicking over just cast announcements? It'd be like complaining about the cast of every comic book movie that comes out just because of Superman IV or Batman and Robin.