Forum - View topicNEWS: Live-Action One Piece Season 2 Ranks #1 on Netflix Globally
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FanGamer24
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Well earned. They pretty much improved on everything from season 1 and really showed what they can do when given more of a budget, and they don't have to deal with Covid restrictions.
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eyesonbea
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I bowed out after season 1 and from what I heard season 2 makes even more changes and alterations from the manga. I guess it's not for people who are fans of the manga but its their first exposure to the series.
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FanGamer24
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That’s just silly, yes they made changes but the changes made sense. I’ve heard nothing but praise from manga fans. |
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Blaze_1013
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It also helps they only covered around 60 chapters of material vs. the almost 100 season 1 covered. Everything is given more space to breathe and it really comes through.
I mean, not all changes are bad. Spoilers for all the additions/changes they make that I think are really good. spoiler[ Bart is present in Logue Town and we see him interacting with the crew a bit. Sabo has a cameo. We see Garp and Smoker interacting as well as Tashigi and Koby which sets up a friendship that we know happens, but never see in the manga. Brook is shown during the Laboon flashback. Luffy befriends Laboon by singing Bink's Saki as opposed to fighting him. He even hits the Nika pose. Zoro is haunted by Mihawk. This is mostly to bring back the actor, but seeing how shaken Zoro is from his defeat is a nice bit of extra character work. It drops the Luffy/Zoro fight. The series kills characters, increasing stakes. The giants name drop Nika and give other hints about Elbaph. They even have a wooden sculpture that's just Loki's bad silhouette. Mr 3 feels a lot more imposing. The series lets Vivi confront Wapol for a brief scene. ] Obviously it also makes changes I'm not a fan of, but this isn't meant to be a 1 to 1 of the manga. It never could be and it shouldn't be. But it certainly loves the series and if nothing else the Laboon episode I think is just straight up better than the manga even if that too has some changes I don't care for. |
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EmeraldSaucer
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Well deserved, an overall huge improvement over season 1. It helps that they can actually plan for 8 episodes this time rather than being cut from 10; still bitter over the way Belle-Mere got shortchanged because of this, especially after Hiriluk was done justice by actually centering a whole episode around the flashback
Only real complaints were that the additional Smoker and Tashigi material felt superfluous since there was so little of it overall, and the Usopp Grappling Hook was a dumb narrative shortcut and took away from the moment of Luffy's climb |
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Not as good as The Dinosaurs, but it's a close second.
The anime exists for people who want an adaptation that's closer to the manga. If the live action tried adapting the manga 1:1, it would always be an inferior experience. The changes and innovations are what make the live adaptation worthwhile for people already familiar with the manga and anime. Its also worth noting that much of the changes were directly approved by Oda and are improvements over the source materials. |
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danpmss
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I don't think so at all, it took him a day, which is time they didn't have, so Luffy outright bruteforced climbing the mountain instead of going the long way around (which was already available from the very start). Usopp creating his hookshot takes nothing away that wasn't already there as an obstacle that made Luffy climb the way he did. If anything, it gave more highlights to Usopp which the first season dearly lacked, for skipping some of his best moments of ingenuity. |
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WizardOfOss
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5 episodes in, and so far again loved every bit of it. And sure, there are plenty of changes compared to the manga, but I am honestly kinda surprised they still so close to the main storyline. My biggest worry is that at this pace it will take forever to adapt the entire series. And while manga characters only age when the mangaka wants to, that's a bit different with actors....
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hops
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Yeah as a fan of the manga for half my 33 years I love this adaptation. The benefit of foresight makes the easter eggs a great time, and I haven't had a single complaint about the casting--even Arlong, since once I saw what they were going for I vibed with it. Hyped as hell for S3.
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fuuma_monou
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This, so much. A friend of mine who introduced me to the manga before the anime was made is now the staff translator for the live-action series. That is, she translates the scripts from English to Japanese for Oda's approvals. |
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Amaranth Sparrow
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To further add, not only was Oda involved in casting and approving everything they put in, but he also spoke to at least some of the cast members and gave them character backstory details so they could better inhabit their roles, and also did new character designs so the show could depict characters who were mentioned but never actually appeared in the manga or anime, like Mr. 7 and Miss Thursday. |
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MFrontier
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Glad to hear it! I've been really enjoying the live-action adaption.
If there's anything I hope they improve it's spoiler[Luffy's action scenes.] |
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Nekbone
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You can like the live-action but it's completely insulting to say it's 'an improvement' over the manga. I get why some people would enjoy the changes since they're also probably the kind of people who criticize One Piece heavily for things like Sanji, Nami, and other things about the series and are happy Netflix removed a lot of the manga-isms from the series but saying it's an improvement is just letting people's biases creep in. Especially since people love to invoke Oda as some kind of justification for the changes and yet he's not changing anything about the source material to fit the live-action show so clearly he doesn't consider it an improvement if he's not retroactively changing things. I guess he doesn't like the changes that much to not use them himself, |
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TheRealMaria
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That was the whole point of the series from what I remember Oda saying about it. He saw the live-action adaption as his last chance to make One Piece 'mainstream', whatever that means since I guess being the best selling manga isn't mainstream enough for him... It was specifically made for people who refuse to touch anime and manga and can only enjoy live-action stuff since I guess they would be the only people who wouldn't read the bestselling manga or watch the anime
I have no idea why they didn't at least do what Harry Potter is doing and cast young actors for the roles to futureproof things. They're all supposed to be teenagers but they cast 27-30 year olds for the Straw Hats. I don't expect this series to last more than 3 or 4 seasons but even by season 2 they all look so old. I dislike the casting and changes made to the characters and story but the one positive thing I can say about the live-action is they're not be afraid of giving the middle finger like the Toei anime is  I still find it funny Toei is too afraid to draw that. In typical Netflix-writing fashion they have the characters swear and all kinds of stuff in this adaption though so that's the one positive I can say is better than anime. That's about it though.
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TheGunwild
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Mr. 7 was in both the manga and anime. Only Miss Thursday was never seen and only mentioned. And then Oda posted a drawing of what Miss Thursday looks like in the manga and it was nothing like the live-action version, funnily enough. I wouldn't take anything from the show as canon or official. It's it's own (very altered and Americanized) adaption. |
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