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Slizardo
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I'm glad people will have a more accurate version of the show to watch. Hopefully the people who've only seen the live-action version check this one out too and see what the series is really meant to be like.
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Wyvern
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 5:09 pm |
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I'm really curious to see what the discourse will be like in, say, ten years or so, once the manga is completed and so are the animes and live action show. I wonder if a consensus will emerge over what the definitive adaptation of One Piece is?
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EmeraldSaucer
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 5:21 pm |
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| Wyvern wrote: | | I'm really curious to see what the discourse will be like in, say, ten years or so, once the manga is completed and so are the animes and live action show. I wonder if a consensus will emerge over what the definitive adaptation of One Piece is? |
I don't think it will be a serious question, since Live-Action and The One Piece are likely not going to actually cover the entirety of the manga (Oda already told the Live-Action team his idea of where it would go up to, and The One Piece has been coy about how much past East Blue it'll go)
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Top Gun
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 5:33 pm |
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As someone who's been watching the anime for nearly two decades now I can't say I have much interest in this. I've already seen an anime adaptation of it; I don't need to go back and do it again.
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MarshalBanana
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 6:12 pm |
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The Toei version was an early digipaint show, so it certainly looks dated in some ways. The fights were generally pretty basic from I can recall in the more early stages. So the Wit version is definitely going to be an improvement in some areas. It is a shame that it looks to locked away on Netflix.
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Sinxi and heylog
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 7:45 pm |
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| Top Gun wrote: | | As someone who's been watching the anime for nearly two decades now I can't say I have much interest in this. I've already seen an anime adaptation of it; I don't need to go back and do it again. |
Your going to be missing out somewhat, the amount of talent thats going to on this show will be insane, they will have their own storyboarding quirks, animation quirks, pacing will be different, etc. So not watching this remake will be an "interesting" move to do
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MFrontier
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 7:51 pm |
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I wonder if that "tighter pacing" means they'll cover up to the Arlong arc in a single cour.
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Delevonis
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 8:15 pm |
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My only problem with Toei's One Piece is that Kaneto Shiozawa died before getting a role in it.
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Wyvern
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 8:22 pm |
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| EmeraldSaucer wrote: | |
I don't think it will be a serious question, since Live-Action and The One Piece are likely not going to actually cover the entirety of the manga (Oda already told the Live-Action team his idea of where it would go up to, and The One Piece has been coy about how much past East Blue it'll go) |
I imagine the coyness from Wit is simply because they want to make sure The One Piece is a success before they commit to adapting stuff beyond East Blue. But given enough time, they could adapt the whole manga if the demand is there. That said, I do expect that the original anime will always be the screen version of One Piece that most people think of. It's going to be the most faithful adaption and also the only one that evolved along with Oda's skill as an artist.
As for the live action, I'm glad Oda has the common sense to know that the cast are going to age out of their roles before they make it to the end of the manga, even with the quicker pacing. I'm guessing he wants them to wrap things up with the Summit War, and maybe the last scene would show the crew reuniting at Shabondy. That would cover slightly more than half of the manga as it currently exists.
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James02
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 9:40 pm |
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| MarshalBanana wrote: | | The Toei version was an early digipaint show, so it certainly looks dated in some ways. The fights were generally pretty basic from I can recall in the more early stages. So the Wit version is definitely going to be an improvement in some areas. It is a shame that it looks to locked away on Netflix. |
But millions of people have Netflix. I'd even say that there are more people with Netflix than any other paid streaming service.
That said... I doubt that this will prevent any pirating.
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Miya543
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 11:48 pm |
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Imo the "outdated animation" looks heaps better than the current one. The colors, the character designs and the animation itself is not too over the top. Oh how I miss the old One Piece.
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BadNewsBlues
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 11:49 pm |
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| Slizardo wrote: | | I'm glad people will have a more accurate version of the show to watch. Hopefully the people who've only seen the live-action version check this one out too and see what the series is really meant to be like. |
Which is interesting considering the number of changes the anime made to some moments and such from the manga some of which has been a source of butthurt amongst fans who watch and read both.
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EmeraldSaucer
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| Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2026 12:00 am |
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| BadNewsBlues wrote: | | Slizardo wrote: | | I'm glad people will have a more accurate version of the show to watch. Hopefully the people who've only seen the live-action version check this one out too and see what the series is really meant to be like. |
Which is interesting considering the number of changes the anime made to some moments and such from the manga some of which has been a source of butthurt amongst fans who watch and read both. |
Yeah it's funny to see people try to be a purist about the anime as the "real experience". Wonder how they feel about Sanji's Baratie flashback, for example
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MarshalBanana
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| James02 wrote: | | MarshalBanana wrote: | | The Toei version was an early digipaint show, so it certainly looks dated in some ways. The fights were generally pretty basic from I can recall in the more early stages. So the Wit version is definitely going to be an improvement in some areas. It is a shame that it looks to locked away on Netflix. |
But millions of people have Netflix. I'd even say that there are more people with Netflix than any other paid streaming service. |
That's true, and I'm not disputing it. I'm referring to the lack of choice when it comes to watching the show both now and in the future.
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That Little Rapscallion
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| Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2026 8:37 am |
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| Miya543 wrote: | | Imo the "outdated animation" looks heaps better than the current one. The colors, the character designs and the animation itself is not too over the top. Oh how I miss the old One Piece. |
Yeah, my biggest fear is this version will include all the annoying shaky cam that looks like they just stuck the camera onto a frantic gerbil running and jumping around the battlefield as people flare out colored DBZ auras that the current anime is doing that people praise as 'good animation'.
| EmeraldSaucer wrote: | | Yeah it's funny to see people try to be a purist about the anime as the "real experience". Wonder how they feel about Sanji's Baratie flashback, for example |
I mean Baratie didn't even happen at all in the live-action. They put Arlong there and wrote out Krieg, Pearl, and Gin and all them as cameos. Whatever changes the Toei anime made are insignificant to what the live-action is doing. It will be nice to see Zeff eat his leg though rather than just starve himself but to compare it to what the live-action did is kinda weird since aside from the leg eating censorship it's the same as the manga and certainly far more accurate than what the live-action did with that arc.
As far as which will be the "definitive adaption" the only real answer is the anime we already have. The live-action has changed and skipped way too much and will obviously not be covering very far into the series anyway so it's moot unless you want to stop watching the series after maybe Thriller Bark at the latest.. This anime remake on the other hand despite claiming to be accurate and true to the source material I also can't see it going all the way either just due to how long the series is. But maybe I'm wrong and it'll be a recurring series they can air a new season of every year.
The only problem I have with the anime remake is they're remaking the part of the anime that doesn't need to. The pre-timeskip stuff isn't the issue with the Toei anime it's the post-timeskip stuff when they stopped doing traditional filler and instead stretched out a chapter or half a chapter into a full episode or where half the episode is an opening or recap. The Fishman Island re-edit they did was kinda lazy and not really what the series needed. If WIT started with Fishman Island and went from there it'd be a lot more welcome but I get this is for new people who have never watched One Piece before and either don't want to watch "old" anime or a live-action verison of it.
Realistically the answer to what's the definitive way to experience One Piece is either read the manga or deal with the parts of the Toei anime that get slow when they happen because it's likely the only one that'll go to completion.
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