That's my fear, One Piece is one of the most large scale and dense pieces of fiction both visually and plot wise.
The world building in it is insane. Adapting it into live action and for it to be any good is going to be a massive undertaking.
Although I will say that boy they got to act Usopp is on point.
I wonder how the black blue-checks are going to react to Usopp, and One-Piece in general. Stretchy powers don't look good in live action, there are the other zoans, the Giants, fish men, mermen, why not adapt Case Closed? It's been around almost as long and people love detective stories.
I think someone at Netflix just looked at "highest selling comic book series ever" and saw X-men, Batman and Superman were taken and decided to go for the next best thing.
I hope Netflix's budget will be big enough for this because anime adaptations have been notoriously bad and almost always look low budget.
Regarding Usopp, I haven't seen any complaints yet but I'm expecting the usual complaints. Even when the creator of the series says that the character would have been African if One Piece world corresponded with the real world.
I'm not used to seeing Luffy with such curly hair and Zoro looks so young. Wish they got a tougher looking man to play him.
Is anyone here following the Kyle Rittenhouse trial?
It looks like the Judge has already picked a side in the trial.
Hint: He's already said that the people Rittenhouse killed can't be referred to as "victims" but can be called "rioters".
The scumbags who have never seen One Piece outside of clips and amv's (remember those, 2008 Youtube, Linkin Park, Linkin Park everywhere) are going to complain about racebending, the bluechecks might feel that Usopp plays into stereotypes and call Oda racist, even though the Fishman Island arc is about how stupid racism and slavery is. In fact he did it way better than X-Men ever could.
Absolutely.
When folks complain that US superhero comics are too "political" and that's why manga sells better I always point to One Piece.
It's one of the most explicitly political comics out there. Racism is a very prominent running theme throughout the entire series and it's handled very well. And that's before we talk about stuff like religion, gentrification, corrupt governments and even sexuality the series goes into.
I'm legit curious how the series is going to handle all these themes. One Piece shifts from very funny and whimsical to very (and I mean very) serious and dark.
I don't understand why there would be backlash. Usopp always had tanner skin and even though its hard to sometimes tell an anime characters ethnicity he never looked remotely white.
Last edited by Tofali; 11-10-2021 at 04:08 PM.
"Dedra Meero is not just a woman in a men’s world, but a fascist in a world of fascists.” - Denise Gough