I'm enjoying One Piece on Netflix, as someone that hasn't watched the anime I can't complain about it not matching up.
I can tell it's a bit oversimplified, knowing how long and drawn out anime can get sometimes it's not a surprise. Fight scenes can literally last 3 episodes!
As a huge #OnePiece fan, I was enjoying it at the get go, but I have to admit that there were some moments where I felt it was slow, but I kept watching because of the way fans talked about it, the moment I felt completely in love with the series was at Arlong Park Arc (ep 31-44), especially with the episode 37, for others is later or early in the story.
I understand it is scary to get started after seeing the amount of chapters and episodes it has, it takes time commitment, it's been almost two years since I watched the first episode, and it has been an incredible experience. You have multiple options to start.
Watch the anime. Fans complain about the pacing, it was annoying for me at certain moments, but for me, most of the time I didn't notice it. It has the advantage of being more accessible, I would say, most people will likely watch on a streaming service with the dub in their native language. Watch One Piece on Crunchyroll
Watch One Pace. Fan edit of the anime. This is a project that takes the episodes of the anime, and edit them to make them more truthful to the source material by removing filler scene, long reaction shots, stretched fights, fixing certain errors from the original anime (especially from the old ones, like color schemes since they didn't know or errors that made the final version probably because of deadlines of being a weekly anime since 1999) and removing censorship from certain censored scenes. You can download the episodes by torrent or watch through telegram. Their website claims it 45% faster to watch than the original. One Pace official website
Watch One Piece Live Action. Even though it has certain controversial changes that I don't agree with, I loved how it opened the door for a lot of people to read the manga, watch the anime or One Pace. Watch One Piece Live Action on Netflix
I agree completely, don't get me wrong, I was liking it so far. But that episode was what made me realize what story I was getting into and made me fell in love with #OnePiece.
The reason why #OnePiece fans are thrilled about #Netflix moving forward with season 2:
Tony Tony Chopper.
He's the first addition to the Straw Hat Pirate crew after they enter the Grand Line, and the most lovable character. He blushes and ostensibly rejects praise even as he happily embraces it.
They understood some manga/anime point not easy to grab: the World and the aesthetics are weird, funny and over the top, but people living there do not find them so weird. You can have half-sheep or half-mouse people walking around and ships can be enormous iron dog head machines, but people will not be shocked as that is how their world works.
They were bold about it. Not having regular phones. Not scr*@ing with hair colors.
As they kept this anime looking, low budget is really forgiveble. You cannot be mad about a giant cross-shaped sword chopping bullets to look fake.
They kept feelings really in the middle of the story.
They adapted, that means changing what needed, keeping what could.
But first and foremost:
Actors love what they are doing and you can see it. Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Usopp and Nami are full of charisma, their actors are performing great and they really believe what they are doing. The support cast too. They embrace the Michael Caine Muppets approach. This cat disguised jumping guy is a real person. This dog looking thing is a real hat. This world can seem fake, these swords can look plastic and this fruit seems coming from a toy store BUT they are real. They work for the illusion so you can do it too.
It is what cinema supposed to be.
Gave the Netflix #OnePiece a chance and its not bad. Like if you absolutely had to adapt the wackiest, most physical manga to live action, you could do a lot worse.
Really enjoyed Netflix’s #OnePiece. Definitely have to check the #anime series now. Here’s hoping they don’t 🤬 up the #AvatarTheLastAirbender adaptation.
Going into the new #Netflix#OnePiece adaptation, I told myself I’d go in with an open mind, give it a fair chance, and if I like it, I’ll slowly watch it, one-two episodes per day to enjoy it.
Not a chance, it got me hooked in the first ten minutes, and I couldn’t put it down until I finished it.
All the characters are as true as possible to their #manga/#anime counterparts without making them out of place in a live action, and the music is FANTASTIC.
Watched the first episode of #OnePiece and thought it was really fun. I had no huge expectations and I enjoyed it. Then again, I don't trust my own judgment because I also enjoyed the live-action #CowboyBebop too. But I'm definitely watching the rest of the season because NAKAMA FEELS.
Guys!!! It gets good around chapter 1176. ( lemmy.world )