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NEWS: Netflix's Live-Action One Piece Series Reveals 6 Cast Members, Behind-the-Scenes Video

Yeah, no matter the budget they’re still trying to do a show in which the main protagonist has stretchy powers they need to get even halfway decent-looking (because if you screw up that, you have no fight scenes,) and in which a later major protagonist will be a child-sized anthropomorphic reindeer. Who has a super form for fight scenes. These are simply easier to pull off in animation than live-action with CGI, because you don’t HAVE to make Luffy’s powers look like they’d mesh with a human body. Chopper is not inherently more expensive in animation than any other potential character design who could fill a given crew shot. In live-action, this is not the case. (I barely expect them to get to Chopper, much less the later crew, but on the offchance they did Robin is at least a standard human most of the time - and you can bet she’d get even less to do because her power’s expensive and their fight scene budget’s already tapped with Luffy alone - and Franky is at least still achievable with practical effects. Brooke and Jinbei would also be pretty expensive but again, no chance they’re getting that far. Chopper will be absurdly expensive no matter how he’s done, because you’re either talking full-body suit/makeup or CGI character, and will be absurdly expensive even if the only thing he’s doing in a scene is sitting in a wide shot of the ship and crew.)

There’s a reason why, even with One Piece’s history and popularity, NO ONE has tried a live action show before now. There are well-received live-action adaptations of more fantasy-genre series in Japan, but few that go as far into the specifically cartoonish fantasy of One Piece.

Is this from the same team as Cobow B.?
.... eitherway, hope they can capture the One Piece show like the markers of Castlevavia did (even if one is animated the other live -action.

Artemis X wrote:

FireballDragon wrote: You'd think from Cowboy Bebop they'd realize that there are just some things that don't belong in live-action, but no. With these kinds of statements and attitudes is why many live action properties fail. You can't have a mindset like this to think that EVERYTHING, the whole broad spectrum of manga, comics and animation could never be put into live action. This is why its such a dying part of the industry is because fans clammer to these kinds of statements.

But wait, that doesn't make sense because fans aren't clamoring for live-action adaptations in the first place. Like, it's a "dying part of the industry" not solely because it's so frequently done poorly but also because it's not asked for or even on a general fan's mind when they are watching/reading an anime/manga.

You make it sound like live-action adaptations were at any point a highly-requested thing when I'd say it's the exact opposite.

Rai The Noblesse wrote:

Is this from the same team as Cobow B.? .... eitherway, hope they can capture the One Piece show like the markers of Castlevavia did (even if one is animated the other live -action.

Castlevania wasn't anything like the games though. They butchered all the characters.

After Netflix Cowboy Bebop I have no hope for this show. We're gonna see if they'll prove me wrong.

I'm not optimistic either tbh, considering the reactions to it right now.

But I'm sure I'll like it, as I loved Netflix Bebop too. Oh well.

Live action has existed for many decades in other coutries, its nothing new. Its just to the west adapting a foreign property such as japanese manga or korean manwha or any kind of asian property into a hollywood adaptation is some what new and experimental something that we have pushed in the last few years. But in order for us to embrace this new medium like Japan or Korea, or China, then we need the consumers and fans support. We can't have an attitude thinking that its all trash and its because of our heavy critizm is why most of this stuff ends up being cancled.

But why would we want more live action adaptations? If the show is already good as an anime, what will a live action adaptation do to improve it? Even with Disney's live action reboot of all their classics, the vast majority end up being terrible. What do we stand to win by supporting this fad of turning popular animation into live-action, as if the animated version needed an upscale of any kind? A lot of these stories worked because they were made as animation and forcing them into live action adds nothing of value, whilst a lot is lost in the process.

But why would we want more live action adaptations? If the show is already good as an anime, what will a live action adaptation do to improve it?

Even with Disney's live action reboot of all their classics, the vast majority end up being terrible.

What do we stand to win by supporting this fad of turning popular animation into live-action

A lot of people are just simply not into cartoons, for one reason or another. Even a lot of people who watch cartoons are just not going to watch anime, for one reason or another. (I know so many people who are fans of say, Avatar or Steven Universe, but when they look for something similar to those they don't even think of looking at anime - and even if they are nudged in that direction they're just not interested.) Most people are just simply more interested in live action

We? Not much. The copyright holders and other corporations involved? Lots and lots of money, once one of the properties they keep throwing at the wall finally sticks...

I hope they cast someone I recognize at some point. Only cast member I knew beforehand was Mackenyu.

Casting looks fine overall but just need to see them in costume.