Netflix Did the Unthinkable | One Piece Live Action Review & Spoilercast

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[@urameshitrev1851]

This show gave me an interaction between Garp and Zeff something I didnt know I needed til I saw it.

[@RougeMephilesClone]

Yeah. I ran out of available manga volumes before Garp was properly introduced, but I still suspected that was brand new material while I was watching it. It's honestly a wonder why we haven't seen Garp and Zeff talk before. It fits the context of Garp knowing many big pirates from a couple generations prior. It doesn't come across because of how fit he is, but Garp is old!

[@Zangril]

If this doesn't get a season 2 Netflix is beyond help.

[@ArynBacklogDragon]

considering its breaking records left and right (even surpassing Stranger Things and Wednesday) I think it's very likely.

[@fabricated]

If it doesn't get a second season it's gonna be because it cost a shitzillion dollars

[@Waytothedawn63]

@@ArynBacklogDragon The number 1 in x countries isn't a strong metric. Views and hours watched are coming out, and it isn't competing with shows like Stranger Things or Wednesday even remotely, while being a ridiculously expensive show. I'm pretty pessimistic based on that.

[@jefrey488]

​@@Waytothedawn63you've underestimated the power of the anime fans 😂

[@ThePriceIsNeverRight]

​​@@Waytothedawn63Netflix's live-action One Piece adaptation debuted to 18.5 million "views" and 140 million hours viewed over its first four days of release, according to numbers provided by Netflix. These numbers surely makes One Piece at least amongst top 10 streaming charts, which is fantastic

[@SanjiTyloxion]

So this is how we get the Gigaboys into doing the One Piece Anime Podcast for the next 30 years.

[@Alveline]

The fact that Netflix allowed a studio to work with a character with elastic powers and Marvel Studios didn't allow that with Ms. Marvel was something made to piss me off specifically.

[@CTOONfan1]

Here’s an interesting fact: Mackenyu, the actor who plays Zoro, has a long history of playing characters in live action anime adaptations. He’s been Okuyasu in the JoJo live action film, Scar in the FMA live action films, Pegasus Seiya in the Saint Seiya live action film that came out this year, and, interestingly enough, Yukishiro Enishi in the fourth Rurouni Kenshin film.

[@sonicboomers122]

Kris is slightly misremembering Kuro plan in the manga. The plan is mainly kill Kayla using the attack as cover, Then kill his Crew and Live on the Island as a sad old Colodore respected and loved member of society. Koro wants a quiet life.

[@thetattooedyoshi]

KILLA KWEEN!

[@Trevpocalypse]

As someone who hasn't consumed anything One Piece, this is the first Netflix show in awhile I really devoured since Midnight Mass back in 2021. It works perfectly as a gateway to all of One Piece & as its own thing!

[@grabdaCikan]

Midnight Mass is still top for me. ;)

[@noodles2459]

If netflix wants to save their company they write the show a blank check and say do it all. Because the audiance is hungry for more one piece.

[@1-derfulpiece]

This comment dude. Yes 100%

[@royalfun1031]

Double budget?

[@MJR_heyfunny]

Something tells me the budget for season 2 is going to be bigger because season 1 was originally supposed to be 10 episodes to include logtown and smoker but Matt says they kind of ran out of money so that's going to start season 2. Which is why after the fact they added that little smoker tidbit at the end

[@NightCap7]

A great thing about that Jojo adaptation is that the actor for Zoro, Mackenyu, is also the actor for Okuyasu

[@happytrees9414]

They were very brave to just go ham with Luffy's rubber powers. Marvel/DC would never lol

[@royalfun1031]

Lmao

[@royalfun1031]

It's still toned down

[@jazzycat8917]

Marvel definitely wouldn't. They literally changed Ms Marvel's powerset for her own tv show because they were too scared to do stretchy powers

[@ThePriceIsNeverRight]

Netflix's live-action One Piece adaptation debuted to 18.5 million "views" and 140 million hours viewed over its first four days of release, according to numbers provided by Netflix. These numbers surely makes One Piece at least amongst top 10 streaming charts, which is fantastic

[@mr.ilikespammobileedition592]

Zeff actor sounded so familiar than I looked it up went oh yeah he was gaz and ghost in OG cod mw 1 and 2

[@GigaBoots]

Oh shit

[@ShinjiSixteen]

I have never watched or read One Piece, but hearing The Boys happy about things is making me smile a lot wider than normal today

[@royalfun1031]

Daym

[@ShadowWolfRising]

Well this is a- 'Phone Rings' Just a sec guys. Hello? Yeah..........uh huh. Apparently the Netflix Live Action One Piece was good. Uh-Huh. Yeah I'm as surprised as you are. Yeah. I don't know how they managed that either, I'm guessing you didn't have a hand in that? Uh-Huh, alright then bye. 'Hangs Up Phone.' Sorry about that, That was The Devil, He wanted to know why Hell was covered in Ice all of a sudden.

[@Thederpyguide]

Zoros actor does a decent chunk in Japan, he plays my favorite Kamen Rider Drive villian from a movie which was a bit distracting but at the same time id watch what they make him do in fight scenes and go oh of course he was in a toku thing

[@Katyamuffin]

This channel is severely underrated, found this randomly when looking at reviews and this discussion was so much fun to listen to, for real. Gotta binge the rest of your stuff now to help me pass this night shift

[@royalfun1031]

Ye

[@TheAsenkah]

The distorted close shots in Ep.3 are to give a feel of being watched/heard. The dialogue there is what Buggy "overhears" from the hat and relays back to Arlong. It was weird the first time but on second watch it made sense.

[@HSL_Blackleaf]

Yo ho ho he took a bite of Pod-Pod!

[@AnyMEmdq]

42:10 In fact, her sister knowing is key! Nojiko's tattoos are there solely to make Nami feel better about having Arlong's brand tattooed on her shoulder. Sort of "Now I'm tattooed too, that brand doesn't cast you out anymore"

[@user-lq4ct6dr5m]

Yeah but this didn't apply to the LA cause she didn't know about Nami's decision What a waste

[@alexbalderas8514]

It did help a lot that it had Oda’s involvement

[@traceyandrob13]

In interview Steven Meda one the show runner said want to add Hachi but the budget couldn't be done. They explain eye brow and Ussop Nose also why Iñaki Godoy wear shoes is he did own stunts also safety. Oda already said season 2 and said the straw hat need a great doctor and then drew Chopper.

[@Kuma5655]

funnily enough, Django the hypnotist of the Kuro arc actually is on one of the wanted posters Luffy checks out with Koby. There’s also a bunch of other characters shown there that will not appear until much later.

[@HellecticMojo]

You know the timeline is cursed when One Piece is better produced than Cowboy Bebop

[@kingmeowwow8163]

Seriously, on paper one of these translates really well to live action the other has extremely insane proportions and designs and is incredibly manga coded.

[@Hecubusx]

One Piece never left Oda's creative control, always trust Oda.

[@christopherross8976]

Goes to show how much the passion from the team and involvement of the creator goes a LONG way in having a good production

[@UnknownFilipino]

I really hope the Jim Henson Company will be working on Chopper for Season 2.

[@boogie9377]

I really wish they had hachi but with 4 normal arms and 2 little arms I think good banter from zoro and hachi could have been made from that i also really hate that they cut the village from knowing about nami cause it makes nojikos tattoos not mean much other than looking cool

[@RougeMephilesClone]

There is one other particularly good One Piece fighting game, and it's actually a 2D one by Arc System Works. Problem is, it's a 3DS exclusive that was never localized. It's also kinda' jank, but in that crazy way some players like. Also of note, it supports multiplayer with the 3DS Arc Sys Dragon Ball Z fighting game! You can only pick characters from the game you're playing on, but it's wild that it works at all.

[@professorbadvibes695]

Glad that this adaptation didn't give you guys hives‼Hopefully the positive momentum continues into the next season if netflix bothers lmao

[@HolyDeviant1]

That joke about Zoro being low-key racist hits even better when he just keeps getting set up against minorities by happenstance and circumstance for the rest of the manga

[@riadiadipurwanto2020]

Person from outside of US of A here, don't really care about Stranger Things. Here's what I think about the lack of Hachi, Arlong in the live action actually took over East Blue as opposed to the original where that's his endgame. It's very likely the dude who is not that fond with the Fishman Supremacist angle left earlier. Dude can still be introduced much later alongside the girlfriend as "The one who is very apologetic about the Race War". And no the dude with multicolor spike hair is not him, no matter what the wiki/sites said.

[@Kuma5655]

Having just gotten into Ted Lasso recently, it’s been rewarding to have any context for Dan’s fascination with it and a weirdly welcome surprise to hear mentioned at the end of a One Piece podcast.

[@cerulean1003]

Its been said before, but its kind of outstanding that One Piece of all things ended up translating to live action better then fucking Cowboy Bebop. Tomorrow Studios taking lessons from Bebops failure possibly helped, but its really in thanks to having a crew thats passionate about the material and willing to take risks with things like practical sets/effects and a fairly fresh cast (the only actors i recognize right away is Buggys who was in Agents of Shield and Zoros whos been in a bunch of japanese films and also that shitty Saint Seiya movie no one saw) as well as having the creator involved. Its not perfect but its clearly made with passion and that goes a long way especially comparing it to its peers where the only other ones id say had this level of passion in them were Speed Racer and Alita. Im honestly less concerned about it not getting greenlit for a season 2 (with how succesful its been the only thing holding back on it atm is the strikes) and more that they'll take the wrong lessons from it and greenlight a bunch more anime adaptations that dont have nearly as much love put into them. Great to hear you guys enjoy something on the Spoilercast!

[@sialiasialis.]

OKAY THERE'S ACTUALLY HOPE FOR YUYU HAKUSHO LIVE ACTION??

[@GigaBoots]

Oh my god I forgot, oh no.

[@EdgardoJCruz-dk5kv]

The Yuyu Hakusho live action is being done by a different studio entirely. Not Tommorrow Studios.

[@killerfrank456]

Hard maybe we got a cyberpunk that was good

[@panamakira]

I need season 2! Such a fun show ❤

[@toniomartinez2]

It's a crime that they never mention Down D. Stairs in the show. Jokes aside, I have one minor complain that only affects me and maybe a few people that will listen this spoilercast. So, for the Spanish dub, the actor of Sanji voices himself since he's spanish and boy you can tell because the mic quality is totally different from the rest of the cast. He also doubles down in his natural accent, but I won't complain about that, it's funny. For the Latin America dub, Iñaki also voices himself, so I wonder if they had the same problem.

[@ToastyMozart]

I suspect they didn't mention it because someone dying from a step slip would clash with Zorro shrugging off falling down a dry well multiple times.

[@WriimeTime]

This thumbnail is killing me, good job. Oh the spoilercast attached to it is also pretty good I guess

[@TheValiantBob]

"You're listening to Chewing Gum-Gum the One Piece Podcast where we watch ALL of One Piece!"

[@muncrazy.munchkin8462]

They use "We Are" at the end of Going Merry saling off and Brook's song when they introduced Shank.

[@Running4Daze]

Show runners for any upcoming live action avatar or one punch man should/better b taking countless notes from this show. If not, don’t even bother making it…

[@GalekC]

I completely forgot that Mackenyu played Okuyasu in the JoJo Part 4 Live Action

[@AnyMEmdq]

32:55 2 things about Hacchi: 1. The Fishman who Nami cheats at poker against and gets angry, that in the manganime is just a background fishman, is credited as "Hachi/Angry Fishman", but that's "Hachi", not "Hacchi" or "Hatchan" so they have leeway to backpaddle on him 2. They can include him at the beginning of season 2, or right when he comes back into the story (via flashback to the end of season 1). The season ended with the Marine searching the Conomi Islands (where Arlong Park was) for scattered Fishmen, so we can have one shot, POV of someone floating in the water, sees the Marine search, sees the ruins of Arlong Park, camera pans back, we see Hacchi's silhouette, as he dives back into the water. Boom, Hacchi is established, and we can have him accurately design when they have a more suiting budget for him

[@RougeMephilesClone]

Thank you for the double bonus podcast, Dan. This show was a shock to my system. Even the first couple of scenes primed me for a worse production than it ended up. Caring about what you're making really makes a difference. I want a season 2, but would be fine if it stopped here. I know where season 2 will end, and it definitely shouldn't go any further. I'm also worried because there's at least one character in season 2 range that must be CGI-heavy, but after seeing this, who knows how it would be handled.

[@maxpower2480]

REALLY?! You have issues with the score? I mean, that pop-song was a bit weird, but other than that I think it was absolutely stellar!

[@HiopX]

There are a lot more instances where the Live Action elaborates and goes in details, than just Arlong "using" Nami

[@ImALefty08]

Nazumi is part mink which is why he has whiskers. Minks are a species in the world of OP which are humanoid animals.

[@albumkosong]

Is he? I thought he like merry a normal guys dress as animal

[@paulgibbon5991]

I just love how the One Piece world has four types of animal-people (Zoan fruit users, Smile fruit users, Minks and fishmen / mermaids), each with entirely different origins.

[@pat5467]

KING OF THE PODCASTS

[@ghostfreak1]

Dreamin

[@impulse3150]

Garp is revealed as Luffy's Grandpa in water 7 if I am not mistaken. That's like episode 300ish not anywhere near 400

[@sialiasialis.]

Like I don't want more of these live action anime adaptations to keep happening because I think they're kinda pointlessly derivative, e.g: imagine Welcome to The N.H.K Live Action versus just watching the perfectly fine anime in its original form. I'm at least just glad this one finally seemed to have cracked the curse of terrible anime live action adaptations, Japanese and Western. One Piece also only kind of works because this was the only way you'd get anyone that isn't already a fan of One Piece to come close to watching that walking 1000+ episode juggernaut in some digestible format.

[@royalfun1031]

The music is awesome tf

[@Banzai431]

For once I can type this without any sarcasm. I'm shocked. Truly I am.

[@muhammadsaiful9500]

There's this One Piece Fighting game called "One Piece Fighting Path" but it only available in China. The gameplay looks cool

[@SolidJonno]

The ps2 arena fighters are pretty decent they're very similar to Power Stone

[@girlMyanArt]

I like that when i hear a non fan and fan of one piece talking about the live action they are like having same energy 😂

[@applegothic1984]

Unironically. Do a "One Piece Month" and then ONLY Play Pirate Warriors 1 and then 3.

[@gungrave1051]

The One Piece is real ☠️

[@vegabuster523]

One Piece Unlimited Adventure (US ver.) and Cruise (JPN Only) on the Wii are really good. Also, heard One Piece Odyssey is good RPG.

[@Hawkcam1996]

27:35 No, that wasn’t his plan. His plan was to *attack* the entire town so it’s not suspicious when Kaya is killed. He wasn’t going to specifically *kill* the entire town. There would obvious be survivors. For the live action version, his plan doesn’t make sense because if Kaya is the *ONLY* person to die, aside from the person who oversees her will, they would immediately suspect the person who she left everything to in her will. At least in the anime, he was planning to account for that by having his crew kill people indiscriminately, with Kaya being the only guaranteed target.

[@lonewolf9325]

Matt Owens and Steven Maeda hoped to get a 7/10, and fans gave it 8/10 on average. Like you all ended up giving on average. S2 oh whenever it happens we are here for it.

[@sofia-th2bs]

Whattt????? You didn't like the music? The music was the strongest part part in this.

[@garyforagerjr5074]

I think they bring osctpus man back if there flashback showing along being corrupted withal time as by and once he his leader is gone he leaving and adopts came and runs his food stand

[@neosildrake]

I think this was mainly made to appeal to people who've never seen or read One Piece before, because of it's length anime and manga wise. And they also did it without offending the established fanbase. I have heard from a lot of people who have never watched or read One Piece, that they may take up the anime or/and manga to get more.

[@grantnesselroad7569]

Late response, I know, but as one such established fan in the fanbase, caught up completely to the manga, I can attest that the show actually KICKS ASS. These are heavily streamlined elements, yes, but in a way that still feels in-character, and honestly, they make it work.

[@ShinyMew888]

The moment I heard the show was good rumbling across twitter, my first thought was 'Of course Oda gets the rare Netflix W' and my second 'The BTD crew bound themselves to watch something thats actually good?! Lets fucking Goooooooo!'

[@SingForAnactoria]

The Stranger Things thing at 46:10 is super true btw,

[@insatiablehunger2138]

What’s tuff is the budget and cgi like man does it get crazier, like there going to need universal studios to collaborate 🦖

[@AlteredGoat]

The gigaboots one piece podcast inches closer to being a reality

[@davidwilson6577]

Don't give it up, Dr. Agro.The So are you, like, an anger management specialist or something?

[@davidwilson6577]

How does Amazon's kindle autocorrect _literally nothing_ into 'the'?

[@dakdread]

Yeah this thing from the moment I heard them in talks I think 4 year ago I had hope. Fans in charge. They went to Japan to see the Kabuki theater plays and get in touch with Oda. He was in control of a lot some of the other people in change of the chapters and social media were helping It was this project where if it failed it was over for live action hope for me. I’m so glad if turn out even better

[@AnyMEmdq]

48:20 Google "Zoro minority hunter" (only if you are almost caught up to the animanga, or you'll be spoiled of some of his fights). You might be on to something

[@Matrix5TheTrapsComeAlive]

I think the JoJo movie is cool for what it is. It's a Miike movie so even if you're not into it you're at least getting some cool visuals and a unique look to everything. The way it ends honestly really bums me out that he didn't get to keep going, because he clearly had some fun plans for it.

[@KornerIsabel]

yeah, Chilean here and I havent finish stranger things, not even Merlina...

[@stalhein62]

Small detail, Luffy and Usopp are 17 at this point.

[@masterprick1]

48:22 They don't call him "minority hunter" Zoro for nothing.

[@user-wm1hj6ss9w]

As a Japanese who only read one story a week in a magazine 26 years ago for 3 years, my impression was "the manga and the live-action version are about the same" lol.

[@aintthatapotofeffluck8926]

It’s doing great but it’s also expensiveAF. They could say it did it’s job. Got people into the franchise and not renew. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@royalfun1031]

Renewed

[@djfusionkotb]

Calling it now. Season 2 will cause controversy with the LBGTQ on Bon Clay being a villain at first.

[@Ozgarthefighter]

The LGBTQ who haven't seen One Piece, maybe. But the ones who have, know Bon Clay is the 🐐

[@djfusionkotb]

@@Ozgarthefighter Bon Clay definitely the goat.

[@albumkosong]

It's OK it would be batch and we gonna see he saving shp

[@R3TR0J4N]

it aint a lazy 1:1 adaptation, and the liberties to change the pacing but same direction still repsects the source and why it stil lretian its entertainment adn watch value regards already seen the anime. we need more adaptations where their creators are on board during the production of the film/series.

[@SCAR_the_Band]

Zorro got lost... he's in jojos as well

[@Hawkcam1996]

7:39 No, it’s not the same narrator

[@Thulgore]

I don't care about the flaws. I had so much fun watching the show............it ruined any reason for me to critique it. I didn't even know it had an animation or a comic. I felt something akin to "happy".

[@R3TR0J4N]

for me, key character missing for zoro was his pride. as during the end of mihawk fight. luffy cahracter was handled well, if its cringe for others its really just how exagerated One Piece is and notably the localization; in contrast to Neflix Cowboy Bebop's Ed.

[@171QA]

It's a pretty fun show.

[@tmanno1987]

Just pay the damn license fees for the main theme music at least lol. They're already dropping hella money as is. A tad more won't hurt lol

[@lonewolf9325]

They have rights to Manga, not the anime. Thats a whole lot of Toei animation and stuff...while its easier to be on board with the author himself.

[@megajgbc]

great

[@sonicboomers122]

Netflix One Piece is going to be fun. Cowboy Bebop could have worked. at it bones it is a serious sci-fi story they need not actually adapt. You change something to make it work in a different media. There nothing that is in animation of Cowboy Bebop that could not be done with CGI and actors. Luffy BY HIMSELF is going to be a bitch. His character and his powers. Luffy as an excitable upbeat idiot will get overplayed we might see Netflix Bebop ED Luffy variant, Stretching powers has never worked in live-action, it is suppose to be goofy and charming but will most likely be creepy, These two points put together results in problem three. Luffy in Manga is always stretching and doing something goofy. One piece design top to bottom to be manga. This was comment I made on the Cowboy Bebop Episode. Somehow they actually hit a Solid 8/10. Luffy Worked, a lot of scenes work, It Just worked. I don't know how One Piece made a smoother transition than Cowboy bebop.

[@shademonki13]

okay one piece is one of the best things Netflix has ever done but I was in Spain all last year and they fucking LOVE stranger things

[@sonicboomers122]

Kris has no grasp on the Mainstream. He really believes he is in touch with most people

[@royalfun1031]

Meh

[@ugh5281]

you've seen all the rurouni kenshin live actions but you don't recognize mackenyu, the actor who played the villain einishi in the final movie? he is the one who plays zoro haha (well to be fair, he looks a lot different in that movie)

[@jonathanrobinson198]

Isn’t there rumors about an up and coming Naruto live action movie 💀

[@aashutosh8134]

As you asked, I don't give a shit about Stranger Things

[@bubbadumps3747]

the japanese voices are much better zoro rarely ever says luffy, he almost always uses the word for captain

[@robinthestate6548]

Garp's luffy's fight makes no sense to me.

[@scifimisc9191]

Pirate Warriors is pretty great. 3 was better than 4 for grinding and losing time in, 4 plays better and looks better. They also absolutely spoil everything, and dont do it as nicely as those Naruto storm games.

[@Hawkcam1996]

44:30 No, that’s false. First off, there have been trans characters since Impel Down, when Ivankov was introduced, literally changes peoples sexes. That was *YEARS* ago. Second, those “trans characters” you’re referring to, at least one of them is not actually trans because she identifies as a *specific person* (which the trans community said is a no no), not as the opposite gender. Plus, Oda drew her with all the women, confirming she’s a woman.

[@austinvoelker9270]

I know they hasn't been any announcement of it yet(I think), but I still have high hopes for the live action Hellsing. Even after watching this video, I still have high hopes its going to be good.

[@user-hb9fy6ny4j]

❤

[@Aussie27Legend]

i mean there are plenty of good netflix shows they just aren't adaptations

[@kfizz]

What the f they smoking the music is great.

[@MartenDE]

German here, people care about Stranger Things

[@borederlands5387]

Dan can't remember DON for the life of him that's really funny

[@GigaBoots]

My theory is that for a decade I remembered it as “that smash clone with Dragon Ball (D) Naruto (N) and that other thing…..oh yea One Piece (O). DNO.”

[@Thunderwolfyy]

If you clicked Buggy on tumblr he would change the dashboard background to wanted posters and "we're watching you' posters It was fucking freaky to see that half asleep at 3 am They then changed him trans skull and cross bones cause so many people did not like the fucked up pirate clown just being..... there

[@hasquita]

I have never watched stranger things and I have 0 interest to watch