 Can I convince my friends to start watching One Piece? For us thigh-hard fans, we consider One Piece the best piece of media that ever existed. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that if the series author, Echio Oda, decided to start his own cult of One Piece, I bet millions and millions of people would be proudly branded with the straw hat insignia. But what about three people who have never seen One Piece? What would their opinion be of a series filled of wacky characters, crazy ideas and the bizarre world of One Piece? Today, I am faced with the tall task of trying to convert my three friends to the ever-growing crew of One Piece lovers. I feel like a certain pirate captain trying to recruit members to my crew. Brave adventurers before me have struggled to achieve this task, faced with the difficulties of language, length and media. But luckily, we have a much more easily digestible content in the form of the One Piece live action. So, can Netflix's new series fulfill its purpose of increasing the reach of this wonderful story? Does the live action have what it takes? Let's get to know our potential new crew mates. Talk a little bit about yourself. I'm Luka. I'm an operations manager for a sport and rec organization. That's very boring. No, I don't know anything about anime. I've never heard of this One Piece. I have absolutely no idea what we're about to watch. I'm just looking forward to it. Have you ever read any manga? Mangoes? I love mangoes! I'm Ruth. I'm working as a consultant. I've heard of One Piece, but I don't know the storyline. I've watched a few different anime, which I enjoy. I've watched Attack on Titan. I can't think of my favorite. I'm a primary teacher and I love to dance. One Piece, I immediately just thought of a swimming costume. All right, that's enough questions. Let's get sailing. This is a world like no other. This is a world of pirates. It's a lot more brutal in the live action. Coby's Australian. He's an Aussie mate. That's Ben Beckman Middle-Age. 20 years into the future, Ben Beckman. I can't believe they're showing this. I'm not ready for that. What is happening? What is happening? Gumby in real life. Oh, funny they have business cards in this world. They really went for the cools all the way. Oh, he dared. Oh, gosh. Is he going to have swords or is he going to have swords? Kind of. That's glossy. Like he's a kendo. So funny because you know what he's wanted first and something looking like. Or is it? Looks like sponge. He had no capitalizing. This is such a different makinob. You used the makinob being such like a sweet lady. Yeah, that's what I thought too. Why didn't you kick his ass? Yeah, Shayne, why didn't you kick his ass? Oh, this is so bizarre. I was not expecting this. That's brilliant. Fuck the inside. They're damn loose. Beat the brain. So rough, so rough, so rough. Too tall. Goddamn. I'm not asking the next guy. Softy. I wish I would never have the cheek. Why? Because he's all nice for working the big softy in the inside. Bruce Wayne. Remember to take the store down. Seven days, keep him on month. He can't speak to me that way. My father never loved me. He should start a drinking game on how many times he says that. He's so bizarre. He's such a weirdo. Oh, gosh. That's a beautiful. Miyagi on their asses. He is everywhere. He's really bad at getting in. He reminds me of Aladdin in these clothes. I just realized he was half naked. Half naked? He's naked. I wouldn't be playing with a sword. His teddy bear has hair on it. Yeah, like matches his hair. He did all the work on that one. Is that his catchphrase? Yeah, gomu gomu. Or we can do that. Not a crew. Very hot. I'm not coming with you. You sure? Before we met, every choice was made for me. Next time we meet, we might be enemies. We're friends. Oh, don't be enemies. You're friends? Friend enemies? Is that a doll? Oh, that is. I was like, it is a book. Captain Pitbull. That's a snail. What? Is that the captain? No. Biggest loops. Bow guard. Really hinting at something. Crocodile. Second season coming up. He must have been planning this for a long time. But I expected it at all. Do I know everything now? I don't know. The world becomes huge and they have like so much different histories. Why his powers work the way they've been. Didn't get any explanation on that. Oh, that was so bizarre. Yeah, I wasn't expecting that. I wasn't expecting that. That was cool. No, I did. It was like, I don't know, like a touch of harry potter and parsley caribbean and other things. But then Gumby came out and I was a bit freaked out. No, it reminded me of Fantastic Four. Oh, what about the last two? Incredible? That's true, that's true. Incredible. That's so true. But I suppose it's weird because live action, it looks really strange when he was bending. I was like, hell, just happened to his voice. The CGI was a lot better than I actually expected all the bendy stuff. Because I think that's like the thing that everyone was like worried about most, how it would look in like live action. Because it's such a surreal thing, but it actually looked a lot better than I expected. Yeah, no, it just came out of nowhere. Surprise. Things we had no background to do with this. What did he just do? And then when the snail came out. I love when he just stabbed himself in the face with a knife. I was like, okay, this is where it's going. Dance. Even moments like that, because I guess in the manga and the anime, they don't show the full gore of it. So when I first watched it, I wasn't expecting the full like... Or even like when old Roger died. Stabbing back. Stabbing back. You don't see it all the time in the manga. Stabbing back. You don't see it all the time. You don't see it all the time. That's my hero. Yeah, very, very sudden. It was a take 10,000 episodes to find out. About the one piece. We still don't know what the one piece is. You're joking. You're joking. Oh lord. The writers don't even know. Well, the thing is like, it's not just the one piece that you want to find out. There's a lot of stories within the story that are also being revealed that it's just as interesting as like finding the one piece. So is this kind of like lost where it's just like one crazy puzzler for another? Pretty much, yeah, like that. Executioner. Better executioner. Of course, of course. So what do you reckon? Would you guys continue watching it? 100%. Yeah. 100%. Really? I was thinking about what you said about at the start. You said something you could watch when you're feeling any certain way, like any type of mood or anything. Yeah, you kind of just could be feeling any type of way and just sit there and really enjoy what's happening. Yeah. Just get transported. Yeah, because it's so different and lots of different genres. I don't get surprised too often in like action movies or whatever I watch and like that just kept surprising me. So it was different, no? That character, man. What was his name? Swoochie-man. Luffy. Luffy, that's right. I said it at the start. I was like, Luffy. I was like, that's a funny name. He was like, Luffy. Yeah, Luffy. Yeah, I was like, it's not Luffy. So I was like, fuck, yeah, no. He was a character and a half. Who was your favorite character? Snail. Snail. Every good villain has to have a character. Zoro, Zoro was badass. Zoro's an easy favorite. Is he like stays the main character or is it change over time? The entire crew is the main character. Yeah, they all get like a backstory. Shoot, okay. Just map out the next 10 years because we've got to catch up. Now we've got Netflix show to watch. I know, we've got something to binge now. How many episodes are there? Oh my God. For the live action, this one's only eight episodes. So the anime's like coming. Not coming. Animated. Animated. Yeah, it's just animated. It's just animated comedy. Not brainy today. Brainy. Yeah. Are there any more weird characters coming out? They just keep coming out, hey. It's cool. I really enjoyed that. What were you feeling the whole time they were watching? It was really weird because obviously where I am at in the story, I know a lot of different secrets. And so it was like comment on this because like I might spoil something. It's weird watching it, knowing what you do because like the way that it's been written, he seeded things from the very beginning and like you make the connections like afterwards because you're actually like, oh, that's why. Now that makes sense, bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's happening? So we'll end up coming back and watching this again at some point. I don't know. It'll make even more sense. You have a different perspective. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I felt very nervous as well. Because it's so wacky, you don't know. Are they going to judge me for taking this? You know what? My favorite show. He's a dork at heart. So, I mean, that's why he loved it. I enjoyed it. I loved it. Yeah. I want to know about the fruit. That was bizarre. I didn't even know what that thing was when it popped out. And I was like, what on earth would you eat it? Yeah, well, I like it. It didn't look like it. Yeah, it doesn't look like it. Do you know what it was? I thought he was going to open it up and find the map, like some secret map that no one knew about or something. You know, next minute, he's just eating a piece of fruit, okay? It's a green side. Yeah. Unholy devil's green. Rose. Did you know what that was when you picked it up? Wait, so we actually do know. No, let's just character... Oh, look at that. It's his food? It's the monster that Prine can see! Brain. Brain? That would be brilliant, though. So people of the anime meant it's got my... My own world on the fruit theme. And go. That's actually like one of the questions. Like where the fuck did these fruits come from? Look at me go! I'm in this now. Did you reboot? First, I don't know. I felt like, I was like, Do you really know who you're talking to? We were like, manga, mango, anime, what? Hey, I got Dragon Ball Z, but I got something. Hit 10. Oh, that's a high rating. I really enjoyed that. I don't get surprised that I don't get into something. Now I really want to keep watching you. That's really good. You know we're watching that tomorrow night, right? Sure are. We're in A. A? Yeah, that's a solid rating. Because I like action, but not too much. I like a mix and I don't watch a lot of TV or I don't watch series. Takes a bit to get me hooked. No, I'm definitely intrigued. I'd keep watching it. Yeah, I think I did as well. Yeah, everything was so unexpected. I wasn't expecting all that, but it goes like, you say like you keep discovering all these new things. It sounds really interesting to learn about all that. Have you said you knew a little bit about One Piece before this? No. You just heard of it. Yeah, I've heard of like One Piece and I know it's been going on for ages. Yeah. But I don't know anything about the plot or the storyline or anything. Yeah, so I didn't know he was elastic. Okay. I like the way people are afforded into it. Like seeded things throughout. That's cool. Personally. So this was my second time watching it. I think eight is a solid rating. It's not like, oh my God, this is like the best thing. But at the same time exceeded my expectations in some respects. There was some things that I was like, oh, okay. But overall, I enjoyed it like a lot. It was a lot of fun. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. So to answer the question, did the live action fulfill what it set out to achieve, which is to bring in new audiences? Now, I obviously had a pretty small sample size, but at least just based on my friends who watched it, we've got a hundred percent success rate. They were really interested in the main characters and even just the small amount of mysteries that were teased in that very first episode. It seems like they're even keen to go home and watch the rest of the seven episodes left. And now whether that means that they have also been successfully converted into the depth of One Piece, all plus 1000 chapters and episodes of the Mangan anime. I mean, that's yet to be seen, but they are at least definitely interested in the series itself. So I'm really happy that I showed One Piece to my friends and it seems like we have something new to bond about. Hopefully they do actually finish the rest of the live action and then possibly even move on to the Mangan anime itself. But overall, I think this was a massive, massive success. Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed watching my friends react and let me know what you thought of the live action in general. Did you love it? Did you hate it? Are you somewhere in between? What would you rate it out of 10? Let me know by leaving a comment below. Don't forget to like and subscribe. This is Joy Girl and I'll see you again soon. Subscribe now. But he said... Subscribe, give a like. Give me a like. Don't fake big.