 All right, so the One Piece live-action Netflix show has released and I'll just say right now it's really good Yeah, I was when I first heard that there was going to be a live-action show I was convinced it would suck because I was thinking, okay One Piece is not something that can really be adapted Netflix is not great at this sort of thing either So I was thinking, okay, it's going to be really bad But then over the past like year maybe year and a half and we've been getting more Details about the production. We've been seeing how much a hero Oda the creator of the original manga Was working with the showrunner and we saw how much the showrunner loves one piece like that Dude loves one piece more than he loves the air. He breathes and seeing some of the casting and stuff I was thinking, okay, I think it'll be a decent show But it still won't be good because One Piece is just really goofy and over the top even by anime standards But I am happy to say I was wrong. Yeah, I was wrong The One Piece Netflix live-action show is very good. Very enjoyable It keeps true to the spirit of the original manga It still tweaks some stuff so that'll work better in this new format But overall it's a very very enjoyable watch. This is the introduction song. It's not very good But it's not too long. Also. Yes. I do have some new sound stuff going on I'm still tweaking the equipment. So apologies if it sounds a little off, but yeah I'm working on it. Now. I am a fan of One Piece. I wouldn't call myself a super fan But it is a very good manga and I enjoy it But the show is pretty good both for people who are fans of the original series and people who Are not very familiar with it Overall, I just I do recommend it for both groups of people But if you're worried that this won't be able to adapt it well I'm not gonna say it does it great 100% of the time because there are a few missteps in there But overall I'm saying it's really good Like it the first season is just the entire east blue saga before the straw hat pirates go to the grand line And it compresses the story down a little bit in some ways. It also stretches it in other ways But mostly it does keep the focus on the characters, which is where it should be because by and large one piece is a story About this group of weirdos and misfits going on a series of adventures and becoming super well known because of it The goofiness of the original manga is also in this show and they either Embrace it wholeheartedly so it still works or they tone it down without losing its identity And by embracing it they make it feel natural, you know, like for example Zoro one of the main characters here has green hair Like it's just naturally green. There are people in the world of one piece who have Naturally green hair naturally blue hair naturally pink hair like that's just a thing that happens And none of the other characters comment on it, you know If they had tried to do like some Joss Whedon-esque dialogue about how whoa your hair is green. That's really weird But no, they just they see it. They don't even comment on it It's just a normal thing in this world similarly when we see fishmen, you know The first fishman we see is just a dude who has like fins and gills on his head And none of the other characters comment on it or think that's weird because fishmen are just A part of this world and for those unfamiliar because if you're unfamiliar with one piece You're probably going to be confused about anything. I'm talking about basically it is the story of a kid named monkey D. Luffy who Has the power of a devil fruit like he ate it and it turned his entire body into rubber so he can stretch like Mr Fantastic I'm monkey D. Luffy And I'm gonna be king of the pirates and his dream is to go out and become the king of the pirates And the way he's going to do that is by finding the treasure of the previous king of the pirates Who died about 20 years before the story began and no one has found his treasure since then And at first he's on his own, but then this First season is him traveling around meeting new people and getting them to join his crew So they're gathering up and then they're truly heading off on their journey So this season is like a series of smaller adventures And they're a bit better connected in the show than in the original manga because they're There's more of a through line basically But overall they are still Pretty self-contained while all this is going on. They are pursued by the marines who are like, you know The armed forces of the government in this world specifically the ones pursuing them are led by a guy named vice admiral garp who People read the manga don't spoil shit without marking it in the comments, please Like I know you know a bunch of stuff like oh, this is gonna come back later And oh this these characters relationships will at least mark it so people who aren't familiar with it don't get spoiled come on But yes, they're being led by a guy named garp who becomes more and more important as the season goes on And there also is a b-plot revolving around the fishman pirates led by a dude named our long who I mentioned before I don't like the way he looks in live action. I still don't like it, but His actor does give a decent performance. So that's nice. I guess and basically the story is really good when it's following the straw hat pirates And it's Less good when it's following others like in the first episode luffy meets a kid named kobi And then at the end kobi goes off to join the marines because that's his dream and luffy's like, okay We're still friends. Good luck. Have fun and in the manga. They don't see each other again for a very very long time But in the show kobi is still a major character who I believe appears in every episode and they like follow his journey Like they follow him studying under garp and stuff and kobi is just not that interesting of a character Like it's kind of nice To see him come back much much later in the manga because it's just like, oh, yeah, I remember that guy How's it going man? I'm glad to see you're doing well for yourself But then in the show like there's not that much depth to his character But they're still focusing on him a lot and it really drags down the pacing similarly All the stuff that they show with our long before he really becomes relevant to The a plot with the straw hats and everything is Not as bad, but it does feel very superfluous and it does still kind of Damage the pacing now. I get that that's part of the issue with trying to make this more like a American drama or a western drama if you want to say that But it just didn't quite work in this way like there were some wrinkles They could have smoothed out that said our long is still a decent antagonist for the season as a whole Like they they talk about the racism that fishmen face, which in the manga didn't come up until much much later And so our long talks about that and he's a bit more sympathetic basically and then He's still a psychopath, but you know, he's more sympathetic than he was originally So he works reasonably well as an antagonist and pretty much all of the characters here are pretty much the same as they were in the manga But it's a little more subdued so it feels less cartoony Like, you know zoro in the manga has a very bad sense of direction like he would get lost in his own house And the joke is kind of plate out at this point to be honest, but you know, that's part of who he is But in the show he is he still has a bad sense of direction But it's not so over the top that it becomes ridiculous and unbelievable Like he gets lost in places where it would kind of make sense for somebody to get lost And similarly luffy is still endearingly dumb about stuff, but he's less dumb You know, he doesn't seem borderline disabled the way he does in the manga during fights characters call out their attacks But they do it less often and usually they only call out like the really really big finishing moves and stuff The acting is almost all great Like they managed to embody the silliness and goofiness of one piece and these characters while still Acknowledging the serious core and allowing us to really connect with them on an emotional level Like luffy is still a weirdo. He's still kind of dumb But when his friends get hurt or when they're in danger, he gets serious The only one i'm if you on is usopp because his actor is fine I didn't think he was terrible But he doesn't really bring it and embody the character the way people like Luffy's actor and zoro and nami and sanji and like all of them They really really make those roles and usopp is just kind of okay. So He might just be bad by comparison. However, my favorite actor in this entire season My favorite performance, I should say is buggy the clown and I was so surprised by that But it is amazing. It's one of the highlights of the show Like he manages to be even in his first appearance where he first meets the straw hats He manages to be really creepy kind of intimidating and hilarious all at once Like he's creepy just because of the way he looks and the environment and the way he carries himself You're like, oh, this dude's like a deformed clown man Uh, and you also see that he is destroyed and imprisoned an entire town of people and has them chained up in a circus tent And has them applaud for him on demand so that he can pretend that he's a successful showman And he's also very funny because he just gets angry about luffy allegedly making fun of his nose And he has a bigger role in this season than you might think I am totally okay with that because I loved everything with him I am looking forward to more of buggy the clown The action scenes also managed to keep their animanness while still not being too too crazy, you know Like there are big flashy moves people do like flips like in a martial arts movie and stuff Like it's it's really big and over the top and not exactly realistic fighting, but it really really works And then you have characters doing really big flashy stuff occasionally like cutting an entire ship in half with a single swing of a sword or Doing an axe kick and destroying an entire building, you know, they do stuff like that But it's done sparingly for the most part. It's just like really well choreographed Fights like you would expect from a decent martial arts flick And each character does have their own unique style You know, we have zoro with who mostly fights with two swords He only occasionally does the three sword style because let's be honest holding a sword in your mouth is very difficult to do That actually hurts and we have sanji who only does kicks They don't make a huge deal out of it in the show But he only does kicks and then we have nami who fights using a staff and so on and so forth Like every character has a unique fighting style and it works out great And I don't think there was a single action scene in this show that I thought was bad Like they were all well choreographed well edited. I loved all of them However, nami does fight more in this than she does in the manga because In the manga, she's not that useful in combat until much much later in the show Like again, she has her staff with her which was in the manga as well And she just uses it more often and Fights, you know, she she knows how to hold her own Which makes her feel a bit more like she's contributing or it's again It's not that she didn't contribute originally, but it feels like she's contributing more here However, you can expect the usual suspects to complain about wokeness And how this is destroying western civilization and yada fucking yada Again reminder hiro oda approved basically every change they made in this show before it was made This world looks and feels amazing and unique too Like everything from the costuming to the set designs to again like Weird stuff like fishmen being treated very casually by the characters and seeing like the unique cultures of everything And the powers that people can have like everything about this makes this world seem Not only different than our world, but it makes it feel Distinct and different from pretty much anything you see in live action You know because in live action we have like gritty low fantasy stuff We have occasional like more flashy high fantasy stuff We have sci-fi stuff, but we don't really have anything like one piece Which is a weird mash-up of fantasy sci-fi and pirate adventures You know like you mix all those together In such a way and it's something that people have just not seen before And like obviously again, I've read the manga so I have seen this before But it'll be totally unique to people who have not overall I just have very few complaints about the one piece live action show like I said I was wrong. I was thinking it was going to suck, but I I was wrong and I'm glad to be wrong Like it's good on its own just as it don't think and it's good as an adaptation of a story that I like so It's a great watch. It just is I I want to see more. I want to see season two three ten fifty like It'll probably it's not going to adapt the whole story. I just seriously doubt that'll happen But you know I I am a man can dream That is the main theme of one piece is that you should always follow your dreams And you know what? I am happy that the people who wanted to make it live action followed their dreams because this was great I recommend it to fans of the manga. I recommend it to people who know nothing about the manga Go check out one piece live action on netflix right now, and I will see you later. Goodbye. Wait Don't click away I know you think the video is over and that these are just the end credits But we have a sniper nearby. 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