Trash Taste's ONE PIECE Live Action Review

i was one of those people who said "i won't EVER get into One Piece, it's way too long". Then i watched the Live action and now i'm on Skypiea lmao

Favorite bit of this show is just how fucking unashamed it is to be a one piece show. The marines wear weird hats, they talk on snail phones, the mail is done by seagulls, and sometimes a motherfucker is just made of rubber

my 90 year old granma loved it. She was wide eyed when Luffy first extended his arm to hit Alvida, and at the part where Nami is nagging Luffy for letting Zoro fight Mihawk, she told me, with a very serious face "Sometimes you gotta let boys be boys, so they can become men, but you cannot blame her bcs she is not a mom" I was flabbergasted by her words of wisdom since she has gone a bit senile as of late, but the show had her snappy and sharp, meaning it grabbed her attention fully. I will never be able to thank them enough for this moment I shared with her.

Connor was definitely underestimating the normie appeal of the live action. Friggin Whoopi Goldberg was talking about it two days ago, and now Phillie D is binging the anime because of it.

What Garnt saying is right the show is sincere and is never ironic or ashamed or points fun at itself to be witty to the audience. The fact that it where’s it hearts on its sleeve is great.

I will say, my 75 year old Stepdad absolutely loved the One Piece show. He grew up reading pirate stories, which I didn't know until I was telling him about this show, and when I described the world he got really excited to give it a look.

one thing I think was smart. Zoro only used three sword style twice, once at the start and the other against mihawk. It kinda makes it look like his strongest style and allows them to not have it in every fight as three sword would very goofy in real life, while two sword style had such good choreography

I had the same thought Connor did, that this might be too weird for normies. BUT, I then had a similar experience to Garnt, where I was able to get two normie friends of mine invested in the show. Like, glued to the screen invested. I think that anime fans see cringe where normies don't, and vice versa. For example, Luffy constantly talking about his goal comes off as cheesy to someone who watches a lot of shonen and is familiar with that trope, but it might just seem like a unique character trait to someone who isn't as steeped in the genre.

Garnts comparison to it being a stage play was spot on

Oda himself said his goal was to reach fans who wouldn't watch the anime and it definitely worked. Myself and multiple people I know said they wouldn't get into the One Piece anime/manga and yet we're all very invested in the story having seen the live action. It reached it's target audience and achieved it's goal imo.

Thing about the One Piece live action is that it feels like it’s Oda’s what if. A second chance to retell the story now that Oda has more experience as an author

I think the biggest success of the live action is so many people who have no idea what it is liked it. Had a friend told me his like retired parents were watching and enjoying it without knowing its anime/manga based show. Man the last one that translated this well had to be like Edge of Tomorrow? But that one was like they just took the concept and rework whole thing for the movie.

i sold my parents on this show by telling them its a pirate show with superheroes. Totally worked they texted me a play by play of every episode they watched

Conor is definitely wrong on this one. This is the first time I’ve ever seen normies or friends/family watch anything even closely related to anime. The show is done so well that it stands alone on it’s own. I was shocked that people I couldn’t get to watch anime were watching this on their own volition. The power of a successful or viral Netflix show is crazy! I love how unashamed everyone is and how diverse the cast is. As someone who got fed up with One Piece and didn’t like it anymore, this live-action really hooked me and got me back into the series.

I've actually seen more normies have a bigger positive reaction compared to already fans. Personally, from opinions I've seen of fans stating what they expected compared to what actually happened, I think fans have preconceived notions of what we expected the show needed when a lot of our opinions aren't actually that important in telling a regular good story.

The live action being a fishing net to catch normies attention and pull them in is the best outcome imo. It will never be as good as the manga, or parts of the anime, but if it can give people the feeling of why people enjoy One Piece, that's worth so much more.

My opinion on Chopper is that if Sonic the Hedgehog can be done in live action Chopper can be done. Also I hope they slow down the pace of the show in season 2.

I’ve never watched the one piece anime in my life, I thoroughly enjoyed the live action as someone’s who’s watched anime my whole life. Solid 9/10 for me.

Oda set a goal for the live action and based off of it's reception, he killed it. The only people I know that didn't at least really like it are HARDCORE anime fans because it wasn't 1 to 1 but it was NEVER going to be.

The one part they missed out on was Arlong noticing Zoro’s Mihawk wound and saying something along the lines of how are you even fighting, or doing anything in this state. That showcases how serious the wound is while making Zoro out to be a monster for still being able to fight in this condition.