#although with how many shows barely survive past a single season on Netflix before being cancelled the odds are already against them

[missmungoe]

Hello~ I hope you're having a good week start~

Have you heard of the one piece live action? Apparently it may start airing on August and a lot of people have mixed opinions on it.

If yes, from what have been released (the straw hat’s actors and official poster) and since Oda is involved in it; How do you think it’ll turn out?

Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of anime fandom like a live action adaptation, haha, but yes, I've heard about it! I don't have very strong feelings towards it one way or the other, so I haven't been paying much attention, but from the few shots I've seen, the sets and the ships look really nice, and the cast, but as I mentioned when Shanks' actor was first announced: that they look the part isn't what matters to me, it's that they embody the characters.

As for the show itself, I don't want to assume it's automatically going to be bad; I prefer to hope it'll be good, although I get why a lot of people are skeptical, but adapting a series like One Piece was always going to be a challenge, because it's so intimately connected with its drawn/animated mediums. A lot of things in One Piece work because it's drawn, and so with real people and CGI, I don't know if it will be super uncanny, or if they'll find a way to make it work. I guess it depends on what kind of adaptation they're going for, but I hope they make it its own thing. It already exists as a manga and an anime, and I generally don't want adaptations to be carbon copies; I want something that captures the essence of the original but that still dares to be distinct from it. That Oda is involved isn't a guarantee for anything - it could help in capturing his vision, but it could just as easily hurt it, if it gets too caught up in trying to be something it isn't.

I'll probably check out the scenes with Shanks for curiosity's sake, and if I like it, I'll give it a shot. I would love for Arlong Park to be done well, and I'm also curious about how they'll handle Buggy and Mihawk. There would be one reason for me to watch it, but from what I've gathered, they haven't even cast Makino (local writer is disillusioned by the hard truth of just how minor her beloved minor character is). I did get a message a while back about a leaked script that allegedly mentioned her, but I'll believe it when I see it, haha. But it's not really that strange if she doesn't feature in it: they have a lot of material to cover in a short season, and as long as they cover the devil fruit and the sea king, they could easily trim the scenes with Shanks, and Makino wasn't exactly crucial in those (local writer is once more disillusioned by the fact that the events of her own fic are, sadly, not canon). So I wouldn't be surprised if she only appears in the background without any lines, if she's in it at all, but I'd love to be wrong. And I'd love for the show to be good, but if it's not, it's not, and it's not going to affect me much either way. It would be nice if Shanks wasn't terrible, but if nothing else, it's going to take a lot to top his 4Kids VA, whose take still gives me nightmares.