today i'm gonna go over what i think the showrunners of the one piece live action need
to do in order to create a successful product that resonates with the fans we will cover
episode structure correlations to the original anime and manga plot rearrangement acting cgi and
more let's go ahead and get started arguably one of the most important things they're gonna need
to get right besides luffy stretching is how to adapt the contents from the original story into a
10 episode format a huge issue that i had with the cowboy bebop adaptation is that each episode felt
very disconnected it felt like it was trying to link an overarching storyline but detached itself
too much from it making it feel more like a new cop case every episode type of story rather
than something that is constantly progressing one thing that makes one piece feel like a constantly
progressing story is that there are so many layers of plot that bleed into each individual arc
the main one of course being luffy's journey to become the pirate king each episode should feel
like there's still things to be fleshed out later in the season just like each saga and one piece
does we should have the main goal of the east blue saga pointed out to us in the very first episode
luffy wants to go to the grand line but he needs a crew first i think we can also expect our roger
flashback starting the great pyro era in the first episode as well if they could capture that feeling
of pieces constantly moving towards the payoff at logtown then the flow of the episodes will
feel much more gratifying and coherent something they should definitely utilize is cliffhangers
like instead of episode 2 ending with luffy and zoro saying goodbye to kobe maybe have it end
with luffy trying to catch the giant seagull and subsequently getting caught in its mouth that will
definitely give the viewers that unexpected out of nowhere ridiculous feeling oda gives us at the
end of almost every chapter adding cameos by more important figures earlier on in the season would
also make the world feel much bigger and the story feel larger putting in a smoker cameo or
zorro cameo and is the cliffhanger to episode 1 is a great example of that i actually remember some
leaks a while back that mentioned baroque work references possibly in the first few episodes
i honestly think they're going to absolutely kill it in this area because we've already seen things
like garp being mentioned during roger's execution and some of the leaked set photos even towards the
end of the story give the fans something like mihawk going to shakes with luffy's new bounty
to really hype up luffy entering the grand line the only way for tomorrow studios to earn a second
season of one piece is to satisfy the majority of the fan base not just by incorporating the main
themes of the story but adapting the structure that makes the show so enticing to consumers
one piece is a story that's been flushed out for 25 years and is still continuing to
amaze everybody with its progressing story in my opinion that gives the writers of the show a huge
advantage they can look back as a fan or with fans to find things most viewers have consensualized as
less favorable or more favorable they can even find plot holes earlier on in the story and
correct them a big plot hole being sanji somehow not knowing devil fruit users can't swim even
though it's later revealed that he read the devil fruit encyclopedia there are moments in the east
blue saga i feel like dragged on a bit too long especially in the anime there is a ton of filler
in the logtown episodes and i don't know if this is an unpopular opinion but i feel like the fight
between luffy and kuro at syrup village lasted way longer than it should have if the writers feel
similarly about elements in syrup village as well as other arcs during the east blue saga then they
have a huge advantage in tweaking little things to build off of the material that's already there
which i think all of us would appreciate also if you've made it this far please consider
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i know i'm using cowboy bebop a lot as a reference point but i think it's an important piece of media
to use because the same people who made cowboy bebop are the same people working on the one piece
live action and if i'm being completely real with you guys i think the cowboy bebop live action did
a lot of things right the problem was is that the things they messed up on were just too important
to mess up on one thing i think the show excelled at was its choreography and visual depiction of
the cyberpunk world the space pirates adventure in and after seeing some of the set photos for all of
the real life tangible props for one piece i'm very confident that the same visual excellency
will apply to this show as well the visual problem that they ran into was not the look of the world
i think that looked great it was more the look and costumes of the characters for example i
think that jet black out of all of the characters had one of the best portrayals personality wise
but his outfit just always seemed off to me throughout the entire show with some of the
accessories looking more like spirit halloween add-ons rather than actual cybernetic enhancements
you would see in a high budget tv show with otherwise great visuals i think the wardrobe
with one piece will actually be a lot easier to work with since most of the outfits are fairly
simplistic but if luffy's scar sanji's eyebrows or don creek's golden armor looks out of place
it's gonna throw a lot of people off these aren't things that would bug me too much personally but
people are definitely gonna nitpick so don't give them a reason to it should be something that's
done well especially with a budget as big as this one the hardest part that they are going to have
to absolutely nail is luffy stretching over the past year i've seen some awesome fan animations
on what luffy stretching could look like i know they have the technology to pull it off but the
vision has to be accurate luffy's stretching is not slow it's not flimsy it's fast powerful and
elastic the skin has to look right it shouldn't look animated it should feel real as if it were
happening in real life the punches should snap the recoil should retract with a slight pushback
i'm actually really curious to see how enaki is imitating the motions of luffy's attacks behind
the scenes especially moves like gummo gomez balloon gatling gun and that fish net he created
against arlong get this right at the start of the show and you will have a lot of people sucked in
get it wrong and you could be losing a lot of potential viewers before the story even begins
something that'll definitely throw everyone off if not done correctly is how the actors portray
their respective characters i've seen extensive footage of the majority of the cast and it's clear
they are all very talented actors however given a poor script or a director who can't articulate
the right vision the project goes right down the drain when it came to cowboy bebop what turned me
off the most was vicious i could not stand his character and not just because he was a villain
but because of how over exaggerated his entire personality was it just felt so stale and for lack
of a better term cheesy no matter how invested in the story i would try to be every time he came
on screen i just kind of felt uncomfortable and maybe that's a bit harsh but i really do feel like
there's a direct connection between some failed anime adaptations and characters being overplayed
anime is a cartoon a manga is a comic and these japanese mediums in particular especially ones
like one piece have very exaggerated characters the thing is most western audiences aren't
accustomed to that wackiness nor the actors trying to imitate the character from the anime that's why
i think it's crucial that they find the perfect balance when adapting this into a realistic
lens do a good job and you're gonna get what we have in marvel movies like with thor ragnarok
and guardians of the galaxy do it wrong and you get vicious from cowboy bebop or piccolini from
dragon ball evolution piccolini like broccolini as the disowned version of broccoli and piccolini
as the disowned version of piccolo anyway the same goes for the comedy as well the comedy can be used
as a tool to play off of exaggerated villains which might make characters as ridiculous as
the live-action vicious actually look ridiculous but intentionally which has definitely been shown
to work if done right again the first guardians of the galaxy being a great precedent the bad guy was
an extremely cringy hilariously overconfident meat head who got challenged to a freaking dance-off
in the middle of the final battle completely throwing off his ridiculous persona guardians
used the comedy in that situation to make the exaggerated antagonist work i think this
style would work really well for characters like alvita buggy morgan and don creek whereas arlong
the central antagonist can have an attitude and personality that can be taken a bit more seriously
well until luffy gets a hold of his teeth of course the great thing here is that not
only do the cast look visually similar to their respective characters but they share some of their
personality traits as well i mean goda himself personally reviewed each individual straw hat
so as far as the main cast goes i'm actually very confident that they're going to do great embodying
their own respective characters the one with the hardest job out of the crew is definitely anki not
only is his character one of the wackiest in the entire show but he's the main character which puts
a lot of pressure on the actor he already has the charisma of luffy now we just need to hope that
the producers of the show write the live action luffy in a way that's digestible and moderately
more realistic for the audience i feel like the goofiness will definitely need to be toned down a
bit and the more endearing parts of the character toned up to balance it out maybe they'll put more
of an emphasis on his emotional nuance like his feeling towards piracy towards protecting his
friends his treasure and substitute the more wacky with a more endearing comedic side that plays well
off of the other characters the team behind the one piece live action definitely has their work
cut out for them but there's a ton of really promising developments around its creation
the cast looks great the set photos look great oda is involved the showrunners are actually fans of
the series who watch other one youtube creators and are avidly involved in the community plus
they have a reference point with cowboy bebop even if it wasn't a success it can still be used as a
learning experience a test trial of sorts to really figure out what works and what doesn't
of course this video is entirely subjective but i think most of the things that i mentioned in this
video are not just my preferences but things we all hope they deliver on a lot of the moments in
the east blue saga especially towards the latter half are some of the moments that made us fall
in love with the series their main job here is to make us fall in love all over again and to guide
others towards that same direction now i want you the viewer to close your eyes and imagine for a
second what scene made you fall in love with one piece maybe it was shanks sacrificing his arm and
giving luffy the inspiration for his journey maybe it's zorro and his valiant battle against mihawk
leading to one of the most memorable lines in the entire series maybe it's nami crying out in pain
while she aggressively carves out her tattoo of the man who kept her captive for years i
personally imagine the moment the sun shines down on arlong park after it's completely destroyed and
everybody is liberated now i want you to imagine that scene again but this time with the actors
playing their role keep that image in your head and know that the directors are probably doing
that exact same thing using their love for the source material creating a real life vision of it
and then saying action i make a lot of videos on the one piece live action but today i want
to direct you to a video i think is important for one piece fan and will probably leave you
with an entirely different perspective on the main character of the series luffy