Enjoy it while you can, because I guarantee you, this quality will not last. Seriously, let's ignore the fact that this is fucking Netflix we're talking about, that we're up to our eyeballs in woke culture, and that Oda has been watching this project like a hawk. How many long-running TV series actually ended on a strong note? How many retained good quality from beginning to end without getting canceled? Because even before our culture went to hell, the odds were stacked against TV serials, and now that we've decayed so much, it's not a matter of if the series will rot into Current Year fuckery, it's when.
Hell, it's retarded to make a live-action adaptation to a story that's not even finished yet. They tried that with Game of Thrones and look at how well that went.
People were convinced the first season of The Witcher was good too. People were convinced that it was faithful to the spirit of the series. These same people, of course, never experienced the franchise outside of the third game, and were honestly satisfied just seeing Henry Cavill grunt like a caveman and swing his sword around in his cheap Geralt cosplay in one scene while the chick who played Yennefer flashed her tits in another. Only book readers smelled the rat immediately, and their complaints were summarily dismissed everywhere. But then the second season rolled out and it became abundantly clear to everyone that whatever quality was present in the first season was a bait-and-switch. I predict the same thing with Shitflix's One Piece. And because I have no horse in this particular race, I'm just gonna laugh at them when they feel the knife twisting in their back.
Enjoy it while you can, because I guarantee you, this quality will not last.
This.
There's a reason there's a meme about the first season of Netflix shows being "good" .
They use the first season to lure in fans and get people onboard and then the second season they hit you with all of the woke nonsense. For just about any recent show that isn't exclusively made by and for Asian nations, they almost all suffer this fate.
Just watch as the second season will be rife with the alphabet nonsense, racial nonsense, and other globohomo nonsense.
My only beef so far is the fairly transparent efforts to do the usual racial thing where they use whites for all the villains and non-whites for all the heroes.
I don't know. I've only watched the two episodes of this adaptation. I don't think I have it in me to tackle that backlog, that series has been running for 20 years I think.
Also, what did you like about it? Why did ypu decide to watch it? If you have watched the anime and/or read the manga, how did it compare? Was there any obvious bullshit? How well proportioned is Nami? Were you drunk/high and did that change the viewing experience?
-I thought it conveyed the emotions and motivations of the characters well, faithful to (what I know of) the original story, also the special effects were good and the sets/costumes/visuals were good too
-seeing small amounts of positive buzz from a few different sources
-I’ve watched maybe the first 20-30 episodes of the anime and I read a few chapters of the manga back when I had a SJ sub like 20 years ago - so some general familiarity - so far it seems to capture the spirit quite well imo
-Obvious bullshit? Feels like a lot of the characters got hit with a touch of the tar brush, they made Monkey into a mestizo, alvida into some weird Pacific Islander, and there’s that picture of Nami’s sister floating around. At least Nami is white and zoro is japanese, and Monkey’s actor isn’t bad, so I’ve not been driven into cringe overdrive yet
-Nami is pretty true to form. Not quite as stacked or proportioned as the (idealized) comic, but pretty, seemingly spared the trend of consecutive beatings with the ugly stick that so many characters are forced to undergo during these kinds of transitions to live action
I feel like live action anime adaptation fans have had their balls crushed so much in the past they're just happy that they're not vomitting on the floor after this one. The quality level felt like "very good 2013 fanfilm on YouTube + bigger set budget".
It's not -bad- but I definitely feel like I have better things to do with my time than watch any more than a little taster.
Enjoy it while you can, because I guarantee you, this quality will not last. Seriously, let's ignore the fact that this is fucking Netflix we're talking about, that we're up to our eyeballs in woke culture, and that Oda has been watching this project like a hawk. How many long-running TV series actually ended on a strong note? How many retained good quality from beginning to end without getting canceled? Because even before our culture went to hell, the odds were stacked against TV serials, and now that we've decayed so much, it's not a matter of if the series will rot into Current Year fuckery, it's when.
Hell, it's retarded to make a live-action adaptation to a story that's not even finished yet. They tried that with Game of Thrones and look at how well that went.
People were convinced the first season of The Witcher was good too. People were convinced that it was faithful to the spirit of the series. These same people, of course, never experienced the franchise outside of the third game, and were honestly satisfied just seeing Henry Cavill grunt like a caveman and swing his sword around in his cheap Geralt cosplay in one scene while the chick who played Yennefer flashed her tits in another. Only book readers smelled the rat immediately, and their complaints were summarily dismissed everywhere. But then the second season rolled out and it became abundantly clear to everyone that whatever quality was present in the first season was a bait-and-switch. I predict the same thing with Shitflix's One Piece. And because I have no horse in this particular race, I'm just gonna laugh at them when they feel the knife twisting in their back.
I should have mentioned I’m getting it from a pirate stream site, fuck Netflix, obviously. They’ve been ass since they stopped mailing out DVDs
This.
There's a reason there's a meme about the first season of Netflix shows being "good" .
They use the first season to lure in fans and get people onboard and then the second season they hit you with all of the woke nonsense. For just about any recent show that isn't exclusively made by and for Asian nations, they almost all suffer this fate.
Just watch as the second season will be rife with the alphabet nonsense, racial nonsense, and other globohomo nonsense.
My only beef so far is the fairly transparent efforts to do the usual racial thing where they use whites for all the villains and non-whites for all the heroes.
Not gonna watch it
Simple As
You would recommend the anime and manga though right? What you described seems to be everything now
I don't know. I've only watched the two episodes of this adaptation. I don't think I have it in me to tackle that backlog, that series has been running for 20 years I think.
Ohhh. I do remember I was going to buy the Omnibus volume one but that was massive and like 60 bucks. One day.
Is that a rug under your feet? Look out Graphenium, Netflix has got the other end!
Rofl, yeah, my hopes aren’t exactly high, I just thought this would be a funny post, didn’t expect it to be so contentious lol
>One Piece
>What is “Piracy”, Alex
Grats?
Also, what did you like about it? Why did ypu decide to watch it? If you have watched the anime and/or read the manga, how did it compare? Was there any obvious bullshit? How well proportioned is Nami? Were you drunk/high and did that change the viewing experience?
Hah, let’s see
-I thought it conveyed the emotions and motivations of the characters well, faithful to (what I know of) the original story, also the special effects were good and the sets/costumes/visuals were good too
-seeing small amounts of positive buzz from a few different sources
-I’ve watched maybe the first 20-30 episodes of the anime and I read a few chapters of the manga back when I had a SJ sub like 20 years ago - so some general familiarity - so far it seems to capture the spirit quite well imo
-Obvious bullshit? Feels like a lot of the characters got hit with a touch of the tar brush, they made Monkey into a mestizo, alvida into some weird Pacific Islander, and there’s that picture of Nami’s sister floating around. At least Nami is white and zoro is japanese, and Monkey’s actor isn’t bad, so I’ve not been driven into cringe overdrive yet
-Nami is pretty true to form. Not quite as stacked or proportioned as the (idealized) comic, but pretty, seemingly spared the trend of consecutive beatings with the ugly stick that so many characters are forced to undergo during these kinds of transitions to live action
-No I don’t think that had much of an effect
Dont forget Lucky Roux was also blackwashed
Lucky Roux was still the best Red Hair pirate though, Yasopp was fine, Shanks was mediocre, the rest were awful.
Nami seems hot. Just the right amount of thicc.
I feel like live action anime adaptation fans have had their balls crushed so much in the past they're just happy that they're not vomitting on the floor after this one. The quality level felt like "very good 2013 fanfilm on YouTube + bigger set budget".
It's not -bad- but I definitely feel like I have better things to do with my time than watch any more than a little taster.
I’ve heard good things and the downside is the race swaps. What I heard
This might blow your mind, but if you end up liking it, the cartoon has over one thousand episodes lol