Its being handled by Wit Studio, so it has a chance of being good if Shitflix doesn't interfere too much.
Though I dunno why Oda would allow this to begin with.
I also cannot imagine this occurring without some legal issues cropping up from Toei (though it would be hilarious if Toei had an expiring contract that allowed them to do this)
unless Oda has similar oversight like he did with the live action
imo the live action already changed way too much about it from the little I've seen of it, I think Oda's oversight amounted to "don't fuck with it too much but otherwise you have free rein".
The live action did change a lot, but thankfully didn't 'break' anything for me. It dropped a lot of side characters, spent a bit more time than we needed on chick shit, and made the East Blue villains less threatening overall. A lot of my praise for it comes from the fact that it didn't seem embarrassed of itself like so many live action debacles do. Like, they saw it was goofy, but just jumped in with enthusiasm, so I had to respect that.
I think the actor/writer strike helped them out a lot as well. Otherwise the marketing leading up to launch would have been pandering non-stop about Koby's actor being trans, or gay/black whoever swaps. Since I watched it without having all of that annoying baggage, I kept a more open mind. Since the show didn't beat me over the head with identity, and one thing Oda did actually block was crew/character romance, so I think that helped quite a bit.
Its being handled by Wit Studio, so it has a chance of being good if Shitflix doesn't interfere too much.
Though I dunno why Oda would allow this to begin with.
I also cannot imagine this occurring without some legal issues cropping up from Toei (though it would be hilarious if Toei had an expiring contract that allowed them to do this)
imo the live action already changed way too much about it from the little I've seen of it, I think Oda's oversight amounted to "don't fuck with it too much but otherwise you have free rein".
The live action did change a lot, but thankfully didn't 'break' anything for me. It dropped a lot of side characters, spent a bit more time than we needed on chick shit, and made the East Blue villains less threatening overall. A lot of my praise for it comes from the fact that it didn't seem embarrassed of itself like so many live action debacles do. Like, they saw it was goofy, but just jumped in with enthusiasm, so I had to respect that.
I think the actor/writer strike helped them out a lot as well. Otherwise the marketing leading up to launch would have been pandering non-stop about Koby's actor being trans, or gay/black whoever swaps. Since I watched it without having all of that annoying baggage, I kept a more open mind. Since the show didn't beat me over the head with identity, and one thing Oda did actually block was crew/character romance, so I think that helped quite a bit.
Buggy was leagues more threatening in LA than in the original, shame Don Krieg got cut though