One Piece Live Action TV Series

I was honestly surprised to hear this news. While I haven't yet to watch the live-action Attack on Titan, I don't hear the dissents that the Hollywood Ghost in the Shell and Dragon Ball Evolution did. I haven't watch the live action FMA yet either but while I don't have the bad feelings that the Death Note adaptation gave me...I felt indifferent. Ace Attorney is the most faithful of all the adaptations right down to the silliness while still meshing well with the dark features the director is known for.

One Piece is long as heck. It's not even half-way finished because the Straw Hats still need to find the last two Road Poneglyphs and let's not forget the very fact that we still haven't reached the World War yet, the Games of Thrones-esque when we have some form of the Red Wedding in the latest arc. The anime had all but caught up to the current manga by now. Oda has even teased he could go for another decade and did you recall that he would die for OP? Look I love OP and enjoyed it and even now with the current arc, I still deeply enjoy the passion and writing that Oda puts his heart and soul into.

I just wonder how are they going to execute this? Because One Piece's world runs on nonsense and unpredictability. The world-building is incredible not just in the individual islands and the seas but also the entire world's history. It's also full of passion with lots of crying. Actors, you are going to cry a lot...messily as possible too because the crying scenes in OP aren't pretty like a single tear dropping down a pretty face, no, everybody cried like a fountain. Messily. Maybe that's why the Midoriya's tears are like this to the point that it might be a secondary quirk.

However, they do know just how crazy the world is, right? You are going to need a lot of CGI, animatronics, makeup, and a whole lot of special effect in order to match the world. You are going to need CGI for the main character who uses his body almost every single chapter, be it fighting or normal everyday activities like catching an apple or swinging himself up the mast. Not to mention, Brook himself. How about incredibly large characters like Kuma or Moria? I think you can find an actor for Akainu or Fujitora or Aokiji. Heck, you can find actors for the dwarves, merpeople and giants. Each island is designed exaggeratedly like Whole Cake Island or Impel Down is basically the Alcatraz. Seriously, there are so many things I can name that needs CGI in general. You are going to need CGI for Devil fruit users after all. I'm not talking about Bentham's Devil fruit users because actors can act that role.

Are you going to pull in all the stops for this one? Devil fruits, islands, people? You must go full on Games of Thrones, go Pirates of the Caribbean on this. If you honestly want to go all out, you have to get the best of everything from special effects to actors.

Normal islands like Little Garden or those in East Blue and Paradise (Drum, Alabasta, Whiskey Peak, Twin Capes, even Reverse Mountain, Little Garden, Jaya, Skypeia, Sabaody) can be done normally. Although you have to do with the dinosaurs in Little Garden though. Sanji and Zoro outright caught dinosaurs. How about the Sea Kings monsters for god's sake? How about the wolves in the Skypeia arc?

How long would the series be? We know that they are going right back at the beginning in East Blue. East Blue is relatively easy to do because the sets (aside from property damage...so much property damage...) are easy to create. You can even reuse, repaint, remake sets.

...Though in Whole Cake Island, you must make a lot of edible pastries because well...you know...actors will need to eat them.

Just how the fuck is they going to do sets like Water 7 which is practically Venice? I think they can do Thriller Bark but lots of makeup for the zombies. They can do Marineford including the iceberg Mihawke chopped.

Do you know just how much property damage there is in OP? So much property damage from swords slashes, punches, devil fruit powers... Had you seen the damage in Alabasta? Dressrosa?

How about technology? Thousand Sunny has so much tech involved from the Gaon Cannon to the Channels. We are talking about submarines here, folks. You can build individual sets after all but you have to use again. However, since we are explicitly shown ship's deck frequently where most of the action takes place including the Grand Line's wild weather. I know the sea is dangerous but you don't have the luxury of animation.

How about the costuming? There is loads of fanservice in OP from the Cyborg Franky who wears one pair of speedos and he only has one to Nami who doesn't even mind showing off her body. Hell, Nami and Robin are well-regarded as beautiful in-universe. Amazon Lily is practically littering with beautiful women of all shapes and sizes. How about Chopper? He has so many forms of the love of Godoka? There are notable jokes that are there like Kaku's nose that compared to Usopp's nose. The character designs cannot translate well into live-action. How on earth are you going to do Usopp's trademark nose? Duval? Insane character designs that would take a lot of effort in order to translate into real life? I think you guys can do Pica or even Big Mom but you would have difficulty with Duval or Usopp. Plot-driven characters like Duval is going to be difficult to recreate. Like Sanji is capable of being a plastic surgeon based on his kicks alone.

The series is ridiculous. I hope you don't tone it down one bit. Because it is high on powerful emotion and exaggeration. It's by no means realistic...it's realistic when it wants to. For example, Sanji's blood loss and the necessity to supply the blood.

It's not like they can actually match the character design-wise. You can't possibly match characters like Lola. How on earth are you going to do characters that have trademarks like Brook's afro and Franky's pompadour? Or the Square Sisters?

On actors and actresses, are you going to stick with white people despite the fact OP is not quite our own? There are places that are certainly inspired by real-life nations like Dressrosa with Spain and Italy or Zoro's hometown as Japan. In fact, there is still Japanese food still existing there with onigiri; people literally eat Japanese style for the most part including bandits living in the mountains. You could get actors from many nationalities because there is the very fact that Oda has given his characters nationalities if they exist in this world.

You can do Paulie. Hell, you can even do Hancock.

You have to be pragmatic about this adaptation after all. You can't recreate everything when the anime and manga are doing just fine. There are things you can do without trouble like the sets in East Blue or even Reverse Mountain. You are going to have to do CGI with Laboon though.

As for romance, it's open season. Unlike Naruto or Bleach which I ship SNS and Ichiruki, I don't have much inclination. Yes, I do like LuNa and ZoSan but beyond that, there are relatively little ship wars. I am utterly grateful because Oda pretty much made sure of that beyond the characters he made married or definitely lovers (Chiffon and Bege or Roger and Rouge) but he certainly left potentials in the wake after all. People still ship LawLu or LuHan or Luffy with a harem of the girls he attracted from his journey. In the OP fandom, people ship whatever they want.

Unlike in other fandoms where they would argue whether or not you can ship it based on age/whatever context and the canonicity of a pairing from age to whatever the heck you think of (I am looking at you, VLD fandom), the OP is free game. Nobody cares about who or what you ship together.

There are so little ship wars in OP that fans would rather argue which pairing would be the endgame. Yes, there are still wars a la the form of dismantling or ship sinking. You do know that regardless of ship sinking or dismantling, people can still ship, right? People still ship pairings like Katniss X Gale or RoyEd or AlEd or DeanCas when the canon says that it is nil. Regardless of whether or not the individual shippers are swayed by the argument, let it be known that it is still shipping. Shipping is subjective and should not be taken seriously. One of OP's themes is friendship so don't think for a second there will be romance. I doubt there will be an endgame couple(s).

I just worry what Hollywood would in terms of romance. They might as well tease many couples or imply an endgame couple at the end.

The series is incredibly silly and whimsical. It's insane and things like Sanji's poster ending up being a real person in the end or a talking skeleton or a talking reindeer is considered apples. We got people who can kill others by turning into candy or becoming the element of the devil fruit they ate. We are talking about characters who are not normal in design. You can get actors for characters drawn in realistic proportions and yes that includes the ladies but you would have a hard time finding an actor for Duval. You guys can even do Jimbei or any Fishman for that matter, mermaids should be fine too.

The show relies intensively on flashbacks which means child actors. Unless you get incredible actors like Stranger Things (that is still disbelieving because how on earth they manage to get together such an incredible group of child actors?), you must be thorough in your search.

I just worry a lot about this project because OP is huge in all respects. You would need brevity in order to get the essentials of each arc out. Everything is interlocked so you can't really skimp on the details unless it is absolutely necessary.

Unless you want to fall into the pacing issue the special Episodes did.

Now the series is still heavily Japanese influenced despite its western setting. When I say it's Japanese media, it's still Japanese media regardless. Cowboy Bebop is still Japanese influenced although it might not look like it. Tiger and Bunny are still Japanese despite looking every bit like a superhero show.

Regardless of its western setting (it sets around the 1500s, last I calculated), it's still Japanese in its form. Japanese names are still littered about, Japanese culture and expectations are still there albeit in less volume than Naruto... Even the Funi dub doesn't skimp the Japanese, using the names and culture. Zoro's home island is more Japanese than Cocoyashi or Dawn. You are going to need to use the Japanese names and culture that is in there, regardless of its western premise.

To be honest, I still don't like to think Jimbe as part of the Straw Hats. I can get used to the idea someday.

But I just wanted another girl into the crowd. Certainly, they have female allies including Vivi but just another girl, please. There are female pirates and the women in OP is certainly well-developed.

Just another girl...please.

We already got Jimbe who does fit the template of a Straw Hat down to losing somebody important in their life that they loved immensely. There are just too many hints that Jimbei will join the crew.

Between Jimbei and Carrot, it's a toss-up and it's more likely Jimbei than Carrot.

Doesn't mean I have to like it.

Death is the only way for Jimbe for not joining the Straw Hats.

Either he or Carrot.

Now ten members are the supposed limit. Remember that OP was supposed to end within five years, Oda had not expected the major phenomenon... It is still a valid interpretation that there will only be ten members in total. But there is another one where the cap might be at ten members.

Oda has a tendency to split the Straw Hats. Just be lucky we're not following the number of pirates as saying the Heart Pirates at 20 members or the Tonta Corps at 200 or the Charlotte Family at over a hundred family members. I would personally put an estimated number of 12 members for the Straw Hats, no more, no less.

Can you believe the Wano arc is coming soon?! We first heard of Wano as far back as Thriller Bark and now we're heading to Wano right after Whole Cake Island. I cannot wait for the arc to start!

And now the second season for Tiger and Bunny is finally greenlit! Finally! Seriously, I thought a second season would not come. There were merch of course, pretty cute ones too.

And yes, I am well aware it is the merch that supports the anime. OP has so much going for its franchise including actual lectures and published analysis! Oda pretty sure wasn't expecting that.

I mean if my works were as well-regarded as OP, I will die continuously inside while staring in awe. If my works ever get that point.

First Impressions: Uchuu Sentai Kyuranger

I believe this is the first actual space-themed Sentai series for a while now as in taking place in literal space. Gokaiger takes place in space when in flashbacks, using the same technique as One Piece.

So far as I know the current generation of Super Sentai, there is at least two series that are influenced or shouting out to One Piece. One Piece is the DB of our current generation after all and to this day, it maintained the passion and well-written status. While Naruto's first part has a lot of passion that includes well-written that I can barely see in Part 2 where I can see a war between mangaka and editors, Bleach's passion only falls through when it comes to the cool stuff and the writing just continues to fall in a way that at first doesn't seem much but just falls down the drain the passing arc.

I'm sorry about that. I couldn't help but compare the former Big Three. Seriously, I think My Hero Academia took one of the spots but I can't remember the last one of the current trio. While Haikyuu is still popular and maintained the writing with the current arc at Springs Nationals, I don't think it is one of the Big Three. Haikyuu is certainly popular with the sports manga with KnB out of the running due to its ending.

I'm getting off-topic.

It has an interesting premise with most of the rangers being aliens. Gokaiger only has one human among them as a ranger. While the staple of bad guys taking over and the good guys popping up to save and protect, it takes it up to eleven. This time, the universe was taken over including Earth and the Empire growing and growing.

Hopefully, unlike Gokaiger's enemy aliens, these guys are tough as nails and actually earn the title of the Conqueror of the Universe. Gokaiger's best villain will always be Basco, the most interesting of all the villains.

The first episode was rushed but they got the essentials out. Hell, in the first episode, they have two new rangers and the next episode was not as rushed. The second episode was better paced with the two new rangers being partners.

We have a female green ranger now!

The rangers this time around are based on star constellations, befitting its space theme. It's interesting to see they expanded beyond the normal pool of constellations.

I also liked the references to other media, particularly Star Trek. One ranger is basically a Spock reference.

The suits are bulky and don't look good aesthetically. The helmets are cool but not so much the upper half of the suit. It just looks bulky and doesn't allow much mobility. The colors didn't mesh well either, having too much of the actual ranger color and not enough black/white. I think it was supposed to be an astronaut-looking uniform.

The transformation trinket is bulky too. While I pretty much prefer unique or less bulky transformation trinkets (In PGSM, the transformation trinkets are bracelets and as much as I loathe Jungle Fury's morphers, they're unique even if I can break them...or lose them), I understand that a point of Super Sentai was to sell toys. But it doesn't look good in my opinion.

Why not make any morphers? I am glad that the cellphone morphers, while popular, is not in this one. I prefer unique ones like the Goseiger rangers or the bracelets from PGSM. I understand the transformation trinkets were to make toys. I get it. But parents and kids are not rich like the one-percenters.

Now I have a feeling that Saban will adapt Kyuranger into PR for the next season. I mean they can now pick whatever season to adapt and Kyuranger is right up their alley for adaptation.

Edit: So I heard the latest will be a Gobusters adaptation... Holy Godoka! I didn't expect that adaptation. I know that Saban is free to adapt whatever they choose now but choosing to adapt Gobusters is surprising.

Now having two ranger teams on the same show isn't exactly new. Toei had done before.

Although, this will be the first sentai team that will be phantom thief themed. I want to see how they will go about it. Will they go all out with the phantom thieves with the media before

I am interested to see how they are going to take this premise. Phantom thieves in Japanese media tends to be romantic; just look at the shortlived Kaitou Kid and the radical Persona 5. Yes, even P5 where even the titular thieves questioned the morality of their actions, they are still romantic figures that the world only knew one guy is the leader of the Phantom Thieves of Heart. Whether they actually believe it or not is a different thing entirely.

The point seemed to be a rivalry between the teams. From what I kept getting, the two teams seemed to focus on each other more than the monsters they are fighting against. These guys seemed to be adult rangers rather than teens.

The basic plot was released. I just wonder how much they are going to go with it. They could go all out with the two teams actually teaming up. Since there are two red rangers, there'll be conflict about how they run the team or because they are leaders fighting for whatever they think it is right.

I think justice would play a theme in this one. It's pretty obvious. Even Detective Conan has that though not in large amounts.

From the little sneaks, the morphers are bulky. I get the point is to sell toys but too bulky. You would think phantom thieves would have less than noticeable morphers. Phantom Thieves in Japanese media do tend to be flashy while keeping covert actions well to do. Even in Persona 5, we do see these guys do flashy stuff such as send a calling card with no evidence of DNA everywhere and make a huge announcement in every radio waves in Japan. Seriously, the disguises Kaitou Kid took up is ridiculous. I would think a much better morpher could be a pen or a ring, something that connects to the thievery in general. At least, the Sailor Moon transformation trinkets tend to sneak under the radar with pens, broaches, and whatnot. Miraculous Ladybug has earrings, rings, combs, and others I can't remember right now but at least they don't stick out like a sore thumb like a bulky gun. I consider the gun morphers cool if well-designed. In P5, the point of transformation was the apps/worlds. Look at SPD/Dekaranger, they used police IDs or in a form of at least. It's a decent morpher and convenient for a police-themed team. The Patoranger has gun-like morphers that are fitting but still too large.

I think I heard the Lupinranger's morphers were supposed to be safecracking or in the look of that is. Regardless, it's still bulky. I wish I don't have to say that word but still...bulky is the morphers this season.

More thought went into the suits though. The Lupinrangers definitely has the phantom thief image going for them with the tie, cape, and top hat imagery; the black does mesh well with the colors with the inside of the cape being white. The Patorangers has the police imagery with the badge on top of their helmets (seriously, the helmets are basically placements of the usual top hat/police cap) and the upper suit looking like one of those uniforms; however, it has too much color and little white to complete it. It's straightforward and simple.

I get the point is to have them foils with the opposite of everything. However, with foils, you understand it is like a mirror. However, it will be difficult for them to get their acts together. I don't see the phantom thieves in this series not dropping their thievery anytime soon. Seriously, I can see them getting a friendly rivalry later on with the final episode being a bookend with the two teams this time teasing each other while the phantom thieves escape with their prize.

I really wonder if Saban can really tackle something like this if they chose to adapt it. Americans have a different view on phantom thieves after all as opposed to the romantic phantom thieves in Japanese media. It would be nice to see Saban try their damnest at this because of well phantom thieves as a ranger team in the PR canon. This is the first phantom thief-themed sentai team in history so I want to see how Saban does this one. I really want to see it adapted here in America.