One Piece: Netflix vs Anime 

Koby’s expanded role also allows for further use of himself as an audience surrogate. He serves this role in the first 3 episodes of the anime, then disappears for a while. But keeping him throughout the season and following his discovery of things like the Seven Warlords (hinting at the corruption of the world government), seeing some of the consequences of the Straw Hats’ adventures, as well as Garp’s initially ambiguous morality, all help newcomers understand that in the world of One Piece, things are nowhere near as simple as they seem.

As someone who was so afraid to start One Piece because of how massive it is, the live action was perfect for me. It was like watching a highlight reel on what makes the show incredible and now I’m completely sold on finally watching the anime so I can learn more about what really happened in the source material! I just hope the OG One Piece fans can welcome us newbies into their fandom 🥹👉🏼👈🏼💕

My favorite part about this adaptation was seeing people new to the franchise who've never seen or even heard of One Piece's existence reaction to the show and getting to know the world.

I just wished that Sanji had been present for Zoro's duel with mihawk. In the manga, thst fight is a direct equivalent to Sanji's situation. Sanji yells to Zoro that "it's easy to abandon your dreams," urging him to save his life. That was exactly what Sanji was doing by staying at Baratie, Garp even commented on this. That's when Sanji decided to leave and join Luffy.

I think the introduction of Baroque Works much earlier on in the show, simultaneous with Zoro's introduction, was a great narrative choice to not only lay the ground for the organisation as a whole in future seasons, but mainly because it's wonderful way to show that Zoro has been declining every opportunity that came his way to join any kind of crew. I mean his first scene was him declining to join and saying he's got his "own thing going on". This really hits harder when Luffy asks him to join the Straw Hats and, for the first time, Zoro doesn't say he's got his own thing going anymore, but joins and trusts in Luffy because he realises - unlike anyone else he's met, and certainly unlike Baroque Works - that Luffy is a strong, kind leader who will not only allow him, but push him and support him in realising his dream of becoming the world's greatest swordsman.

Now this is how you adapt a manga into a live action show. Shoot, even into an anime. Charting your own course while still hitting major story eats that doesn’t who the characters are and what their about. Live action show runners should take note 👏

and i know its also funny that emily rudd who plays live action nami has appeared on the nerdist channel before as daenerys in blank page

Actually, Don Krieg provided an opportunity to show off parts of Sanji and Zeff's character that were barely brushed upon in the live action. Yes, we still see Sanji feed Krieg's starving first mate, but in the anime, Krieg shows up with what's left of his crew after Mihawk attacked them in the Grand Line (he doesn't slice their giant ship in half until he catches up with them at Baratie soon after Krieg does). Zeff also chooses to feed Krieg and his crew, even though they were butts about it (and even though his cooks desperately tried to convince him otherwise. On top of that, it comes out that Zeff was big name pirate who sailed the Grand Line, himself, for a year, and was quite successful until he met Sanji and chose to turn his life in another direction. When Krieg learns this, he's hellbent on not only taking the Baratie (after Mihawk has destroyed his), but on getting his hands on Zeff's logs to increase his chances of survival in the Grand Line. Cool stuff we didn't get in live action, since they chose to focus on Arlong ahead of time 😢.

My top 5 original OPLA scenes: 5. Kuro stabbing Kaya in the walls 4. Buggy (head) temporarily became part of Straw Hat Pirates 3. Mihawk's introduction call, slaying Don Krieg's crew at the beach 2. Zoro/Baroque Works' introduction, killing Mr 7 1. Nami blaming Luffy, next to Zoro being unconscious, after defeated by Mihawk

A change I did not like and felt unnecessary was having Nojiko and the villagers not know about Nami. In the manga the reason Nojiko got tattoos in the first place was to support Nami and she was the only one she could confide in which brought about how important just having that 1 person can be.

Comparing pacing between the anime and live action show, the show is moving very, very fast. They are skipping over a lot and it works as the anime does have a lot of filler.

I would argue it's "improvements in the context of an adaptation" .... a lot of emotional weight, as well as thematic exploration and character development, got lost through the all that tightening ... but that is also a good thing, since in this way, the liveaction can stand on it own and we can enjoy it a reimagination of the manga seperately

Koby is eventually gonna become a certified bad ass after Garp trains him.

Also there’s no fake out deaths anymore. For example, Kuro actually killed Merry the butler( lawyer in live-action)

A couple notes: 12:07 The LA Mr. 7, including his apparence, is canon in the original as well since Oda did give more information in the SBS (a Q&A section of the manga) about Zoro first encounter with Baroque Works. Still it was great to actually see the fight for the first time. 13:56 In the manga Garp does appear during East Blue saga in the cover stories, although the story itself does go into the next saga One change that I personally disliked was Usopp fight with Chuu. After he fakes his death in the original he was a moment of great courage that he notice he cant keep the way he is and lying about his fight would not do which makes him get up and call Chuu - in the LA that emotional scene is missing so him calling Chuu was no weight and is kinda stupid

I think it’s funny you keep saying if the series gets renewed. It literally blew up in popularity I think we are safe

I think you guys did a great job in breaking down all of the differences and providing reasons they happened.

This show was so fun! I am so happy it was renewed for season 2!

Kuro doesn't completely disappear after Syrup Village in the anime. He appeared when Luffy got his first bounty.

I can’t wait for Season 2 and I hope most of it stays In tact and to see our beloved little reindeer doctor in real life.

I’ve only ever watched a few episodes of the anime decades ago in my youth when it began airing on Cartoon Network. I recently binged the live action series and I’m hooked. For the bits I remember of the main crew I felt that the actors did a great job with their characters, and the show is fantastically written and paced.

Luffy was in my Spanish book from 1993. Not kidding, google it. El Niño de Hule.

The live action made me start the anime. Never thought I would ever start this journey. I’m all in now.

Hachi was an important omission, partly because he is a recurring character, but also, importantly, because he was Zoro's last big win. Without Hachi, Zoro *kind of* goes out on a weak note-he just kind of has a small battle alongside Sanji after having lost to Mihawk. Having also cut Jango and reduced the role of Cabaji, I feel like Zoro's barely had a chance to show his strength, which is... kind of important. Zoro being the second strongest in the crew is a meaningful part of his characterization, and justifies the rest-the fact that he's quiet, and determined, and able to use you-know-what, and the whole moment at the end of thriller bark. And his rivalry with Sanji is heavily informed by the fact that Zoro *is actually stronger*, close though it might be. Sanji and Nami retain their roles-Nami as the navigator and money person, Sanji as the cook and a fighter. But I also think they messed up Usopp in an important way. Without the caltrops and other scheming in his arc, he's not portrayed as a smart guy. Usopp eventually does become the heart of the group as well as a non-useless fighter, but until the end of the next arc, the group doesn't have a dedicated strategist. Nami is smart, but she's not the brains. The next two members are very smart, but they're not quite strategists. We got a tiny moment with Usopp, but I think we could have used more, especially in his own arc, since it's not clear why Luffy invites him to join the crew at all at that point.

What about Nami’s village not being aware about her deal with Arlong? Especially her sister? That would mean her tattoo now makes no sense in the live action because Nojiko had her tattoos as a silent solidarity with her sister in the manga. They even removed Genzo’s importance as Nami’s father figure to her childhood. I understood that they had to remove Hachi and Moomoo bc of budgetary reasons but damn. Also they removed Ussopp’s character development in his village too.

Personally, I think some of the changes felt like they rushed the show a little bit. But I think this was necessary so that they could get all the way through to Namis ark. For the most part, I think they got the spirit of one piece down. I hope they’re able to maybe slow down the pacing a little bit for season two. A few more episodes would have fleshed out some of the characters a little better. But I think honestly the show did about as good as it could’ve. I’m sure it’s hard getting funding for live action anime when none of them have ever done well. Maybe now that we have a successful one they can get better budgets and more episodes.

Buggy is definitely the best part of Netflix One Piece.

Just want to put it out here, but anyone have an idea abt how they should handle the future flashback stories? Specifically so Luffy's child actor doesn't age out, I mean. Personally, I think they should go ahead and film his whole back story during season 2 (or even hold off until season 3 if they want to wait to see s2 results), but even if we may not see the bulk of it until whenever they show Marineford (if they do), I still say they should go ahead and have his whole back story filmed early if they still want to use the same child actor.

I wonder who they're getting to voice Chopper....

hope we see more of Kuro too (besides ofc Buggy), they were great.. , adding Kuro to the Baroque Works assassin guild would make sense and work

I liked Koby's (and by extension Garp's) role being expanded and given focus from a world building perspective does a lot to show the audience that the Marines aren't just a gang of easily corruptible thugs with uniforms. Because I felt that a LOT on my initial watch of the anime.

Well, as a fan of anime, when someone said One Piece is good, I went to watch it. After season one, I couldn't understand why people like it. It's so-so compared to others like Demon Slayer. I kept watching until episode 150 and still think its ok. I will keep watching it, but I don't know. It's hard to watch anime back in the days with all these fillers... BUT... when watching the live action, I was very happy with it, and decided to rewatch some of the episodes from the first season to compare it to and appreciate it alot more then before.

I thought this was a good adaptation but I didn't like some of the changes. One example was the Syrup Village arc. Kuro felt more like a "generic villain" and Usopp's place on the crew felt less earned.

My favorite part in live action was about Usopp's dream. That was well articulated! 👍

Honestly, i completely forgot about Momoo. Instead i missed Hatchan :( I wonder how they will handle his reoccurence?

Reason why the live action was good is simple. Oda helped with the story in the live action and what changes were done.

I was startled by how good the Netflix adaptation was. I'm not a One Piece hardliner fan. I watched it for a good while, but stopped at some point because it really felt like the story had no endgame - it was just the same basic formula over and over with no long term plot per se. I know I'm going to get yelled at by loyalists, but that's how I felt. The anime really wastes alot of time on things that don't matter to pad runtimes, and while I forgave some of that at first...it eventually wore me out. The live action adaptation feels BETTER because it's tighter and more focussed. That's necessary by nature, but hard to do and do well, and this show does it while the other Netflix anime adaptations did not. Too many of them were either too literal, failing to realize live action and anime aren't the same and some adapting has to happen...or they took too many liberties and didn't even feel like the same show or same characters. One Piece walked the line perfectly by focussing on the source material's main strength - fun, interesting characters. The anime may have gotten lost in navel-gazing, but the live action show did not. Everything matters. Every scene, every beat.

The Kuro story suffers from a lack of Django.

I never seen the anime /Manga but I watched the liveaction series and really loved it it was well done.

One of my only gripes about the live action series (and really, it's only a small gripe) is that they tried to make Buggy too edgy and too much like modern-day Joker. In the original series, Buggy was a high-strung loudmouth, trying to ACT like a fearsome big-shot pirate... while being at heart a coward who fights dirty, then runs away or gets other people to fight for him if that doesn't work. He knows he's out of his league, but tries to bluff his way into fame and respect anyways. That personality is what made him such a great comic relief badguy, and imo way more interesting than a Joker knockoff in a pirate hat. (My only other gripe is that they got perfectly average-sized men to play big brutes like Ax Hand Morgan, like, were all the big beefy actors on vacation that week?)

Buggys actor has definetly done stand up comedy

Only thing I dont know is why they changed Going Merry's mouth to be open. Every other change to it looks good but why the mouth?

Good enough for season 1 I think. So they can ask for bigger budget in the long term. Hope they included more the impact factor from the source material. 1. coby first time stand up to Alvida. 2. Zoro get tie up for 6 days then get release by luffy and coby. Stop watching at episode 2 because lack of this

THANK YOU JUSTICE FOR MOO MOO SHE WAS THE BEST COW EVER More seriously, amazing video thank you for doing this it really brings out the changes yet you worded so well how they do work for the live action

Both are great in their own right. If course the anime and manga for being the originals. Buy the netflix "irl" is great, I thought it'd have lame avatar graphics but they did really good on this,

This video makes you realize that it is financially inefficient and moronic to try and make a live-action of a manga/anime with all its secondary and third and fourth plot-lines.. All the "dragging out the story" and small details etc.. You have to compromise. And. And , I think as I am 700 episodes into the Anime right now.. that the Live Action NF adaptation was amazing and it did a really good job portraying this animated masterpiece in its own right. Edit: I am so glad that I decided to start watch the One Piece anime little over half a year ago.. I thought it was gonna be a behemoth but it turned out that the first 50 episodes turned in to 300 then 500 and now I am just 300ish behind the weekly release! This has been the most amazing journey to watch!

I think it needed 2 more episodes. Some stuff was too cut down.

While I understand the reasoning for having Garp be the main Marine, my issue with it, will be the powerscaling later on. Having Smoker be the main Marine next season will be kinda silly when he was only a Captain at the time, mulitiple ranks below Garp.

I'd say a correction for don krieg's purpose in the original story, while it's true that he doesn't have personal connections with the characters, he's not just a measuring device, he's actually the catalyst in which sanji ultimately decides to join luffy because of what luffy displayed in their fight.

It was waaaayyy better than I expected

It did season 2 is announced

Personally, I really enjoyed Garp, Koby, and Helmeppo's expanded role because they're among my favorite Marine characters.

As a die hard anime and one piece fan, I turned it off after 15 minutes. When luffy was shoveling water out of his small boat, if he touched the water he'd be weak and powerless, but the show did not show that and he was fine while touching sea water.. I'm not sure what the anime scene was, but I don't think they got the fine details down like oda has

Merry didn't die in the anime, but he did in the anime stabbed by Kuro

I kinda want to see Buggy's actor get a chance at a live action Joker

About 2 weeks ago, I tried watching episode 1.... 5 minutes in, I thought it was cheesy and gave up on it.. Tonight, randomly I decided to give it another go and I'm so glad I did.. I just started episide 6 and IMO I'm convinced, this is probably the greatest animation to live action series ever created 🤷🏽‍♂️ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I know an actor that auditioned for Buggy. He did not know it was for One Piece or the character's name. He was given a generic name and how to play the character. The actor they went with is nothing like what he was given about how the character should be played.

After watching the anime, I just can’t watch the live action. It’s too confusing for me and the writing sucks.

I love the anime, the manga and the live action too😍 my favorite character is Sanji 😍

A muppet Chopper! Like Farscape good or even better! I’m thinking an improved Rigel type muppet. 😁

was very surprised. I loved this show.

While I liked many changes, what really upset me is how the events of Cocos are swapped. Nojiko and the villagers not knowing Nami's plan all along and the shoulder stabbing after the villagers went off to kill Arlong really takes the wind out of that emotional scene + it happening at night

introducing garp was a bad idea imo

Buggy "now that's a laugh... I said that's a laugh" becoming a meme now LOL

For those who want a shorter abridged story, I would say the Live Action Adaptation delivers on a decent retelling of the story with little filler. But the Manga is perhaps the best version as you don't have to wait through episodes of filler just to get to the main point. Remember the Anime adaptation of the Manga version often had to have filler episodes to help the Manga Artist get ahead of their story before the Anime adaptation catches up with it.

Merry also dies, right thats a change?

i honestly dont like any of the changes they do in the live action adaption, one piece is a series about the strawhats which shows there impact on the world by referencing other characters they interacted with before, characters like buggy and koby getting more screen time defeats the purpose of them showing up later in Lougetown and Enies lobby repectively

I've missed jango

Why you skipped The Romance Dawn Arc?

even with the budget, they had to change things. What an insanity. 😅

Curious about the changes that will come to season 2

I think this is the first time an anime live action is actually good because they’re usually bad and this one’s actually enjoyable to watch.

Can you do one on razing Deon on nafliks

Never saw the anime, but saw the show, just finished it actually. And there are hits and misses in every episode. Many cast-members seems to be new actors that never been acting before. Kudos for most of them being interesting and adding personality to them. Never saw the bad guys being a threat really, but the clown dude was more of a menace than fishface for example. Excuse me for not remembering their names.

He didn't say it, but zeff eating his leg was a much better arc to me than him just losing it and wasting away

Chopper, sure, but consider: Miss All Sunday.

I really expected to see how Zoro fight with 3 swords, guess it's impossible IRL.

Really liked the Toby character development in the life action.

I could not agree more about Momoo ❤

Some really good changes like speedrunning ussops part. Arguably worst part of starting one piece. Some baffling changes with namis village not knowing about her deal with arlong change for change sake because the emotion and power of them wanting her to run and leave them and live her life is gone. ( small unimportant one is i dont like what they did for mihawks voice)

One nice part about adapting an anime into live action is that characters are much more distinct and unique. In anime, the creators have the freedom to draw the characters as uniquely and interestingly as they like. When the LA then adapts those distinct features, it makes the characters easier to remember and be intrigued by. In traditional film, I get so lost when there are 10 white guys important to the plot, all who have different roles. They all look the same to me. Unless they're extremely memorable actors, having characters that look so similar is simply annoying. In the anime, they have extremely distinct hair colors/styles, tattoos, clothes, scars, ears, noses, makeup, accessories, etc.

Im sorry, but Garp in season 1 is THE WORST addition in the series…. Why? First it took time away from what really mattered in the East Blue Saga, the development of the Core Five Straw Hats, the protagonists of the entire series. Second it most certainly took away budget to add more important characters to the story of each crew member, like Jango and the Ussop Pirates, and Genzo and the Coco Village people. Third, the ending of that plot line was predictable after a certain point and it took away from the real battle of the saga which was Luffy v Arlong and the emotional weight behind that fight, to me it almost ruined the finale of Arlong Park. Talking about Arlong Park, they did that arc dirty with the cut of the importance of the villagers and Genzo… I was ok with most of the changes, but what they did to Arlong Park was not great. Because at the end of the day if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, and Arlong Park you didn’t have to fix anything…

Its good that the general consensus is 80% positive atleast..many longtime fans accepted the changes, only the purists discarded the show entirely, while some healthy feedback came from a place of love.

Luffys thick eye brows and lack of ADD , meaning Luffy is literally like having Jack Sparrows compass in your hand is how Luffy behaves(unpredictable, unprepared, but faithful.). Zoro isn't as happy/joyful as he sould be. Yes Zoro isn't feeling the pirate gig, but he normally just doesn't speak(neutral and wise) and reacts angry under Luffy dumb decisions or Nami punches. Nami is suppose to crap on everybody. Honestly pulling her abusive behavior back is understandable, but she is literally the captain. Usop is Usop.

Oh it will get a second season, anything beyond that is only if another company is paying for it. Netflix produced and owned series only likes 2 season shows.

I like live action Buggy he has the just amount of sliminess

I didnt like live action garp. He was to serious and crazy bout capturing luffy. In the anime he was always laughing at what luffy was doing. He didnt want to chase him after water 7 so he decided to do it himself without his crew so they could get away. But in live action he is dead set on catching luffy and never really laughs except for random crazy laughs that wasnt what he normally do. The other changes i can handle that one i didnt like.

Or you should Split like Split Head?

monsterpoint!

Garp is the only change I can't agree on. Rest is okay, I guess.

TBH I really disliked all the extra marine bits. Thought they were boring and skipped through them for the most part.

Uusob could have at least had a slight lying longer nose THAT is the one thing I hate

I liked the live action though i didnt watch the anime too much😅

Minority Hunter Zoro

Im not 100% sure but i think Iceburg made an apperance at the Baratie, when he talked to Coby and Helmepo are waiting for Garp at the out side bar. I could be wrong but the hair style/ color made me think.

Introducing Garp so late in W7 doesn't really make sense. Garp, arguably one of the most famous marine having same full name as Luffy, and none of the crews (especially Nami and Robin) realized it doesn't make sense. Having the revelation pulled earlier was a good decision since Luffy isn't really well known yet. I do have criticism with Garp's characterization, but I can respect that if that's what the LA was aiming for.

Love the live action show

So many key storyline was all over missed in the live action, happy they tried just unhappy how little they put into the overall story and it is already written . It is really sad how much money inflict in story telling

I hope the other crew members are introduced quicker than in the manga

I knew it would be good, told me mate; ain't no body got time to watch 2000 odd episode, so the live action is going to be a banger to bring in new viewers