Pirates, hilarious superpowers and manganime combat. The new advance of the One Piece series shot with flesh and blood actors starts with the mythical words with which Gold D. Roger challenged the whole world to find his treasure. The first of his many successes, despite the fact that not everything shown in it will fascinate fans of the work of Eiichiro Oda.
One month after showing the first trailer, the streaming platform offers a much juicier and more promising new advance. An occasion that they knew how to take advantage of by squaring off the San Diego Comic-Con, the great day of One Piece and the countdown to the premiere of the Netflix adaptation in the same weekend.
The result: three minutes of anime performed by real actors which you can see just below.
Although the characterization of the protagonists, the settings and the selection of stories play completely in favor of the series, taking us from the first cartoons of the manga to the arlong park sagait is precisely at this last point where we come across an element that will most likely cause people to talk about the network of networks: the character of Arlong played by McKinley Belcher III with the makeup on is far from intimidating as the one drawn by Oda.
Because he will wear the same shirt and hat, but the complexion, the eyebrows and the characterization of the fearsome character belonging to the Gyojin is the meat of memes. And that we have not yet seen other beings of his species well and there is a month left for the series to premiere.
That said, it must be recognized that the selection of scenes raised ends up playing in favor of the result, providing fanservice based on capturing truly emotional moments of these initial bars of the work. Of course, an adaptation accommodated to a total of eight episodes of approximately one hour each.
And while it’s an interesting opportunity to delve into the One Piece universe without feeling intimidated by the more than one hundred volumes of the manga, discovering the differences, licences, and elements sacrificed to make all the arcs up to Arlong Park fit into a first season will be an experience in itself.
One Piece, la serie de Netflixwill be released on August 31, 2023 Worldwide. And if you follow the anime up to date, you will be interested to know that the original Japanese voices of the protagonists are also part of the project, which will raise the great question for those who are passionate about the original versions: Voices in our language or subtitles? Looking away from the big villain of this stage earns the second one additional points.
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