Is this going to be any good? Because the ONE PIECE trailer doesn’t actually look too bad. Very manga, but that’s, well, it’s going to be like that. I haven’t read it, so I have no idea if this is a reasonable adaptation or not.
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That does seem like the critical question. Costuming seems to be on-point, at least.
You should have heard my daughter’s screams of indignation when I showed her the trailer a few months ago.
Her diatribe about all the things wrong with it was much, much longer than the trailer.
😉 But I got almost as much enjoyment from offering to let her write a rejoinder to your hot take, as I did from showing her the trailer in the first place.
Me, I don’t really have dog in this fight. (One Piece is squarely aimed at the younger segment of teenager. There’s nothing particularly wrong with it, I just got bored.)
My take from the trailer is that the writers and producers don’t hate the IP or its fans, which is a definite step in the right direction.
That doesn’t mean that they actually like the IP, or understand the appeal. But at least they’re not trying to actively destroy it.
(But trailers always lie. And the attempted destruction of beloved “niche” IPs has become the expectation for a bloody reason.)
Seemed to get the underlying **Whimsy** down solid, unlike Wonka for example. As a non-Anime-fan normie, I didn’t hate it.
So they have that going for them, which is nice.
The production company learn from their utter disaster adaptation of Cowboy Bebop (where the original directory send them a page of pointer on the meaning of the show and they utterly ignore it). This time, the original mangaka Oda was actually involved in the production. I had a bit more hope for it.