I wanted to complain, but the show turned out to be good???

I don't know what others think, anyway, I was really a little surprised.

That is, the live-action version of "One Piece"

It was even okay???

It may be my prejudice, since the live-action version of "One Piece" project came out, I basically eat melons and watch the mentality.

Including the release of posters, stills and trailers and other materials later, in fact, it did not change his opinion.

The live-action version of the manga, especially the live-action version of this classic comic, can be watched???

At that time, I really didn't believe it.

Of course, this is not just a black live-action version of "One Piece", after all, we have suffered too many losses before.

For example, in 2021, the comic book live-action drama "Interstellar Cowboy" also launched by Netflix must still have a little impression of what it looks like.

And in the past few months, the live-action version of "Saint Seiya" that thundered out of the sky, just happened to play Seiya's Shinta Shinda Shinkenyu, which happened to be Solon of the live-action version of "One Piece".

This has become a comic reform professional.

Therefore, not expecting anything from the live-action version of "One Piece" can be regarded as a normal state of mind.

In other words, not only do I not look forward to it, but I even have a bit of a mentality of eating melons and watching the play, and I plan to read a complaining article.

The result?

I believe everyone has seen it too.

This live-action version of "One Piece" is okay!!

Now Douban has a score of 7.9 points.

IMDb was scored by nearly 50,000 people, as high as 8.5 points.

Media ratings on Rotten Tomatoes also have a freshness rating of 83%, with a score of 7.6.

You see, the reviews of several platforms are actually okay, much higher than those that were on the street before.

According to media statistics, after the show was launched, it quickly became Netflix's highest-rated series in 84 countries and regions, even surpassing the records of "Stranger Things" and "Wednesday" (both of them have 83, I suspect, it may be that Netflix has added a region or country

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At the same time, the show has also become the hottest series on Netflix with 18.5 million views.

And from my experience of watching the drama, I went to brush the drama for the first time when the broadcast started at three o'clock in the afternoon, and I brushed it until the second half of the night, and I didn't stop.

It's not that this drama is so good that people can't put it down, but it's really the type that you can watch all the way without particularly wanting to abandon the show.

That's interesting.

As a half-hanged comic fan, I have basically not stopped reading various comics over the years. And a "migrant manga" like One Piece, which has a strong mass base, I should have been chasing it in 2000, and after calculation, it has been more than 20 years.

Although not as obsessed as those professional pirate fans, so far, the anime chases the battle on the top, the manga chases the country of Wano chapter, and for the live-action version of "One Piece", it may also have a slight right to speak.

Still that point of view:

Even if you are a comic fan, you can't overly look forward to the live-action version with a completely reproduced and restored mentality.

Understand that the live-action version is not the same thing as comics or animation, this is a completely different form of content.

Therefore, you expect 100% copying, or perfect restoration, which is a luxury, which is not a form at all, and there is no way to restore.

Therefore, I still recommend that the comic book version be viewed in parallel with the live-action version, as a story in which the parallel worlds advance separately. Instead of making too harsh comparisons from the image, this way, you will be much more comfortable.

What the series really needs to present is actually some of the more soulful things in the comics, such as dreams, friendship, and blood.

Moreover, from the final effect, the film was at least produced with care, and it really cost money. Including some classic plots, as well as the reproduction of famous scenes, it can also bring out a lot of memories.

Especially the last episode, in fact, is quite burning, basically, I still found some of the emotions that fell in love with "One Piece" in the first place.

Moreover, the producer's expectation for the live-action version of "One Piece" is not only to take care of existing fans, but also to take care of future fans, that is, to take the opportunity to expand the fan circle.

And from the actual effect, it seems to be okay.

After all, the comic fans who chased down "One Piece" all the way are not young. And what young people love more is actually "Ghost Slayer Blade" or "Spell Return", in fact, "One Piece" is a little tears of the times.

Nowadays, judging from the audience's feedback, there are really many people who have not seen the "One Piece" manga or animation, but have become interested in this story through live-action dramas, and in turn chase comics and animation.

It's still a lot of fun.

Of course, this drama does not pull the crotch, and may also be due to some extent to the deep involvement of manga author Eiichiro Oda.

Everyone knows that Eiichiro Oda is a very diligent creator, not only creating manga. I also pay special attention to comic spin-offs.

From the beginning of the planning of the live-action version of the project, he has been deeply involved in the project. Whether it is casting, the revision of several versions of the script, and the intervention to the actual shooting stage, as well as various grasps in the later stage, he has participated in discussions and revisions.

I remember him saying in an interview before, "Even after the shooting, if I think some scenes are not good enough to show to the audience, the producers agree to reshoot many scenes." ”

You see, Netflix can meet the requirements of Eiichiro Oda to this extent, and the quality of the episodes can always be guaranteed.

After all, no one knows his work better than the original author.

Of course, this also makes the cost of this show really high, and it really costs money. According to media reports, the single collection of this drama reached 17 million US dollars, even surpassing the single collection of "Game of Thrones" with 14.8 million.

Even, the various boat scenes in this play are all real shots, and the ship is also real. In order to save money, they borrowed various ships from the American drama "Black Sails" and redecorated and reproduced on this basis.

"Black Sails" stills

In short, at least the production cost and production sincerity have gone up, and this drama will not be very thunderous or very grassy team.

Although I saw some comments, the character image is still not as similar to the remarks such as cosplay.

I think so, cosplay is cosplay, that is just a shape, and many of them are static images and need to be processed by beautiful pictures. And filming film and television works, the appearance is actually only the first step, more importantly, to move, to perform, to speak lines, to have a variety of action scenes, this can not be measured by the level of coser, not a thing.

Including me, at first it was difficult to identify these people as those characters in the anime. However, this is an acceptance process, and as the plot deepens and the plot progresses, you can still identify with their performance.

Although, I would like to emphasize that we should not evaluate these characters by how restored they really are. However, they do show the main characteristics of the character, which is acceptable and does not feel very thunderous.

At this time, we can shift the focus of watching the drama from being more like this thing to paying attention to the plot itself.

Returning to the series itself, in fact, the progress of the live-action version is quite fast. The first season has 8 episodes, a total of about 8 hours, but it is about to go to the great voyage.

In comics or animation, this whole story still took a long time.

No way, film and television is doing subtraction to refine the plot.

Abandoning a lot of foreshadowing and repetition, mainly focusing on the formation of the five-person protagonist group and the previous history of each of the five people.

The villain is mainly used to portray the clown Bucky and the fishman Aaron, after all, they are the two more important and characteristic villains in the previous part, and it is also a good choice.

Another change in this show is that Kebi's scenes have increased.

Compared to his role in the manga, he is obviously more valued in the live-action version, or maybe this is a new change from Eiichiro Oda. You will find that his plot line is even a bit parallel to Luffy's development.

Two young men with dreams in their hearts, each on their own dream journey (Admiral and One Piece) all the way.

This is an interesting change, which is equivalent to saying that the creators are reinforcing the core theme of One Piece in this way, which is dreams.

Compared with Luffy's previous vision of One Piece, joining Kebi's admiral journey, this theme can be fuller.

I have seen a saying before that Luffy's ability is not only a rubber function, but his desire for dreams, and can stimulate other partners to chase their dreams, and this is what "One Piece" really wants to convey.

It makes sense to think about it this way.

Just like the final version of the drama, no matter what, at least some emotional things have been done, including Shangis kneeling goodbye to her father, Nami telling the truth about her humiliation and burden, similar famous scenes, or quite touching.

As a comic book live-action drama, on the one hand, it will not be particularly contradictory, and at the same time, it retains the style of comics to a certain extent, which is actually good.

After all, as an act that broadens the world of One Piece, such a live-action drama is still worth recommending.

And, I think a lot of people are looking forward to the second season.

That's not good.