Netflix's Live Action One Piece Teases Big Reveal With New Images
Two mysterious new photographs hint at upcoming news about the live-action One Piece TV series. Created by Eiichiro Oda in 1996, One Piece debuted in Weekly Shōnen Jump the following year. What was initially supposed to be a five-year storyline about the pirate Luffy looking for the fabled treasure, One Piece, turned into a nearly 25-year epic and, according to Oricon, one of the best-selling manga ever. Luffy's story has transformed from a naive, orphaned boy hoping to become the next pirate king to one of a man and his formidable crew fighting life-or-death battles against some of the most powerful pirates in the world, unraveling age-old mysteries in the process.
Netflix announced its bold live-action project in early 2020, aiming to produce the first-ever adaptation of Oda's legendary series. Unfortunately, the coronavirus pandemic halted production on One Piece and numerous other projects before resuming in March 2021, and filming finally began in January 2022 in Cape Town, South Africa. A couple of months before that, Netflix announced the core Straw Hat Pirates and their respective cast members. Now, new images hint at something intriguing coming out of the production's camp.
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The official Japanese One Piece Twitter feed shares a photo with several tantalizing components. Two photographs rest on a table, one displaying the production's location of Cape Town (taken straight from a popular Google image), and the other revealing Luffy's iconic straw hat that becomes the symbol of his pirate crew. Alongside the photographs are a newsboy cap, a candle, and a pair of spectacles atop a notebook. A caption accompanies the image, roughly translated to
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