Netflix's One Piece: How The Live-Action Series Can Succeed
Adapting a beloved anime into live-action film or TV is one of the most thankless tasks a creator could find themselves unlucky enough to be stuck with. Most are assumed to be doomed from the moment they're greenlit, with several hundred pieces of compelling evidence, but, just because it's likely to fail doesn't mean it's guaranteed.
The unabashed failure of Netflix's Cowboy Bebop sounded the death knell for the still upcoming One Piece adaptation. The latest in a very long line of botched live-action adaptations was famously canceled twenty days after the season's release on the platform. One Piece soldiers on without trepidation in the face of its predecessor's disaster.
What Netflix's Live Action One Piece Can Learn From Cowboy Bebop
One Piece needs no introduction, it's one of the most enduringly popular pieces of narrative fiction ever written. Eiichiro Oda's ongoing shonen franchise laid the bedrock for much of the modern success of anime and broke the mold time and time again. The manga will celebrate its 25th anniversary next month, marked by an unbroken streak of overwhelming success. The anime remains one of the most beloved series in the medium after over a thousand episodes. New trends come and go in the world of anime, or even in the shonen genre, but One Piece remains unshakably among the top names. With all that in mind, with the mountains of films, video games, and other merchandise that the franchise has spawned, it's shocking that it took this long to put a live-action adaptation to the screen.
Adapting an anime to live-action varies in difficulty based on the esoteric nature of the series. Looking at the concept as a spectrum might place more realistic anime like Ruroni Kenshin on one side and One Piece
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