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The One Piece live action adaptation and the reaction of the test audience.
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OK, so I just saw this today, actually.
It's a it's a CBR article on the One Piece live action test audience.
They thought about it initially and it is fucking terrible.
Like most live actions are.
Most live action Netflix series are.
So CBR the CBR article was citing a Twitter account by the name of Divinity Seeker.
That's basically what I got all their information from.
Right.
Is it a leaker?
I guess I wouldn't say it's more like a just entertainment news.
OK, of course.
OK, so they didn't really leak anything.
They just kind of covered it.
Whatever they were allowed to say, I guess, the test audience.
So well, the primary primary issues from what they cited is a poor CGI quality.
So that already tells you they know fucking way like you get.
One Piece is already so cartoony in the animation.
Yeah.
In the manga, especially with Luffy's abilities.
Right.
That is to translate it to live action is going to be arduous.
Yeah, because it would have been easier to even do CGI and bleach because you can create
the whole monsters on their own.
Right.
And then you're just doing effects basically with special effects for the characters on
the weapons.
But nothing changes for the person, really.
Right.
But Luffy's like and and Buggy, who can just like disassemble his whole body.
There's no fucking way it's going to be got off.
Fucking horrific.
Another primary issue was the confusing plotting.
Probably no one knew what the fuck's going on.
Really?
So the non fans in the audience were unable to grasp the story itself.
Right.
And for the fans in the audience, they were confused by the changes in the adaptation.
Like it like they just apparently changed it so much that they couldn't even come to
terms with what was going on.
So it's like it's like Dragon Ball all over again.
That one horrible Western movie.
Yeah, probably like where they were.
The plot made no damn sense at all.
No, it sure didn't.
Like whatsoever.
I think it has to be.
I mean, Bleach was a terrible Netflix adaptation.
Bleach was a terrible Netflix adaptation, but they at least followed somewhat of the
first part of the story.
But somewhat made sense.
Maybe they were even in Japan.
I don't understand.
Yeah.
The whole point was here in Japan.
Oh, you're talking about Death Note.
Oh yeah.
What the fuck did I say?
Bleach?
Yeah, you said Bleach.
You brought a bleach in my brain.
Fucking locked it in.
Yeah, Death Note.
Death Note.
Yeah, that was that.
OK, thank you.
I was like the Bleach version was better.
Yeah, it followed like the first.
OK.
It covered the plot of like the first 10 episodes.
I should say.
Right before going to the Soul Society.
So I have to check it out.
But again, I don't want to.
And I'll give them credit for Ruruni Kenshin.
That wasn't bad either.
Adapted to?
But again, it was Asian actors and from Japan.
The creator had some say in it, so it didn't turn out horrible.
I know the.
I lost my train of thought.
Moving on.
One of the.
Oh yeah, because for one piece, I will say that the first episode of the anime and the
first chapters of the manga are wildly different.
Like they.
So the changes can be good sometimes.
As long as it's not the four kid changes.
Four kid did a lot of horrible shit to one piece.
He gave What's His Name instead of a cigarette a lollipop.
Yeah, man, it's just sucking on.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, that makes fucking sense.
One of the things that they cited was supposedly you meet practically the basically the whole
core of the crew at the last 15 minutes of the pilot episode.
So that already tells you it's kind of bad.
So it's going to be a series?
Yeah, it's a TV show.
Oh, shit.
Yeah, I guess I should have mentioned.
Yeah, it's a TV show.
I thought it was going to be a movie.
Oh, fuck.
Because, OK, in the East Blue Saga, it's pretty much sets up Luffy's initial crew and that
spans like a lot of chapters and a lot of episodes.
So here and everything that happened, it's pretty much basically him meeting his his
crew and something happening while meeting that crew member that kind of endears Luffy
to him so that he invites him to the crew for it to just be the first 15 or the last
15 minutes of the first episode makes me think like, what the fuck happened?
Right.
Because I'm like, OK, so his crew for the East Blue was Zaro, Nami, Usopp and Sanji.
And I'm going to do the manga.
So Zaro, you first meet at first appearance in Chapter three and he joins Luffy's crew
in Chapter five.
That's three issues.
Right.
Or three chapters.
Because isn't he being set up for execution?
Yeah, he's like fucking chained up.
Like if I make it a whole month without eating, you know, let me go.
They weren't going to let him go.
Nami, you meet her in Chapter eight.
She doesn't join until Chapter 14 and then rejoins in Chapter 94 until some shit goes
down.
Usopp, you meet him in Chapter 23.
He joins in Chapter 41.
And Sanji, you meet in Chapter 43 and he joins in Chapter 68.
So the fact that you meet him the last 15 minutes of episode one, all of them, they just fucking
crunched the entire story arc.
The East Blue Saga into one fucking episode.
So I don't know.
That's already bad news for me.
It doesn't really give you time to learn each of these characters.
If you're watching it fresh, I'm going to just watch this new anime adaptation in live
action.
You don't get the sense of their character in that specific 15 minutes.
Right.
But whatever.
I mean, I'll give credit for that.
Again, going back to that Bleach one, they didn't cover like the whole Soul Society arc
in that movie.
It was just the part leading up to it.
So like for them to crunch that much into one episode.
It changes the entire flow of the series.
The pacing is all fucked.
Yeah, like the way you met those characters was during conflicts.
So how are those conflicts going to work with your characters now already joined up?
And it's the exact opposite of the Lord of the Rings problem where the Lord of the Rings,
the Rings of Power, they spread it out so much that everybody lost interest.
It's got the direct opposite problem.
It's too quick.
Oh yeah.
And I think it's like 10 episodes.
I don't know what the fuck they're going to do.
They're going to cover all 1000 episodes in 10 shows.
What the fuck did they do?
I'm like, God, they're 100 books out of each series, like 100 episodes of the manga in
one show.
Fuck a hundred chapters of the manga in one fucking episode.
Jesus Christ.
Don't put it back.
The crazy thing is the creator, Ichiro Oda, he's supportive of the cast and the production.
He's been supportive.
Right.
And I think he might be blind now because there's no fucking way.
He said he's OK with the adaptations changes, but how the whole East Blue Saga was him meeting
his initial crewmates.
He's just trying to rank in that cash.
That's all.
No, he loves One Piece.
He wouldn't.
No, I mean, he wants to show that the anime is always going to be better than live action.
He ain't well the manga.
The anime is beautiful, but if you want the core of One Piece, the manga itself, because
he's the actual 100 percent creator.
Right.
I mean, he might be trying to prove a point.
He's going to prove the point.
What if he's like, don't you guys worry, I know what I'm doing.
The One Piece live, like now he's got to sell it because there's millions of dollars invested
in it.
But how are you going to lie your face off, right?
It's fucking fine.
This could be the end of all adaptations.
That'd be wonderful.
What is Netflix obsession with taking anime and making them up?
Yeah, like it's like it's like I would understand if they had one right.
That was just fucking gold.
And ever since then, they've been trying to chase that high.
Right.
But I don't know of anyone any of those adaptations, those live action adaptations that have ever
sparked a level of interest at Stranger Things or Squid Games or Orange is the New Black.
The only like I said, the only anime that I can think of that they adapted into a Netflix
series was Rooney Kenshin.
And that was popular in Japan.
Okay.
Like the actual anime because it came from Japan.
Like Netflix didn't have that oversight of it.
Like it was on Netflix itself, but I don't know if they had like a sole proprietary claim
to it.
And they had like big groups from like Japan.
One OK Rock was one of my favorite one of my favorite groups, but they did one of the
openings to it.
Huh.
Like they had like there was actual investment into the adaptation of it.
So I don't know what the hell's going on with this one piece.
And they fucked up Cowboy B Bob.
Yeah, that was that was hyped so much.
Goofy as fuck.
And it was extremely hyped by critics and stuff.
That's why I never go by critics review because the shit's always off.
I don't know, man.
It's driving me crazy.
I'm just going to ruin one piece just just for the fucking lols.
I bet you the guy who did the CEO just hates anime.
Probably.
And I'm just not funny.
He would literally throw millions just to fuck everyone over.
I mean, look what they did.
The death note.
Yeah, that one was.
Hey, I watched it right.
Like fucking sorry.
I like wow.
Like I lied to myself.
This is pretty good.
Now, what's his name?
Ryu.
Isn't that the Shinigami's name in that?
Is it?
You know who I'm talking about, though?
The guy that will impose.
That was pretty good.
But it was a great.
He played the character well.
That was about it.
Yeah, I should have just made a movie by him.
Ryu Ryu because his name.
So another thing that they cited about the another complaint was that it was an erratic
tone.
It would jump from ridiculously goofy to fucking super serious, super incredibly serious what
they wrote in a jarring way.
I don't know.
Like how?
Well, it is a how many?
How?
How much time is each episode?
I don't know.
I would assume maybe 40 minutes.
Maybe if you crunch down that many jokes and seriousness in 40 minutes into 20 minutes.
Fuck.
I would assume it's at least an hour long.
Now, I still can't get over that.
You meet the core crew in 15 minutes.
Right.
My name is in the last 15 minutes.
They must be working at the same restaurant that fucking Luffy goes to eat at.
And he pays them back by helping them stop some guy from burning their place down.
Like I'm going to join your crew now.
Yeah.
How the fuck do you?
They're going to fuck it up.
Yeah.
I don't care if I would have faith in it.
I don't believe he's lying to himself as well as anybody.
There's nobody who can make a consistent especially when they took away Luffy's sandals.
Did they?
I think because of the level of danger and stomach, it's not advisable to have sandals
in a.
They did it in the.
God.
They did it in something else.
Because you're talking about those like tall sandals, right?
Or just regular sandals.
It's not a fucking regular.
Those are strongest sandals known to man.
Just a fucking strap holding his feet to him.
Oh, then why couldn't they do it?
Because that's what they said.
Oh my God.
I don't know.
Ask them.
People can't wear flip flops in these shows.
Yeah, like that's what he wears.
Flip flops.
He has never worn any other type of.
Well, not that I've seen.
He probably has, but I haven't seen enough from the end.
They've had crazier shit.
Can CGI shit on his feet.
I guess that's true.
Well, I guess if it's that bad is what they're saying.
The CGI is that horrendous.
Make his foot just like a block.
I know like in scenes where you think you're seeing people's feet, bare feet running through
dangerous situations, it's not really their feet.
Some weird like like Captain America, the first Avenger.
There's a scene where he's chasing some Nazi and he's just he's got no shoes on.
But then when they showed the behind the scenes, like some fucking blocky ass sock, skin colored
sock that just they digitized to look like actual feet.
Yeah, because I guess it's danger.
I mean, I guess it is dangerous to be running around, exposing the shit barefoot.
They come up with the stupidest reasons.
Like I said, they could have at least CGI'd them though.
Yeah, at least having a CGI with the goofiest CGI feet I've ever seen in my life.
But they could have at least done it.
If Clint and Tarantino could have people with no shoes on, women with bare feet everywhere
sucking toes all the time.
I know damn well.
Who's the director of it anyway?
It's Clint and Tarantino.
I don't know, actually.
I don't know anything about it.
I'm just going to watch it cold and then just go in and go on.
I'm going to call you crying.
They fucked it up, they fucked it up, they fucked it up.
I can't do it.
Just look, I'm fucking snot running.
They fucked it up.
Just wailing.
I'm going to be like that guy that said leave Britney alone.
Leave Britney's face alone.
Leave her alone.
I'm going to sit in the corner and have night terrors and shit just because they're going
to do it again.
He ain't got no sandals on.
I don't know, we'll see.
I'll always give something a chance.
Because I gave this movie the other day called Girls, Guns and Blood a chance and it was
absolute dog shit.
I wish I could go back and get my...
I don't want my money back, I want my time back.
Reset my time clock for those hour and 20 minutes I lost.
I'll buy that shit back.
Give me my time back.
Don't play doubles, just give it back.
Damn the money, give me my time.
The hour and 20 minutes I lost of my life watching that is just horse shit.
I think one of the girls had a normal American accent, right?
And then halfway through the movie, I'm all country now.
I'm like what the fuck did you get a country accent from?
What the fuck happened?
Like halfway through the movie she decided to have a country accent.
I just switched that shit up.
Yeah, what the fuck?
I was like what the fuck?
The movie was terrible.
If it's anywhere near one piece level, there you go.
And you went to go see this?
No, I saw it on Tubi.
I ain't paying for that shit.
That's why I said I want my time back.
I don't want the money, I want my time.
I haven't ever heard of the movie, that's why I was wondering.
Fucking dog shit.
They have a lot of horrible Tubi movies that you can just waste hours watching and you're
like damn that was a waste of my fucking time.
That's why the whole system is free.
Yeah, people watch shitty movies.
I mean Netflix has come into that point where they're having less and less and less that's
worth paying that $20 a month for.
I mean we're Netflix, we're not worth shit anymore, but you still watch our shows.
They've been ever since, because they always need a hit is their mentality.
They can't just enjoy a consistent level of good work.
No, well they also, it's okay, if one season doesn't do as great, it's a cyclical thing.
So you'll have a show that doesn't do great the first season, but it does okay.
They don't invest any more money so they cancel it.
So the fans thinking, it's like okay so there's another new show coming out.
There's going to be less and less fans to watch the new show because they think the
show's going to get canceled again.
It's cyclical, it keeps happening over and over and over and Netflix keeps losing money
unless they have a breakout of the box show like Stranger Things or something like Squid
Games.
Or something.
Squid Games just goes too hard.
Right.
Squid Games went too hard, it broke everybody.
But somebody that I've seen was complaining because of, what was it?
Was that show 18 something that was around for a little while?
18 something.
I can't remember the name of the show, but they loved it.
And everybody loved the CGI work, they loved all the kind of like cinematography involved
in it.
And then they canceled it after one season.
Well damn, fuck them then.
But it wasn't because it wasn't putting up the numbers of Stranger Things.
It's like you're investing in all these new shows, but then you're not giving it a chance
to actually get an audience to watch it.
And people aren't going to watch it because they know you're going to cancel it.
Yeah, like no one knows because it's such a big show now, but Breaking Bad wasn't this
monumental hit in the first season or two.
It was just like a little cult thing.
And I watched it when I started it and then all of a sudden everybody knew it was fucking
Walter White.
Right.
And I'm like if it had been on Netflix, it would just be that one season.
And it would have been canceled.
And it would have been done.
It would have been canceled.
You fucking suck Netflix.
You fucking suck ass Netflix.
Well they, and then they try to jump on the fans whenever fans are like, you're doing
it wrong.
Like with these anime adaptations.
It's hard to say adaptations for some reason.
But whenever you got fans complaining about certain things, it's like, well do it right.
And people might watch it.
And then Netflix wonders, well why don't they have any faith in us?
Because you fucked it up so many times.
I got fucked up 18 times.
I can only take it back so much.
I cheated on me 57 times.
Well because they tell the fans, it's like, well we're not going to put the money into
it because y'all won't watch it.
But we won't watch it because you don't put money into it.
It's like, it's sinful.
Either take the risk and hope for the best or just fucking shut down your whole network.
And be done with it.
Yeah.
I watch Hulu.
And Hulu doesn't expect anything from us.
They haven't expected anything for like 10 years.
Yeah they're just like, oh we're just here.
We're done.
Well they're trying to sell you other services now.
Basically.
Are you guys like stars?
We got it too.
Come to Hulu.
Is it like Disney plot?
We got it too.
They're selling you other?
Netflix is trying too hard to be the king and everyone else is just like chilling.
Netflix is going to go the way of Blockbuster eventually because they can't keep up anymore.
What if Blockbuster is secretly waiting in the wings?
There is one still around.
It's planning its comeback.
Before you know it, there will be two.
Next door to each other.
Well they can never spread the way dollar stores do.
Dollar stores are in the middle of places you would never expect.
Okay, dollar stores like a god damn cancer world.
It is.
But yeah McDonald's and a dollar store.
Pretty much yeah.
There's a channel that's called, it's a southern thing and then there's a guy named Matt that
went out on his own.
But they have bits about how dollar stores are.
Where it's like you go out in somebody's backyard and they're building a dollar store and then
the family dollar is competing with them.
And then you got Dollar Tree wanting to show up too.
It's like we got out of the malls bitch.
God dang.
Well I guess we'll find out how One Piece does.
Well hopefully since you're going in cold, hopefully it turns out to be good.
Wear my jacket nice and tight and my hoodie because it's going to be all fucking freeze.
And I'll be waiting on that call with you crying.
Just leave him alone.
Man, well I guess we'll find out that's about it.
Next week I'll see what you talk about.
Alright and we will see you guys in the next one.
Have a good day.
Adios.