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I don’t know anything about one piece other than how insanely popular it is in Japan. I heard the live action show was pleasing fans so I gave it a go. It’s definitely for kids, but it reminds me so much of watching power rangers in the 90s that I can’t help but enjoy myself with every episode. Now I’m actually curious about the manga or anime.
If you enjoy the live action you will probably enjoy the manga or anime. The one caveat to that is both versions One Piece suffer the same problem from filler, but in different ways. This problem is best illustrated by an anime about that problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4S9NuI6NKo
but it works both ways for one piece, because it's been running long enough as both a manga and an anime.
TL;DR; It's great but there is filler in both.
I prefer the manga, but I feel like the manga is a little rough until it gets to Drum Island, which is a whooping 130 chapters in, but "only" 78 episodes in... it's one of those "its gets really good 100 hours in" deals.
How does the manga have filler? It's the source material
There's islands where nothing happens like long ring long land, well something does happen there, but its so minor compared to everything else that I'm not really sure why its there at all. I feel like Thriller Bark was kind of filler-y too. That second sentence is an extremely hot take, but that is how I feel.
I think the issue here is simply that you two are seeing two different versions of what "filler" means.
"Filler" in terms of anime often refered to original content that was "filled" between the actual adapted content from the manga. This is from a time where some shounen series were running perpetually next to the manga and once caught up had to do something to fill the time. This lead to very loooong series like Dragonball Z where you had to fill an entire episode just with the content of a 20 page chapter and to filler arcs that were often scourned. The issue was, that nothing there could be of any lasting consequence as to not throw a wrench into the actual story developing from the manga.
Now, you use filler as in stuff that apprently fills time in the source, as stuff that doesn't really advance the story and characters in your view. I am not agree with that, but that's another matter.
I watch the anime for 15 years now and i think its very hard to start with it. A lot of things changed. I think the anime grew for itself when hitting 500/600 episodes. But they have grest character arcs and you feel with them. I miss this in a lot of series/animes.
Something that concerns me, the visual effects. It goes very crazy with devil fruits in the anime and i think the real live OnePiece will get big big problems after 2 seasons. Or they have to change a lot of things. They would hit an uncanny valley of human monsters if they adapt everything 😂
Yeah, I think Buggy said it best with, "Where's the dancing lion?" I think the show creators were very aware of what they could or could not accomplish with their budget, and Arlong seems to be the limit. Interested to see how they tackle Chopper. If they can get the requisite amount of CG to do that well without landing in the uncanny valley, the sky may very well be the limit (next stop Skypiea).
Whatever the paddington and rocket racoon folks did worked well. I think the same techniques could be applied to chopper.
Here's an example of what paddington cgi looks like if you're unfamiliar: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sw7RElt-SvE
Here's rocket racoon: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J_BGhNW6hSY&pp=ygUNcm9ja2V0IHJhY29vbg%3D%3D
I think chopper in the same style as either of them would look good.
Agreed that it's possible, just very very expensive to make it look good. For Chopper, I think they'll pay up, but I'll bet there will be a lot of devil fruit users who get cut purely because showing them on screen costs too much money for too little payoff. Which is unfortunate, but understandable.
Yep, didn't hachi get cut from arlong park? Those tentacles are too hard to make.
That was my thought as well. If they're not going to composite Arlong's nose into every shot, a whole octopus man is far out of the question. But so help me God if they cut Karoo...