Netflix lastly finds a manga hit with ‘One Piece’

By AFP

PARIS: Netflix has spent years attempting to adapt Japanese manga and anime into live-action TV with little success, however its newest effort, “One Piece”, might lastly have cracked the code.

The US streaming large’s newest present, primarily based on essentially the most well-known manga comedian of all of them, was watched greater than 18 million instances in its first 4 days, placing it on the prime of the charts.

The story of Monkey D Luffy, a boy with a straw hat and stretchy superpowers decided to grow to be king of all pirates by discovering a treasure generally known as One Piece, has captivated manga followers since its first editions in 1997.

And it ought to have been a shoo-in for TV success, having already been broadly tailored for the display in a sequence of animated films.

But manga followers feared the worst earlier than the Netflix live-action model hit the screens in late August.

The American large has tried and failed with different beloved Japanese manga and anime.

Its “Fullmetal Alchemist” and “Death Note” did not persuade in 2017 and 2021’s “Cowboy Bebop” was ditched after one season, crumbling below the burden of dangerous opinions.

With One Piece, Netflix cannily sought to maintain followers onside by holding on to essentially the most precious commodity: the comedian’s creator, Eiichiro Oda.

‘Guard canine’

Oda is tightly certain to the comedian, having written all of the editions for its total run — a world file — and was introduced on as sequence supervisor by Netflix.

He was properly conscious of the problem.

“Various manga had been made into live action, but there was a history of failure,” he informed the New York Times in a uncommon interview revealed in late August.

“No one in Japan could name a successful example.”

He informed the paper that Netflix agreed to offer him ultimate approval.

“I read the scripts, gave notes and acted as a guard dog to ensure the material was being adapted in the correct way,” he stated.

Reviews have been broadly constructive, with Charles Pulliam-Moore writing on The Verge web site the sequence “gets all of the important things right”.

He wrote that the sequence, with a price range of greater than $100 million, had put big efforts into re-creating Oda’s imaginative and prescient in its manufacturing design and populating its scenes with a forged of whimsical background characters.

This effort, he wrote, meant the sequence “is able to feel like a living, breathing place with a history that you can step into”.

And that historical past nonetheless has a lot left to be informed — the primary run of eight episodes covers solely the primary 12 volumes of a comic book that now boasts roughly 100.

PARIS: Netflix has spent years attempting to adapt Japanese manga and anime into live-action TV with little success, however its newest effort, “One Piece”, might lastly have cracked the code.

The US streaming large’s newest present, primarily based on essentially the most well-known manga comedian of all of them, was watched greater than 18 million instances in its first 4 days, placing it on the prime of the charts.

The story of Monkey D Luffy, a boy with a straw hat and stretchy superpowers decided to grow to be king of all pirates by discovering a treasure generally known as One Piece, has captivated manga followers since its first editions in 1997.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

And it ought to have been a shoo-in for TV success, having already been broadly tailored for the display in a sequence of animated films.

But manga followers feared the worst earlier than the Netflix live-action model hit the screens in late August.

The American large has tried and failed with different beloved Japanese manga and anime.

Its “Fullmetal Alchemist” and “Death Note” did not persuade in 2017 and 2021’s “Cowboy Bebop” was ditched after one season, crumbling below the burden of dangerous opinions.

With One Piece, Netflix cannily sought to maintain followers onside by holding on to essentially the most precious commodity: the comedian’s creator, Eiichiro Oda.

‘Guard canine’

Oda is tightly certain to the comedian, having written all of the editions for its total run — a world file — and was introduced on as sequence supervisor by Netflix.

He was properly conscious of the problem.

“Various manga had been made into live action, but there was a history of failure,” he informed the New York Times in a uncommon interview revealed in late August.

“No one in Japan could name a successful example.”

He informed the paper that Netflix agreed to offer him ultimate approval.

“I read the scripts, gave notes and acted as a guard dog to ensure the material was being adapted in the correct way,” he stated.

Reviews have been broadly constructive, with Charles Pulliam-Moore writing on The Verge web site the sequence “gets all of the important things right”.

He wrote that the sequence, with a price range of greater than $100 million, had put big efforts into re-creating Oda’s imaginative and prescient in its manufacturing design and populating its scenes with a forged of whimsical background characters.

This effort, he wrote, meant the sequence “is able to feel like a living, breathing place with a history that you can step into”.

And that historical past nonetheless has a lot left to be informed — the primary run of eight episodes covers solely the primary 12 volumes of a comic book that now boasts roughly 100.