#'it's different' okay does whatever the original contributed outweigh the change's additions?

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Most complaints about the one piece live action boil down to "this wasn't exactly like the anime/manga, therefore it's awful".

people complaining about how in the live action, sanji didn't see zoro's fight with mihawk, and making a big deal about how that's so awful that they didn't include that, like... why? why is that change negative in any way?

"oh because zoro getting his ass beat convinced sanji to join the crew!" how would that have convinced him to join? i know zeff was all like 'alright you lil shit fuckin watch this guy get got" but how would that convince him to join? "becaaaauuuuuse, it shows how all the strawhats are willing to die for their dreams!"

We got that in the live action though. We got that, and more:

sanji got to see the most important part of the zoro fight: the aftermath. He got to see that no one blamed zoro for it, no one was renouncing their dreams.

luffy's "i'd eat both arms and legs to save zoro's life" line. After a conversation about making tough decisions as a captain (ie: do you stand in the way of someone else's dream? what would you do for your crew?), after sanji tells luffy and usopp about his child starvation backstory and what zeff did for him. And you can see on sanji's face, you can SEE IT, after luffy's comment, how it warms his heart, and how he believes it, that luffy really would do everything for his crew and their dreams.

and what I think really tipped sanji over the edge into joining the strawhats in this series: when luffy decides to fight for the baratie. Again, you can see it in sanji's face after he asks luffy why he'd stick his neck out for the place and luffy replies "you fed us". You can see in his face how this wins him over.

So the "shows the strawhats are willing to die for their dreams/willing to fight" happens at least 3 times, then also add in the fact that sanji spends a lot of time with a luffy who has sincere complements and reasonings to accompany his "you should join my crew" suggestions (especially in contrast to the anime where he's just 'nope, you're on my crew. join. join now.), and you've got a series who better conveyed sanji's reason to join the crew than the anime did. Hmmm.