#also- no. I don't ship the actors who play zoro and luffy! just the characters. okay? just the C-H-A-R-A-C-T-E-R-S

[mel-loly]

-I'm sure VERY late to post this but.. Yeah, WE WIN, ZOLU SHIPPERS!!!✨

[chromatic-lamina]

I watched episode 3 & 4 of OPLA, and I think the reveal at the end of episode 4 about Luffy being Garp's grandpa probably really hooked in a lot of people who don't know anything about the series. Honestly, I don't remember much about the beginning of One Piece, so I'm not really sure what order things happen (but I do know that Koby and Helmeppo are not in Syrup Village!)/

Cost-wise, I guess it was good to have all of Syrup Village played out in Kaya's house, but I would've liked to have seen it on the Kuro Neko Pirates ship and the beach, as in the manga, but again, understand why it wasn't. Also, maybe it was shot there too to up the female rep. Kaya getting a much bigger role.

A lot of the series, particularly the villains, is 1960s Batman kitsch, and I don't really mind that (in fact, I love 1960s Batman). The actors playing Sham and Buchi had a lot of fun! All those knives everywhere. Just realised that Django wasn't around. But I know there's been an increase in Fullbody and Django art, so I figure they must feature soon.

Bit sad that the Usopp Pirates (Tamanegi, Ninjin and Piiman [onion, carrot and pepper] ) didn't make an appearance, and also, Usopp ultimately saving the village from the Kuro Neko Pirates—with help from his friends—and then not taking credit, is such an important part of his character. That is, he boasts and stretches the truth continually, but when he's truly heroic, he lays low, and people often don't even know. Arc after arc he does that. So, it will be interesting to see how that plays out with it not being included here.

I don't know about the handling of Zoro and Kuina's story either. I don't think it's bad to place it here in a flashback from Syrup Village, but I think that maybe we needed to get to know Zoro just a little better. Overall, though, I am enjoying it. I do remember the Going Merry getting attacked by Garp at some point, so I guess this was it!

Loved Zoro calling Helmeppo "haircut". I know he improves (in the manga at least), but we haven't seen that improvement yet, and he deserved it.

OH: PS: Edit in: I love all the subtle scenes that let us who know know that Zoro is terrible with directions, but I don't think that the crew or the new viewers know yet!

[deadboyswalking]

Having seen almost all of the pre-timeskip One Piece anime now, some of my opinions about OPLA have changed. Specifically, I think that there were some characterization choices that aren't exactly wrong, but they're too early.

All of the adult characters are well done. I do think that Buggy was more genuinely sinister (and competent) and less pathetically goofy than he is in the anime, but his general personality was a close enough match.

The Strawhats that I still think they got really right were Luffy and Usopp. Amazing, showstopping, beautiful, no notes, just keep doing what you're doing. I think their Water 7 fight is going to be incredible and absolutely heartbreaking. I wish they had kept Usopp's nose.

I like Nami a lot, but I'd like to see more of her treasure-obsessed silly side and her short temper in the next season. Her seriousness in this season was understandable considering the Arlong problem, but it's not going to be in-character anymore after it.

Sanji is a special case because his anime characterization is something that cannot be done in live action without being insanely creepy. However, I still think he's too cool and charming for the arcs shown on the show. Pre-timeskip Sanji was less mature and was extremely pathetic around women. You could still make him a comically over-the-top simp without adding the troublingly perverted stuff from the anime. Also, Sanji's foul mouth and aggression! When there aren't ladies present, he isn't particularly calm or patient or sweet. I also think leaving out his curly brows was a big mistake.

The worst characterization by far is Zoro. The badass action scenes are perfect, but the rest of the characterization is so far off from pre-timeskip Zoro that it might as well be a completely different character. I didn't like him at all in the live action and it wasn't until I watched the anime that I understood his popularity. Zoro's a guy who gets lost to the point that Marines make fun of him and gets put in silly/embarassing situations and he makes jokes and laughs with his whole body and sleeps all over the ship and babies his swords and Tarzan yells and trains so hard for his dream and mourns his dead childhood friend and loves his captain and protects his crew with everything he has. He's a lively, passionate character and it's a shame that OPLA totally reduced him to a stoic cardboard cutout who fights good. I don't think his actor has the emotional range to play Zoro's multifaceted sides and he's too self-aware to really show how funny Zoro is. I haven't seen it yet, but I know Zoro is supposed to be more reserved after the timeskip, so maybe that's where this wack characterization came from?

[pa-pa-plasma]

okay, I didn't see this until now (& op turned reblogs off apparently) but I'll address some stuff under a readmore just to clear stuff up.

"one piece has multiple queer characters" One Piece literally has a gay club that hands out free transitions to transgender people. I am not making this shit up. Also, Luffy is asexual & aromantic. "multiple" doesn't really do it justice

"the whole "tumblr crossing the picket line" thing in promoting it (i think? i've heard people talking about it at least)" tumblr didn't cross a picket line. tumblr is allowed to advertise, as they (as in the website & the people who run it) are not planning to be part of the writer or actor unions. this is just regular advertising that other movies & shows have done & are doing.

"the strangeness of what things tumblr decides to promote and in what intensities they do for which things" again, tumblr was paid to promote One Piece. yes, there are problems with what tumblr pushes & what it hides, but it was paid to do this. it isn't favouring One Piece for no reason. it is favouring One Piece because it was paid to. if Our Flag Means Death wanted to advertise on tumblr, they could.

"the fact that what little i know about the original one piece is sexism" the series started in the 90's in Japan, so yes, there is a lot that isn't great, but for a lot of us it was our first experience of seeing openly queer characters & women who can beat the shit out of you. for the bad stuff (basically just out of date shit) the live action series does fix this, but I think it would be good to consider that it was 90's Japan when Oda wrote it with queer & strong (as in, power level type shit) women in mind. this isn't fucking Harry Potter we're talking about, where all the bad shit is a fundamental part of the creator's worldview & personality. this is like, some old shit that didn't age good like everything else that exists ever. his art style is kinda fucky & I won't defend it but like. we're talking about the live action which negates all that. also, as someone else pointed out, the women are drawn sexy, but so are the men. have you seen Zoro's massive tits?

"and the fact that netflix remakes in the past usually aren't well received." the One Piece Live Action series not only has fans involved, but the creator of the original series working on it. they also made the physical sets (most of which are ships on the water) & only used CGI when they literally couldn't use practical FX (Luffy stretching, for instance). if you looked into it at all, you would've seen that this is not the same as, say, The Lion King. people tend to forget that it isn't the "live action" itself that is bad, but the execution. One Piece Live Action was executed very, very well with what it had to work with, & we could see this ahead of time, not just when the show came out. I literally teared up at parts because I felt like I was watching One Piece again for the first time. All the important scenes were 1:1 with the original, & they even played the original theme song We Are (instrumental version). That is how good it is. It was made with love & you can clearly see it.

I appreciate the apology, but the fact that you didn't know anything about it (you're allowed to look stuff up) before putting this post in the main tags is like. why. people (not just the op in the screenshots, as I've seen this multiple times in different fandoms) need to learn that if you hate something, block the tag, don't go into tag complaining about what you think the series is. this is how you ruin the experience for fans--& yourself. you are doing the exact thing you are complaining about tumblr doing, except worse, because you're just ignorantly shitting on it, & not even in a funny way.

anyway, go experience some childlike wonder & watch OPLA, or don't. I literally don't care.

[a-force-dyad-in-space]

Just gonna watch the live-action One Piece trailer a million times, don't mind me 🔎

Thoughts under the cut!

First of all, the sets look great! I saw a behind-the-scenes clip earlier this week where you can see that ie. the Baratié is a real ship they built, and a lot of the other sets are built sets, too, rather than pure CGI, so props for that!

It makes sense for the Going Merry's figurehead to have a more realistic design, but I still miss the cute face

The actor who plays Luffy pretty much looks like the part, plus some cute curls, and from what I've seen from promotional materials he seems to have the right energy, too (I just hope Luffy's silliness will be portrayed well in the show, we don't really see that in the trailer)

Also his voice reminds me a little of Luffy's German voice actor, so plus points for that

The guy who plays Zoro has the right vibe in-costume, even if he's not quite as buff as Zoro is, and I'm glad they really gave him green hair, since a lot of adaptations tend to shy away from "unrealistic" physical features such as colorful hair and eyes (looking at you, Game of Thrones and Prince of Tennis)

What we've seen of Zoro's fighting style in the trailer doesn't really quite represent how he fights in the manga and anime, but I hope there will be better examples in the actual show

Nami looks pretty good, though I'm not really sure about the casting ethnically, given that Nami is one of the few characters with an actual Japanese name (but again, she looks good and her energy for the character seems okay, so I'll see how she does)

Buggy definitely has the right energy, but visually I'm not 100% convinced (yet), the one shot we got of him didn't give us a whole lot

Some of the humor (particularly in the "Not a crew" part) seems a bit generic and like every other action movie/series with some comedy in it (aka the MCU effect), and I'm not sure I like it, I hope they find their humor a bit more organically throughout the series

The parts that are mainly CGI look pretty good, an appropriate blend between the manga's style and realism

When the cast was first announced I was very worried that the actor who plays Sanji may not look the part (aside from my same issue I have with Nami being that Sanji is one of the few characters with an actual Japanese name and again, played by a non-Japanese person), seeing him with the Sanji hair quelled that fear; he looks pretty good in costume and I look forward to seeing how his performance plays out

Now, when I first heard that they would make a live-action One Piece I really didn't think they would find an actor who simultaneously fits Usopp's vibe and visual, but I was wrong! I think his actor was the first one I was completely sold on when they made the cast announcement video, and I really hope he delivers in his performance

All in all, the trailer looks pretty good and cute and I really, really hope they capture the essence of the story well, but I will go into the show with caution, I've been disappointed too many times by a live-action manga adaptation before 🥲

[asexualzoro]

list of reasons i find Brook ridiculous

for brook’s birthday, ive decided to follow up my other two posts of this genre by dragging yet another idiot swordsman. i have everybrook open on my phone next to me. here we go

- first and foremost his most ridiculous crime is existing. as he’s already so ridiculous as a character, im going to talk only about things hes done

- i want to know, did Brook make a conscious effort to change his laugh to sound like his favorite song? how long did it take? what was the in between period like? what did his crew have to say about this? the rumbar pirates were big on playful teasing, did they let Brook live this down? 

- ALTERNATIVELY: was brook’s laugh already like that? is that why bink’s sake is his favorite song? is that why it was York’s favorite-- oh we only made it two bullet points before i made myself sad

- relatedly i cannot make fun of anything Brook did in his backstory it will make me too sad. hes spared for now

- i DO want to say from a writing standpoint its so fucking ridiculous to me that he mentions twice being a convoy captain in the past and it never comes up again. oda?? why even bother to include something that cool if you weren't even going to do anything with it?? you could have said hes just always been a pirate but no. oda?? oda

- there was that bit where a bunch of people thought Brook was satan and addressed him as such (i think Satan-sama in the original, and the translation i read was like... Lord Satan or Lord Demon or something). not only did Brook never correct them, but he also ran with it and later used this case of mistaken identity as a reason to threaten to eat a man’s heart 

- also both men and women were showing him their underwear in that bit. bi rights

- those satanists let Brook get kidnapped while saying they would try to summon him back. do you think they're still at it

- Brook is older than... basically every old man in the series. Garp, Whitebeard, Rayleigh... all of them. something about that is so weird to me and i cannot place why

- Brook has seen and can prove the existence of an afterlife in One Piece canon and its then never addressed again

- Brook missed so many huge events while being dead. im looking at a timeline rn and these include the obvious, like, roger’s execution and subsequent effect on in-world culture and society and whatever. but also things like the destruction of ohara (which was in his home sea), the founding of the world power known as the revolutionary army (which was about 20yrs ago), and the births of every other member of his crew. wack

- he seems to know about stuff related to the pirate king post time skip, and i wonder if thats because someone told him or he’s just playing along now. maybe he just thinks Luffy made up the term pirate king cuz it sounds cool and he wants to support his captain’s interests

- if he DID ask though, like, who did he ask? his managers? did he pull aside some fan asking for an autograph at a concert like “hey, you look like a knowledgable young lad, mind helping me out?”

- i would love to be there when someone takes the time to explain roger, the pirate king, raffle, the One Piece.... and Brook asks them “what is the One Piece?”.... and someone has to look him in the eye (...or not) and tell him “i don't know” 

- Brook has technically died of fright (his soul left his body), like... at least once? it was luffy’s fault

- Brook was an urban legend on the florian triangle and i doubt he even knows that about himself

- when they're heading to fishmen island Brook gets all scared when they encounter a possible ghost ship and Usopp slaps him

- when captured by big mom he sleeps so godamn soundly and securely that he is harder to wake up than she is and this fact nearly gets a bunch of his crew killed

- Brook is the only character i can think of who has ever broken the fourth wall. he only did it once. maybe seeing the afterlife means he now knows hes in a manga. or maybe being isolated for 50 years just made his head be not screwed on right

- speaking of, there’s a bit in WCI at the wedding where Brook is decapitated. i don't know how it goes in the anime, but in the manga like... no one is shown to have decapitated him. his head just pops off. maybe he was just having fun

- also the bit where he rips the fake face off in wci. when someone calls him gross he cries

- there’s a bit in fishmen island where Brook is trying to ask Nami if he can see her panties (disgusting bastard) and he inadvertently protects her from being dehydrated by some guy they were fighting. except the panel setup reminds me a lot of / mimics ace protecting Luffy from Akainu, and it haunts me

- speaking of bits from fishmen island that haunt me, there's a page where it’s strongly implied Brook fucked a mermaid (maybe two). i will of course include the page here

- yeah. sorry. 

- when Brook first meets the strawhats he invites himself inside because “it’s cold out!” but he later admits in punk hazard that he cant feel cold. he was just lying

- no one introduces himself to Brook except Luffy for the entirety of thriller bark

- half related, Franky cradles Brook in his arms / carries Brook around for like a full scene in thriller bark 

- there's a link two second bit in film gold where the crew is just relaxing while they're planning for how they're going to get Zoro back and they're all shown eating burgers from pirate mcdonalds or whatever. and Brook is eating a burger and hes so messy that hes got burger on his forehead, and Franky is next to him just looking at him

- Brook also wears fake skin in that movie

- Brook has a running gag where he gets upset when things refuse to eat him and i was going to make a joke about it but im wondering if maybe hes just afraid of being left behind........ made myself sad again

- he cries when a dragon won't eat him tho

- Brook admits to reading monster hentai when talking to Sanji and Kin’emon and if i have to be burdened with knowing that so do you

- when hes trying to figure out the weakness of the zombies on thriller bark he overhears one ate a salted fish and lost its shadow and immediately assumes “oh, must have been the fish!” idiot man

- where does his sword cane go when hes not using it. it just appears. where does he store it

- there's a bit where the strawhats all use a combo attack at thriller bark and the first step is firing an electrically charged Brook in a slingshot through oars/oz. he ends up in a wall and no one ever pulls him out. i don't even think the manga shows how he got down

- enemies post time skip regularly assume Brook is dead when they manage to knock the crew out and it makes me wonder how popular of a rock star Brook actually was

- Brook goes on a mini rant to no one while they're descending to fisherman island where he wonders aloud how he sees without eyes and it makes me lose it

- this isn't Brook technically but Nekomamushi is based on a song Brook’s voice actor wrote about his cat.

- Brook literally doesn't have a brain. like i know we all know that but its so fucking funny. we make jokes about other strawhats only having one braincell or whatever but Brook straight up 100% just has a seashell where his brain is supposed to be 

-  why does he have rubber glove looking hands when hes haunting the castle at wano i fucking hate them

- relatedly, there’s a bit where Brook mentions he’s been, at kinemon’s interaction, sitting in a well for like... possibly days? is he okay

- honestly i love everything about Brook’s actions as a ghost in wano bc its so fucking funny but my FAVORITE fact is that Brook is in the wikipedia article about starving skeletons

im leaving you with that. appreciate ur local skeleton today