#opla thoughts

[cozage]

I finished OPLA and here are my thoughts.

There will be a time and place for criticism, but now is not that time. Now is a time for celebration. Of the greatest Live Action anime adaption to be created.

There’s gonna be very light spoilers in this, so read on if you’d like.

I think my favorite part of it all is that you can tell just how much care went into this show. This production team was truly made by fans, for fans. The little nods towards things in the future really made me keep my eyes peeled and had me freaking out over the littlest moments. Things like Binks no Sake playing in the bar, and Nami reading Nolan the Liar were my favorite. I’m sure there were hundreds of other moments, but those were the two that had my feet kicking and giggling like a maniac.

Am i blinded by biasness and clouded with my love for One Piece? Yes. I’m aware of that. But I went into this show knowing it was a new, different adventure than the one I was familiar with. It’s not perfect to the manga, and they’ve said from the beginning it wouldn’t be. I think that’s the hardest part for people: not understanding why “pointless” changes were made (there were only two changes that kind of bothered me, but we can talk about those later). Most of the changes that occurred still felt fluid and natural, giving a lot more screen time to beloved characters who we normally don’t see for hundreds of chapters. I liked that aspect. Not everyone will. But keep an open mind.

Just like when I watched the anime, I found myself smiling and laughing the whole time. Joyboy is still very alive and apparent in this live action. As an anime and manga fan, i loved this new aspect of their journey and this new medium to watch. It kept me intrigued, surprised, and so invested in my crew. Just like when I watched the anime, I had a very difficult time picking who was my “favorite”, because they’re all so enjoyable and quirky in their own way.

Are there things to improve? Absolutely. There always is. All I can hope is that it gets enough love and attention that Netflix will renew it for a season 2, and we’ll all get to explore the Grand Line and Alabasta together.

If you’re on the fence, or didn’t like the first episode and decided to drop it, I implore you to keep going. I think it gets better by the episode. And so much happens, I was never really bored. Please watch it, even if you just have it on in the background. This show is so special to so many people, and the next season cant get better if we don’t give it the chance.

[ceceridercat]

Thoughts on live action one piece episode 1:

1. Loving it so far.

2. They played binks brew!

3. Love that zoro is the one to give helmeppo that terrible haircut

4. The high up marines wear their jackets with the sleeves off just like in the manga and anime and I’m here for it

5. So far they’ve done a good job of condensing the plot without taking away from the overall story

[hyperfixations-dump]

My southern Christian mother started watching the OPLA not knowing it was the newest addition of my greatest obsession and then told me that Shanks was portrayed like JESUS.

I cannot begin to explain the baffled hilarity I experienced while she likened Shanks the drunk captain of the absent parent pirates (affectionate) to JESUS H CHRIST

For those curious as to her reasoning:

- Turning the other cheek

- Telling the “dragon” to be gone like ‘be gone Satan’

- Him sacrificing his body for the life of another

[thiefnessman]

yknow now that i’ve seen most of what the first season of OPLA covers in the anime & manga (minus the Garp stuff which comes later in the animanga timeline), i think i can have an informed opinion on the changes it made. so i’m gonna talk abt my thoughts in various reblogs of this post bc i just have a bunch of thoughts that aren’t all connected.

[reineydraws]

this is a scene from opla s2, black leg gazpacho told me himself!!!

src by @op-trash-blog-of-hell

[nouverx]

Redraw of my favourite scene. I don't know how to be normal about this, I love them so much

[assiraphales]

dracule mihawk let zoro live despite it being a death match and decided not to take luffy to garp just for the hell of it. add a few wild cards to the mix to spice things up. he took one look the rag tag group of straw hat pirates and said ‘bless this mess. imma let them marinate’

[beif0ngs]

everyone on tumblr @Buggy the 🤡 right now 

[deimosatellite]

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Just a small detail that I wanted to highlight from Netflix’s One Piece. Even though this is clearly a Western production of a Japanese series, as you can tell from the more Hollywood-ish dialogue and action, the series isn’t completely divorced from its Japanese roots. For example, in the first episode, you can clearly tell Koby and Luffy are eating with chopsticks. And the little girl serves chocolate onigiri to Zoro.

It feels like the reverse of how anime used to be treated in the early 2000s. Remember when Pokémon had to change the name of the food to stuff like donuts and pizza? Now we have a Western show that’s based on an anime, and they’re making sure not to erase the Japanese influence in the series.

[ruporas]

opla inspired!

[rrandomtthings]

What is happening rn

[erlandious]

Y’ALL.

[xzcopycat]

As much as I miss Luffy basically blackmailing Zoro into joining his crew, I kinda like the way they played his recruitment in the live action.

From the get go everybody seems to want Zoro on their side - Baroque Works, Marines, Luffy himself - all offering him something in return for his loyalty. And while Zoro could’ve easily walked away after Luffy freed him, he ended up following the only person who hadn’t threatened him with death in case of rejection, someone who actually gave him a choice, and I think it’s beautiful in it own way.

Also Luffy is an absolute delight to be around and no one can resist.

[takaraphoenix]

NO WAY I WASN'T EXPECTING TO GET SOME ACTUAL FOOD IN SEASON 1

I AM BEING FED

OH. Oh I am being well fed. I am so going to take the context out of this one.

Oh my gosh no I love Mihawk just casually tracking Shanks down because Shanks mentioned Luffy long ago.

You came all that way to see him, there is no reason to play hard to get now, Mihawk.

[kacievvbbbb]

Mihawk is such a capricious dude, oh my god. The only dude you know who is always itching for a fight but only ever a specific kind of fight so he goes out of his way to take the path of least resistance for everything else.

Like he would rather leave than fight Don krieg, Sail away than decimate the marines, live in peace instead of challenging the other emperors for the one piece. And when they do he’d rather follow buggy’s idea of just being smarter about how they go about it instead of brute forcing it like the rest. He is constantly leaving fights but then a swordsman of mild repute and an interesting technique engages him in a battle and suddenly you have his whole attention. Like with vista it was obvious that he could have just cleared him like he did everyone else but he’d never seen the flower sword techinque and by god was he going to miss this chance. And so he engages him in what is essentially a spare.

Because Mans isn’t looking for a fight, instead, like a middle aged director of a short indie film, he’s chasing a feeling.

He wants to feel like his 19 year old self did when he was strong but there were people stronger. When there were still obstacles to overcome limits to exceed. When the world was large and exciting and he wasn’t just waiting for it to catch up with him. When he could look at Shanks as the person he is instead of the person he could have been.

He wants to look at Shanks and not see visions of a grinning red haired boy with 2 arms and a strawhat laughing in the dirt and asking for “just one more round Hawky I swear I’ll beat you this time”

But there is nowhere Mihawk can run that that boy won’t haunt him.