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Eiichiro oda house6/14/2023 ![]() ![]() So there’s reason to be skeptical of if the One Piece show will clear the bar with fans - especially if you are Eiichiro Oda. A 2017 Death Note movie is barely remembered in the collective conscious and many wish they could forget 2021’s live-action Cowboy Bebop series. While Netflix has gobbled up anime properties with every kind of adaptation in mind, few have really hit as hard as the source material. Oda’s sentiment is likely shared by fans of the One Piece manga, which has been running since 1997, and anime, which recently eclipsed over 1,000 episodes. It felt like, ‘We’re all trying to get to the same place so how come we’re not on the same wavelength?’ There was even a time when I thought, ‘Is a foreign production even possible?!’” Sometimes it could be frustrating for both sides. “Even though they understand each of the characters, we obviously come from very different cultures so, when it comes to entertainment, we have different codes, skill sets, and aims. “I’ve been working with Tomorrow Studios and Netflix for quite some time now,” Oda writes in his new message to fans. The note is, true to the spirit of the mangaka, quirky and blunt. The One Piece character was canonically born on May 5, and this year, to commemorate the occasion, creator Eiichiro Oda issued a much welcome update on the upcoming Netflix live-action anime adaptation. While May 4 has become closely associated with Star Wars thanks to the “May the Fourth/Force” pun, manga and anime fans regard it in a different way: as the eve of Luffy’s birthday.
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