One Piece: the manga becomes a pleasant TV series

Will the series of one piece to make readers find the same colorful atmospheres breathed by reading the original manga? For months this has been the question that fans of the saga have been wondering at the news that Netflix would have made a live-action series dedicated to the characters created by Eiichiro Oda’s pencil but, after seeing it, we can say that their hope has not been betrayed. beyond theinclusiveness of a cast that needs to cover as many quotas as possible like Disney’s live-action, the first eight episodes of one piecewhile representing a very small part of the microcosm of the original story, they offer a brilliant overview of both the physical and psychological characteristics of the characters and both of the very tangled plot that will lead the protagonists in search of the lost treasure of Gold Roger, hidden somewhere on the Grand Line and the object of lust and greed of all the pirates who hope to take his place as king of the whole clan.

Among them is also Monkey D. Luffy, played by the lively Inaki Godoya sunny and ambitious boy determined to set up a crew to accompany him on this adventure: a feat easier said than done given that Luffy, good intentions aside, seems somewhat naive and lacking the necessary means to inaugurate his journey, starting with the map in order to reach the Rotta Maggiore. Fortunately, his path crosses with that of the historical characters of one piece that we have come to love: from the enterprising Nami played by Emily Rudd, a thief with red hair and an always ready, serious answer Roronoa Zero, interpreted by Mackenyu, a pirate hunter who finds in Luffy, Nami and Usopp the first family to trust. Between sea ​​monsters, flashbacks that tell the story of Luffy and his mythological Straw Hat and spectacularly sadistic villains like the evil buggy (Jeff Ward), the series of one piece it’s a pleasant surpriseespecially if we can detach it from the original product.

The accurate ones special effectsalong with the return of other historical figures such as Usopp (Jacob Romero) and Sanji (Taz Skylar) and Marines ready to do anything to stop Luffy and his crew make the series very enjoyable to watch even if you have never opened the manga or seen the anime. Merit of deliberately absurd and out of line characters – like Luffy himself, who has become malleable and extensible like plasticine for having tasted the devil fruit when he was a child – and of a plot that plunders the classics of genre literature, from Stevenson to Defoe, to launch us into a world where the colors are pastel and good feelings strive to resist the oppression and impropriety of those who should be good. one piecewhich also stars McKinley Belcher III, Morgan Davies, Aidan Scott, Vincent Regan, Craig Fairbrass, Langley Kirkwood, Celeste Loots, Alexander Maniatis, Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, Chioma Umeala and Steven Ward, is produced by Tomorrow Studios And Netflix and written by Matt Owens And Steve Maeda.

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