Tag: Eiichiro Oda
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‘One Piece’ Live Action Series Season 2 Renewed
Don your straw hats and pack your seabags, because One Piece Season 2 is on the way! Netflix announced today that their smash-hit adventure series, based on the long-running Manga by Eiichiro Oda, has been renewed for a second season, continuing the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy), Zoro (Mackenyu), Nami (Emily Rudd), Usopp…
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Will There Be A One Piece Season 2?
It looks like Netflix won’t be giving “One Piece” the “Cowboy Bebop” treatment. The new live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s manga has just been renewed for a second season, as announced by the author himself. “Two weeks after the launch, I just received some great news. Netflix has decided to renew the show!” Oda shared…
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‘One Piece’ Season 1’s Biggest Unanswered Questions
Eiichiro Oda’s hit manga has finally made the jump to live-action, with resounding success. Netflix’s One Piece has become a worldwide sensation, topping streaming charts and receiving praise from fans new and old. The series follows Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy), a new pirate with dreams of becoming the next King of the Pirates. In…
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‘One Piece’ Dominates Netflix Top 10 Charts For Second Week
It looks like One Piece is performing like the hit Netflix expected to have, as the live-action adaptation of the manga by Eiichiro Oda ruled the viewership charts for TV shows available on the streaming platform’s catalog. For the second week in a row, the show starring Iñaki Godoy as Luffy dominates the chart as…
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‘One Piece’ Showrunner on Adapting the Beloved Manga and Possible Season 2
With Netflix’s One Piece live-action series finally out in the world, audiences old and new are discovering the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy) and his crew as they set out for adventure, and to find the titular One Piece treasure. Based on the long-running, and still ongoing, Manga of the same name by…
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‘One Piece’ Showrunner Steven Maeda Reveals How He Decided What to Adapt From Manga to Live-Action Series
The worst thing about TV shows in this television era is that we never know if a new title will manage to stick around for as long as we would like it to. When it comes to One Piece, we already know that no matter how long it lasts, huge chunks of the 105-volume (and…
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‘One Piece’ Creator Eiichiro Oda Was Blown Away by Iñaki Godoy’s Luffy
From the moment he was introduced as the face of Netflix’s One Piece live-action series, all eyes were on Iñaki Godoy and how he would bring to life Monkey D. Luffy, the cheerful, endearing leader of the Straw Hat Pirates and one of the most famous manga and anime characters of all time. He had…
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How the ‘One Piece’ Score Went From a 3-Minute Video to a Full Soundtrack
With Netflix’s exciting new pirate adventure series One Piece hitting the high seas of streaming, it seems only right that the highly-anticipated adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s Manga have a suitably exciting and adventurous soundtrack to accompany it. For the series’ music producers, composers and songwriters Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli, the undertaking in bringing the…
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Netflix’s One Piece Is Much Darker Than The Anime, And Fans Should Be Ready
“One Piece” is not just one of the most popular manga ever, but a total phenomenon, and one of the best works of modern fiction. Eiichiro Oda crafted a story with great thematic depth, one that explores subjects of imperialism, oppression, racism, slavery, and that’s just scratching the surface. It also expands its world to…
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The Pitfalls of Netflix’s Live-Action Anime
The first episode of Netflix’s “One Piece,” an English live-action adaptation of the long-running Japanese manga series from artist Eiichiro Oda, starts off the same way that the first 47 installments of said manga’s anime adaptation begins. The franchise is set in an unnamed world covered almost completely by sea, where piracy runs rampant thanks…