One Piece Live-Action became a part of the “successful series of 2023” in just a few days of its release. The series brought all the One Piece fans together and became the best live-action adaptation series of any manga or anime. This was possible because not only did the series follow the source material, manga quite nicely, but also added some touches that were neither the part of manga nor the anime series. This added another star to the success of the series which has made fans eager for season 2.
Netflix’s One Piece Showrunner and Director Marc Jobst explained that he and the other creators of the series wanted a proper reason to make the series unique and ensure that it was not just a replica of the source.
Marc Jobst’s Reason for Making One Piece Live-Action
The first season of the live-action adaptation is made up of eight episodes that follow the first 100 chapters of the manga. Director Jobst in an interview with the Cinema Daily US explained one of his discussions with other creators Matt Owens and Steven Maeda about the reason for making the series which would differentiate it from the manga and the series. He said:
“We all thought we had something very particular that we could bring to this that didn’t necessarily exist within the manga or anime. That was a fully rounded, warm-blooded human being with an emotional life, a back story, and all the frailties that come from being a human. When you’re working in the two-dimensional world, you can be anything, draw anything — anything is possible.”
Jobst explained that the presence of a human being in a storyline based on two-dimensional characters was the main aspect of making the series unique. He stated that in a 2-D universe, anything is possible but to make it with a human being’s emotional aspect and all the complexities that come from being a human would be something particular for the series.
Marc Jobst Wanted to Bring A New Understanding To the Fans
Jobst also explained that bringing a story into a three-dimensional world brings a new aspect to the manga and the anime series. He said:
“You bring it into a three-dimensional world and you’re embodying those characters. That fundamentally brings something new to the manga and the anime. We hoped more than anything else, that what we’ve done will excite and inform the fans and bring a new understanding to their love of the anime, the manga, and vice versa. Their understanding informs how they look at the live action.”
Jobst and the other creators wanted to bring a new understanding to the fans of their love for the story of One Piece which would inform them how they looked at the live-action.
