I can't see this being any worse of a reflection of the manga than the anime is, especially if Oda retains any kind of creative power and Adelstein's statement is legit. I've been thinking for a while that One Piece absolutely has the potential to be a kid friendly Game of Thrones. It has the massive world full of interesting characters without the sex and gore. Also, Game of Thrones is difficult to get into since it throws a shit-load of kingdoms at you right off the bat and branches off into even more locations and characters. One Piece is more user friendly and allows for a more gradual build with the audience learning about the world as Luffy does.

Obviously it requires major changes to be watchable, changes to things that kind of embody the spirit of One Piece. It needs to maintain a lighthearted tone, but it can't be quite as goofy as the manga is. Real people just don't act like manga characters and they REALLY don't act like One Piece characters. Luffy can still be dumb and care-free, Zoro can still be single-minded, Nami can still be money hungry but everything needs to be toned way down. Use some of the goofier character designs as inspiration for cool looking costuming without actually having Zeff wear a ten story chef's hat.

I'm also curious just how close to the story this series would go. Live action shows like this usually hinge on dramatic reveals or character deaths for climatic moments in a season. I know One Piece isn't completely devoid of that stuff, but the climax is usually Luffy punching someone. There could still be fights but they might have to come up with more "clever" ways of beating the bad guy, especially since they will likely tone down the magic powers. The flashbacks would be essential, but they might have to find more creative way of working them into the story rather than dumping the whole thing at once.

I'm interested what this will actually turn into.

The only reason I voted for Chrollo to win the fight is because of the way it was set up as a fight to the death. I agreed with everyone who said that Hisoka is a better and more interesting character, but he is also more transparent. He's a creep who gets off on fighting worthy opponents. He's a fully realized character and even though he's great, it wouldn't be that weird to kill him off to reintroduce Chrollo into the story. It would have been weird if after all this time of him being away, he returned only to immediately get killed by Hisoka. Even if he used some kind of trickery to escape death, that would have possibly been even worse. "I agree to your challenge, but let’s make it a death match, oops I lost, but also I’m still alive somehow." What a threatening villain!

Chrollo is still a bit more of a mystery and there are a few more things to be revealed about his motives, not to mention his connections with the rest of the Troupe, Kurapika's beef and even Meteor City (and possibly Gyro!) Hisoka seems like more of a monkey wrench to throw at the story at any time to make it more chaotic (nothing wrong with that!) Also, in the event that both of them survived the fight it's way more characteristic for Hisoka to be the one to cheat death, although that's probably the hindsight talking.

Now this boat is going to be an effing bloodbath. Looking forward to seeing that in a year and a half or so!

@Kishido:

So who do yout hink 2 are?

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I think the clock beard is Sanji's dad… But this would mean he is not only an evil army leader but also a noble... could explain why he was able to get Sanji an only alive status

More curious is the guy with the Sanji like hair... Someone said it is Stelly. But I doubt it... I kid design of doesn't matter... But why should they show him not showing the face in his major panels and later in such small "meaningless" one?

And next big question i hope will be answered is Baltigo... A secret island for 1000 years... What is it? And how Dragon has discovered it?

It would mean he's a king, not just a noble. I feel like someone would have described the Vinsmoke family as royalty by now if he's actually a king.

I'm curious how they will incorporate the Reverie going forward. It seems tailor-made for the in-between arc stuff where we see what's going on around the world. Obviously since Vivi's just leaving now it should take a while to get to the New World even with an eternal pose. I think waiting till after Wano for it to start is too long, though. We don't know how long the Sanji Wedding Story will take in-universe, but I think whenever that is resolved, they should show the beginning of the Reverie, establishing all the big players arriving and get the ball rolling a bit. Then after Kaidou is taken down we can rejoin them in progress and show just how much an Emperor being defeated affects the entire world.

I'm assuming it's not just one meeting over the course of one day. I feel like since all the rulers have to travel so far by ship to get there and they only meet every four years they could stretch the council meetings over a week at least. I'm wondering if it will go on long enough to keep a lot of Luffy's allies in the New World when shit goes down after the final war starts, or if just a few of the more important ones like Vivi and Shirahoshi will team up and remain in the NW to carry out some later revealed important plot point before all hell breaks loose.

How is there not a bottlenose dolphin Pokemon yet? How did we arrive at ice cream and a set of keys before that?

Staying on the wrestler kick. VOTE Abdullah and Jeet!!!

They're an American Band (of assassins).

Vote Funk Brothers! Or you might end up like this chair…

FUNK BROTHERS! Lets do this!

Its weird, I enjoyed both the Abrams movies so I just started watching the Original Series. I'm like seven episodes in… and I think I hate the movies already.