@All-Fiction said in One Piece Live-Adaptation Drama Announced:

Eight episodes, huh? Maybe they are cutting Logue Town? They still haven't revealed Smoker and Tashigi's actors.

The creators of Warrior Nun (I think it was Warrior Nun) talked about how Netflix decided to cut down all their original content series to 8 episodes per season with longer running times per episode. This is a cost-cutting measure (you have to pay less writers) and is in fact one of the many reasons the WGA is striking right now, with Netflix being the most unwilling of all the companies to strike a favourable deal.

First reactions from reviewers.

Zara clothing line to be announced... but yeah netflix is burying it because they have no faith.

@dropper said in One Piece Live-Adaptation Drama Announced:

@Kaiolino said in One Piece Live-Adaptation Drama Announced:

Zara clothing line to be announced... but yeah netflix is burying it because they have no faith.

What do you mean by "Netflix is burying it"?

Multiple people have claimed Netflix is not doing much to advertize this show because they’re sitting on a huge flop.

People get sick all the time. Oda is not terminally ill.

Unfortunately, no news at the NYCC panel despite being at the biggest stage. They showed off (to the audience, not the livestream) 10 minutes of redone Fishman Island, but didn’t announce they would release the redone arc in English dub as well (nor anything else related to the English dub).

@zeltrax225 said in General Anime Discussion Thread:

The truth is Toei cut corners and them re-filtering/animating/rendering Fishman is an admission of that which is rare for Japanese companies to do. They knew they fucked up big time in that stretch. This is why you need competition. Why you need Ufotable to go so hard on Demon Slayer, why Mappa (despite its sweatshop conditions) went hard, why Toei needed to see OPLA, why One Piece needed to be bigger internationally, and why The One Piece exists.

You don't get to treat the Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter of this generation/modern day pop culture like trash and expect everyone to forget about it not to mention walk off unscathed.

I mean, this is not even the first time Toei remastered its tentpole anime. Though the poor feedback to Dragon Ball Kai’s half-hearted attempt (the ugly redrawings, they pretty much stopped removing the filler, etc.) is probably why they’re putting more effort into this one.

@AceLuffy4ever said in Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ):

It would be nice to get a Simuldub but Toei wouldnt even let them Simuldub Dragon Ball Daima, so i remain skeptical

Daima’s dub is releasing next month though, right? Super’s dub was a year and half behind.

If I were a betting man, I would put good odds on the anime coming back in april with a simuldub.

I don’t think people should be expecting a brisker pace immediately when the series returns because Oda will do a maximum of 15 chapters over the next 5 months. Unless the series will now commit to ~26 episodes a year (and the rest to remastering post-timeskip arcs), at best they go to 1 chapter per episode for the rest of Egghead (which is a schedule they haven’t been able to do since Punk Hazard, but it’s still not ideal since Oda’s chapters are shorter now than they were back then).

The first Daima episode was as bad as anyone who isn’t a full Toriyama loyalist could’ve expected. I don’t care the animation is good when they’re wasting it on another Goku vs. Vegeta sparring match or magic Pilaf spending the first 10 (!) minutes of the show literally watching scenes of the Buu saga.

@Robby said in Dragonball Discussion Kai: Broly but this time it's not Broly:

I dunno, that just sounds like dub kid Goku to me. The Funi dub never really had anyone else, right? I was never a fan of it but that's just... the voice they had for Goku.

Colleen Clinkenbeard took over the voice of kid Gohan in 2010, and at the same time took over the role as kid Goku to keep that tradition alive. Because Kid Goku is barely in anything (unlike Gohan who was obviously a main character in DBZK and is a mainstay in every videogame), this usually amounted to snippets of dialogue every decade and a half.

The problem with Clinkenbeard is that despite being a perfectly fine VA, voicing Luffy for almost 2 decades has absolutely ravaged her voice. So where in 2010 she was able to do a good child voice for Gohan, she now has the same problem as the person she replaced: she sounds like a chain smoker on helium. Since she has publically talked about how she’s not able to reach certain registers anymore for child voices, it wouldn’t surprise me if she herself bowed out of the role (she still voices Kid Goku in Sparking Zero, but “Mini Goku” is left undubbed). And from Crunchyroll’s perspective, they probably don’t want Luffy and Goku to sound almost the exact same time (a luxury problem now that One Piece is significantly more popular than it was 15 years ago). But I would’ve much preferred they got someone brand new rather than bring back the krusty the clown laugh.

K.O. is her only voice credit in the past 15 years: https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Stephanie-Nadolny/

Bringing Stephanie Nadolny back as Goku after she’s barely done any voice acting in over a decade feels like the same sort of misguided nostalgia that led to very clearly old and profesionally retired sounding people doing the voices of Rogue and Wolverine.