First successful Hollywood live-action anime tv series
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Hollywood has been trying to make live-action remakes of animes for a while without much success. Unsuccessful attempts include Avatar: The Last Airbender, Dragonball Evolution, Death Note, and Cowboy Bebop. A few triumphs were seen from derivations of lesser-known materials or outside of Hollywood, such as Alita: Battle Angel or Alice in Borderland. When news came out that Netflix was working on a live-action remake of the most popular mangas ever, One Piece, few people expected the show to be any good. Many fans thought it would be impossible to make a live-action remake of a series with over 1,000 episodes in a world with wacky characters and powers.
Then, when the show's budget was leaked, at $18 million per episode and $144M overall, even fewer expected the series would even see a second season. That per-episode budget exceeded recent hits such as Game of Thrones and The Mandalorian.
When early reviews of the show were positive, hope started budding for existing fans. When Netflix released One Piece Live Action on Thursday, August 31, 2023, old fans and new viewers watched and loved the show. It reached the #1 spot worldwide, with over 18 million views in its first week. Two weeks later, Netflix announced something that only an iota of One Piece fans initially expected: there will be a season 2 of One Piece Live Action.
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Various manga had been made into live action, but there was a history of failure; no one in Japan could name a successful example. Would fans of “One Piece” — and viewers who don’t know the manga — accept it? Perhaps it was time to search for the answer.
Eiichiro Oda
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Netflix and Eiichiro Oda announce ‘One Piece’ Season 2
“It seems people around the world have been enjoying the show,” Oda said through a Transponder Snail, “which makes the hard work from the production team truly worth it.” He then revealed that Netflix’s response to the enthusiasm for the live-action “One Piece” series is a Season 2 renewal, before teasing what fans can expect in the next batch of episodes.
Los Angeles Times
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‘One Piece’ Sails To Top Of Netflix TV Charts;
One Piece soared to the top of Netflix’s English-language TV charts during its premiere week with 18.5M views from August 28 to September 3. The live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s manga is in the Top 10 in 93 countries and No. 1 in 46 of them, according to Netflix.
Deadline
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‘One Piece’ Review – Netflix Finally Breaks the Anime Adaptation Curse
Before, there was a world where you would have been scoffed at for thinking such a project had a chance of being good. It’s fantastical. It’s ambitious. It’s One Piece, one of Shonen Jump’s best-selling titles that has been ongoing for nearly 30 years. Not to mention the fact that Hollywood has been trying to adapt manga and anime for decades and hasn’t been very successful with its attempts.
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‘One Piece’ Creator Hopes to Defy ‘a History of Failure’
The stakes are high: Millions of fans want to see if the showrunners, Matt Owens and Steven Maeda (whom Oda describes as “‘One Piece’ superfans”), succeeded in converting the beloved manga and anime series to live-action.
The New York Times
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Netflix's Live-Action 'ONE PIECE' Series Reportedly Had A Production Budget of $18M USD Per Episode
According to reports from Daily Dose of Anime, Sportskeeda and others the live-action adaptation of the beloved anime tale was given a whopping $18 million USD budget for each episode, $3 million USD more than that of smash hits like Game of Thrones or The Mandalorian.
Yahoo
