The genre of live-action adaptations of manga or anime often has a reputation of being “cursed.” And there’s a pretty good reason for this — it’s a graveyard of underwhelming projects, ranging from Dragonball Evolution, to Ghost in the Shell, to Death Note, to the recent Cowboy Bebop. Few of them ever manage to live up to their source material, which makes Netflix’s One Piece series seem like a fantastical outlier. It’s not perfect, but it comes the closest to “breaking the curse” of live-action adaptations, mainly due to how much it trusts the energy of what it’s based…
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