[OPLA]

I maintain that live action adaptations are unnecessary in general, and I hate the trend of them existing.

but i can't deny it. I had a really good time with this one.

because everyone was clearly having a good time and loved what they were a part of

it oozes love for the source material

also it made me like sanji so that's a big improvement

Toning down Luffy's dumb and Sanji's skeeze were big pros.

OP is so long that I actually think a shorter adaptation in general is not a bad idea, to make the canon more accessible to newbies
and they've done a great job with this one so I'm enjoying it

Like it made me want to see about the source material.

THAT LONG ASS SOURCE MATERIAL THAT HAS NO SIGN OF ENDING.

YEAH i deffo appreciate that it's been an accessible entry point for people! I certainly haven't been able to genuinely recommend OP to people for years bc it's so damn long

not to mention the way they truncate things in this does make a lot of sense. there's a LOT of filler in the anime, and it streamlines a lot of manga stuff too (Garp didn't show up at all until several hundred chapters further in)

It is ending now, though! they're on the final arc

Really? That's great.

There are a lot of cool smoothing to the characterization. I went and revisited Zoro and Nami's manga introductions for comparison and the LA makes all of it a lot... better? For how the three work as a cohesive trio?

(I will never stop harping on LA Nami doing so much more burgling and thieving than she EVER DOES in the other iterations)

yeah. I think it's really interesting how they let Luffy's insecurities and uncertainty peek through way more, without taking away from the fact that he's still a hyper-optimistic chaos agent

I do wish they kept the elements of Nami's backstory where Bellemere was given the out of Genzo saying "oh those plates were me and a friend coming over for dinner" instead of her being just kinda cornered into it
And then Arlong finding Nami's maps and forcing her into his crew, rather than a child marching into a very obviously bad deal

it took away Bellemere's agency and gave it to Nami, but I think made both of them look weaker as a result

it's a small gripe though, pretty much everything else with how they did Nami was really good characterization

Usopp gets mostly put into Comic Relief by way of toning down everyone else, which makes sense, but i'm just hoping with whatever they do next he gets more limelight because this boy is trying so damn hard and i love him

I think Nami having the agency on that one works better, because her choices kinda define... everything? In the story? And Nami deciding to make the horrible sacrifice and shoulder it alone just kinda says she's got a lot of heart (even if at 8 she didn't have a lot of sense).

Which builds into explaining why everywhere she goes all season she is one foot out the door.