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'One Piece' review: Netflix does the impossible

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Can Netflix break its curse of live-action anime adaptations?

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I’ve always been interested in One Piece but just can’t commit to that long of a show. I wonder if they plan to tell the story more succinctly (which might be difficult since my understanding is the story isn’t finished yet). If they do, I might check this out
- you can't condense 1000 20 minute episodes into a few hours
  
  Definitely, but I’d be willing to bet a good chunk of those 1000 episodes could be cut without losing much of the plot.
  
  You're right. Though unlike what a lot of others will tell you, there's not a lot of outright filler. Most of the added time is from panning shots and characters staring and not talking.
  There's actually a fan project that re-edits the series to take kess time and improve the pace a lot
  
  I've never actually watched it, but my wife does, and I've seen enough to say you're 100% right
  
  There's a whole bunch of fillers each time they remotely catch up to the Manga and several "guides" about which ones to skip etc. It's not too hawrd to catch up if you make it a consistent low-time commitment like watching half an ep on the pooper
  
  Do a search for "One Pace". A good feeling pace is about 2 manga chapters per anime episode but the anime creators reduced that to 1 chapter per episode when they started running low on material. One Pace edits the anime to 2 chapters per episode and has it follow the manga more closely.
  A sample of a scene from an episode with both versions compared:
  https://youtu.be/n1z6umwBs5I
  
  Geez the pacing of the original is ridiculous. I could never sit through whole episodes of that lol. I might try out One Pace
  
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- I was really enjoying watching the anime with my brother, it was one of the only ways we could stand to be around each other lol, so I was actually glad it had 1000+ episodes. Then there was a drastic shift in the over-sexualisation. In the beginning there are crazy proportions and little clothing, sure, but it didn’t bother me much. Then suddenly every episode started featuring a woman’s shirt bursting open, or a guy would sexually harass/assault women in “funny” ways. Apparently the creator married a very busty woman and claimed all the extra focus on tits was a loving tribute to his new wife 🙄 I just couldn’t stand it anymore, which was a shame because I was still pretty invested in the story.
  
  Is there any source to this info? Yes there are busty characters but the manga doesnt feel like it focuses on that at all. Try reading it from Thriller Bark as it may be the ridiculous pacing issues that the anime has that extends these scenes you are mentioning.
  
  My brother looked it up, trying to defend the reasoning to convince me to keep watching. It didn’t work. So I don’t know his source, I wasn’t the one looking.
  I finished the Arabasta saga, I don’t think I made it far into the next saga. I might try the manga, I handled the busty characters fine. Any particular reason you suggest starting from Thriller Bark?
  
  Oh i thought you were far into it.. I thought you meant Dressrosa or something for the oversexualization in the anime. I suggested thriller bark because thats when it becomes unbearable for the anime. Outside of One Pace.
  But if you didnt like it by Alabasta im not sure theres anything to put you back into it.
  If anything else, try the manga from that point and see if you like it. Power through it and if by some reason you still dont like it after Enies Lobby I suggest to drop it by then.

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