With the popularity of One Piece, has Netflix hit the winning formula for live-action anime adaptations?
- Written by: Peter C. Pugsley, Associate professor, Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, University of Adelaide
What began as a friendly pirate-based manga, Netflix’s One Piece features the eternally optimistic Monkey D. Luffy (pronounced Loofy), a young man with magical stretchy powers that gathers a crew of eccentric loners to crew his Straw Hat Pirate brigade and set out in search of the legendary One Piece pirate treasure.
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