When you look at all adaptation attempts out there, each one failed at something different and there’s no single thing that all of them got wrong. Eventually someone will get everything right. It might not be with One Piece, but it’ll happen sooner or later.
I used to think this, then I remembered what they did to Cowboy Bebop. It horrified Shinichiro Watanabe.
“The value of the anime is somehow far higher now.” His words.
After this, why would anyone have hope that Netflix would make a good live action adaptation?
When you look at all adaptation attempts out there, each one failed at something different and there’s no single thing that all of them got wrong. Eventually someone will get everything right. It might not be with One Piece, but it’ll happen sooner or later.