It is a world in which the physics that control the human body are outright broken, in which characters naturally have hair the color of sea moss and glinting sapphires, in which skyscraper-size dragons double as warlords, in which friendship is more explored than romance, in which the globe is swallowed by the ocean. One Piece takes place in a seafaring universe of pirates, monsters, and fish-men. It’s exactly the kind of anime that seems impossible to translate into the hard-edged live-action storytelling that dominates America’s mainstream film and TV. One Piece - the long-running manga and ongoing anime from the mind of Eiichiro Oda - is a joyfully weird, ecstatically singular masterpiece politically bent toward liberation and care.
Photo: Courtesy of Netflix/COURTESY OF NETFLIX Netflix adapts Eiichiro Oda’s epic, silly, radical anime in live action and manages the impossible: It works.
