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More Casting Announcements for ONE PIECE Adaption

Arguably one of the biggest shonen products in the world, Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since 1997, and has gained a strong and dedicated following, with the anime recently celebrating one thousand episodes! A story of pirates searching for lost treasure in a world full of strange creatures and cursed fruit, the beloved series is being adapted to live-action by Netflix, and has already confirmed casting for the core group of Straw Hat Pirates. Further casting details for supporting cast have been announced recently, and most of them seek to oppose Luffy and the Straw Hats in their quest.

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ONE PIECE Manga Lands Ten-Episode Live-Action Series At Netflix

A ten-episode live-action rendition of One Piece found a new home at Netflix on Wednesday according to trade news and a press announcement from the streamer. The news comes following word that broke in July of 2017 that a live-action series was in the works from Shueisha, and Marty Adelstein’s Tomorrow Studios, the same company involved with the current serial production of Cowboy Bebop – also for the streamer.

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COWBOY BEBOP: Netflix Rounds Up Its Live-Action Cast

It’s been ages since talk began of a live-action Cowboy Bebop feature adaptation, and just a few years and change as those efforts evolved into TV with Netflix acquiring the rights last November. Now we have a quartet of casting announcements from Variety with John Cho (Star Trek reboot trilogy) leading the way as Spike Spiegel.

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ONE PIECE Is Setting Sail In A Live-Action TV Series

It was a little over a year ago that a Japanese live-action adaptation of manga author Oda Eiichiro’s longstanding Shueisha Inc. publication and anime IP, One Piece, was announced for its own live-action movie. I’m not certain if that project is still moving forward but I’ll be sure to spread the word if I hear anything else, although considering recent movement over at Marty Adelstein’s Tomorrow Studios, I reckon it won’t be any time soon.

The word now is that Oda, Shuesha Inc. and the studio are partnering for a live-action television drama instead, in news as reported over at Japan Times in the wake of the manga’s twentieth anniversary celebration. The manga itself took off in 1997 and has expanded itself greatly into television and original video animes with its story centered on Monkey D. Luffy and his epic, action-packed and sprawling quest to find said ‘piece’ and claim the title of “King Of The Pirates”.

The project marks the latest anime to live-action serial development over at Tomorrow Studios following news of its current work on the upcoming live-action series adaptation of Kuga Cain’s Cowboy Bebop as of last month. Adelstein reportedly states he’s been a fan of One Piece for the last 20 years and is honored that Oda as well as Shueisha Inc. have entrusted the show’s live-action transition to him in the face if possibly record-setting costs. Details remain pending on show details, broadcasting and premiere dates.

per Japan Times:

“There have been offers from various directions about live-action before but they did not really get settled for a number of reasons,” said Hiroyuki Nakano, editor in chief of Shonen Jump magazine, at a news conference in Tokyo. 

“This time, it’s finally come to the point where we can make an announcement. This means that we consider the project this time to have exceeded our expectations,… so please look forward to it,” he said.

One piece has sold sums of up to 350 million copies of the manga in Japan, as well as 66 million overseas.

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A Live-Action COWBOY BEBOP Adaptation Is Coming To Television

Well it’s not the live-action feature film that’s been long rumored since the early two-thousandsies, but for what its worth a television push may be feasible for fans ardent of the highly popular manga and anime, Cowboy Bebop. Trade news sources have confirmed such a series now in the works to adapt the property for the small screen.

Sunrise Inc., the studio behind Watanabe Shinichiro’s 1998 anime advancement of Kuga Cain’s Kadokawa Shoten manga is executive producing the series which tells of the adventures and misadventures of 21st century intergalactic bounty hunter Spike Spiegel and his ragtag team of bounty hunters. Also on board are Tomorrow Studios’s Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements and Matthew Weinberg, and Midnight Radio quartet Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, and Scott Rosenberg. Thor: Ragnarok scribe Chris Yost is penning the adaptation.

“We are excited to work with Sunrise in bringing this beloved anime to the U.S. and global marketplace as a live-action series,” said Adelstein. “The animated version has long resonated with audiences worldwide, and with the continued, ever growing, popularity of anime, we believe a live action version will have an incredible impact today.”

I’m actually in the middle of the 26-episode anime myself but there’ll be plenty of time to catch up between now and the show’s flourishing. In the meantime, as much as I look forward the series, I also hope the casting will assure viewers and critics alike regarding Asian casting representation, especially with Oka Masi’s trainwreck in lieu of the new Death Note film…

…Yeah, we needn’t go there again. (Deadline)

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