At the Tudum, a fan event of Netflix’s official companion website, a first glimpse of One Piece was shown. In the trailer, we get an impression of the pirate crew in the live-action adaptation and a release date on Netflix.
One Piece currently includes 104 manga volumes and over 1,000 episodes of the anime series and is perhaps one of the most anticipated live-action adaptations. Now we finally get a look and meet the crew around Luffy.
In an anime game, you can by the way fight through hordes of enemies with various characters from the One Piece universe .
What is the trailer about? The trailer reveals that the eight episodes focus on the beginnings of the anime series. They show how Luffy, Zoro, Nami, and the others form the Straw Hat Pirates crew to search for a pirate treasure.
At the end of the trailer, the release date for the series is mentioned as August 31.
Here you can see the trailer:
With our colleagues at GamePro you’ll find out more about the cast and the content of the series.
On Netflix itself, the German trailer is already available. To the delight of fans of the anime series, the German dubbing voices used for the live-action adaptation can be heard there.
“Please don’t mess it up, Netflix”
How is the trailer received? On the English-language YouTube page of Netflix, there are already over 8,700 comments under the video.
In a comment with over 14,000 likes, it says: “I hope Netflix has the budget to produce the remaining thousand episodes of the anime.” The user Ronaldo Everton receives several replies with laughing emotes.
Mother’s Basement writes about the trailer: “The cast will likely get more attention for how well they embody the crew, but the show’s team, especially the production designers, deserve a big round of applause for the impressive visuals.”
The user Abhilash Muraleedharan hopes for the success of the live-action adaptation: “Dear Netflix… Please don’t mess this up. It means a lot to us, and we want you to be successful with a good adaptation.”
The top comment under the trailer on the German YouTube account of Netflix is: “The series comes with the original German speakers!” Flowaner Zzzz gets over 200 likes for that. Many users respond that they are very happy about it.
Under the YouTube video of the Tudum event, the first comment is “One Piece from 2:14:40, if someone wants to know.” – Prin Ren TG receives 770 likes for that. The other two top comments also concern One Piece.
During the event, in addition to One Piece, new impressions of Squid Game, Bridgerton, and a new trailer for the third season of The Witcher were also shown, which makes us miss Henry Cavill even more.
