Here's your behind the scenes look at the Netflix action-comedy series One Piece Season 1, created by Eiichiro Oda.
One Piece’s Cast:
Emily Rudd, Inaki Godoy, Machenyu, Peter Gadiot and MiKinley Belcher III
Stream One Piece Season 1 now on Netflix
One Piece’s Cast:
Emily Rudd, Inaki Godoy, Machenyu, Peter Gadiot and MiKinley Belcher III
Stream One Piece Season 1 now on Netflix
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:02 The one piece live action, we're all putting our heart
00:06 and passion into this.
00:07 We're going to need a real pirate ship
00:09 or we'll have to straw hat crew.
00:11 Oda sensei has infinite ideas, making the manga still
00:15 so popular after so many years.
00:18 It's such an expansive world that people
00:21 are absolutely die hard for.
00:24 Getting a chance to bring that story to life,
00:27 it's absolutely amazing.
00:29 Matt, the show runner, he's a super fan.
00:31 Who better to make an adaptation than a super fan?
00:35 Action.
00:36 I've been a massive fan of one piece for years and years.
00:39 Having a built in fan base is a phenomenal thing.
00:42 And that also comes with a lot of responsibility
00:45 to get it right.
00:47 With every aspect of this, we use the manga
00:50 created by Oda sensei, his designs.
00:53 That's always our North Star.
00:54 The series has been running for 25 years.
00:56 And we know a lot about these characters
00:58 and about the world.
01:00 So it's given us the opportunity to throw in a lot
01:02 of Easter eggs for fans.
01:04 Let's go.
01:05 Right.
01:05 It's a really tricky balancing act,
01:07 trying to figure out what you're going to put in
01:09 and what you're going to leave out.
01:11 The hardest part was finding the right story
01:13 arcs and emotional arcs for characters
01:15 that would make for a wonderful season of television.
01:18 I don't want to be a marine.
01:20 I'm a pirate.
01:21 A big challenge was figuring out how to include backstory.
01:24 These backstories are all in the manga.
01:26 And we made a decision early on to parcel it out and tie
01:29 it into present day story.
01:31 We went by Oda-san's SBS chapter notes,
01:34 where he answers fan questions at the end
01:36 of chapters in the manga.
01:37 It's full of character backstories
01:39 and birthdates and heights.
01:40 These are so good.
01:41 Their favorite foods and things like that.
01:42 So we scoured those and thought that brought
01:44 a lot of wonderful emotional grounding with the characters.
01:47 What's been really great is Oda sensei and his team
01:50 have been with us the entire time.
01:52 Getting to talk with him is one of my favorite experiences
01:55 about this.
01:55 And that collaboration, I think, has
01:58 birthed something really special.
02:00 Hey, Sorrow, what you going to wear?
02:02 Something black.
02:05 The most challenging thing, translating the page
02:08 to the screen, was bringing the color and the life
02:11 into our characters without it looking like a cosplay.
02:15 The manga's black and white.
02:16 And so Oda's Color Walk became our Bible.
02:19 Color Walk gave us a very unique opportunity
02:22 to see the Straw Hat characters in different environments,
02:26 in different costumes.
02:27 It gave me the opportunity to introduce texture
02:30 and tailoring without in any way compromising
02:34 the look of the manga.
02:35 Our costume design is absolutely incredible.
02:38 We have a lot of nods to things ultimate fans would know.
02:43 One of the things that we thought
02:44 would make the show feel more real
02:45 is if we did as much as we could in camera.
02:47 It was a conscious choice to use prosthetics
02:49 as much as possible, particularly on the fishmen.
02:52 With prosthetics, one of the trickiest things
02:54 was to try and keep all the designs as close as possible
02:57 to honor Mr. Oda's work and then bring something
02:59 to screen that looks like it could live in the real world.
03:03 It's trying to find the middle ground between both
03:05 of the mediums.
03:06 And when we do have an idea to tweak or change something,
03:09 it's always a conversation with Oda sensei and his team.
03:12 Snail Phone being a perfect example,
03:13 we did snail phones that you have in the manga.
03:16 And then the prop crew came up with tiny snail phones
03:18 that fit in your ear like a Bluetooth.
03:19 Props then designed a snail megaphone
03:21 that amplifies the voice across the water.
03:23 Lower your sails and submit to my authority.
03:26 The attention to detail that everyone has
03:29 and just the talent of our individual departments,
03:31 it's incredible.
03:32 I think we were really successful in being
03:34 able to bring One Piece into a new medium
03:36 and show just how special it is and why so many people
03:39 all over the world love this series so much.
03:41 To the best crew sailing on the sea, and to our victory!
03:48 It's been a pleasure to be a part of this journey.
03:50 It's such a creative world, so many interesting characters.
03:54 I was truly overwhelmed when I saw it.
03:56 And I can't wait for the fans to see it too.
03:58 You're my captain, Luffy, from now until the end.
04:03 The spirit of One Piece is so strong in this.
04:07 It is such a privilege to work on this show
04:10 for something really wonderful and what Oda-san has created.
04:12 Truly, this is his sandbox, and we're just playing in it.
04:16 Next stop, the Grand Line!
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