And in the process of that, what you want to do is create characters that have fully emotional lives. So if you love One Piece, then you love the manga, and you love the anime - which adds to the manga - and you’ve got the live-action, which hopefully will add to those other two too. So what we wanted to do was create a show that sat alongside the manga and the anime as additions, not as replacements. My key thing was, in a sense … the showrunners had written scripts that, I felt, were so true to the manga, and yet were full of character. So the challenge is to turn these characters into something believable. The Witcher, after all, is a game, but it’s also essentially two dimensions. I’ve had some experience doing that with the Marvel shows - Daredevil and Luke Cage and The Punisher, and also with The Witcher. The biggest challenge is always to take a two-dimensional comic book or a manga, and the anime - which is also incredibly famous for One Piece - and turn it into something that works in live-action. Yeah, you’ve put your finger on the challenge, probably. Were there any challenges that came with kind of taking that and putting it in a more real-world visual setting? Another thing about One Piece is with all that joy, it’s also very stylistic and very cartoony. And that really appealed to me.Ībsolutely. We need to put down our phones and put down the screens and get out into the world and see the world for all the joy and beauty that it is. We all need to go and have an adventure from time to time. He wants you to believe in being who you are, and he wants to help you become who you are. He just wants you to believe in your dreams. It needs a show that is optimistic, and the lead character in One Piece - Luffy - is just an inspirational kind of character. I read the manga, and I read the scripts, and I was just drawn into this world of joy and positivity and sunshine and a world of, “Yes! Let’s just do it!” It really felt, to me, like the world needed this at this particular moment. One Piece season 1 is streaming now on Netflix.Marc Jobst: No, I read the scripts. Here’s a list of more cast members and the characters they play below:
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