[This story contains spoilers from One Piece season two.]
When Netflix’s live-action One Piece adaptation arrived in 2023, the odds of it launching a global franchise seemed low. The success rate within the pipeline of Western anime-to-live-action adaptations wasn’t great, from Dragonball Evolution and Ghost in the Shell to Netflix’s own Death Note and Cowboy Bebop — the latter, like One Piece, from Tomorrow Studios.
But the series based on Eiichiro Oda’s long-running manga — which has also been adapted as a similarly long-running anime from Toei Animation — was a resounding success among fans, becoming a near-instant hit for the streamer. That was due in large part to Oda’s influence and involvement, as well as the years of work from executive producers and former showrunners Matt Owens and Steven Maeda.
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