{"id":243626,"date":"2020-01-31T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=243626"},"modified":"2020-01-31T01:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T06:02:00","slug":"nakamas-luffys-about-to-hit-the-real-world-with-one-piece-live-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/31\/nakamas-luffys-about-to-hit-the-real-world-with-one-piece-live-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Nakamas! Luffy\u2019s about to hit the real world with One Piece live-action"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ICYMI: One Piece Netflix Series is Official, Oda-sensei Executive Producing<\/p>\n<p>Read on: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MhucsG0Zwu\">https:\/\/t.co\/MhucsG0Zwu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7zAfArOoRd\">pic.twitter.com\/7zAfArOoRd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 One Piece (@OnePieceAnime) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OnePieceAnime\/status\/1222904403402903553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nWell, not exactly. Not when it\u2019s still impossible for fictional characters to exist in real life. But the best that fans can get is that <em>One Piece<\/em> will be having a live-action version. The best part? Eiichiro Oda himself will be its Executive Producer.<\/p>\n<p>Oda made the announcement on Thursday, January 30. He floated the idea as early as 2017 and recognized that these things took time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreparations have been slowly progressing behind the scenes, and it seems that I can finally make the big announcement: Netflix, the world&#8217;s leading streaming entertainment service, will be lending us their tremendous production support!\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Oda-sensei will oversee the live-action <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OnePiece?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OnePiece<\/a> series by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevemaeda?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@stevemaeda<\/a> and Matt Owens. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NXOnNetflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NXOnNetflix<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rFrDOvakLc\">pic.twitter.com\/rFrDOvakLc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ONE PIECE(\u30ef\u30f3\u30d4\u30fc\u30b9) Netflix (@onepiecenetflix) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/onepiecenetflix\/status\/1222610779116957697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Instead of details, Oda\u2019s statement gave questions for fans to wait for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow far will the story progress over the 10 episodes of Season 1? Who will be cast? Please be patient a little longer and stay tuned,\u201d he further said.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>One Piece<\/em> live-action will be co-produced by Tomorrow Studios, which is also part of the planned <em>Cowboy Bebop<\/em> live-action.<\/p>\n<p><em>One Piece<\/em> remains to be one of the most known media franchises in Japan and worldwide. It debuted as a manga in 1997 and got an anime in 1999. Since then, it\u2019s touched many hearts throughout the years, still maintaining its stand, spawning films, television specials, games, and others. Its origin, the manga is still ongoing in the Japanese magazine, <em>Shounen Jump,\u00a0<\/em>currently at 949 chapters as of writing.<\/p>\n<p>It is a <em>shounen<\/em> series about the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates. Luffy, inspired by his idol Shanks, is in search of the world\u2019s greatest treasure, <em>One Piece, <\/em>and wants to proclaim himself as the Pirate King.\u00a0The series has themes of action and friendship, thus the <em>nakama<\/em> (Japanese word for comrade\/friend) being a huge part of the fandom culture and the series itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICYMI: One Piece Netflix Series is Official, Oda-sensei Executive Producing Read on: https:\/\/t.co\/MhucsG0Zwu pic.twitter.com\/7zAfArOoRd \u2014 One Piece (@OnePieceAnime) January 30, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":243627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243628,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243626\/revisions\/243628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}