ONE PIECE
The pirates are coming.
With his straw hat and ragtag crew, young pirate Monkey D. Luffy goes on an epic voyage for treasure.
Wokeness: 40%
Overall Score: 60%
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Samantha
Sigh... I wish Netflix would get it right
Look, you have a simple job. Just do the show as written!
The real One Piece anime is like Star Wars. It enjoys fans from both the left and right wing. So you have this perfect formula... and you instead decide to alienate everyone right of center.
Namie is badass but not a "strong woman". Nuh, let's make her just slightly better than Captain Marvel. Because it's not like she doesn't have an established character, and realistically be more of thinker than a fighter. Nope, let's make her completely awesome not only mentally but physically because we need more strong women (large hint: you make strong women by making strong WOMEN, not STRONG women).
Zoro is a sweet guy who saves a girl from a wolf. Instead they derailed his character by making him just a typical Asian dude. They kind of pre-empted his character by switching up stuff and cutting out what was really cool about him to do what seemed cool.
Luffy was alright, but I didn't like how they made him seem like a weaker fighter to make Nami look good, and I really don't like how Nami's spunk turns into radical feminism.
I'd say the wokeness is fairly mild, but it definitely exists. I also don't like how all the pirates in the Gold Roger scene seem multi-racial. Just play the story as written, please!
Created: 09-05-2023
JustEntertainment
Too much race swapping, but just that.
Meh, at least they're trying to stick - storywise - to the manga. But every other character is as black as they can make them, whether it was like that in the original story or not.
It's also really weird to have the lead actor speak in a Mexican accent in some scenes with some lines, but American accent in other scenes and other lines. The kid version, too - who isn't even Mexican, but a full-on black kid - speaks in an American accent. Somehow his English got... shittier as he got older?
Nami's character got really boring. She used to be fun and cute, but now she's a sexless, emotionless clone of Captain Marvel, who as a girl SUCKED ASS. I don't like Nami in the live action, though I was kind of a fan in the comics.
Anyway, it's kind of trying, maybe. But not worth signing up to woke-ass Netflix for.
Created: 09-05-2023
Notwoke
4 minutes into the show
Yeah, within four minutes into the show it screams woke. Just when you look at the cast of the crowd of observers. Not wasting my time on social re-endoctrination. Life is too short. Good try though 🤣
Created: 09-11-2023
Felipe
Decent show. Slightly woke.
Not too woke but hey, it's Netflix! They waste no opportunity to do gender (Sham) and race (Nojiko, etc) swapping. And I didn't expect anything other than what they did with Nami's character.
But other than that, the cast is pretty decent and the show is good.
Or... you can just watch the anime, it's much better!
Created: 09-18-2023
NoWo
Fun show, annoying girl-boss.
Disclaimer: I have not read/watched the original.
The multi-racial cast of characters seems to make sense in context. It works for me at least, without feeling forced. The actors know they're playing archetypes (or caricatures), and deliver as best as they can (which is surprisingly good) without remorse or attempt at a modern nth degree critique.
The biggest flaw in this show being the Nami character, which the show-runners try to push front and center. She's not witty, not charming, not sexy, and the writers seem unaware that being antagonistic is not a redeeming quality.
Also, for being so strong (supposedly, as the writers adhere to the "tell, don't show" policy when there is nothing to show), she's surprisingly useless, except for disrupting the group dynamic, and padding run-time with a less than useful back-story.
On a surprising note, in the swordsman backstory, a (pre-teen) female character openly admits that her male peers will grow up to be taller, stronger, faster, and overall better fighters than herself. In a 2023 show. Factual, 20th century biology.
One stands amazed.
Created: 10-27-2023
