Best-selling manga and anime series, One Piece, is getting a live-action Netflix series that arrives on the best streaming service on August 31 2023. But unlike a lot of attempts to make adaptations like this happen, it might actually be good. Judging by the early reactions, and knowing what’s coming from the original story, this could be one of the best Netflix shows of the year.
Netflix will drop all eight episodes of the manga series at once. In these first few episodes, viewers will meet a motley crew of heroes and friends, including a car burglar and a martial artist sous chef. There's a popular joke on the internet that you need to wait for the original One Piece to hit episode 500 for it to get good and while that’s mercifully untrue, there’s a particular story arc in the original series where it really nails it. That’s exactly the premise that Netflix has adapted for the live-action series, so we’re getting straight into the good stuff.
