Egleris
Vagrant Dragon
- Location
- Italy
It was well done, yes; I very much liked what they did with the Marines and Syrup village, and the characters where mostly on point, with, in my personal opinion, the big exception of Luffy. However, that wasn't for the bad.
Manga Luffy is an interesting character, in that he's generally silly, but occasionally has these super-intense moments that make you say "yeah, I can see how people would follow this guy through hell" - but in both of these sides of his personality, whether he's being silly or intense, he's always incredibly over the top, to an extent that is almost always shocking. The TV series still had Luffy being mostly silly with the occasional bursts of intensity, but the way in which he did was much more lackadaisical, for lack of a better phrasing; his silliness comes of seemingly taking everything in stride and then his intensity comes out when he decides something should not be taken in stride after all.
And the thing is, while this is a definite change from the source material, I actually think it was a right change to make, because the original over-the-top presence Luffy had, while it worked in a Manga, would not have worked in live action, whereas this approach actually comes across as very realistic. It sorts of humanizes the character in a sense, and I liked it, it's a great example of adapting to the medium.
One interesting thing about the series, which I sort of expected but was good to see confirmed, is that they really cut down on the duration of the fights. I'm not saying that what fights are there didn't work, in fact the fight choreography was good and I enjoyed the stunts, but in terms of back-and-forth and what happened in them? Yeah, they shortened the length of pretty much every fight scene (those they didn't cut, and they cut A TON of fight scenes) down to a relatively brief (pretty much instantaneous compared to the original) set of quick exchanges. Which might seem like it ruins the appeal, but actually I think is one of the primary things that allowed them to run through things so quickly; the fights they choose to keep lost length but mostly maintained the emotional punch they carried, and if anything gives me hope for the possibility of adapting the rest of the series. After all, taking the same approach to all of the fight scenes in later sections of the Manga would really save on costs and effect and allow them to run through what would be dozens or even hundreds of chapters that are just back-to-back fights (I'm thinking of Enies Lobby, Wano and especially Dressrossa) much, much faster than the Manga and Anime managed.
It's really amusing to me that the thing that helps this adaptation the most is cutting down on the one thing Shonen Manga are most known for.
Manga Luffy is an interesting character, in that he's generally silly, but occasionally has these super-intense moments that make you say "yeah, I can see how people would follow this guy through hell" - but in both of these sides of his personality, whether he's being silly or intense, he's always incredibly over the top, to an extent that is almost always shocking. The TV series still had Luffy being mostly silly with the occasional bursts of intensity, but the way in which he did was much more lackadaisical, for lack of a better phrasing; his silliness comes of seemingly taking everything in stride and then his intensity comes out when he decides something should not be taken in stride after all.
And the thing is, while this is a definite change from the source material, I actually think it was a right change to make, because the original over-the-top presence Luffy had, while it worked in a Manga, would not have worked in live action, whereas this approach actually comes across as very realistic. It sorts of humanizes the character in a sense, and I liked it, it's a great example of adapting to the medium.
One interesting thing about the series, which I sort of expected but was good to see confirmed, is that they really cut down on the duration of the fights. I'm not saying that what fights are there didn't work, in fact the fight choreography was good and I enjoyed the stunts, but in terms of back-and-forth and what happened in them? Yeah, they shortened the length of pretty much every fight scene (those they didn't cut, and they cut A TON of fight scenes) down to a relatively brief (pretty much instantaneous compared to the original) set of quick exchanges. Which might seem like it ruins the appeal, but actually I think is one of the primary things that allowed them to run through things so quickly; the fights they choose to keep lost length but mostly maintained the emotional punch they carried, and if anything gives me hope for the possibility of adapting the rest of the series. After all, taking the same approach to all of the fight scenes in later sections of the Manga would really save on costs and effect and allow them to run through what would be dozens or even hundreds of chapters that are just back-to-back fights (I'm thinking of Enies Lobby, Wano and especially Dressrossa) much, much faster than the Manga and Anime managed.
It's really amusing to me that the thing that helps this adaptation the most is cutting down on the one thing Shonen Manga are most known for.
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