When you started Luffy’s saga back in 1997, did you ever imagine it would run for more than 25 years? You’ve spoken with enthusiasm about the possibility of a second season of the live-action series, and “One Piece” collections continue to appear on best-seller lists around the world. I enjoy the experience of drawing by hand, and I expect I’ll continue using hand drawing for the duration of “One Piece.” You still draw in ink on paper have you ever considered switching to digital?Įveryone is drawing digitally now and it’s not that I’m not interested in it, but for some reason readers tend to take that work a little lightly. Over the last 26 years, you’ve drawn thousands of pages of the manga as well as magazine covers, book covers and posters. I’m very happy about how that turned out. If the characters spoke in real life, their speeches would have the natural feel that’s in the scripts. In live-action dramas, there’s always a lot of dialogue. But when people actually talk, the conversations are different. In a manga, the more dialogue you put in, the less space you have to draw, so I cut the words as much as possible. The live-action “One Piece” uses more extensive dialogue than the manga or the animated series, which focus more on the visuals. I read the scripts, gave notes and acted as a guard dog to ensure the material was being adapted in the correct way. Thankfully, Netflix agreed that they wouldn’t go out with the show until I agreed it was satisfactory. Would fans of “One Piece” - and viewers who don’t know the manga - accept it? Perhaps it was time to search for the answer. Various manga had been made into live action, but there was a history of failure no one in Japan could name a successful example. But attempts to adapt popular anime into American live-action movies and series have generally been unsuccessful, as in the widely panned “Ghost in the Shell” (2017) and the short-lived “Cowboy Bebop” (2021). So I shifted to finding the right partner to bring the manga to life.Īctors have portrayed Luffy and his crew in stage shows and even in a Kabuki play. I realized times had changed, and there was technology available that could make a live-action “One Piece” happen. But when I saw the movie “Shaolin Soccer,” it felt like a manga-esque world brought to life. PW4 is much more up to date and focuses more on the post timeskip whilst I say PW3 favours pre-timeskip.īoth games are great and honestly you can't go wrong getting both but if I had to choose it would be PW3 since it matches what you want out of them.When I first started, I didn’t think there was any point in drawing a manga that could be remade in live-action. Additionally although the game has less maps and map variety, each map is manga accurate (which can actually be a drawback when trying to navigate). All characters got a complete revamp in how they play and for most this revamp makes them better for some however they do suffer. In terms of gameplay PW4 is the superior game. More maps, Dream log, fan favourites that got cut unfortunately in PW4, some characters play better here than in PW4. In terms of overall package PW3 is better game since it has more content. Unlike PW3, each arc has multiple missions with different stages set in those arcs. The arcs it has are Alabasta, Saobody Archipelago, Marineford, Return to Saobody, Dressrosa, Wholecake Island and an orginal story Wano. Pirate Warriors 4 on the other hand opted to do only a few arcs but fleshes them out a lot more. You'll find outside Marineford, one arc = one mission. Some of the smaller arcs are cut but most of them are covered. Dressrosa part way though becomes an original story since the game released when Dressrosa was still ongoing in the manga. The Pirate Warriors 3 story mode starts in the East Blue and ends at Dressrosa.
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