#opla episode 8

[hellouniversehowareyou]

#zosan #opla #one piece live action #one piece #roronoa zoro #black leg sanji #sanji #zoro/sanji #opla episode 8 #opla spoilers #this show is a fucking gift #they're married your honor #gay pirates

[chromatic-lamina]

OPLA: episode 8: pinwheels and mikan

OPLA episode 8: I assume that those who for the story is new, feel a lot more with Nami's Bellemère graveside scene—it was nice to keep the pinwheels with a tangerine motif (Nami's tattoo and the actual one she made, which Bellemère had made before for her in the live action), and I guess that the cultural significance might've been diminished if they were kept faithful to the manga, as in on Genzo's hat and more generically in front of Bellemère's grave.

When I visited Aomori, and particular Osorezan, which is on Lake Usori--Osorezan symbolising hell, and the lake, purgatory (and also having been sacred to the Ainu), pinwheels dotted the foreshore, and also many of the monuments, statues (many mizuko) and graveyard monuments to, in particular, honour children who have died (and cannot fulfil their filial duty).

picture from this post.

Kinda reversed with Nami's story, because neither Bellemère nor Nami could fulfil their obligations to one another, and I don't think Oda has ever made a big fuss of it (Genzo wore the pinwheel

cos it made Nami laugh, as I recall). According to a quick google, it represents the cycle of life. Adult to child again on death.

Mikan (tangerines, although, not really) are also often offerings for jizou statues, of which mizuko in particular look over children (not a mizuko below, and see link above). But mikan are often placed generally at grave markers and so forth.

Picture from this post.

Genzo kept his pinwheel for one scene in the live action. Even if they didn't have time to explain how important he had been to Nami and Bellemère

Would have loved to have seen it a little more.

Also, considering how important laughter and smiling is to the series as a whole, I would've liked a non-cheesy way, I guess, to emphasise how much Nami smiled when she was a child, and how important it was to Genzo that she keeps smiling, and that he knew she would, because she was free and on the right path.

Overall, though, good-ish development with Luffy and Garp. I guess, considering budget restraints, they'll try to concentrate on the two of them as a main subplot? I'm not exactly sure why they included it so early. Maybe to ground it in a bit of TV reality? Or to have a sure way of maintaining direction and tension. So the general viewer can know who Luffy is, maybe. I didn't mind, but maybe not at the expense of other parts of the story.

I did tear up at the boots on the barrel scene, although I've always thought that the crew has superb balance. Would've liked to have had the word 'nakama' included instead of 'friend', but that's for a future adaptation, I think. Helmeppo and Koby coming along swimmingly. Benn still looking like a geography teacher (sorry @nicos-robin!). Mihawk and Shanks camping it up on the beach (Lucky Roux looks well put together!). And Smoker being dramatic! Looking forward to the next season!

#one piece #opla #one piece live action #opla episode 8 #one piece live action spoilers #nami one piece #bellemère one piece #genzo one piece #monkey d. luffy #monkey d. garp #chromalami #chromamuesli #one piece meta #opmeta #op meta

[lostsometime]

okay so they're going to arlong park to fight

they have a decent-length walk, it's a tropical island, it's hot, and furthermore they are anticipating a serious battle when they get there

sanji, why did you keep your fucking coat and tie on?????

#YOU COULD HAVE TAKEN THEM OFF IN THE TIME IT TOOK TO GET THERE #IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO EASY #UGH HE'S THE WORST #(affectionate) #opla #opla liveblog #opla episode 8 #worst in the east

[goingbuggy]

i feel so vindicated seeing OPLA buggy project all of his insecurities onto luffy... the buggy-luffy parallels only grow stronger by the day. WE WON

#buggy was the best part of this adaptation omggg #i am definitely doing a deep dive after watching this episode 8 more times #one piece #buggy the clown #one piece live action #opla spoilers

[street-of-mercy]

Zoro & Nami | One Piece Episode 8

I'm gonna be the world's greatest swordsman. I'm gonna draw a map of the world.

#opla #oplaedit #zonami #zoro x nami #one piece netflix #zona #roronoa zoro #nami #opla zona episodes #zona episode 8 #is it just me or do these two have the most color coordinated clothes ever? #no? just me then #lol #they are such cute ones #the cutting really focuses on them most of the time #not shippy yeah right #I love them your honor

[black-and-yellow]

can't stop drawing the clown (send help)

#I took a time lapse of rendering his face but the file is too big to post #i hate it here #one piece #one piece live action #buggy d clown #op buggy #i'm on episode 8 of the anime which I am watching for a whole 2 reasons #one: need more Buggy content even if he's not as cool as his live action counterpart #and two: so I know who the characters who keep approaching me in ponytown are #i know. two very compelling reasons to watch an entire anime #but don't worry #i will probably give up #top 3 opla characters. Buggy. Usopp. Sanji. in that order #I would like Zoro if he didn't have an absolutely criminal vocal fry #zoro sounds like he watched one corpse husband video and it revolutionised his life #how do i tag these posts to get the op fans to see me and like me

[fandom-stuff-dude]

opla got me thinkin kuro ate some zoom-zoom fruit when apparently he jus a master at the “pussyfoot maneuver” 🤣

#I’m dyin #also crazy they turned this 8 episode ark into an episode an a half #watchin the anime now got a loooonng road ahead of me #lmaooo #opla #one piece #one piece live action #one piece anime #captain kuro #devil fruit

[pa-pa-plasma]

okay i just marathoned the entirety of ATLA live action & i might do an actual review of it explaining my thoughts more in depth, but the TLDR version basically boils down to this:

if you want to watch Avatar: The Last Airbender, just go watch the 2005 cartoon

#i was trying to keep an open mind & all that cuz of OPLA (my beloved) but. holy shit it was actually worse than i expected :/ #like what were they thinking. did they use AI to write this or are the writers just like. really shitty #notes: they linger too much on random bullshit & refuse to move character development along #they tell when they should be showing & when they DO show it's for stuff that benefited from brief environmental storytelling in the OG #the plot drags so hard it was basically stagnant #there were some fun things but like. those things could've been funner if they'd been given the time other useless stuff was taking up #they changed so many minor details that really don't matter in order to make them more important #but this failed spectacularly because now there's just. stupid bullshit clogging up the plot?? #instead of having 10 minute monologues 3 times an episode about plot irrelevant things #they should have taken a page out of the original's book & kept minor details to a minimum & focused on ACTUAL PLOT #SO MUCH CGI. LIKE I KNOW THEY NEED IT BUT COME ON. EVEN THE CHARACTERS?????? WHO ARE JUST STANDING THERE???????? #they were given 8 hours & almost all of it was Aang angsting (lol) over being the avatar & not practicing actual bending #& then they ended the plot too early so they had to fill in the last like 20 minutes with something else #so they made up random lore that literally makes no sense. & overexplained all of it to the point i was blanking out from boredom #i think this is why i didn't enjoy Korra. they over explain the spirit world stuff & avatar powers & bending #that plus i just don't vibe with the aesthetic #being a writer is a curse because when i dislike something it's because i know exactly what went wrong & why #it's always with the analyzing & the judging & the internal note taking #even when i really try i can't just enjoy shit for fun

[aster-ria]

And Finally Episode 8 and the Finale of season 1

#one piece #opla spoilers #one piece live action #opla live posting #opla live reaction #opla #episode 8

[duckielover151]

Some OPLA Thoughts: Episode 8

(I'm probably gonna make a separate post on bigger, overall thoughts... I want this one to be exclusively about the final episode.)

Oh man, guys... I can't believe it's over. How am I supposed to make it to season two? I have no idea how you binge-watchers who finished it a day or two after it came out have survived this long.

Everything about this final episode was just beautiful... I want to cry.

I really loved that they opened the episode with Nami getting her tattoo and chained up in the map room. (We saw the chains in the previous episode, but it felt like her imprisonment there was just a little bit in question, as she gave herself up to Arlong in this version.)

However! Okay, so they bring it back around to Nojiko telling the whole village about what Nami's really been up to, and the Straw Hats have to stop them from charging into a fight they clearly can't win. And that's fine. In line with the original canon... (Even if it actually felt a little unnecessary in this version.) But that made it super disappointing that we still don't really get that iconic shot of the crew walking up to Arlong Park.

But the fight was really great. It just all looked so good! And it was great to see Usopp finally get his moment to shine. And flashing back and forth between the different fight scenes was rather reminiscent of the anime in a way I found strangely nostalgic.

And Luffy standing atop the wreckage of Arlong Park was the first moment I really felt that he could be king one day. I almost don't know how to explain it. You know those moments in the anime where you're kind of just awestruck by his own potential and... goodness? Not to go off the deep end, (^^') but there's almost something holy about it. A moment where you know you're looking upon someone destined for greatness. It doesn't happen often. But I thought it was great to end this series on one of those moments.

But what I really loved, of course... was that there was still another 30 minutes reserved to wrap this up after Arlong had been taken care of. I'd been worried about pacing for this last episode, but it was concluded really well.

I've seen some mixed opinions about this, but I actually really loved the Garp vs. Luffy fight. I've already accepted that this version of Garp is a little different. I thought this-- the reveal that he just needed some final proof that his grandson was ready before taking his dream seriously-- was a great conclusion to that little character arc. I felt like he did finally start to feel a little more like his authentic, anime self near the end. More serious for the sake of the tone of this live-action... but that's fine. I'm sure he'll be back, and I'm curious to see what that dynamic will look like, going forward.

Post-Arlong there was literally nothing to be anything but hype about. The reveal of the first bounty poster! Getting to watch all the reactions to those posters! (Zeff hanging it up under the Employee of the Month section of the board XD) Coby and Helmeppo officially being taken under Garp's wing! The return to the iconic East Blue outfits! The castoff ceremony!

THE FLASHBACKS TO THEIR CHILDHOOD SELVES AS THEY ANNOUNCED THEIR DREAMS!!!!!!!

(That sort of thing always gets me.)

I think I saw an announcement recently that they've begun filming for season two and I. Cannot. Wait.

#one piece #opla #episode 8

[bisociallyawkwardandchad]

i watched the one piece live action with my parents! my mom said: "zoro and namis friendship is beautiful :)" my dad said: "that clown is cool as fuck"

#my mom fucking LOVED it #we literally talked abt it over dinner after we finished it was awesome #she rlly likes zoro #she was so scared when he fought mihawk she was like PLS DONT TELL ME HE DIES #and my dad watched all 8 episodes with us #rewatched the last one even #and his only comment was that buggy was rlly fucking cool #the family gc pfp is fkn buggy now 😭😭😭😭 #anyways watching opla w my parents was just fkn awesome #opla #one piece #one piece live action

[vergina-spva]

Okay, it might not be the opening theme, but I was right about them making a new, instrumental version of We Are!

#opla #I've watched episode 4 #ugh my bf only wants to watch one episode a day 'because there are only 8' #buuuut I want to see the rest #opla spoilers #like not a huge one but still

[chromatic-lamina]

I got quite a big reaction to this post on OPLA episode 7 and, although reduced, also on this post to episode 8 about how OPLA handled Nami's backstory. My main beef was the watering down and changing of Bellemère and Nojiko's roles, and if the reasons were time constraints, I still don't think they had to change them so much.

I liked the live action, and even the last two episodes, but (and I guess it's cos' they didn't know if there would be season 2), by reducing Nami's story by making Luffy the complete hero of her arc, I think it takes away from one of the fundamental concepts of One Piece.

Like, one reason why Law, Nami, etc. are not like Doffy, Arlong or Orochi is because they had a good parental/authority-figure/support, despite also having a bad parental/authority figure in their lives. It's not because of Luffy.

Zoro had Kuina (and Koushirou was not a tyrant), Usopp, Kaya, Sanji, Zeff, so why not keep Bellemère and Nojiko in these roles for Nami? Bellemère is the standard Hollywood protective Mum in OPLA, but she's not the hardcore One Piece Bellemère we know and who Nami takes after in many ways.

I don't mind the smaller details being dropped, but in the two scenes that they kept, I don't feel they needed to be changed from canon (in Bellemère intiially facing down Arlong, and in her defending Nami in her own way against Genzo and also sassing and flirting with Genzo. Nami's fingers being crossed behind her back kinda hinted at it, but not overt enough). And I think they could've had a villager diss Nami as much as having Nojiko do this. One reason Nami is Nami is she had Nojiko (and the villager's covert) support.

I'm guessing having Nojiko play the accusatory role dovetailed the story somewhat, but it leaves Nami's character flatter than the other three because it paints her as struggling, isolated and completely alone, before Luffy turned up. She was, her situation was dire, but she knew she was loved by some, and her care for them drove her. Oda lays the tragedy on thick, but he's also kind nuanced with it. I don't know that OPLA painting Nami as such an individual/isolated player tapped into that.

I think one of Luffy's greatest strengths is that he believes that his nakama and associates are the person that their good parental figure believed them to be. SO, I guess Luffy lets them believe in the dreams that circumstances have hindered, and makes it easier for them to pursue those dreams and to smile by removing those circumstances (or helping to remove them), but they were working hard to be good people in their own way anyway. I write about smiles in that second post above, btw. Also something missing from Nami's backstory. However, Luffy is/was not the sole person who believes in them.

BUT, overall, I really liked the series, and do understand the restrictions of live action as opposed to a weekly manga.

#one piece #one piece live action #opla #nami one piece #monkey d. luffy #bellemère one piece #nojiko one piece #episode 7 opla #episode 8 opla #cocoyashi village #one piece live action spoilers #opla spoilers #chromalami #chromamuesli #chromameta #one piece meta #op meta #opmeta #long post

[lostsometime]

awwwwwwww, cuz Koby was there when Luffy was upset about not having a wanted poster! babies!!!!

#koby #luffy #opla #opla liveblog #my understanding is that koby is not nearly this important a character in the manga #but i absolutely love that they made him a season-long foil for luffy #narratively beautiful and satisfying #also just a very very cute friendship #monkey d. luffy #opla episode 8 #worst in the east

[thelamebat]

oop- it’s morning

#7am.. 8 hour long episodes… worth it #/passes out #me #opla

[miscreantahead]

Glad tomorrow's my friday so I can sit down and decide what to do with the rest of my life.

#OPLA interest slowly fading (finally #honestly it lasted too long for only having 8 episodes)