One Piece series co-creator Steve Maeda spoke with us about bringing Eiichiro Oda's manga to live-action life on Netflix, fandom, and more.
has become one of the biggest sensations in Japan, which translated to success internationally across the United States with the manga continuing to be active since its creation in 1997 and the anime series that continues to air since its premiere in 1999 surpassing 1,000 episodes, something its American contemporaries inhaven't achieved.
The start was to read the first hundred chapters because I knew that"East Blue" [Saga] was the first hundred. It was a matter of reading them and then reading them again, incorporating them, and taking them inside. That was the beginning, and then once I did that, I was like,"This story's great! I want to keep reading and catch up," which I finally did. I'm at chapter 1089 or something like that. It's amazing, and it keeps going. It's a wonderful world.
We tried to stay as close to the source as we could. There were some cultural issues as far as certain characters having arcs that may not have been exactly like the manga in order to give a character a little more depth for the live-action or to give them a little bit of questioning and a little bit of trying to work through problems. There were some passionate discussions about what the result should be.
A ton of discussions with the studios, network, writers, and producers about the casting process. It was long and drawn out, and we cast the net wide globally. Oda-san had been particular in spelling out the nationalities of the characters if they lived in our world. We tried to use that as the key to what the nationality of the characters should be, what they should look like, and where they should be from in the world.
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