There is nothing wrong with people liking the show…but the hype around it is the same that hype always is: bullshit

95% or whatever? Yeah, the same way that some random steamgames have that score.

Its a series, so it will never get anywhere close in effects, camerawork, score as movies of which we already had successful ones. My favourite mention would be Scott Pilgrim vs the World. But yes, Edge of Tomorrow or Alita are just miles ahead of anything that this show does.

At the same time, those are not really adapting ongoing series´ as much as they just were better at looking for source material to adapt. One Piece was only chosen because it makes money and has a fandom to hype it up, not because it is lending itself to adaptation easily.

And you can see that. Effects are…well, if you ask the hypesquad of course the best effects the world has ever seen. And cameradirection. Mindblowing, nobody has ever done that. And the costumes, they are…well also existing.

But for me as a normal pleb: This shit looks like every other Netflix show. I simply don´t feel any hype seeing any of this. Not any of the hype that I felt watching the anime or reading the manga anyways. And the anime was already not really a 95%. And still I would say it´s simply the superior version, a better watching experience. So why would I watch it? It´s simple. I don´t. It is made for people who live off of hyping shit on the internet and people who don´t want to invest the time into anime and manga. So for them, this is indeed the best version to watching One Piece.

But for me it feels like people in this hypezone are cinematic illiterates. I don´t even need to be elitist. But just by not giving the anime version of the show 95% and saying it is still superior to this appearently I am already slandering how amazing this show, that looks like any other Netflix show (the only difference to Cowboy Bebop is that they are closer to the original…and even then it does change stuff, doesn´t it. Pushing the reveal of Garp forward is fine for a show for newcomers but also is simply drawing from stuff that would be a big reveal 300 episodes into the anime that they are simply cramming into their frontloading approach).

So no, hype is always bullshit. And so is the hype for this show. It is a fun watch, but it isn´t even my prefered way of consuming One Piece content and there I don´t even rate the anime very highly anymore because of its pacing and its character progression and some direction choices. Just don´t argue with people who fall into the hypetrain, they are by default not gonna make reasonable arguments.