‘One Piece’ Cleared “A Very High Bar,” Netflix Co-Chief Greg Peters Says, Making A Statement For The Streaming Giant’s “Evolving” Content Approach
deadline.comNetflix Co-CEO Greg Peters, who oversaw the launch of Netflix in Japan in a previous exec role, said the strong debut of the series One Piece cleared “a very high bar” and attests to the company’s “evolving” content approach. “This is a very high bar to meet, to basically take a storied manga and deliver it in English-language, live action,” the exec said. “Pretty much all the haters are out, looking for a reason to hate you for it.
To be able to deliver it and have it be massively popular and a success around the world is amazing to see.” Shortly before Peters made his comments at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia & Technology Conference, Netflix released its weekly Top 10 charts, which had One Piece topping the English-language rankings.
While it fell short of Wednesday or Queen Charlotte levels, the adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s manga is in the Top 10 in 93 countries and No.
1 in 46 of them, with 18.5 million views from August 28 to September 3. One Piece resulted from extensive collaboration between the U.S.
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