One Piece, the live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s ongoing best-selling manga, just wrapped its second week at No. 1 in Netflix’s Top 10 with another dominating performance internationally.
And, in what is becoming a right of passage for every series that hits it big with young adults these days (like Netflix’s Wednesday), One Piece sparked a TikTok craze with tributes to its demented villain Buggy.
In an interview with Deadline, One Piece executive producers, Tomorrow Studios’ Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements, spoke about how the tide turned on TikTok, with skeptical fans of the manga and anime series embracing the live-action adaptation of the story about a young man and his pirate crew’s search for the fabled “One Piece” treasure. “Both Becky and I have been involved in a lot of successful shows.
But in your career, you dream about one like this,” Adelstein said. “And if you’re lucky you get one like this that resonates so large, and there’s such awareness of and people have a love of the source material.” For Tomorrow Studios, One Piece was a followup to another live-action Netflix series based on a beloved anime, Cowboy Bebop, which didn’t go beyond one season.
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