It may satisfy fans of the original who are happy to see events more or less faithfully replicated, but most of the verve and personality of the anime are gone, replaced by busyness, elaborate but uninteresting production design and - a sign of the times - an increased piety regarding the story’s themes of knowing and believing in yourself. To an even greater extent than the Netflix “Cowboy Bebop,” the Netflix “One Piece” feels bland and generic. But neither of these shows managed it if anything, they seem to have avoided the attempt. There’s no reason a live-action version of either anime couldn’t find its own distinctive style. Texture, composition, sound and movement engage us and trigger our emotions the moody revenge plot of “Bebop” and the rousingly affirmative coming-of-age story of “One Piece” are just serviceable scaffoldings. The original “Cowboy Bebop” and “One Piece” are very different creatures, but they have something important in common: They are propelled by style. “One Piece” is a remarkably endurable manga and anime franchise - more than 500 million books sold, 1,073 television episodes and counting - that applies a slapstick, Buster Keaton-like visual energy to an adventure story with roots in Hollywood swashbucklers and musicals like “Captain Blood” and “The Crimson Pirate.” So once again Netflix has been moved to produce an American live-action remake, whose eight episodes premiered on Thursday. It wasn’t a disaster, but it quickly fell from sight.
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“Cowboy Bebop” was a cult-favorite Japanese animated series that fetishized cool American jazz and film noir and Hollywood westerns, and in 2021 Netflix returned the cultural homage by making an American live-action adaptation. With “One Piece,” Netflix repeats history, and there isn’t much evidence that it paid attention to what happened the first time around.
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