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    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      When you consider that the live action performance has that kind of almost-understated flamboyance that is really rare in anime, I think it could just be taken as a legit read on the character.

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        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          Makes sense. Yeah, Mihawk is great, though I thought Zoro was surprisingly good despite losing some of his goofiness. The fact that he still gets constantly lost but plays it off is funny, and the "not calling your moves" bit was a genuinely good addition even if it meant Zoro no longer called his (maybe he will warm up to the concept later if they have another season?)

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            • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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              Speaking of the live action One Piece adaptation, what did everyone think of how they handled Arlong? They turned him into a Killmonger type character (Fishmonger? thonk ) where he was mostly a mean sadistic gangster with a disdain for humans in the original arc. The manga did establish the oppression faced by fishpeople in depth later on and even gave a backstory to why Arlong and his gang in particular hated humans, but in the Netflix show he was kind of doing a speech in every scene he was in.

              I'm glad they're incorporating things Oda established later on in these early parts but I kind of felt this was once again a situation where the one character using revolutionary language is a violent murderous psychopath

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                • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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                  I guess Arlong's new revolutionary ambitions didn't quite mesh with his previously established role as some asshole shaking down a hapless backwater village for protection money

                  Also, an unrelated note- what did he need the Grand Line map for? He's from there thinking-about-it Same goes for Buggy who's already been there. I know they just used the map as a way to tie the first season together and it's not a massive deal, but still

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              • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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                Yeah, that bit stood out to me too. I wasn't familiar with the anime or manga, but people here usually talk about it being based. So I was pretty surprised that it felt like they were poisoning the well on revolutionaries.