The spoilers for the upcoming manga chapter of are now out. Aside from the fight between Luffy and Kizaru, we get a glimpse of what is happening with the others. Here is a guide on the .
How Netflix’s One Piece brought Luffy’s impossibly stretchy powers to live action
31.08.2023 - 20:35 / polygon.com
Creating a live-action adaptation of a beloved anime franchise is always a precarious position to be in.
Aside from the inherent narrative and tonal challenges that come with adapting a popular story from one medium to another, there’s also the question of how a live-action series should go about emulating the iconic cartoonish qualities intrinsic to animation. For Scott Ramsey and Victor Scalise, the visual effects supervisors on Netflix’s live-action series based on Eiichiro Oda’s adventure fantasy manga One Piece, that question presented itself in the form of the series protagonist Monkey D. Luffy and his elastic “Gum Gum” stretchy powers.
Luffy’s stretchy powers is as synonymous with One Piece as Goku’s Kamehameha ki blast is with Dragon Ball. After devouring a mysterious Gum-Gum Fruit in a youthful moment of absent-minded hunger, Luffy is cursed with the extraordinary ability to stretch and contort his body like rubber at the cost of life-threatening vulnerability to all forms of water. These powers have opened up a world of expressive possibilities in both Oda’s manga and its long-running anime adaptation, but presented a significant hurdle in bringing the world of One Piece to the medium of live-action television.
“It’s not like he can just like, think, and [his rubber powers] are going to throw out,” Scalise told Polygon about the process of conceptualizing Luffy’s powers on-screen. “He doesn’t just have the ability to do stuff without some sort of movement and inertia that drives the movement of his body parts.
“We did go through lots of stages, just in terms of the development of the look, because the original thought was: We didn’t want him to feel too much like the other stretchy superheroes out there. And we wanted to keep it fast.”
Witnessing Luffy’s elasticized fighting abilities in the live-action series is a real treat, and easily one of the most impressive visual effects feats of the entire show. Whether it’s sweeping his leg like a gigantic pole to knock a cadre of marines off their feet or being pulled in several different directions like a Stretch Armstrong while being tortured by Buggy the Clown, seeing Luffy’s Gum Gum abilities brought to life is always a delight, never veering too far either into grotesque body-horror or uncanny unbelievability.
The scene of Luffy using his signature “Gum Gum Pistol,” a Looney Tunes-esque exaggeration of a sucker punch, to knock the villainous pirate captain Alvida off her boat in the series’ first episode proved to be the benchmark by which all subsequent scenes of Luffy’s powers in action were measured against. It took more than a year to get the look of the sequence finalized.
“It went through [showrunners] Steven Maeda and Matt Owens,
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