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Netflix’s “One Piece” Gets its First Trailer and a Premiere Date!

After Netflix has announced the live-action adaptation of world phenomenal manga, “One Piece,” Netflix is finally showing off the very first trailer at the streamer’s Tudum event today.  The clip shows off around 90 seconds of the live-action pirate series, featuring the main cast — which includes Iñaki Godoy in the lead role — as…

Knights of the Zodiac / Review : A Savior for Anime and Manga Fans or Not?

For more than two decades, adapting manga or anime into live-action cinema has been a particularly winding road for American studios to follow. “Dragonball Evolution,” “Speed Racer,” “Ghost in the Shell” and “Death Note” to name a few. All of these tanked at the box office and were slammed by critics. Even though some of…

Eiichiro Oda Shares Update on Live-Action One Piece Series

A creator of the beloved manga and a sensational animation, “One Piece,” offered fans an update on the upcoming Netflix live-action series based on the popular manga. The story follows Monkey D. Luffy, the leader of the Straw Hat Pirates, who gains the powers to turn his body into rubber after eating a “Devil Fruit.” He…

Netflix Live Action One Piece Series Unveils First Look and Poster

Netflix has dropped the first key-art poster and image for its highly-anticipated live action One Piece series, based on the long-running Iconic anime series from a weekly magazine “Jump” created by Eiichiro Oda with the same name. It is scheduled to make its debut sometime later this year. The key art poster provides us our…

One Piece: Set Sneak Peek | First Look | Netflix Geeked Week

Netflix’s upcoming highly anticipated “One Piece” series has been making an extra effort to bring the one of the most beloved manga to life, just to prove that, co-showrunners Matt Owens and Steven Maeda and actor Iñaki Godoy joined this year’s Netflix Geeked Week to hype up their new show and give fans around the…

Netflix’s One Piece Live-Action Series Announces Main Cast : Sonny Chiba’s Son, Mackenyu Will Play Roronoa Zoro

Netflix has cast five of its main roles in its anticipated One Piece live-action series. Iñaki Godoy (Go, Youth!, Who Killed Sara?), Mackenyu (Rurouni Kenshin: Final Chapter, Pacific Rim: Uprising), Emily Rudd (Fear Street, Hunters), Jacob Romero Gibson (Greenleaf, All Rise) and Taz Skylar (Boiling Point, Villain) will all star on the show, Variety is…

Live-Action ‘Knights of the Zodiac’ Adds Mackenyu, Sean Bean, Famke Janssen, and More

Knights of the Zodiac, the upcoming live-action adaptation of the popular anime series Saint Seiya, has announced some exciting casting news, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Mackenyu, son of the late Sonny Chiba, will star as Seiya, a street orphan gifted with a mystical energy called Cosmo who is called to battle against gods. Actress…