Lego master. Photo: Jacopo Raule/Getty Images Just last year, Pharrell Williams expanded his oeuvre to fashion when he became creative director of men’s at Louis Vuitton. Now, he’s expanding into an even more unconventional material: Legos. And not for fashion, either — the hitmaker is creating a film about his life, told through Legos. For… Continue reading Pharrell Williams Sets Lego Animated Biopic ‘Piece by Piece’
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‘One Piece’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap: ‘Worst in the East’
One Piece Worst in the East Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Photo: Netflix/COURTESY OF NETFLIX Live-action adaptations of anime and manga have a bad rep, and there tends to be two main reasons. Usually the translation of the character designs and costumes looks horrendous, and usually the story gets changed and… Continue reading ‘One Piece’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap: ‘Worst in the East’
‘One Piece’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap
One Piece The Girl with the Sawfish Tattoo Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Photo: Netflix/COURTESY OF NETFLIX Up until now, One Piece has been a shockingly pleasant surprise of a live-action adaptation. The show understands the appeal of the source material and re-creates it in a way that’s welcoming to newcomers… Continue reading ‘One Piece’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap
‘One Piece’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap
One Piece The Chef and the Chore Boy Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Photo: Casey Crafford/Netflix/CASEY CRAFFORD/NETFLIX Eiichiro Oda was 21 when he wrote the one-shot manga that would later become One Piece, which was published just a year after Oda’s idol and biggest influence, Akira Toriyama, finished his epic manga… Continue reading ‘One Piece’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap
‘One Piece’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: ‘Eat at Baratie!’
One Piece “Eat at Baratie!” Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Photo: Netflix/COURTESY OF NETFLIX Despite the goofy tone and grand, cartoony adventures, One Piece is so overtly filled with political themes that it’s impossible not to notice them. With references from privatized health care to the displacement of Indigenous populations, Eiichiro… Continue reading ‘One Piece’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: ‘Eat at Baratie!’
Netflix ‘One Piece’ Adaptation Does the Impossible: It Works
Netflix adapts Eiichiro Oda’s epic, silly, radical anime in live action and manages the impossible: It works. Photo: Courtesy of Netflix/COURTESY OF NETFLIX One Piece — the long-running manga and ongoing anime from the mind of Eiichiro Oda — is a joyfully weird, ecstatically singular masterpiece politically bent toward liberation and care. It’s exactly the… Continue reading Netflix ‘One Piece’ Adaptation Does the Impossible: It Works
One Piece Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: The Pirates Are Coming
One Piece “The Pirates Are Coming” Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Photo: Netflix/COURTESY OF NETFLIX One of the central concepts of One Piece is nakama, a word that has come to represent the entire story. Literally, it means something akin to “comrade” or “colleague” — someone close to you in a… Continue reading One Piece Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: The Pirates Are Coming
‘One Piece’ Season 1, Episode 3: ‘Tell No Tales’
One Piece Tell No Tales Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Photo: Netflix/COURTESY OF NETFLIX The East Blue Saga that this first season of One Piece is adapting is really Nami’s story. Luffy may be the face of the franchise, the captain of the ship, and the one with the big dream,… Continue reading ‘One Piece’ Season 1, Episode 3: ‘Tell No Tales’
‘One Piece’ Season 1, Episode 1 Recap: ‘Romance Dawn’
One Pice Romance Dawn Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Photo: Casey Crafford/Netflix/CASEY CRAFFORD/NETFLIX Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece is undoubtedly one of the biggest and most important manga of all time, an epic tale with vast world-building and an intricate sense of history and lore. It’s also a tale that was considered… Continue reading ‘One Piece’ Season 1, Episode 1 Recap: ‘Romance Dawn’
‘One Piece’: Netflix’s Live-Action Series, Explained
Photo-Illustration: Vulture Yo ho, me hearties! August 31 will see the debut of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of One Piece, a series that’s spent years in development and even longer as the white whale of a fanbase that awaits this type of project with an equal mix of excitement and trepidation. Whether it was the disappointing… Continue reading ‘One Piece’: Netflix’s Live-Action Series, Explained