The official One Piece collectible card game will get a unique set of cards based on the live-action adaptation of the anime.
The reveal comes from the official Premium Bandai site. The collection has nine cards and features several actors from the Netflix One Piece series. Two cards are dedicated to Monkey D. Luffy, and one is in a golden foil. The other cards feature Roronoa Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Dracule Mihawk, Arlong and Shanks. To celebrate the release of these cards, the site notes: “To commemorate the NETFLIX ONE PIECE starting here comes a Premium Card Collection featuring characters that appeared in it! The cards also feature illustrations of the live action characters for the first time!”
Pre-orders for the Netflix One Piece cards are available now and will close on Nov. 12, barring the pre-orders going over the available units. The estimated delivery of the cards is April 2024. The success of the live-action One Piece adaptation is a welcome thing for anime fans, as many companies, including Netflix, have failed to adapt certain anime titles to the satisfaction of many viewers. However, One Piece‘s first season was a resounding hit on Netflix, and a second season has already been ordered.
One of the numerous reasons that One Piece fans fell for the live-action show was the casting. Many agree that the actors who play Monkey D. Luffy, Nami, Shanks, Sanji and the other characters “perfectly embody” the personalities in the anime and original manga by Eiichiro Oda. Oda was personally involved with the adaptation, with the directors going so far as to say that “everything went through Oda.” The mangaka even did some rare interviews in the West because he wanted to help promote the show, which he believes is genuinely good.
Recently, Oda has also praised the One Piece manga’s anime adaptation, stating that he’s cried watching the “Wano” arc. This arc featured numerous moments that fans had been excited to see play out, not least of which was Monkey D. Luffy using his 5th Gear form for the first time. Oda noted that the One Piece anime was doing such justice to the manga material that it made him tear up. One Piece has now entered its “final arc” in the manga, and Oda has promised that while the end is in sight, he won’t rush it, as he doesn’t want to disappoint fans.
The first season of the live-action One Piece series is available on Netflix.
Source: Premium Bandai
