“Adaptation is betrayal.” This famous proverb of the screenwriters perfectly applies to the One Piece series. adaptation live action Eiichiro Oda’s manga (105 volumes, available at Glénat) had to find the perfect mix of staying true to the original material, while avoiding the trap of a carbon copy that wouldn’t work on screen.
Therefore, if the series faithfully adapted the main lines of the One Piece manga, changes were still made in certain situations, but also in the development of the characters. Beginning, for example, with Cobb’s career in the Navy under the command of Vice Admiral Garp, although he will likely appear much later in the story.
Buggy the Clown is also among the characters whose introductions have been changed for the purposes of this adaptation. In actual footage in the series, the latter appears in a marquee and performs his tricks in front of a hostage public, who is responsible for clapping every time he is told to.
This darker introduction than in the original work was justified by director Marc Jobst during an interview with our colleagues. variety. “If it’s too dark, then it’s not One Piece, and if it’s just funny and weird, then you lose all the depth of One Piece” He summed it up by adding:
If we offer enough lightness, then we can add darkness. (…) And because we have Luffy to provide all the lightness we might need, we were able to make a slightly darker bag (than in the manga, editor’s note).
Unsurprisingly, Buggy was one of the characters that gave teams the most trouble in the One Piece series, due in part to his body-shredding power.
“The main challenge was actually respecting his clown persona, not forgetting that he’s a real threat because of the devil fruit he ate.” Mark Jobst emphasizes.
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Only two devil fruit owners appear in the first season, adapted from the East Blue saga: Buggy and Luffy. But if the second season sees the light of day, it will be necessary to “case by case” with the new powers introduced in the series, as the director said in the same interview, obviously already ready for this new challenge.
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