One Piece on Netflix: 6 Big Differences Between the Series and the Anime

Introduction to Baroque works

As we explain here, Baroque Works is a criminal organization that tries to recruit Zoro (McNeu) from his introduction scene in the live-action One Piece. The swordsman crosses paths with a certain Mr. 7, whom he cuts in two.

In the anime, this scene doesn’t even appear on screen, it’s just a conversation. But the biggest difference is that Baroque Works is not featured in the first saga – called East Blue – which Netflix is ​​adapting for 8 episodes. This organization is at the heart of the second saga called “Alabasta”.

Luffy and his crew will help the people of Alabasta by fighting Baroque Works and its leader: the Great Corsair Crocodile. That’s all there will be in the One Piece Season 2 program.

Garp appeared

Garp (Vincent Regan) is a Navy Vice Admiral tracking Luffy (Inaki Godoy) on East Blue. We find out in the season that it is actually his grandfather. A revelation that does not appear at all in the first volumes written by Eiichiro Oda, on the contrary.

On the anime side, Garp’s character does not appear at all in the East Blue saga (we see him in a later episode filler, i.e. that deviates from the manga plot). As a result, the whole plot around Cobb and Hermep was also created for the needs of the series.

Introduction to Klahadoll/Kuro

With two episodes set on Usopp Island (Jacob Romero), the live-action writers took a lot of liberties. The action takes place in a house at night, like a horror movie. Where in the anime, it’s a real battle that pits the crew of the Black Cat and their captain Kuro against our loyal comrades.

The Netflix series notably overshadowed the (brilliant) character of Django, a villain who has a penchant for hypnotizing his opponents with a pendulum. The writers ended up keeping the two pirates—Sham and Buck—as the two cooks.

The arcs are intertwined

The real challenge for the writers was to condense ten volumes and about sixty episodes into 8 episodes. They had to make a choice, and that included introducing the season’s big antagonist to the story.

In Netflix’s One Piece, the shark-man Arlong goes to a barati (restaurant boat) while in the anime, it’s Nami who goes with him by stealing the Going Merry while Luffy, Sanji, and Zoro cook the other fish.

This is another villain that appears during his arc. His name is Don Krieg, he is one of the most powerful pirates in East Blue. We also see him briefly in the Netflix series when Mihawk destroys his boat. Luffy’s face-to-face encounter with Don Krieg in the anime is significant because it’s his first real fight…

A story with Nami

The plot around Nami (Emily Rudy) has undergone some slight changes, but taken together, it doesn’t do enough justice to the character. He actually owes Arlong 100 million berri for freeing the Kokoyashi natives. In the anime, he is on his way to that amount, and in the TV series, he has money.

In the series, his villagers and his sister are convinced that he has betrayed them, while in the anime they have known the sacrifices he has made over the years – which makes them want to stand up to Arlong.

(We’ll leave out the fact that the screenwriters created it Air-snails which allow him to communicate with Arlong).

The barrel scene

At the end of Season 1, the first 5 members of the Straw Hat crew find themselves in the center of the boat, in front of the barrel. Each in turn, they shout out the dream they want to realize. This iconic One Piece scene doesn’t take place right after the Arlong Park battle, but a few episodes later.

East Blue’s saga, on the animated side, ends after they pass through Logue Town (the one where Gol D. Roger is executed) and just before they head to the Grand Line in search of One Piece. It seems that the writers want to keep this arc alive for the second season, as the post-credits scene introduces a character who will play a pivotal role.

And you, what other differences have you noticed between the anime and the live-action One Piece series?