It was only a matter of time.

The major comic books have been mined for both movies and television.

Video games like Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Castlevania, and The Witcher have been adapted into television series.

Now one of the “big three” of the Shounen Jump mangas (Naruto, Bleach, One Piece) is getting an American live-action television series.

I hope this does well. There’s a live-action Cowboy Bebop series being made currently for Netflix starring John Cho and there was a live-action Death Note movie that came out in 2017.

There are tons of other classic anime and manga series that can be adapted for American audiences and if these adaptations are leaning toward multi-episode seasons as opposed to a 2-hour movie, the ceiling for success is really high cause there’s so much more room to develop the characters, flesh out relationships, build the story, and earn the big action sequences and emotional moments.

Netflix has greenlighted One Piece, a live-action series based on one of the best-selling manga titles of all time.

The 10-episode series comes from Tomorrow Studios and Shueisha. Tomorrow Studios also is behind another live-action Netflix series adaptation of a classic Manga property, the upcoming Cowboy Bebop.

One Piece follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and his pirate crew as they explore a fantastical world of endless oceans and exotic islands in search of the world’s ultimate treasure known as “One Piece” to become the next Pirate King.

Veteran Steven Maeda (Lost, The X-Files) is the writer, showrunner and executive producer. Matt Owens (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Luke Cage) is writer/executive producer.

Source: Deadline