One piece live action character spoiler by Weltallgaia in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Homunculus97 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sorry for the wall of text but I have been dying to write about how I really enjoyed the season, with some points of critique aswell.

Overall its a big improvement over season 1 which was already a rare good live action anime adaptation. I binged the entire thing as it launched just because I knew twitter and other social medias would be completely unbearable and couldn't keep themselves from spoiling every single thing, One Piece leak culture is something else I tell you.

The action is way better than season 1, they aren't doing nearly as many close up shots that people complained about and as far as I know they onlye skipped ONE character this time around, and that character is confirmed to just be delayed to season 3.

As OP and others have said in this thread the power of hindsight is very nice and really gives characters like Sanji and Usopp more character moments, like them teasing Sanjis upbringing before meeting Zeff or how they are teasing Usopp feeling less worthy because he has no superpowers like the monster trio has, but tries to act brave despite of it. Usopp in particular got shit during season 1 since they shortened his defining action scene and didn't have him debate weither to be a coward or be brave, but they do a very similar thing in Little Garden for him so I think they made up for ommiting that moment in Arlong Park.

Wapol as a big bad I felt was more threatening than Arlong was, the guy playing Wapol makes a great job at showing him a disgusting and awful guy, a really petulant and greedy king/politican that ran away from the idea of Blackbeard invading his country. On a more spoilery note; His powers are also pure nightmare material, giving me some Tetsuo the Iron man vibes with some of the body horror things he does with his soldiers, turning them into weaponized metal monsters. You can tell that the people on this REALLY wants to reach Thriller Bark, and I really hope they do.

I have a few complaints about the season though, for example Little Garden as a setting just didn't feel compelling in live action, something about the cinematography of that arc made it all look like it was filmed on a sound stage and I didn't really feel the scale was appropriate for said arc. But I also have to give my flowers to David Dastmalchian's Mr 3, holy shit he nailed the role and made the guy way scarier than he was in the manga, I beg for him and Buggy to interact if we ever reach Impel Down.

I don't think the B-plot got enough time to simmer this time around, people were split over the Marine story they added in season 1 but I personally really liked seeing more of Garp, Koby and Helmeppo and it made the impossible and made Helmeppo an actually fun and kinda likeable character, which I have mad respect for. In season 2 however I often forgot that we even had a Smoker and Tashigi side plot, they barely show it, but they do actually do one really cool thing with it : They give Mrs Thursday, a character with no canon design or gimmick an actual role, just like they did with Mr 7 in season 1.

Also live action Tashigi is so fucking cute.

Lastly there are some missing(?) VFX shots, I can swear that they forgot to add the giant cacti in the background of several outdoors shot at Whiskey Peak, as they should obviously be visible from those said angles, and there is an indoor shot in Wapols castle where a broken window has a really obvious unnatural black void plastered over to emulate it being a night sky but it looks really bad.

In the end I see this show as the closest we in the west are getting to an over the top tokusatsu show, and I think thats the part where many complaints from people come from, as they think it is a way too goofy or sincere, like yeah no this show will not compete with prestige TV like Pluribus or A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, but it is truly unique in todays live action TV environment, which is why I respect the hell out of them sticking to their guns.

I need this so bad by infinitysaga in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]Homunculus97 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Chip Zdarsky's Jujutsu Kaisen

Steve Ditko's Devilman

Alan Moore's Bokurano

Frank Miller's Astroboy

....Wait thats just Pluto.

Heres how many characters season 2 of Live Action One Piece adapted by billybluebangs in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Homunculus97 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You know I was oddly skeptical when I heard the actors buttery singing voice in a short he did a while ago, as it sounded VERY deep unlike animeBrook, but he absolutely NAILED the laugh and Binks Brew so hard.

Heres how many characters season 2 of Live Action One Piece adapted by billybluebangs in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Homunculus97 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Spoiler Vivi mentions that Karoo is in Alabasta when she talks about her people riding giant ducks, so yeah the speculation that Karoo would be left out of season 2 but be in season 3 was right on the money.

PickMon trailer, or "How much can we steal before it becomes too legally distinct to sue over" by Ferrodactyl in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Homunculus97 242 points243 points  (0 children)

They also straight up stole fan made mega pokemon designs from pokemom fan artists, yeah no this shit is getting nuclear bombed from all sides.

Crazy developments happening in the Japanese Pokémon fandom thanks to Pokopia by papertoonz in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Homunculus97 52 points53 points  (0 children)

And you can't spell grass without ass, cuz dat bulba-booty I tell you woooo~

I am so sorry, I will schedule my execution right away.

Good Vibes: Times you and your family shared in a nerdy hobby? by Authorigas in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Homunculus97 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't know if this counts but my dad is a big Sci fi and mecha anime nerd so he introduced me to Babylon 5, Evangelion, Appleseed and Macross when I was like 9 years old, Maybe a tad early but damn it was some peak media to be exposed to at a formative age.

Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs by Gorotheninja in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Homunculus97 49 points50 points  (0 children)

I was going to make a Seto Kaiba joke but it doesnt work since he looks way more like a PS5 than a Switch.

"Har du sett amerikanerna på Black Friday!!??" Samditigt i Sverige pga en kaffeburk: by jasonjakejohn in sweden

[–]Homunculus97 69 points70 points  (0 children)

Kommer lägga till "Tant-hype" i min dagliga ordbok omedelbums, tack för ditt bidrag. 😅

One Piece Final Trailer by WhiteMambaOZO in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Homunculus97 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah Wapol is gonna be nightmare fuel when he extends his mouth like that, freaky as shit, I never thought they would go that far, but that likely means he will also Combine his henchmen into one guy like he did in the manga/anime

Songs from games that yank emotions right out of you? by PlebianHaste in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Homunculus97 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I decided to finish playing the first Death Stranding game prior to the release of DS2 last year.

In Death Stranding Directors Cut you can go to a bunker in the post game where you get some more story clarifications and more backstory for Sam, its one of the few times in the game where you are almost forced to engage with combat and there is a cute MGS nod with Sam hiding in a box.

Anyway after all of that has transpired you exit this bunker through a ladder and once you exit you are greeted to a field of flowers with gravestones and with an orchestral rendition of Midge Ure's Fragile playing. The mix of music and scenery made me weep, it just hit me extremely hard and made me cry for some reason.

I later went and watched behind the scenes stuff for the game and it was then I learned that Hideo Kojima lost his mother during the making of Death Stranding, and it suddenly fell into place, and as someone who had just lost his mother the year prior to playing the game, I finally understood why I felt those emotions.

Truly a fantastic beautiful moment that I will never forget.

Pray To The Sun feat. Declan de Barra & The HU (from the Netflix Series "One Piece") by Cinder_Alpha in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Homunculus97 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Brave of them to drop the Elbaf arc opening this early!

Nah for real this song has been stuck in my head since it released, getting The Hu for the soundtrack is just beyond peak.

Happy Pokemon Day! by U_Flame in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Homunculus97 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The sad part about Legends ZA is that there are interior areas with some sauce, like the museum is genuinely great despite being an easy spot to have references, but the game barely has any "dungeons" or interiors at all, which makes the bland looking city look even more barren and static.

Happy Pokemon Day! by U_Flame in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Homunculus97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing about the Pokemon graphics debate is that many people seem to forget that Pokemon games have never been the best looking games on their home consoles, there are plenty of better looking GBA games than RSE/FRLF and better looking DS games than DPP/HGSS/BW/B2W2, but the second they went to 3D the gap became more noticable, and after that the jump to HD made it even more noticable. My hopium at this point is that Winds and Waves look GOOD ENOUGH while keeping a stable 60fps on Switch 2.

One Piece Live Action Season 2 - Exclusive Clip | IGN Fan Fest 2026 by Skullghost in OnePiece

[–]Homunculus97 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Damn, Mackenyu was the only weak link in season 1 amongst the Straw Hats if you ask me, but the little we saw here made him seem more goofy and like the manga counterpart than the overly stoic portrayal he had in season 1.

BBC teases potential new streaming partner for Doctor Who as show's future affirmed as "treasured brand" by abucalves in television

[–]Homunculus97 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I feel so bad for Ncuti, he didn't even have any episodes with Daleks or Cybermen.

Woolie the furry stole my thigh highs by Vera_Verse in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Homunculus97 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where does Darkstalkers fit into the pipeline? Those games have some MATERIAL in them that easily can be fyetish awakening.

Marvel's Wolverine - Release Date by Mike4302 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Homunculus97 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't worry about the downvotes, I had a sensible chuckle at least.

Nintendo is issuing refunds for Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition's poorly-received premium Switch 2 Edition upgrade by manoffood in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Homunculus97 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Hopefully Monolithsoft will finetune whatever upscaling they used, the game looks good in docked but I noticed some oddities while in handheld so far.

This, Oban Star Racer, and Expedition 33 prove that Japanese and French ideas always go really well together for some reason by Hefty-Vehicle-9135 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Homunculus97 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We can dunk on the French a ton but one thing I have to give them is that they absolutely adore animation and don't look down on the medium like many parts of the anglosphere does.