Ok guys, I'm currently watching the Live Action and I've reached Baratie after Zoro v Mihawk.

There r some changes to the source material that I like overall, like Luffy's backstory being given at intervals instead of all of it at the same time. I also love the villains, including Buggy and Kuro and how menacing they were. I'm disappointed by no Django and Arlong doesn't look as intimidating as he could be, just angry.

Inaki's portrayal of Luffy is very good but it's not the best. There are some things that Luffy just would never say like "you could never fail me" after Zoro lost. Also compared to the Luffy in OG source he talks too much and is a bit too preachy about dreams and friends and stuff. Overall, still very good

Now I haven't finished it yet or spoken of everything I've seen but I've got to say, the worst part about this Live Action is the marine sides of things. It's absolutely atrocious. At first, I was very happy to see the parallels between Koby and Luffy as they both work up to their dreams and I thought we were just gonna see some of the things on the cover pages in the manga brought to life in more detail but the fact that they decided to make Garp be the one to chase Luffy is so very annoying and horrible.

Looking at the story, if Garp had chased East Blue Luffy, there is no way in hell that he could have escaped. The reason why it's the worst thing is that first, it undermines every single high rank marine from Captain to Vice Admiral that we'll see from now on (if they continue with the adaptation). If Vice Admiral Garp, who supposedly caught the Pirate King Gol D Roger, was escaped by some new pirate then what are captains gonna do? It's either gonna undermine Smoker when we see him or undermine Garp because a captain gives Luffy more trouble than a Vice Admiral.

Anyway I'm very disappointed with this angle. I was happy to see Koby's adventures as a part world building in the adaptation but this this executive decision is horrendous and I'm surprised that Oda allowed it