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Moving the Garp reveal early and giving more screentime to the Marines was probably meant to help with worldbuilding and give some nuance to the world. Because while the worldbuilding in One Piece is crazy good, the East Blue saga has more of a "villain of the week" vibe to it. With Mihawk being an exception, since he's basically an endgame boss hanging around beginner areas out of boredom.

Mihawk just offers a small glimpse of how powerful the top tier characters in One Piece are.

I love they added Luffy's treasure tab reference. I don't think they'll explain it here, but as a kid, Luffy used to tell Makino (the barmaid) that he'll pay her back every time she fed him a meal with the treasure he'd find as a pirate. Since Makino always accepted it, you can guess why he thought that'd work here too.

In case you were wondering, that guy that Sanji fed with the fried rice was one of Don Krieg's crewmates. So he was talking about Mihawk destroying 50 ships and killin 5000 men

I appreciate that they gave Don Krieg exactly the respect he deserves. They really did Mihawk justice too. He looks just like he does in the Anime.

Baratie is 100% built, its truly amazing the amt of passion they put in the project to build most of the ships and sets

Eichiro Oda almost refused to reveal early on that Garp was Luffy's grandfather. But after various discussions with other producers and scriptwriters, he finally gave the green light for it to be reveal this early on.

Sanji actor is actually a spaniard with a british accent. You can also tell his spanish accent slips threw his british accent sometimes. Its very unique and I like it lol

About accents- Sanji´s actor is from the Canary Islands in Spain. He and Luffy´s actor dubbed themselves in the spanish version.

Sanji is Ladies man. I love how Live action version poterayed him has charming flirt. In anime/manga he is embodiment of a simp and perv. As a Sanji fan This might be my fav change they did in LA.

As a manga reader, it amazes me how early Mihawk was introduced in the series. Normally in manga and anime, characters other than a few main characters fall behind due to the power creep. The last season's big bad becomes a mook in the next season, etc. But, Mihawk, who was introduced as early as chapter 49 in 1998, is still around in 2023 after 1000+ chapters and is still one of the most powerful characters in the setting.

I just realized no matter where Mihawk gets introduced he is always a badass. from paper to animation and then live action. Nice

I think Zoro rejected Nami's friendship declaration not because he didn't believe her but because he needed to avoid giving her concern any weight in his decision. If he'd accept her as a true friend in that moment he'd have to at least consider her feelings about his plan, and he couldn't do that.

"I don't know what it is but I'm excited" is me everytime i see another one piece location

Mihawk is one of my favs as well. Out of all the characters, he's the one who most looks like he walked straight out of the anime. His role in the story here is essentially "Yeah, the Straw Hats have been doing okay so far. Now here's what pirates from the Grand Line are like." The only thing I find slightly disappointing is the lack of his more iconic nickname "Hawkeye" Mihawk. It's just so fun to say.

In anime, Mihawk actually said "Sorry, I don't have smaller sword than this one"

Mihawk is basically Oda : here.. one of the strongest guy in the world .. have a small taste .. just 1% of his power

Little bit of trivia: a younger Mihawk can be seen in the crowd at Gold Roger's execution at the very beginning of the series.

The intro of Mihawk really shows you how big the world of One Piece can get and that our crew, as talented as they are, are still just small fish in very very big waters. I just have to say, I love Nami’s actress. Like you can really see everything she’s thinking in her performance. The look on her face when Zoro rejects their friendship and then when she’s contemplating getting on that boat and leaving. Emily Rudd kills it. I also just love the boys ribbing Nami about her ‘new boyfriend’ and Nami trying to fight her smile with a “you guys are the worst.” And then Zoro using the drinking game to try and get to know Nami because he knows she can’t resist a bet (which by the way, excellent set up for that last arc I just noticed). It’s a real moment of vulnerability for the two characters on the ‘not crew’ that tend to be the most closed off. Love it!

I really liked that whole 7 Warlords of the sea deal in this episode.Its pretty fun worldbuilding Edit: 4:55 They actually did built the majority of sets,there's a lot of behind the stage footage flying around

i heard that the director favorite character is Mihawk. That's why he has a cool introduction.😂

Just to clarify abt Garp's appearance. He actually does appear nearly this early in the manga, but as an un-named Marine in a sequence of chapter cover artwork. We actually get the story of how Coby and Helmeppo began to work under Garp thru these cover stories, but these characters didn't reappear in the actual story until waaaay later when we finally both learn Garp's name and that he's Luffy's grandpa. I find it pretty cool they actually decided to incorporate a bit of that storyline as a b-plot in the live action.

season 2 is officially announced i cant wait. i hope there a coming more seasons, it will be a blast to see the seven warlords!

lol I love Nami and Zoro friendship moments, if Zoro's the first mate then Nami's definitely the quartermaster

Really interesting seeing how they handled Mihawk's introduction here, it's a lot more epic and impactful while in the anime/manga it's a lot more lowkey and menacing... almost as if you were watching the Grim Reaper of the Sea arrive at the scene. Also kinda funny how they handled Don Krieg... in the original he and his Crew arrived at the Baratie after fleeing from the Grand Line and specifically Mihawk. The strongest swordsman arrived at the place simply because he was chasing Don Krieg. Don Krieg caused some trauble in the Baratie but he was eventually defeated as well, I'll skip the details in case you're planning to watch the anime after this. Needles to say... the Casting choice for the Strongest Swordsman Dracule Mihawk was perfect, and the fact that they decided to give him some spanish guitars as his background music was perfect as well since i don't remember him having a soundtrack like that originally... he always gaved me spanish vibes at least.

My only complaint is that there wasn't enough Mihawk in this series, the actor was fabulous.

They did get Oda's blessing to do the Garp review, yes but they reportedly had to fight for it. This wasn't a reveal Oda decided later and regrets not showing sooner, he went out of his way to hide it in the manga early on. The LA show runners thought it would help to flesh out the B plot, I imagine, and to create a more clear through line throughout the season, I think.

There is something they changed in here that I actually thought would be something they won't remove. It's about the line that Zoro says to Luffy when he was defeated. In the original, he said "You would be disappointed if I'm not the greatest swordsman, right?" then Zoro shouted as he raise his Katana which is a symbol of his vow "From now on until I become the greatest swordsman, I will never lose again! Do you have problem with that? Pirate King?!" then we see Mihawk smile at them as he leaves. Him calling Luffy "Pirate King" at that moment gave me chills.

All of Sanji's moves are actually done by the actor, i don't remember in which area exactly but he is almost Black belt level

Basically the Mihawk encounter is a sneak peek into the powerlevel of late-game one piece. Mihawk is insanely strong, even right now in the manga (after 1000+ chapters) its unclear if Zoro would be ready. Also Garb and Mihawk being in the east blue is basically the equivalent of two level 100 characters roaming the starting area of a game 😂

mihawk is unreal. even though he defeated my man zoro u gotta love him lmao

I think the best description I've seen of Mihawk's voice in this is that he speaks in cursive. On a different note, the pause at the end of the fight is actually something that shows up a lot in Japanese cinema because it's a reference to an older samurai movie where that happened. The thing is, the reason it happened was because there was a malfunction of the blood spray trick and it didn't go off when it should have and the actors held their poses, waiting for the director to cut the scene and then the blood spray trick went off with a large spray. And the director kept it.

mihawk IS THE BEST. PERIOD. also, the name of his sword, yoru, means "night" in japanese, so his sword's name is literally night. I can't be the only one that thinks that's the sickest name a sword can have.

As a career cook, Sanji is everything I want to be!

Despite his power, Mihawk is a peaceful man...Don Krieg or maybe one of his fleet/men just disturbed his peace, that's why he eliminated Krieg's fleet.

one of the producers , steve maeda had to convince oda to have garp in s1

"I don't know what it is, but I'm excited" is absolutely the correct reaction to anything new from Oda LOL

Love Garp so much. And when he says he turned down the promotion to Admiral, that's no joke. He's definitely tough enough to hold the title, and One Piece's Navy Admirals do *not* mess around.

Mihawk and Grandpa Garp are quite handsome 😅

19:38 it not that Garp has hatred for pirates. Pirates in this world are consider criminals, they steal, burn, kill innocent people. Same goes for the Marine and World Government. Garp is like the cop of this world, doing his job, so of course he want to stop his grandchild from the equivalent of joining a street gang. The saying of this show from before it true. There are bad pirate, good pirate, same goes for the marine. It is important to understand that just because our main character is a pirate, that the other side doesn’t fill with good people

Taz Skylar was born to an English mother and a Lebanese father on the Spanish island of Tenerife. So it's difficult to say exactly what his accent is.

You can see young mihawk in episode 1 at the Roger's execution

I think the thing I enjoyed the most about this LA is how they treated the relationships between characters after all. Show has some cheeky, over-the-top moments, sure, but many adaptions just assume you know the characters and they barely bother to actually have them bonding. They just go with it because that's what's supposed to happen and don't have the time to make it happen, as they usually try to cover too much content. Here they did make an effort to have the characters distrusting each other at first and slowly having moments and chats (sometimes just funny and sometimes more meaningful, as it should be) and building on it. The characters' personalities and relationships aren't even 100% 1-1 to the anime but they still feel authentic because they gave them proper time and development. They kinda did their own thing at times, but they did it, which is what counts. The actors also seem to get along really well IRL, which doesn't hurt either. Overall, their group dynamics don't look exactly the same as in the anime to me but I still enjoy each of them equally for what they are. They didn't do everything perfect but I think just this aspect is huge and I at least haven't seen it in any other adaptation.

Yes Mihawk is definitely modeled after the Spanish crusaders. Nice notice!

The whole Baratie was set. You should check out the behind the scenes videos. They built ALOT. Its quite amazing

Taz Skylar who playing Sanji work his butt off went to cooking class and restaurants and talk to chefs. He also at times was cooking behind the scene for the production team dress in his suit. While he also learn different Martial Arts he posted alot to his Instagram. There is also a Sanji cook book that out that has recipes from the anime.

Yoru, Mihawk's sword, is acutally more akin to a Kriegsmesser - German war knife meant to be wielded two-handed. Although considered to be the European katana, the Kriegsmesser is actually a falchion, a term given to single-edged European swords whether they are singlehanded or two-handed. The more you know.

Sanji is supposed to be French, but Taz Skylar the actor is English-Lebanese who grew up in the Canary Island. HIs accent is similar to English but kinda have an islander sound mixed in, it's very unique.

Mihawk is an end game boss that shows up halfway through Act I. And he begins a proud tradition in One Piece of overpowered curveballs coming out of nowhere.

What they left out is that Gin was part of the Krieg Armada, when we saw Mihawk's introduction, that's when the 5000 men were slaughtered and 50 ships were destroyed, all by Mihawk.

1:05 while Oda did in fact have the final say in every aspect of the show’s decision making, Garp’s introduction was one of the things Oda did not agree about at first.

My favorite character is Sanji, his charisma is amazing

The only reason I know what Port and Starboard are is Calvin and Hobbes. After a crash on the sled, Calvin and Hobbes fume back to the house to look up something. Hobbes: "See? *See?* Starboard is right! Port is left!" Calvin: "Ok, so I was wrong for once in my life! Shut up."

The Garp reveal doesn’t happen in the manga for another 12 arcs. By the that point, we have 2.5 more Straw Hats (another joins immediately after).

absolute banger of a reaction as always! Just loved how awed you were at the Mihawk scene.

They actually built the entire Baratie and most of the ships. They wanted as many physical locations as possible.

I haven't watched the anime or read the mama, but I've seen several people say that Don Krieg had the largest military might outside of the marines in the East Blue, with over 5000 men and 500 shops. The pirate that showed up at Baratie is all that's left of it after MiHawk happened

oh my god i just finished this one after watching all of your OPLA reactions and you just uploaded the next one!! im so lucky lol

I am so glad you said about the fact that Oda may have gotten to make changes that he REALLY wanted .....I watch a lot of reaction vids from fans and they are complaining about things that are actually not as well written back early on as it is now...Im sure Oda may have wished he could go back and fix some early mistakes...I saw so many inconsistencies in the writing throughout the anime...especially with personalities that are not inline with the character and make no sense....this live action follows rules....glad you noticed that ;)...also yes they actually built that set...I hope it becomes an actual tourist attraction in future....also I noticed you enjoy this music...you should check out the Mihawk theme music creator, he is a young guy but man can he play the guitar...it was out a few days a go but he shows a score from the mihawk theme live performance...its called (ONE PIECE: Composing Mihawk’s Theme | Netflix)

They changed the storyline for Baratie a bit. Garp didn't call Mihawk to get Luffy. Garp is actually a very minor character until the grandpa reveal. In the manga, Don Krieg sails to the Baratie. The guy who almost dies because of starvation but was saved by Sanji is called Gin and was a member of Krieg's crew. They tried to find the One Piece, but got totally wrecked by Mihawk who followed them the whole way back to the East Blue to finish them off. That's when Zoro challenged him.

Thank you! I was waiting for this episode and your reaction! Love the way you speak about the music and also the camerawork! 😊

Really fun to see your reaction to all the characters and the wonderful Worldbuilding that One Piece has. As someone whos almost up to date with the One Piece Manga/Anime, I love that people get into One Piece because of the Live Action! Also so happy one of my favorite animes got such a hella good Live Action Adaptation as well!

Idk if someone had already mentioned it yet, but yes! The Baratie is a set! They really put effort into everything, it's amazing.

Mihawk is the kind of pirate that you find in the Grand Line.

A little note about the music of the fight, if you didn't notice: it's Zoro's theme, but tango. Or more specifically, the theme of his flashback and of the establishment of his promise and dream. Basically telling us through the music that Mihawk is taking him over ENTIRELY, being in complete control of the situation and leaving him no chance of winning, by "stealing" his theme and making it his own. Basically telling us that Mihawk is snatching that dream away from him, but is inherently part of it, because defeating him means that Zoro has accomplished his goal.

All of the ships are real. They built them for the series. They wanted practical sets, not cgi to sell the immersion.

I wish Mihawk was like this in the manga. Sooner or later we will see him pop off though.

the goathawk baby lets go!!! the world's strongest/greatest swordsman is here finally, such a powerful presence as you mentioned, that dude is really a one man army that's actually crazy, the guy that sanji fed was part of don krieg's armada/fleet of 50 ship and 5000 men which mihawk dismantled but they somehow didnt feel the need to mention it idk why, the world building went up a notch here, meeting one of the strongest people in the verse an actual top tier as shown and zoro a very strong guy was really ''a fly to be swatted on'' as nami told him compared to mihawk, also with his introduction the 7 warlords of the sea are also introduced as a faction in this world, their bounties are not so much ''cancelled'' per se but more so frozen, basically their bounties are stopped to what they used to be before they were contracted as part of the warlords, one of my favorite fights in the show and the reason i got hooked to one piece such a great episode they did it justice and im really happy. fun fact 1: im glad you noticed the flamenco/spanish guitar theme in the background music but of course you would (btw that ost is great, i listen to it a lot), as suggested by mihawk's awesome design which is based on spanish conquistadors ties in very well fun fact 2: his first name dracule sounds awfully similar to ''dracula'' right? its unfortunate it wasnt shown in this episode but if you go back to the opening scene with roger's execution a young mihawk is shown as well as his little ship among the other big ones and its shaped like a coffin 😂

I love how you're so wrapped up into the world you didn't flinch at seeing a fisherman

Great reaction! Mihawk is so cool!

Mihawk is really on another level right now

luffy wont stand in the way of his friends dreams cause he trust them fully and not even once luffy thought zoro would lost the fight thats just the way luffy is

A fun little fact The Manga has out sold Spiderman and Batman leaving behind Superman in comic's. It also out sold Harry Potter in sales. Oda has Guinness World Records to this Manga. Yeah the Monster Trio now.

It's the best course of action to introduce Garp early.. It gives decent space for the marines side of story to breathe.. Imagine having this show, and after Morgan, no more marines.. it's not realistic.. There has to be another force you should be following other than the main protagonists.. Especially there's basically no guarantee that the series will continue for as long as the story goes on. It gives newcomers a wider view of this world rather than a one sided kind of story. It's a smart thing to do, especially because it works for new audiences. If they don't complain.. old fans might follow as well.. than be toxic.

Mihawk's power is just a glimpse of what awaits them in the grand line.

Remember the flash back was 10 years ago for Luffy ( he was wearing Shanks hat then so t was after Shanks left). Also if you go back to the opening scene of the series Mihawk and Shanks were in the crowd ( 22 years younger).

I love your reactions to this series, I look forward to every episode!

The look on your face at Mohawks fight scene was awesome!

from what i've heard Oda was origanally against including garp so early, but they managed to convinve him to go with it.

oda was borderline forced to have garp early he nearly scrapped the whole show due to it but was persuaded that it would be good, from what iv heard and this is just rumours he still doesn't like it very much but accepts it what we know for sure is he loves that one piece is reaching new people hes very happy about that

Don Krieg getting the disrespect he deserves. Mihawk was absolutely perfect.

garp doesn't like pirates because good pirates are like VERY RARE.

Sanjie's meals are in the One Piece Cookbook. Just thought you'd want to know.

they built almost everything

If Oda wanted to introduce Garp early he would have. he had already created the character and his relationship to Luffy before the first chapter was made.

The Anime is much better in almost every aspect, but the Live-action for a first attempt was good. It's sad that all the budget went to making sets instead of improving and replicating the Anime cinematography, it would certainly be the biggest revolution in the series ever made.

Loving watching these, can't wait for you to see the arlong park set design!

Love your admiration for the music

Yep! Thankfully everything is specially constructed for the show :)

"I'm laugh if his stories are actually true" Zehahaha!

Since you asked if they actually built the set, and YES! They built the whole set, they tried not to use as much CGI as possible, so even for weird looking characters are actually using prosthetic instead. What you saw in the show, the Windmill village, all ships, Buggy's circus, and etc. are all real. Btw, all cast members learned to do their own stunts, so the actor who play Zoro can actually do swordsmanship (He's Enishi in Rurouni Kenshin: The Final), Nami's actress learned Karate when she was young, so she also picked up some fighting skill back when she got the role, Sanji's actor started fighting training as a beginner and had been training for 10hrs per day, Usopp's actor learned how to do marksmanship, etc. They are all very dedicated to their roles. You can check out their Behind the Scene videos. I hope they will make the whole set as an amusement park when they are done.

Yes!! This was renewed by Netflix

zoro vs mihawk skill level is comparable to a teaspoon vs the ocean

In the manga, Don Krieg.... . . . . . Tried to take the restaurant with what was left of his crew, forcing Luffy and Sanji to fight him. (Mihawk disrespected him so much, he just sank his last ship and left) Don Krieg went past the normal petty villainy and straight to chemical weapons. One Piece thrives on hatable villains, but good riddance to that guy.

I know you didn't really believe Garp was a pirate at any time...The flashback with Luffy happened 10 years before the story time, and they've shown Garp making his speech at Gold Roger's execution that happened 22 years ago.

as an added detail,the seven warlords specifically have to share 10% of any treasure they steal or otherwise attain to the World GOvernment as part of being allowed to continue acting as pirates unmolested, as well as having to do any whatever the government ordersthem.

FYI - That hungry pirate was Gin. He was the top fighter in Don Krieg’s pirate armada. Krieg was that purple-haired pirate with the shoulder canon. Mihawk wiped out Don Krieg’s entire fleet.

When Zoro says "wounds on the back are a swordsman's greatest shame" it means a real swordsman wouldn't run from a fight even if he lost. He lost so he decided to lose with dignity

I love the theme that plays during the duel. It’s a mixture of Zoro’s and Mihawk’s themes but just like in the duel, Mihawk’s just dominates. Just love i