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    'One Piece' review: A popular manga becomes a lively, nonsensical series

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Sep 01, 2023 4 minutes
    From left, Emily Rudd as Nami, Iñaki Godoy as Monkey D. Luffy and Mackenyu Arata as Roronoa Zoro in a scene from Netflix' s "One Piece."

    Turning comics and cartoons into live-action movies and television, as the Blue Fairy transformed the puppet Pinocchio into a real boy, remains a popular industrial strategy in a world where proven intellectual property rules the roost. It's not always successful, and, one might add, nothing new — the first movie of "Alice in Wonderland" dates to 1903 — but it's where we live now and for the foreseeable future.

    Which brings us to "One Piece," which premiered Thursday on Netflix, based on what is reportedly the world's bestselling manga and the anime that followed it quickly into life. Being familiar only with the latter, I can't say how much comes from the page and how

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