• Yes, the one thing I love about One Piece that I really love is that its an anime that embraces being a cartoon as well. The protagonist, Monkey D. Luffy, is clearly inspired by Popeye and there are all sorts of blatantly cartoon moments in one piece like characters having their eyes pop out of their heads, etc that are just impossible to adapt to live action. It’s not just like taking a very high fantasy setting and making it live-action, it’s like making Popeye or Mickey Mouse or Nemo in Dreamland live action.

    There are only a few very cartoony anime out there actually and most of them are older like one of my personal favorites like Lupin the III.