Nina Oiki, a gender and politics researcher at Tokyo's Waseda University, poses for a photo with some of her favorite "One Piece" anime character goods in Tokyo, Sunday, March 5, 2023. Oiki has been a "One Piece" fan since she was in elementary school. Hit Japanese manga “One Piece” is coming to Netflix as a live-action series, a development that's both exciting and worrisome for fans who have seen mixed success in a growing list of Hollywood adaptations. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
  • Japan One Piece
    Nina Oiki, a gender and politics researcher at Tokyo’s Waseda University, poses for a photo with some of her favorite “One Piece” anime character goods in Tokyo, Sunday, March 5, 2023. Oiki has been a “One Piece” fan since she was in elementary school. Hit Japanese manga “One Piece” is coming to Netflix as a live-action series, a development that’s both exciting and worrisome for fans who have seen mixed success in a growing list of Hollywood adaptations. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
  • Japan One Piece
    Producer Joseph Chou attends a press conference at FCCJ on Feb. 21, 2023. Chou, a producer and chief executive of Tokyo-based Sola Digital Arts, which created the animation work called “Blade Runner: Black Lotus.” (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)
  • Japan One Piece
    Japanese pop culture expert Roland Kelts holds a book about Blade Runner at Meiji Jingu in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2023. Hit Japanese manga “One Piece” is coming to Netflix as a live-action series. Anime has a low production cost compared to live-action films, and computer-generated heroes don’t get sick or injured or make offensive remarks offscreen like real-life actors sometimes do, making it a marketable medium, said Kelts. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

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