One Piece Live Action: An Adaptation Fit for the Pirate King
The One Piece Live Action has recently released on Netflix and even secured a second season. For One Piece fans like myself, this is a welcomed outcome. More One Piece is generally what I want. While I prefer the Manga and Anime wholeheartedly. This Live Action adaptation serves characters well that are normally left out to dry in exchange for the massive world. One of those characters is Bogard, Garp's right-hand man. Bogard is only present with Garp and serves him well. There are only a few times that he speaks in the Manga and Anime. Even when he does, it is just in response to other characters. So, it was surprising to see Bogard get more screentime in one season of the Live Action than he has in the entirety of the parent story. Bogard also happens to have a following in the One Piece community. Which is more surprising in the context of information on the character rather than how fandoms can hyper-fixate on smaller characters. Needless to say, the Bogard fandom was fe...