For me the live action does a good job making me care for a character the anime couldn’t
So I have seen all the anime episodes of One Piece already and of course a big fan. But for me Koby always just was a bit there. When the photos came out of the cast something immediately clicked and I was like ‘ow, this is a one on one’
Now having watched the show they have done such a good job making Koby the counterpart to Luffy’s beginning of his pirate journey. Giving more screen time and actually succeeding for me that Luffy and Koby have a good friendship.
I am really interested later (after the strike) to hear why they choose this path of the story because it does differ but it totally works? And that is what amazes me
Shout out to the actor playing Koby as well. For me the star of the live action! (And my new Netflix profile icon which I thought would 1000 precent be Inaki)