it was probably the best live action anime adaptation ive ever seen but it was a bad One Piece show. the hair and makeup all looked like amateur stage play crap. Nami's hair with the black roots showing is embarassing. emily literally has natural red hair and they dyed it dark first and then dyed it halloween adventure temp dye orange specifically to make it look fake. it was insane. everyone looked like they were wearing off the rack halloween costumes and they obviously did that on purpose.
the usopp nose was done in a movie in the 80s with cheap practical effects and it looked absolutely fine, so there was zero excuse to not do it. jacob is an unknown nobody actor, he shouldnt get to go "nah dont cover up my pretty face man". you're playing fucking usopp put the nose on.
The Usopp nose thing is super minor and it was probably a writers decision. The 15 real problems with the show
1. Lack of Usopp and Sanji Characterization and Moments (Some of these are like Usopp vs Chuu being too short and not showing Usopp’s cowardice are not even the writers fault to be fair the Netflix editors cut them out during the editing process when the writers were on strike)
2. Garp plotline taking away screen time from relevant characters just to end up completely irrelevant
3. Ugly yellow filter and having every thing take place at night time (I know some of this was to hide CGI errors but it’s fucking One Piece it should be upbeat)
4. Lack of any subtlety every thing bluntly stated out loud (e.g. Luffy saying “I know Nami’s good” during the scene in Coco village). Another side effect of this is the whole clearly stated good pirates vs clearly stated bad pirates with Luffy putting being “good” over anything else (e.g. giving back the meat in Orange Town)none of Luffy’s selfishness every seen in the LA. He’s more relatable but an infinitely worse character.
5. Bad cinematography and editing, Fish eye Lens and Dutch angles for no good reason just look at episode 3 when the camera is zoomed into their faces. Arlong’s speech has so much random cuts every 4 sentences.
6. Luffy is a bum and can’t use Gum Gum powers unless it’s vital to the plot. Obviously some of this is due to budget but still Luffy shouldn’t be being restrained by Marine recruits and manhandled by all his villains except Kuro.
7. Gum Gum Powers look like shit, This is more an extension of the 6 but it is big issue. Gum Gum Whip, Battle Axe, and Gatling looked good the rest not so much especially the Arlong fight.
8. Wire work is too obvious, you could practically see the wires in Sanji vs. Kuroobi both in Baratie and AP.
9. Horrendous dialogue bottom tier CW, sometimes 8th grade play lvl dialogue
10. Live Action characters being treated like their manga counterparts despite not doing anything to warrant it (e.g. Zeff saying Luffy saved the Baratie when all he did in the LA was get trashed by Arlong, Luffy saying Zoro saved the little girl from Helmeppo when he purposefully picked the fight)
11. Zoro being way too edgy, 8th grade lvl one liners and some of the corniest anime like lines I’ve ever seen.
12. Ruin the worldbuilding by catering to fan service (e.g. Nami knowing about Noland in season 1)
13. Luffy is not a man of action. (E.g. Luffy needs to hear Nami’s backstory in the LA while he doesn’t care in the manga)
14. Takes away from backstories (e.g. Bellemere’s sacrifice thrown away
Another scene that lost a significant part of its impact imo because of one detail. In the LA Arlong asks who LIVES here. In the manga, it was them saying she has no family. It's way easier to say it's just me in this house than accept the painful "I have no other family" lie Which is essentially disowning her daughters, tying back to Nami saying you're not even my real mother. In the LA, Bellemere says id never deny you're my daughters, but that's MANGA Bellemere's response to MANGA Arlong. LA Arlong just said who lives here and bitch just tweaked)
15. Fake looking props like Alvida’s mace, the infamous scene of Zoro’s scabbard bending etc.