ONE PIECE | Official Trailer | Netflix

The imaginative new Netflix show “One Piece” is out to give piracy a good name again.

A live-action adaptation of the long-running (and mega-popular) Japanese manga, the genre-smashing eight-episode first season (★★★ out of four; now streaming) introduces a fantasy landscape of rousing outlaws, determined lawmen and even some angry fish-people, with superpowers and a sense of humor thrown in to liven things up.
In this energetic cross between “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Scott Pilgrim,” with a dash of “Doctor Who”-style camp, a young crew of buccaneers goes searching for lost treasure and helps people along the way in a bighearted, swashbuckling answer to “Stranger Things.”

For 22 years, folks have been sailing the seas looking for Gold Roger’s lost treasure, to no avail. Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy), a chatty but earnest sort who never goes anywhere without his signature straw hat, has big dreams of finding the legendary “One Piece” and becoming king of the pirates. And thanks to a piece of Devil Fruit he ate as a kid, Luffy can bend and stretch his body to a cartoonish degree.