‘One Piece’ Showrunner Reveals Eiichiro Oda Forced Netflix to Fix Season 1

Netflix’s live-action *One Piece* was initially planned as a 10-episode season, but a new executive asked the team to halve the budget and reduce it to eight episodes. Showrunner Steve Maeda said the writers rewrote the scripts under those constraints, and he feared the changes would disappoint fans and leave the show unable to deliver what had been promised.

Maeda said creator Eiichiro Oda was involved before production and spoke up as the adaptation’s development faltered, after which Netflix gave the series more support. The article presents Oda’s intervention as an important factor in the show reaching a version that could better serve the source material. The series has since been renewed for a third season.