Nigel Ng, more commonly known as Uncle Roger on YouTube, received a copyright strike from Toei Animation regarding the One Piece anime video clip featured on his channel.
Per Anime Corner, Ng’s video reviews Sanji’s Japanese curry from episode 133, Recipe Passed Down! Sanji, Curry’s Iron Man! Ng’s uncle Roger is known for his reaction videos to cooking content and using ‘haiyaaa’ to express frustration. Uncle Roger praised the authenticity of the episode’s curry cooking, which features Sanji, the Straw Hats’ chef, guiding Taijo, a young chef in training, as he makes curry for a group of Marine Captains.
Toei Animation, the company that owns the copyright to the popular One Piece anime series, is very strict with its intellectual property rights, issuing a copyright strike to remove Uncle Roger’s YouTube video from the platform shortly after. The One Piece video has garnered millions of views, with Ng asking fans to watch it before it disappears. Toei Animation has also attacked other creators with copyright claims. In 2020, Mark Fitzpatrick, who owns Totally Unmarked Channel, faced more than 150 copyright complaints. The infamous dispute inspired YouTube’s region-blocked/accessible video copyright policy.
One Piece cinematographer discusses bringing the series into live-action
Nicole Hirsch Whitaker, Netflix’s One Piece Cinematographer, recently revealed to CBR her approach to bringing the beloved series to live-action, “Marc Jobst, the director, and I worked together on Jupiter’s Legacy . When he was invited to do the project, he came to me and asked what I would do and how I would approach the project. It was during the Covid epidemic so we had a lot of time to talk,” she said. “We put together a lot of lookbooks and came up with a lot of different inspirations, anything from photographers, filmmakers, comics and things that we were inspired by,” Whitaker added.
Whitaker talked about how One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda inspired the show’s production team and creators to always respect and represent the source material, “Basically, we came up with a The look we wanted for the film was really grounded and also something we wanted.” representative and respectful of what we felt Eiichiro Oda would want the film to look like if he were making it in live-action,” she said.
One Piece is currently streaming on Netflix.
Source: Anime Corner
