'Who Is Erin Carter?' and 'Heart of Stone' also held strong in their second and third weeks on the streamer.
The Big Picture While the business of adapting animes is often tricky, Netflix has clearly ticked the right boxes with its latest anime adaptation, One Piece. Deservedly, the live-action series which premiered on the streamer on August 31 has, within a short 4 days, racked up an impressive 18.5 million views to become the most viewed title among English-language TV shows on the platform for this past week.
An adaptation of Japan’s historic highest-selling manga series by Eiichiro Oda which has sold over half a billion copies worldwide, anticipation was sky-high when Netflix revealed its plans to bring the manga to live-action. History has shown that anime adaptations are often a tough nut to crack, but the challenge was one series co-creators Steven Maeda and Matt Owens were ready to tackle head-on.
In her glowing review of the animated series, Collider's Arezou Amin gave the series an A- rating, directing praises at the show's ability to preserve character originality despite introducing new aspects to them. Amin equally commended its balanced approach to spacing out the action scenes. According to Netflix, One Piece snapped the top spot in 46 countries and debuted in the Top 10 in 93 others.
'Heart of Stone's Viewership Remains Strong Three weeks after its premiere on Netflix, the Gal Godot-led action-thriller, Heart of Stone is maintaining relatively strong numbers. Having opened with 30 million views, the film slipped to the third spot in the current calculating window with 5.2 million views. Animated film The Monkey King, starring Jimmy O. Yang and Bowen Yang also returned to the list peaking at the second spot with 6.6 M views.
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