During the early hours of today, the live-action series based on the iconic manga by Eiichiro Oda , One Piece, finally premiered . Although it was a highly anticipated premiere by fans, this also meant that it was received with mixed reviews, derived from the participation of anti-fans on specialized review sites.
But before continuing, you must understand the concept of review-bombing , which is a practice where a group of thousands of users coordinate to go to review sites and sink the rating of a series, movie or even a video game by putting zero ratings. and ones. This is a technique of the most toxic fans and sworn enemies of a certain franchise, or even just the fandom itself.
And that is precisely what is happening with the One Piece live-action series , which at the time of writing this article already has an IMDb rating of 8.8 points, but has been going up and down every hour . These constant changes derive from review-bombing, since if we review the breakdown of the ratings, we can realize that the graph is inclined towards two numbers: 10 and 1 .
Both putting a maximum rating and a minimum rating indiscriminately is incorrect. Although these sites want to encourage users to rate the series and movies objectively, in the end there are cases like these where "they only give it 10 because they like One Piece " or, on the contrary, " they only give it 1 because they don't they like One Piece .” In the end, neither side of the coin has sufficient justification for the rating they give.
And about the review-bombing, because IMDb has some controversial controls on it. The effect was recently applied to the live-action “The Little Mermaid”, which was slammed by critics for casting a colored girl in the leading role. The rating system shows an average rating of 4.9 points, but this is not what is shown on IMDb. An average rating of 7.2 points is listed on the site, which the site claims is "the actual rating, after excluding bots."
However, for IMDb to take a rating of this caliber there has to be "true review-bombing", so great that it cannot be ignored. Bearing this in mind, it will be necessary to review if the anti-fans of One Piece really "are as many as you think" to cause the rating of the live-action to fall to the ground.
And speaking of live-action, it is already available in the Netflix catalog even with the promised Japanese dubbing. The series lasts for eight one-hour episodes and has the approval of author Eiichiro Oda, who was also involved as a project supervisor. It should be noted that, according to previous statements, the intention is to continue with the production of this project to cover more story arcs of the popular One Piece manga.
Source: IMDb
