Netflix’sOne Piecehas become one of the biggest hits from the streaming giant, not only of this year, but from the entire history of the platform. The live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s popular manga and anime has finally managed to leave failures like the recentCowboy Bebopbehind, proving the legendary Japanese style can be adapted properly to a non-animated format in Hollywood. And now it has a season two renewal. You can watch the video announcement of this fromOne Piececreator Eiichiro Oda below; it’s hilarious (and also teases the inclusion of the character Tony Tony Chopper, the Cotton Candy Lover from the manga).
The first season of the show surpassed bothStranger ThingsandWednesday, two of the most watched shows on the catalog, becoming the first ever series to occupy the number one spot in the Netflix ‘Top 10’ in 84 countries. Besides the good numbers, the series was amazinglywell-received byOne Piecefans and critics, generating nothing but positive comments about its casting, story development, production design, and more.
That’s why the audience is so elated about this second season renewal from the streaming platform. However, the team behind the show is hoping to eventually produce more than just that second season. Way more, actually. While speaking toDeadline, producers Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements revealed they have already had conversations with showrunner Matt Owens about how long the show could go on (prior to hearing the news about season two):
“We’re over 1,080 chapters at this point in the manga… We have plans with Matt Owens for how we would break multiple seasons, and I think even if we did six seasons, we would probably only use up half of the chapters of the manga. It really could go on and on and on. Everything we do is in concert with Netflix, [manga publisher] Shueisha and Oda-san, they are a part of that conversation.”
“We’ve definitely had more thorough conversations about what we would do with season two should we have the opportunity, and then less extensive conversations about where we would go for season three to six,” they continued. “The one thing I would say, we’re all unified in the parts of the manga that you just absolutely cannot eliminate, and that’s our guiding principle, the stories that we know and the characters that we know are important to the fans. So that really is the start in breaking future seasons. It will require a lot of conversations, but we feel lucky to have the roadmap.”
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What Would a Second Season of One Piece Be About?
If there is something that Netflix won’t be lacking if they try to continue withOne Piece, that’s source material, since Oda’s manga has published 106 volumes, with the anime has releasing 1,075 episodes. However, the big challenge for the live-action is choosing the right stories to tell. But they may already know what comes next, since the scripts for apotential second installment are ready to go.
MinorSPOILERShere, as at the end of the first batch of episodes, Luffy finally managed to be recognized as a pirate, with his face appearing on a wanted poster. The Straw Hat Pirates crew finally feels like a unit, they have their ship, and they are ready to head to the Grand Line in search for the One Piece.
The second season will surely pick up after those events, with Luffy and company escaping from the Navy, while other pirates also try to destroy them and be the ones to get their hands on the precious treasure. Plus, we get to see the adorable doctor, Tony Tony Chopper, “the Cotton Candy Lover.”
The first season ofOne Pieceis now available to stream on Netflix.
