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In ONE PIECE: Into the Grand Line, the Straw Hat crew begins the journey by means of the notorious stretch of sea trying to find the fabled One Piece, the final word treasure.
But the treasure they discover by the top of Season 2 is a special sort: new mates Princess Vivi (Charithra Chandran) and Tony Tony Chopper (voiced by Mikaela Hoover, who additionally carried out the facial seize). Vivi first meets the legendary crew — which incorporates Luffy (Iñaki Godoy), Nami (Emily Rudd), Zoro (Mackenyu), Usopp (Jacob Romero), and Sanji (Taz Skylar) — in Laboon’s belly, however below her secret identification, because the mischievous Baroque Works agent Miss Wednesday. After revealing her true identification as Alabasta’s rogue princess who went undercover to avoid wasting her individuals, and serving to our heroes fend off virulent threats from the ruthless Baroque Works assassins, Vivi ultimately proves herself a reliable ally. Later, on the enterally winter Drum Island, the boundlessly cute reindeer-boy hybrid Chopper additionally finds his place aboard the Going Merry after bravely becoming a member of the Straw Hats within the struggle in opposition to the tyrant king Wapol (Rob Colletti).
In forging these friendships, the crew has additionally discovered a worthy new trigger — serving to Princess Vivi save her kingdom of Alabasta. “Even though [they] have one goal at the beginning of the season, to find One Piece [and] achieve [their] dreams,” co-showrunner, author, and govt producer Joe Tracz tells Tudum, “as [they] start to learn the bigger dangers that are out there, our characters end the season with a new goal — get to Alabasta and fight for it.”
ONE PIECE is already renewed for Season 3, when the Straw Hats will face even better, unanticipated threats as they sail towards the Alabasta Kingdom. Before they attain their subsequent cease on the Grand Line, let’s unpack these Season 2 reveals which have helped set the course for what’s forward.
How does ONE PIECE Season 2 finish?
On Drum Island, the crew weathers a formidable problem from the petulant king Wapol and his militia of monsters making an attempt to reclaim the throne. In Episode 6, it’s revealed that Wapol ate the Munch-Munch fruit, which gave him the power to eat something and regurgitate it as a robust weapon. The purple-haired monarch appears nearly unbeatable in Episode 8, having additionally digested his royal guards, reworking them right into a grotesque cavalry with medieval {hardware} for physique elements.
But the Straw Hats face this fearsome problem collectively, and with some much-needed backup: Vivi, a surprisingly robust Chopper, former royal guardsman Dalton (Ty Keogh), Drum Island’s embattled villagers, and even the disillusioned Dr. Kureha (Katey Sagal) take up arms to trounce Wapol and his military of monsters.
“It’s important that none of those fights are solo,” Tracz factors out. “They all have somebody to support them.”
That consists of Luffy, who receives a leg up from Sanji to ship Wapol flying by means of a window and into the throes of defeat. Wapol’s demise additionally restores his royal guards again to their common human selves, permitting the individuals of Drum Island to lastly start to heal.
Does Tony Tony Chopper turn out to be a Straw Hat?
He certain does! But it takes some convincing. Chopper was on their lonesome when Dr. Hiriluk (Mark Harelik) discovered him injured within the snow and have become the reindeer-boy’s very first buddy. After Hiriluk’s tragic dying, Dr. Kureha granted Chopper’s want to practice as a health care provider, however Chopper nonetheless struggled with feeling like he didn’t belong.
“He’s the lonely little reindeer boy who’s just looking for his place in the world,” Tracz explains. “He feels that he is someone who will never find a place because there’s no one else in the world like him.”
So when Luffy invitations Chopper to “go be pirates together,” Chopper is skeptical that he may ever slot in with the crew. But Luffy enthusiastically asks him a second time, and he relents.
“What Chopper finds in the Straw Hats is the family he never even dreamed was possible for him,” Tracz notes.
For Iñaki Godoy, who performs Luffy, Chopper is a “character that a lot of us can relate to. It’s easy to feel insecure about yourself, and I think that Chopper is going to be able to heal a lot of those feelings for a lot of people. And he’s such a cutie patootie.”
What about Princess Vivi?
A flashback in Episode 6 hints on the civil unrest plaguing Vivi’s father, King Cobra of Alabasta (Sendhil Ramamurthy), and his realm. “[Vivi] knows that her father is a good king and so, if there’s a rebellion brewing, it’s because someone’s planting those seeds,” Tracz says of Vivi’s motivation.
When she crossed paths with the Straw Hats, she wasn’t on the lookout for assist; she initially seen them as her trip house. “But when she starts to have these adventures with them, [and] she sees how they operate under fire,” Tracz says, “she starts to realize, ‘These aren’t the people I thought would help me, but maybe they’re exactly the people I need.’ ”
Charithra Chandran, who performs Vivi, notes, “When you are undercover like Vivi is as Miss Wednesday, it’s an incredibly lonely life. She really struggles to trust people and let them in. The Straw Hats force her to accept their help, and it teaches her that it’s OK to depend on people.”
Who is Sir Crocodile?
Throughout Season 2, Baroque Works chief Mr. 0 (Joe Manganiello), a mysterious determine adorned in ornate gold jewellery, calls the pictures from behind his desk. Then, in Episode 8, a needed poster flashing throughout the display screen reveals his true identification as Sir Crocodile, one of many Seven Warlords of the Sea. This highly effective group of pirates was first launched in Season 1, with the looks of the warlord Mihawk (Steven John Ward). The Seven Warlords of the Sea perform their soiled enterprise in alternate for working with the World Government.
Now one other warlord, Sir Crocodile, is stirring up bother for Vivi’s homeland. The Straw Hats “barely got away from that last one,” Tracz says, “so how are [they] going to survive facing off against this one?”
What is Miss All Sunday’s true identification?
Mr. 0’s second-in-command, Miss All Sunday (Lera Abova), is the one who’s “out there in the world moving the pieces in place for [him],” notes Tracz. “She’s mysterious and lethal and deadly, but she’s also got her own agenda.”
A bounty poster in Episode 8 reveals Miss All Sunday’s actual title is Nico Robin. “You see that picture, and it’s an 8-year-old girl,” Tracz factors out, including that “we will continue to learn more about who this woman is.”
What is Operation Utopia, and what does it should do with Alabasta?
Details in regards to the plan Mr. 0 and Miss All Sunday have dubbed Operation Utopia are scarce, however we do realize it’s the rationale that Mr. 0 has been meddling with Vivi’s homeland and stirring up bother amongst its residents.
With a civil battle brewing, “Vivi went undercover, risked her life, and lost her partner to discover who was the head of this organization plaguing her kingdom,” Tracz says. At the top of Episode 8, she tells the Straw Hats that she’s discovered the title of this cryptic chief.
Heading into Season 3, Tracz emphasizes, the crew “has a big fight ahead of them.”
Who is Dragon, the person within the hood?
According to Tracz, Dragon is “one of the more enigmatic characters we’ve met in the series.”
He first seems in Episode 1 because the thriller determine who saves Luffy from Smoker (Callum Kerr). In Garp’s (Vincent Regan) dialog with Smoker in Episode 2 we be taught that Dragon is the chief of the Revolutionary Army. The group “gains supporters every day in its quest to overturn the World Government,” Garp tells Smoker.
We get one other trace about Dragon in a flashback to the Reverie in Episode 6, during which a younger Vivi eavesdrops on the assembly between world leaders. The scene reveals that the World Government has thought-about Dragon a menace for a while. But for now, Tracz says, “he’s meant to be a mystery.”
What did Smoker and Tashigi uncover in that snail recording?
Marine commander Smoker and his protégé Tashigi (Julia Rehwald) view pirates as a scourge that have to be stopped. So once they hearken to the remnants of that snail recording in Episode 8, during which Mr. 0 says the Straw Hats have taken Princess Vivi, they “hear just enough to jump to all the wrong conclusions,” Tracz explains.
The damaged audio is from Sanji’s dialog with Mr. 0 in Episode 5, throughout which Sanji poses as Mr. 3 (David Dastmalchian). When Mr. 0 asks for the speaker’s actual title, the Straw Hats’ masterful chef identifies himself as “Mr. Prince.”
“It’s not a big leap for [Smoker and Tashigi] to hear that recording and assume that it means the Straw Hats and Sir Crocodile are in cahoots,” says Tracz. “That’s something that’s going to play out in Season 3, as we see that they’re so close to the right information and yet, they just can’t see past their own bias to realize the Straw Hats are not the enemy.”
What is Luffy’s connection to Gold Roger?
Toward the top of Episode 8, Dr. Kureha and Dalton talk about the similarities between Luffy and the previous Pirate King Gold Roger. But she refers back to the latter as Gol D. Roger — the identical center preliminary as our Straw Hat captain, Monkey D. Luffy.
“Ever since Loguetown, we’ve been showing the parallels between Luffy, who wants to be King of the Pirates, and the last man to have that title,” Tracz says. “But Kureha’s information, and her reference to the ‘Will of D,’ is a big clue that those parallels may not just be coincidence. ‘What is Luffy’s connection to Gold Roger?’ is very much a question that we want audiences to be asking.”
What’s in retailer for the Straw Hats in ONE PIECE Season 3?
Before the Going Merry units sail for Alabasta, Dr. Kureha delivers one final miracle for her mentee, Chopper. Taking the potion Dr. Hiriluk created simply earlier than his dying, in hopes of curing the individuals of Drum Island, she fires the concoction into the sky. Stunning pink cherry blossoms rain down on the winter island.
“This [is the] moment Dr. Hiriluk always dreamed of showing the people of Drum Island,” explains Tracz. “Something miraculous, something impossible, to prove that there’s no dream too big.”
As the Straw Hats take all of it in, the show “just reenergizes them all,” he provides. Vivi assumes she and her new mates will half methods as soon as they attain Alabasta, so she’s relieved once they resolve to stay along with her.
“They say, ‘Of course, we’re not going to let you go your way. You’re part of us now. Look what we’ve been through together. We’re going to fight for your kingdom and help you save it,’ ” in line with Tracz.
Season 3 will see just a few new faces boarding the live-action collection, together with Xolo Maridueña (Blue Beetle, Cobra Kai) as Portgas D. Ace and Cole Escola (Oh, Mary!, Search Party, Big Mouth) as theatrical murderer Bon Clay.
Plus, the Straw Hats can have their palms full with two extra Baroque Works brokers hitting the excessive seas as recurring visitor stars: Daisy Head (Shadow and Bone, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) as Miss Doublefinger and Awdo Awdo (the upcoming Subversion) as Mr. 1.
In addition, Hoover as Chopper, Manganiello as Sir Crocodile, Abova as Miss All Sunday, and Ramamurthy as King Cobra have all been upped to series regulars for the third installment.
ONE PIECE Seasons 1 and 2 are now streaming on Netflix. Learn extra in regards to the forged of Season 2 here, and get intel on the Baroque Works brokers chasing our crew by means of the Grand Line here.
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