(Did we mention that One Piece is slightly bizarre?) We haven’t seen any footage of it yet, but a set is being built of Arlong Park’s map room. Arlong is a sawshark fish-man who captains a crew made solely of fish-men. One Piece has a reputation for its initial chapters not necessarily highlighting the strengths of the series, but the Arlong Park arc, revolving around Nami’s unclear motivations and her battling with Arlong the Saw (played here by McKinley Belcher III), still remains a fan-favorite section even after 25 years. She’s no stranger to navigating the Netflix waters, having previously been in the R.L. We’ve not even mentioned the crew’s navigator Nami yet, who’ll be played by Emily Rudd. Steven Ward will be playing Mihawk, however, who makes a huge impact upon his arrival to every pirate’s favourite restaurant and serves as a catalyst to Zoro’s journey. Krieg is an infamous pirate admiral who serves as an antagonist during the Baratie arc of the manga. The casting for Don Krieg hasn’t been announced yet, which might imply that a different direction is being taken regarding this part of the adaptation. The Straw Hat's cook Sanji will be played by Taz Skylar, with Craig Fairbrass filling the role of Sanji’s adoptive father-figure, Chef Zeff. A lot of concept art and screen time in the behind-the-scenes footage is given to this location, displaying a significant amount of detail compared to how we’ve seen it before. This is the ship they’ll sail with to visit the floating restaurant Baratie. We’ve seen a handful of concept art and angles of this ship from the live-action set. This arc is where the Straw Hat Pirates are given their first ship, the iconic Going Merry. This indicates that Usopp’s journey to joining the Straw Hat crew will be fleshed out significantly during the season as they play a major part in this storyline. He comes from the sweetly named Syrup Village, as do Klahadore and Kaya, who Alexander Maniatis and Celeste Loots have been cast as respectively. Usopp is known as the Marksman of the Straw Hats, though he’d prefer to be called their captain, and he’ll be played by Jacob Gibson. We’re very interested to see how a character like this will be visualised in a live-action setting. Jeff Ward is playing the pirate clown Buggy, another Devil Fruit user with the power to entirely detach his limbs and still move them independently. Helmeppo’s father, the Axe-Hand Captain Morgan, is portrayed by Langley Kirkwood in his second comic-to-screen role after playing Judge Lex in 2012’s Dredd. Roronoa Zoro will face Aidan Scott, who’s playing the bratty, spoiled Helmeppo, another character with an initially small part but one whose influence grows in the future. The actor has previously embodied characters from other shonen hits like JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Tokyo Ghoul and Rurouni Kenshin, among many others. The first real member of Luffy’s crew we meet is the three-sword-wielding, legendary pirate hunter Roronoa Zoro, played by Japanese actor Mackenyu. Let’s hope the show gets to run for a few seasons so we eventually get to see where Koby’s story heads. The character doesn’t stick around for long in the manga, but plays a much larger role in the series later on down the line. Koby is played in this series by Morgan Davies. In the manga and anime, Luffy first meets his friend Koby on the Love Duck. (And we’re just speculating, but there’s a chance that the crew’s visit to Loguetown will be skipped entirely as casting for the character of Smoker, who makes his first appearance there, has yet to be announced.)Īlvida’s ship, the Miss Love Duck can be seen in great detail in the behind-the-scenes footage, and is likely the setting for at least one of the early episodes. It’ll be interesting to see if future episodes will recast the role or some changes will be made to deviate from the source material. In the original manga, she goes through a considerable visual transformation by the time the crew reaches Loguetown, the final port before the real adventure into the ocean route known as the Grand Line begins. Ilia Isorelys Paulino is playing Luffy’s first real antagonist, the pirate captain Alvida.
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