‘One Piece’ Season 3 Simply Added a Large Character

In what continues to be a scorching streak of really banner casting, Netflix has introduced that Cobra Kai and Blue Beetle star Xolo Maridueña will probably be becoming a member of the third season of its live-action One Piece collection as fan-favorite character Portgas D. Ace.

To anybody who hasn’t learn the great phrase of Eiichiro Oda’s long-running manga and is scratching their head at that jumble of phrases within the lede, enable us to take you to class and exhaustively element how enormous this casting is. To not get too deep into spoilers, Ace is a fellow satan fruit consumer that Luffy and his motley Straw Hat pirate crew meet on their journey into the Grand Line as they jet to the desert of Alabasta. He’s additionally bought household ties to Luffy, as his brother—or, effectively, play brother.

Mainly, they grew up as rugrats collectively, dreaming huge of changing into hotshot pirates, however solely Ace, being the older brother, bought to jumpstart his journey earlier. Alongside the way in which, he grew to become a part of the crew of the legendary pirate Gold Roger’s rival, Edward Newgate (also referred to as Whitebeard)’s. Ace additionally has sufficient expertise crusing the Grand Line to enterprise solo. However he can maintain his personal because of the facility of the flame fruit, which supplies him the facility to control hearth, clearly. Sustain.

Maridueña’s casting as Ace follows one more ingenious little bit of casting from One Piece, with the nonbinary Baroque Works pirate murderer Bon Clay (a.ok.a. Bentham, aka Mr. 2 Bon Kurei) being performed by Tony winner Cole Escola. Figuring out ball, having caught as much as One Piece‘s present 1,164 chapters, Mariduena and Escola’s casting positively units up season 3 to be the place the Netflix collection goes absolutely into its subsequent main arc, Alabasta. There, the Straw Hat Pirates will encounter satan fruit customers Crocodile (Joe Manganiello) and Ms. All Sunday, a.ok.a. Nico Robin (Lera Abova), as they try to nefariously overthrow King Nefertari Cobra (Sendhil Ramamurthy). After befriending the king’s daughter, Vivi (Charithra Chandran), Luffy and crew step in to cease all that.

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Whereas all of that’s allotted to season 3 territory, that doesn’t imply season 2 gained’t see its fair proportion of marvel main as much as this main story arc. In accordance with the forged themselves, every episode of its second season will really feel like witnessing the crew embark on a brand new world the place giants exist and whales can swim up large streams on mountains. Nonetheless, realizing there’s much more great things in retailer for folk who’re each followers of the manga and anime, in addition to newbies treating the live-action collection as their much less intimidating gateway into the beloved shonen epic, is a win for everybody.

One Piece season 2 premieres on Netflix on March 10, 2026.

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