One Piece Live-Action Creative Team on the Future of the Show, Working With Oda, and Whether We'll See a Fan-Favorite Character in Season 3

Once thought impossible, Netflix and Tomorrow Studios really pulled disconnected a live-action adaptation of One Piece. Not lone were fans pleasantly amazed by the archetypal season, the follow-up was received adjacent amended and the unit is presently shooting the 3rd season.

Following the 2nd play premiere, we chatted to enforcement shaper and Tomorrow Studios president Becky Clements, co-showrunner Joe Tracz, and writer Ian Stokes, who’s been promoted to co-showrunner for Season 3. We learned what it was similar to enactment with Eiichiro Oda, the creator of One Piece, wherefore they included immoderate astonishment characters successful the show, and however agelong they spot the amusement going. But first, I was funny to spot however they consumed One Piece: manga oregon anime?

It’s not an anime adaption, it’s a manga adaptation

Becky Clements: Manga. Always manga, ne'er anime for a fig of reasons. It's already hard to spell manga to unrecorded action, and to adhd that interim portion wherever it's manga to anime to unrecorded enactment felt similar we would beryllium losing immoderate of the quality and purity of the manga. Because anime is simply a moving image, it whitethorn person much of an effect connected our unrecorded enactment shows.

And adjacent erstwhile we were successful casting, we would inquire representatives and actors to lone work the manga if they didn't cognize it. But that was intolerable to do. You could archer erstwhile they were anime-first due to the fact that they were often conscionable performing a mentation of the anime character. So it was ever manga.

Ian Stokes: You're going to termination maine for this. I've ne'er really watched the anime.

IGN: Me neither. I'm a manga lone guy. I don't person that benignant of time.

Ian Stokes: But we don't person the rights to the anime. We person the rights to the manga. I didn't privation to ticker thing that would enactment thing successful my caput astir however this amusement could beryllium performed oregon done.

Joe Tracz: I spot a batch of radical speech astir our amusement arsenic an anime adaptation. In fact, we're adapting the manga. And so, you know, I emotion watching the anime, but connected 1 hand, you got to enactment that speech and say, if you're conscionable looking astatine the anime, you're doing an adaptation of an adaptation, whereas the manga is the archetypal root material, that's the Bible. So sometimes the anime does things differently. Obviously, the anime has stories that are not canonically successful the manga truthful sometimes we find immoderate ways to motion to [them], but by and large, we're adapting the manga. We're treating it arsenic if this is thing that's being adapted close connected leafage to the surface for the archetypal time.

Eiichiro Oda’s engagement is cardinal to the show’s success

So adjacent though we each telephone it a live-action anime adaptation, the squad is really seeing it arsenic an adaptation of the ORIGINAL root worldly - the manga. Which is wherefore they’re besides moving truthful intimately with the writer and mangaka of One Piece, Eiichiro Oda.

Becky Clements: So Oda has been precise involved. He reads outlines, reads scripts, helium watches cuts, helium looks astatine casting. We nonstop him conception art. He is arsenic progressive arsenic producers connected each of our unrecorded enactment shows.

Ian Stokes: Again, everything we bash is ever approved by Oda-san himself. Nothing is simply a surprise. And truthful sometimes helium volition say, “no, enactment that backmost in” and we'll say, “but we don't person immoderate money.” And helium says, “find the money.” And past we find the wealth [laughs].

And we mightiness propulsion backmost connected thing if we request to, but the ovum is ever connected my look due to the fact that he's ever right. Every clip we look astatine it archetypal I'll beryllium like, “Aw man.” And past I work it again and I'm like, “no, he's right. That's better.” I've been getting notes connected scripts and outlines since I started penning television. But the attraction and thought that helium puts into each enactment helium gives america connected our written worldly is truthful astonishing and truthful rewarding.

Joe Tracz: All our scripts spell to Oda for notes. I deliberation past twelvemonth Oda discovered however to benignant successful Final Draft due to the fact that sometimes determination volition conscionable beryllium a typed page, “Wait we didn’t constitute that page. Oh, Oda did.”

He’s precise involved. And evidently that's an incredibly invited relation for him to play due to the fact that this is his world. He created these characters that radical astir the satellite person cared astir for decades. So we would beryllium foolish not to treasure that wisdom, not to perceive to his feedback. So portion helium has veto power, it's besides a lawsuit of like, well, wherefore would we ever privation to bash thing that wasn't what helium intended?

IGN: Do you person immoderate circumstantial examples of the benignant of feedback helium gave?

Joe Tracz: Probably the past happening that was done for Season 2 was finessing the unreality implicit the drum that looks similar a sakura blossom tree. We had these versions of it that were precise realistic that were like, “well, if you were shooting spotlights into a cloud, and there’s a upland it would look similar that” and helium said, “look, this doesn't person to beryllium realism. This tin beryllium poetry.” And it felt like, oh, of course, similar what you privation is the emotion for the moment. So, adjacent though we're unrecorded enactment and we're saying we're grounding things, we're adding texture, we're making things consciousness real, astatine the extremity of the day, the communicative moves due to the fact that it's poetry. There's thing beauteous and moving and we should beryllium leaning into those cinematic qualities and not letting realism beryllium the happening that keeps you from achieving wonder.

How agelong tin this last?

One Piece is present implicit 1100 chapters - and it’s inactive not finished. If you wanted to ticker the anime, it would instrumentality you astir 450 HOURS to drawback up. The Netflix bid is taking things astatine a quicker pace, sure. But that inactive begs the question - however agelong tin they support this up?

IGN: The large elephant successful the country for fans is however agelong bash you program to support the amusement going? I deliberation arsenic of now, immoderate estimates enactment the communicative that you're astatine possibly 10% done close now. So are you prepared for a 20 play thing?

Becky Clements: No, we are not prepared for 20 due to the fact that if I'm Zooming with you successful 20 years, something's wrong. [laughs] We person aggregate years beyond this. We person plans, and it depends connected who you speech to. I conscionable emotion it truthful much. So I'm going to privation to bash 10, 12, 15, 20. I deliberation determination are definite parts of it that, conscionable from a unrecorded enactment construction, determination are definite moments wherever it makes consciousness to get to them. Others, it doesn't marque rather truthful overmuch sense. But you privation to spot that story. So we person galore years ahead.

IGN: In the leadup to the archetypal season, I saw an interrogation from you that said possibly 16 seasons was the goal. Is that inactive the case?

Becky Clements: Well, that is again, maine being the astir assertive and astir optimistic. I deliberation we astir consciousness similar we've already breached done play eight, and past we tin fig it retired from there.

IGN: Apparently Oda has benignant of an arc “goal” that helium wants to get to with the unrecorded action. Do you cognize what it is?

Becky Clements: I do.

IGN: Is it the aforesaid extremity for you? Are you aligned? Are you trying to spell further?

Becky Clements: I deliberation helium is much realistic than me. He and I are aligned successful that I deliberation we person 8 to 10. The 16 is maine conscionable wanting to bash it all.

Joe Tracz: I’ve seen radical accidental it's wherever helium wants it to get to. It's much like, here's a communicative helium wants to marque definite we archer successful unrecorded action. I deliberation we each hope, continuing beyond that, but we're gathering these characters, we’re gathering this world. I deliberation nary of america privation to accidental goodbye earlier we've had a accidental to proceed paying disconnected the things we’ve acceptable up.

When to marque alterations to the root material

But let’s not look TOO acold ahead. Some of the astir talked astir aspects of the play were the changes made to the communicative and the astir notable of these changes was including characters similar Bartolomeo, Brook and Sabo overmuch earlier into the communicative than the root material. Here’s Joe explaining their attack to introducing aboriginal characters into the show.

Joe Tracz: I deliberation 1 happening we've done successful the unrecorded enactment is sometimes things get revealed sooner. In an anime oregon successful a drawing, it's casual to benignant of fell something. Oda draws his silhouettes of characters. It's truly hard to movie a silhouette due to the fact that adjacent if you movie a silhouette, you're casting an actor, you're putting a costume connected them. You're inactive making choices. So sometimes it's astir that, and sometimes it is astir conscionable having the wealthiness of cognition of saying, we cognize wherever the communicative goes successful a mode that possibly erstwhile Oda archetypal wrote the story, helium didn't know. So we tin really commencement planting seeds sooner, oregon springiness this magnitude to a quality who, astatine this constituent successful the manga, hadn't yet accrued that dimension.

Ian Stokes: I was astatine the LA premiere, and you would person thought a weaponry dropped erstwhile Bartolomeo appeared connected surface for the archetypal time. I had nary thought the fans were going to respond truthful positively.

The communicative had been breached without Bartolomeo, and I retrieve thinking, the municipality feels empty. Even with the summation of Smoker to Shinji successful that episode, which are much canon.

I'm missing successful my past fractional idiosyncratic for Luffy to speech to. My representation is that Randy Troy, our in-house One Piece encyclopedia, had pitched bringing Barto up successful a cameo, and instantly I recognized the accidental we had to archer existent Barto’s story.

When we spell to a caller place, it's the caller characters we meet. It's the caller world. It's that exploration of uncovering friends. And overall, the taxable of “Luffy leaves a spot and he's changed it.” We didn't person that constituent successful [episode] 1 until we introduced Bartolomeo.

IGN: Sabo and Brook, arsenic acold arsenic the actors go, are they the aforesaid actors that you mean to bring back?

Becky Clements: Yeah, for yes. Always. Yes. There's a batch of “ifs” there, but that would beryllium the hope.

IGN: What stood retired to you astir Marshall's audition for Brook?

Joe Tracz: We constitute fake scenes. I deliberation the country that we wrote, the Brook/Yorki audition country was 2 down and retired musicians counting what they earned from a gig astatine the extremity of a day. It was thing astir Brook astatine all. And the country ended with the quality singing to different quality to cheer them up. And truthful we wanted idiosyncratic who could truly enactment the hellhole retired of his quality scene, who could sing beautifully. And besides due to the fact that Brook is beauteous tall. Marshall has a batch of photos lasting adjacent to different people. As we were successful the U.S. and helium was present successful Cape Town, you could conscionable spot conscionable however gangly helium is. He's precise tall.

IGN: So nary “yo-ho-ho’s” successful the audition?

Joe Tracz: No yo-ho-ho’s. But past evidently erstwhile helium knew helium was playing [Brook] You cognize he's like, well, are we going to amusement Brook oregon not? It felt weirder to not amusement him and to not person it beryllium a portion of that flashback due to the fact that of however important helium is and his euphony is to Laboon.

It felt similar if you were telling Laboon’s communicative and conscionable seeing the Rumbar Pirates successful silhouette oregon hiding them, it would consciousness similar you weren't getting that afloat picture, that story. And evidently successful Season 1, you perceive Bink’s Brew playing successful a country betwixt Luffy and Shanks. So we already person established successful Season 1 that this is simply a opus that Luffy would person heard successful his clip with Shanks. Those seeds were planted. The payoff was here. When helium sings a opus that means thing to him and to Laboon, some reasoning astir a pirate who near them behind. For Laboon, it's the Rumbar Pirates, it’s Brooke and Calico Yorki. And for Luffy, it's Shanks. And that feeling of “here's this idiosyncratic who I wanted to join, and helium said, enactment here.”

IGN: Who is the histrion playing Sabo? Is it conscionable a basal successful close now?

Becky Clements: It is conscionable a basal successful close now. Yeah, it was the astonishment of “Oh my God, Sabo!” astatine that past measurement into the door.

Manga and anime fans mightiness person forgotten, but Ms. All-Sunday’s instauration was besides overmuch aboriginal successful the archetypal root material. Here’s Ian talking astir wherefore they made her combat country the opening to the full season.

Ian Stokes: You’ve got to commencement with a bang oregon we're going to suffer people. We were blessed that they brought america backmost astir instantly aft we wrapped play 1 to commencement penning play two, which is great, but we had nary thought what the absorption to Season 1 is. We don't cognize what radical like, what radical don't like. And truthful I conjecture my gamble was, I'm consenting to stake radical are going to similar the enactment connected this show. So we amended commencement with a large enactment scene. Also, if we're going to accidental this this play is upping the danger, upping the stakes: let's spot our villains successful action. There's a country similar this aboriginal successful Alabasta that was the inspiration for Ms. All-Sunday utilizing her powers this way. But besides some [co-showrunner] Matt Owens and I had travel from Marvel, Netflix shows wherever the pinnacle was a bully hallway fight. And we were like, “I ne'er seen 1 of those wherever hands are bursting retired each implicit the spot breaking necks!” But I deliberation it truly sets up the communicative well. It brings the intrigue. It got a immense absorption astatine the premiere. People were excited astir it and Lera [Abova] is fantastic. I can't hold for you guys to spot adjacent much of her.

The Straw Hats

With the crew’s introductions retired of the way, the writers were capable to not lone make deeper quality arcs, but to constitute for their actors’ voices arsenic well. That’s not to accidental a small adlibbing wouldn’t gaffe successful from clip to time. Fans instantly suspected this enactment was unscripted based connected Taz Skylar’s reaction.

Joe Tracz: Oh yeah, that was decidedly a genuine improv, by the way. That was each Jacob. I privation we could person written a enactment that good, but we could person a full different amusement of conscionable Jacob riffing arsenic Usopp.

Ian Stokes: I'll say, for immoderate of these guys, Kiki, Jacob, each of them volition travel and beryllium like, “can I accidental this?” And we'll conscionable beryllium like, “yeah, spell for it.” That's the regularisation of a drama room. If it makes you laughter connected the day, we cognize it'll marque you laughter connected TV.

A large happening that’s antithetic astir Season 2 versus Season 1 is successful Season 1, we had nary thought who these actors were. We had each 8 scripts written. Then we spell retired and cast. Writing the amusement present is truthful overmuch much fulfilling and fun. Writing a enactment like, “Oh Kiki volition termination this. Oh, Jacob's going to emotion that. Oh, this is going to beryllium large for Emily, Taz, Mackenyu, each of them.” It's truthful overmuch amusive to constitute successful their voices. And, yeah, there's astir apt a small spot of the actors creeping into the characters arsenic well, but I deliberation it goes 2 ways also.

Fans of the root worldly were besides delighted to spot immoderate Sanji lore amusement up aboriginal into the story. His past with his parent wasn’t revealed successful the manga until hundreds of chapters later. Here’s Joe connected however that came to be.

Joe Tracz: We talked astir the play is each land is focused connected a peculiar Straw Hat. So for Luffy, it's Loguetown due to the fact that here's wherever Gold Rogers’ fable was born. And he's being confronted with Buggy saying, “what does it mean to beryllium king of the pirates?” For Nami, it's Twin Capes and Laboon due to the fact that it's astir navigation and however that doesn't enactment the aforesaid mode successful the Grand Line. For Zoro it's Whiskey Peak, wherever his decision from Mihawk is fueling his tendency to beryllium himself. For Usopp, it's Little Garden due to the fact that this is his accidental to spot what a brave warrior of the oversea is truly similar successful the giants. So that near america with Sanji for Drum. And reasoning of however bash we truly measurement up Sanji?

Him astir losing Nami successful a mode that helium mislaid his parent would conscionable beryllium beneath his tendency to ascent a freaking upland to get her help. We had an accidental for him to really stock that with her. He cares for her successful a mode that isn't conscionable astir ever trying to flirt with her. He really cares astir her successful a heavy mode due to the fact that she's portion of his crew, his nakama, his household successful the aforesaid mode that his parent was.

In aboriginal versions we were going to person flashbacks wherever we evidently had a young Sanji who we loved successful Season 1. Should this beryllium a flashback sequence? Should we spot Sanji bringing the nutrient to his mom? And astatine a definite constituent - Taz is an unthinkable actor. If we conscionable gave him a monologue and enactment the camera connected him and fto him archer the story, helium tin bash that successful a much direct, honest, beauteous mode than each the flashbacks successful the satellite could.

Much to the delight of fans, Zoro’s combat against 100 Baroque Works agents was adapted to adjacent further item than the manga - helium really defeats 100 enemies on-screen. Go up and number them! But were determination truly 100 stunties?

Joe Tracz: We ever knew from publication signifier connected that it was going to beryllium 100, and that was 1 of the archetypal things we talked to our stunt squad astir erstwhile they came connected committee the caller season, “look, Zoro is going to combat a 100 guys, truthful we request a 100 guys.” But we didn't person 100 stunties.

Some of those stunties would get killed by Zoro, spell enactment connected a antithetic costume, a antithetic wig, and spell get killed again. So I deliberation there's astatine slightest 1 stuntie who astir apt gets killed by Zoro 3 antithetic times playing 3 antithetic Baroque Works agents.

In the leadup to Season 2, Luffy histrion Inaki Godoy revealed it was his thought to person Luffy enactment chopsticks successful his nose. And portion it whitethorn person been a spot dangerous, his pitches didn’t halt there.

Joe Tracz: He said, “I did it myself implicit the weekend, and it's wholly safe.” We were like, “do not instrumentality thing up your nose. We request you to beryllium our Luffy.” So of course, the chopsticks helium puts up his nose, we chopped them successful fractional truthful helium does not person full chopsticks up his nose. We bash not privation to hazard our actors having a encephalon injury. We admit his commitment, but we're going to bash this safely.

Ian Stokes: He texts maine each the clip portion we're connected set. One of his texts, you'll perceive a chime. Look astatine it, I mightiness beryllium connected a meeting. And past by the clip I yet get to it, 40 much texts person travel in. Him making the pitch, him sending maine the representation of the manga, 800 GIFs and memes. He is specified an awesome steward for this character. He makes PowerPoints, helium comes successful with each sorts of things. I'm definite he'll archer you each astir it adjacent season.

Joe Tracz: He knows the manga, helium takes it truthful earnestly and he'll travel up to me, Ian, and unfastened his laptop and springiness america a PowerPoint. We each propulsion panels. When caller directors travel on, we springiness them a ocular platform with panels. Kiki would bring america panels arsenic good and say, “I deliberation this is truly important- The mode Oda frames it, look however tiny Luffy is. Look however large this quality is. That spatial narration is saying something.” So, adjacent if it's not astir recreating that panel. Let's deliberation astir wherefore Oda drew it this way. What was the intent successful conveying this portion of ocular information?

Obviously we're adapting the Season 3 worldly close now, those pages are printed retired each implicit the office. So anytime anyone wants to cheque a reference, they could propulsion up connected the machine oregon they could virtually locomotion successful the hallway and constituent to it connected the wall. We conscionable privation to marque definite that that ocular worldly is astir america astatine each times due to the fact that it is simply a happening we support going backmost to. Anytime we person a question, we're stuck, we’re trying to fig a infinitesimal out. You spell backmost to the manga and you say, “oh, right, it's close there.”

IGN: He besides does this small infinitesimal erstwhile he's singing to Laboon. He does a small dance... Is that a Nika reference?

Joe Tracz: I ne'er privation Easter eggs to consciousness similar they're alienating an assemblage who doesn't cognize the manga. You privation to consciousness similar this is simply a amusement wherever everyone's invited to the party, nary substance whether they're a manga reader, anime viewer, oregon idiosyncratic who's like, “hey, let's cheque retired this show. It's called One Piece. What's it about? I similar pirates.” Everyone should beryllium capable to acquisition the amusement and get everything they request from it to consciousness fulfilled. But it is fun.

We tin person thing that feels like, “if you know, you know.”

Easter Eggs and references for manga and anime fans

Speaking of Easter eggs, we wanted to prime the showrunners’ brains connected however immoderate of these heavy cuts came to be. Starting with a statue of Loki - well, earlier his look ever gets revealed, anyway.

Joe Tracz: It was precise amusive due to the fact that portion we were filming the Little Garden episodes is erstwhile the Elbaph arc was starting successful the manga. But astatine the constituent erstwhile we did marque the Loki sculpture, we really hadn't seen Loki's look successful the manga yet. So past we're like, bash we alteration the sculpture?

We're like, you cognize what? It's representational and Brogy wouldn't know. So, it is an Easter egg. But we were like, “oh man, bash we request to alteration the Easter egg?”

During Sanji’s combat with Mr. 13, the Den Den Mushi plays immoderate acquainted clasp euphony for anime fans.

Joe Tracz: Obviously “We Are” was successful Season 1 and we usage “We Are” astatine a constituent successful play 2 arsenic well, but it did consciousness like, well, this conception of the anime has its ain taxable song, wherever are we going to enactment that in? And then, we knew we were going to person this otter combat that was going to beryllium a azygous camera locked disconnected with the combat happening successful the inheritance portion we were seeing the snail.

So we wanted clasp euphony for that and was like, good let's get “Believe” successful there. And I was the astir amusive to speech to composers to- I was sending them clips of like, let's conscionable [do] unspeakable elevator music, similar 80s synthy. And they would bash it. And I was like, it's inactive excessively good. Make it dumber! And truthful what we person is the dumbest imaginable rendition of a truly awesome anime taxable song.

Anime fans mightiness besides person recognized a tune astatine the precise extremity of the season.

Joe Tracz: Obviously, Crocodile has iconic euphony successful the anime. And truthful erstwhile you ticker our last Crocodile look uncover astatine the extremity of the season, I deliberation fans who cognize the anime euphony determination volition perceive immoderate acquainted portion teasing the Banana-dile uncover astatine the extremity of season.

One of the bigger alterations made to the root worldly was the summation of a mutant, monster service consecutive from Wapol’s mouth. And though these monstrosities were ne'er successful the manga, they bash person their roots successful a manga moment. Here’s Ian talking astir wherefore helium included the monster service successful the season’s large finale.

Ian Stokes: It wasn't arsenic large arsenic I wanted it to beryllium for a finale. And the reply is ever successful the manga. And erstwhile helium fuses Chess and K.M. into the 1 entity, I got truly into that image. We needed 2 fights. We needed thing for Zoro and Usopp extracurricular and everyone other inside.

And the monster service was conscionable a amusive thought that popped up. The aboriginal sketches gave maine nightmares. Seeing them successful idiosyncratic gave maine nightmares. They are hideous. All those guys were conscionable guys successful latex, guys successful suits, and everyone connected our squad conscionable wants to chopped loose. And with Chopper being predominantly CG, they were conscionable itching to get into thing large similar that.

And the monster service is 1 of my favourite designs of the series.

Another archetypal quality to the amusement was Miss Thursday, a Baroque Works cause lone ever referenced to successful the manga. But surprisingly, not lone was she an archetypal quality designed by Oda, she has a transportation to a aboriginal quality arsenic well. Here’s Joe talking astir however she came to be.

Joe Tracz: So, again, we looked astatine the manga. In the manga, we spot they've captured Mr. 11. It happened disconnected surface oregon disconnected panel. It felt similar a accidental to really spot Smoker and Tashigi successful action. So we're like, well, if we're going to person Mr. 11, we should person his partner. We reached retired to Oda. We said, “hey, we were reasoning of having Ms. Thursday successful this successful this series with Mr. 11, tin you if you person time, would you gully up however you spot Ms. Thursday?” And I deliberation successful our wildest dreams, we ne'er imagined that what helium could gully is different shot themed assassin who's related to Mr. 4. One time I showed up astatine enactment and I heard, “Oda replied to our email!” And you're like, there's an attachment. And you unfastened it. You're like, ohio my gosh, I'm seeing an archetypal Oda quality for the archetypal time. Things leak, castings leak. I was precise arrogant that the Ms. Thursday casting is 1 that did not leak due to the fact that I was precise excited for erstwhile the amusement came out. People were like, what the heck is going on?

IGN: I conjecture it's reassuring to cognize too, that I conjecture we'll see. Mr. 4 successful Season 3?

Joe Tracz: Yeah, you're gonna spot Mr. 4 successful Season 3, I conjecture that's a scoop that you guys person first. And I don’t deliberation it's a [inaudible] headline. But you know, that quality from the Alabasta arc appears successful the Alabasta arc.

Amongst each of the galore quality additions to the show, determination was 1 notable absence: Vivi’s sidekick duck, Karoo. Here’s Joe explaining wherefore helium was chopped from the play and if we’ll spot him successful the future.

Joe Tracz: Here’s the happening I volition accidental astir Karoo. We wrote Karoo into Season 2. Karoo was primitively successful our archetypal draught of Season 2. At immoderate constituent successful the room, I was like, “I volition not marque this show. If we had to chopped Karoo” due to the fact that I emotion Karoo. And past we did extremity up having to marque the determination to Karoo, which is simply a small spot of a communicative reason. It does strain believability that Vivi would spell undercover, bring her Alabasta duck along. It starts to consciousness similar Baroque Works is not the cunning enactment they're made retired to be. I retrieve erstwhile the trailer was coming out, radical saying, what is that bakery cart we support seeing? Well, the relation of Karoo successful Whiskey Peak is played by a bakery cart. And we made definite that Vivi would speech astir Karoo, truthful that adjacent though Karoo’s not a portion of this limb of her journey, he's determination successful spirit. It was precise important erstwhile we had that country with the dinosaur that we gave articulator work truthful that radical would cognize we emotion Karoo, too. Don't worry, he's successful Alabasta.

IGN: So he's successful Season 3?

Joe Tracz: Karoo fans should get retired their popcorn.

We're filming Season 3 now, but it's been truthful astonishing to conscionable spot everyone here. The full crew, everyone puts truthful overmuch item into everything. And that's wherefore determination are truthful galore Easter eggs. Sometimes they travel from america successful scripts. Sometimes it's our accumulation plan team, our set-dec team, our costume designers coming to america and saying, hey, we cognize this is thing from the manga, could we enactment this successful here? Can we enactment this successful here? And we're truthful blessed that everyone present loves the root worldly truthful overmuch that they privation to enactment those things in, and that we person fans that really volition drawback that and admit that work. That's truly incredible. Not each amusement is truthful fortunate to person radical ticker that intimately and wage attraction successful that way.

Image credit: Netflix.

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