The ONE PIECE Netflix live-action series has revealed a new poster featuring the 5 Straw Hats – Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Sanji and Usopp. The series will release 8 episodes on August 31, and will stream exclusively on Netflix. Eiichiro Oda was involved in the production process and recently hyped the series as well. Check out the new poster below:
The ONE PIECE Netflix live-action series recently revealed a cool new trailer, which showed several characters for the first time (Roger, Garp, Shanks, Arlong and more). It has Matt Owens (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Luke Cage) and Steven Maeda (The X-Files, CSI: Miami, Lost) serving as writers, executive producers, and showrunners. The main cast for the series includes:
- Inaki Godoy as Monkey D. Luffy
- Mackenyu as Roronoa Zoro
- Emily Rudd as Nami
- Taz Skylar as Sanji
- Jacob Romero Gibson as Usopp
The ONE PIECE manga by Eiichiro Oda first began in July 1997, and the legendary series exceeded 500 million circulating copies in August last year. It also celebrated the 25th anniversary last year, while the anime adaptation started in October 1999 and is also still going strong. The previous estimate for the manga ending was 4-5 years back in 2020. The manga currently has 1088 chapters, while the anime is at 1070 episodes. VIZ Media licensed the manga in English, and Crunchyroll streams the anime. They describe the story:
Monkey. D. Luffy refuses to let anyone or anything stand in the way of his quest to become the king of all pirates. With a course charted for the treacherous waters of the Grand Line and beyond, this is one captain who’ll never give up until he’s claimed the greatest treasure on Earth: the Legendary One Piece!
Source: Official Twitter
© Eiichiro Oda / Shueisha / Toei Animation
