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One of the biggest questions that has lingered about Netflix’s live-action “One Piece” series may have been answered – yes, an ending has been mapped out.
Just ahead of the new season’s debut online and in cinemas tomorrow, one of the show’s stars has revealed that franchise creator Eiichiro Oda already has an endpoint set for the live-action incarnation of the show.
Each eight-episode season so far has managed to successfully compress around 45 episodes of the anime into a coherent story, but the anime (and original manga) clocks in at over 1,100 episodes and is still going – meaning a live-action series could theoretically run for 12-14 seasons at least to cover everything.
The actors will age out of their characters long before then, so many are wondering what the plan is. Speaking with The Movie Podcast (via ComicBook.com), actor Mackenyu who plays Roronoa Zoro says Oda already has an idea for how long he wants the live-action series to go:
“He has a vision to where he wants to end. Not end, but where he wants us to take the live-action to. And we all know about it. We know where he wants to go up to. That hyped me up a lot. There’s a specific arc he wants us to go up to.”
The comments come as the third season is currently in production in South Africa as Netflix is intent on getting new seasons out faster – the third likely to hit mid-late 2027 – a much smaller gap than the two-and-a-half years between the first and second seasons.
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