Netflix’s forays into live-action animation, like Cowboy Bebop and Avatar: The Last Airbender, have met with varying degrees of success. But the stakes have never been higher than with One Piece, the streamer’s attempt to adapt the longest-running single-story anime in history. The anime recently aired Episode 1165, and it’s been amassing an increasingly large fan base since 1999, so the stakes for Netflix are high.
Season 1, at least, generally went over well, and now the upcoming Season 2 will make another small dent in the source material with a new batch of eight episodes. With new characters, new adventures, and even a new title around the corner, here’s everything you need to know about One Piece Season 2.
