Mikaela Hoover, who voices the oddly cute but surly Tony Tony Chopper in Netflix's One Piece season 2, says she didn't watch the anime before filming the show. Instead, she chose to put her own spin on the character, with One Piece's showrunner and producers reassuring her that One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda would fully approve of her performance.
"I remember after a few sessions saying to [showrunner Joe Tracz] and one of the producers, Steve Welke, 'Should I watch?' And they said, 'Honestly, we love so much what you're doing, you should just keep on this journey. Oda-san picked you for a reason'," Hoover tells THR. Indeed, Oda helped guide Tony Tony Chopper into the live action show, offering up is own advice on how to portray him.
