There’s fairly a bit we find out about One Piece Season 2, together with that Joe Manganiello has been tapped to play Crocodile, the hook-handed antagonist who ate the Sand-Sand Fruit and is one among Monkey D. Luffy’s oldest enemies within the manga and anime. Whereas we’re nonetheless a methods off from the following season premiering on the 2025 TV schedule and attending to see how Manganiello will look because the live-action Crocodile, I’m fairly jazzed that in actual life, the True Blood alum bumped into one of the vital badass actors from Season 1. Now my fingers are crossed within the hope that these two share display screen time on One Piece sometime.
Whereas attending the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul battle, which, like One Piece, could be streamed with a Netflix subscription, Manganiello bumped into Steven John Ward. If the identify doesn’t sound acquainted, perhaps you’ll acknowledge the identify of his One Piece character: Dracula Mihawk. Sure, Ward performed the world’s biggest swordsman in top-of-the-line exhibits on Netflix, and now he’s been in a position to meet one of many latest One Piece actors who’ve come board. Try the Instagram image commemorating the event:
However there’s extra tying Crocodile and Mihawk collectively moreover merely current in the identical world. Early on in One Piece, each their characters are among the many Warlords of the Sea, i.e. pirates who’ve been pardoned and given vital leeway, offered that they perform directives from the World Authorities. In a while, Crocodile and Mihawk kind Cross Guild (which Buggy the Clown finally ends up main), therefore Joe Manganiello’s shoutout within the caption.
There was rather a lot to get pleasure from in One Piece Season 1, and one among my favourite moments was when Dracule Mihawk fought Roronoa Zoro exterior of the Barite restaurant, a battle wherein the latter was sorely overmatched. Simply watch the scene beneath and be a part of me in hoping that Netflix’s One Piece brings Crocodile and Mihawk collectively:
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There’s only one potential drawback with this. The One Piece manga and anime are nonetheless going, with the previous starting in 1997 and the latter debuting in 1999. So clearly I don’t assume the Netflix present will have the ability to cowl that very same quantity of narrative actual property, besides, Crocodile and Dracule Mihawk don’t cross paths till the Marineford arc. Contemplating that One Piece Season 2 will cease proper earlier than the Alabasta arc, and making my very own estimations for what seasons will cowl which arcs, Netflix’s One Piece would wish to run till a seventh or eight season to hit Marineford, and the possibilities of that taking place are extraordinarily slim.
That mentioned, that is an adaptation, and there are already some large variations between Netflix’s One Piece and the anime, like introducing Luffy’s grandfather Garp method earlier. So perhaps the writers can discover a solution to convey Joe Manganiello’s Crocodile and Steven John Ward’s Dracule Mihawk collectively a lot sooner. I hope so, as a result of the concept of seeing these characters battle or workforce up in live-action sounds superb. Depend on CinemaBlend to let you already know if that finally ends up occurring as a part of our persevering with One Piece protection.