The official Twitter/X account of the live-action One Piece series has announced the casting of Awdo Awdo and Daisy Head for the show’s forthcoming third season. The upcoming second season will debut on Netflix, starting March 10, 2026.
Awdo and Head will play members of Baroque Works, with Awdo set to portray Mr. 1 and Head to portray Miss Doublefinger.
They join other recently announced cast members for season three, which include Xolo Maridueña as Portgas D. Ace and Cole Escola as Bon Clay.
Meanwhile, the show’s main cast includes:
- • Iñaki Godoy as Monkey D. Luffy
- • Mackenyu as Roronoa Zoro
- • Emily Rudd as Nami
- • Jacob Romero Gibson as Usopp
- • Taz Syklar as Sanji
- • Mikaela Hoover as Tony Tony Chopper (voice)
The third season of the One Piece live-action series was first announced at the ONE PIECE DAY’25 event and livestream in August 2025.
Netflix’s One Piece live-action series is a co-production with Tomorrow Studios (Cowboy Bebop live action, Snowpiercer TV series). The first season contained eight total episodes and was released on Netflix on August 31, 2023.
Joe Tracz (Percy Jackson and the Olympians co-executive producer) is serving as showrunner for the second season, after joining the series as a new writer and executive producer. Matt Owens was the initial showrunner for the first season, but stepped down from the role this past March. Steven Maeda, who developed the series with Owens and served as co-showrunner in the first season, remains involved as executive producer.
Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece manga series was launched in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on July 22, 1997 under the Jump Comics label. A total of 113 tankobon volumes have been released as of November 2025. VIZ Media releases the manga in English.
The manga inspired a 1999 OVA from Production I.G and a long-running TV anime adaptation from Toei Animation that has remained on broadcast since 1999. The franchise also inspired numerous anime films, stage plays, video games, drama CDs, card games, art and guidebooks, and more.
The TV anime series announced a 3-month break that will begin in January 2026, with the show resuming in April 2026 with its latest arc. An anime adaptation of One Piece Heroines was also announced in October 2025.
Crunchyroll is streaming the One Piece TV anime series worldwide, describing the main premise as:
Monkey D. Luffy refuses to let anyone or anything stand in the way of his quest to become King of the Pirates. With his rubber-like stretching powers granted by the supernatural Devil Fruit, the spirited young pirate seeks the legendary treasure known as the One Piece. He’ll chart a course for the treacherous waters of the Grand Line and recruit a motley crew to build his Straw Hat Pirates one bond at a time. This is one captain who’ll never drop anchor until he and his friends all reach their dreams!