The news came out of the annual One Piece Day celebration on Tokyo, where it was also revealed that Ian Stokes would be joining Joe Tracz as co-showrunner on Season 3. Stokes was previously a co-executive producer on Season 1. Production on the third season will begin later this year in Cape Town, South Africa.

Recently, the list of Netflix's most watched anime for the year 2025 was revealed. Of course, 2025 isn't over yet, which means that this list isn't final. Instead, it was made quite clear that this list only covered the most watched Netflix Anime for the first half of 2025, which means all the way up to the end of June.

One Piece's live-action Vivi played by Charithra Chandran finally makes her debut in Netflix's newly released trailer for Season 2.