Netflix's One Piece Season 2 Won't Be the Last One: Up to 6 Seasons Planned
The show's producers have revealed their intentions.
It's been a couple of weeks since Netflix's adaptation of the beloved manga One Piece premiered, but the new series remains the ultimate talk of the town. Initially wary of the show, manga fans all over the world have cautiously approached One Piece, only to fall in love with the streaming service's version.
Many viewers have praised Netflix's One Piece's adherence to the source material. More importantly, people have liked the cast and their performances so far, resulting in a huge following for the show. Now that the audience has seen the eight chapters of the first season, they're hungry for more. Fortunately, the One Piece producers have plans for up to six installments.
The Producers Were Surprised by How Well One Piece Was Received
Becky Clements and Marty Adelstein of Tomorrow Studios are the producers of One Piece. Prior to the new Netflix show, they produced Cowboy Bebop – another anime adaptation that was destroyed by fans and critics, so the producers approached One Piece much more carefully.
The resulting audience adoration came as a big surprise, they admit. And it had a very positive effect on them and the studio's plans to continue the show.
'The really nice thing is we were facing some headwinds from the fans who weren't necessarily expecting something as good as they got,' Adelstein told Deadline.
New Seasons: Hoping for 12, Planning 6
While it may seem a bit premature to make grand plans for One Piece based on the reception of the first season, Adelstein and Clements seem most optimistic about the show's continuation. According to Marty, they are hoping for twelve seasons.
'We're over 1,080 chapters at this point in the manga. We have plans with Matt Owens for how we would break multiple seasons, and I think even if we did six seasons, we would probably only use up half of the chapters of the manga. It really could go on and on and on,' Becky Clements shared with the outlet.
'Everything we do is in concert with Netflix, Shueisha [manga publisher] and Oda-san, they are a part of that conversation. We've definitely had more thorough conversations about what we would do with Season 2 should we have the opportunity, and then less extensive conversations about where we would go for season three to six.'
Hopefully, Netflix will indeed hold on to this new show, which happens to be one of its gems at the moment.
Source: Deadline.