Live-action One Piece showrunner Steven Maeda is revealing what he can about the mysterious smoking character from the ending of One Piece season 1.
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Summary
- The mysterious smoking figure introduced at the end of One Piece season 1 hints at future developments in season 2, according to showrunner Steven Maeda.
- With over 1,000 manga chapters, there is still plenty of story to be told, and the smoking figure could play a role in upcoming episodes.
- Showrunner Steven Maeda emphasizes the importance of teeing up future plotlines and leaves it to the audience to speculate on the significance of the smoking figure.
Warning: spoilers ahead for Netflix’s One Piece.The creator of Netflix’s live-action One Piece is opening up about the mysterious character revealed at the end of season 1. Dedicated to telling the story of the young pirate captain Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy), One Piece introduces many of the heroic pirates from Eiichiro Oda’s ongoing One Piece manga. The show focuses on adapting much of the first hundred chapters of the manga, but it is already laying the seeds for future seasons. At the end of season 1, it even introduces a mysterious smoking figure intent on burning holes in the images of pirates.
While live-action One Piece showrunner Steven Maeda cannot say much about the figure, he did speak to TV Line about the character’s introduction. Maeda hopes to use the mysterious figure to hint at future developments in One Piece season 2, should the show earn a renewal. With over 1,000 chapters of the manga, there is still a vast amount of story to be mined, and the smoker could play a role in the coming episodes. Maeda prefers to let audiences speculate about what could be coming. Check out his quote below:
“I’m not allowed to say. But you could read into it what you want to read into it. I think it’s important to tee up a little bit moving forward, especially with a series like this where there’s a really strong plot drive. I would leave that to the audience to figure out.”
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Source: TV Line
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