‘One Piece’ Showrunner Teases That Smoking Mid-Credits Scene Character and Season 2 Plans
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business Writer SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers through the Season 1 finale of “One Piece,” now streaming on Netflix. “One Piece” lodged two cannonballs at its viewers in its first season, one coming halfway through the pirate manga TV adaptation, and the other at the very end.
First up was both a big reveal and a deviation from “One Piece” creator Eiichiro Oda’s original story: aspiring pirate king Monkey D.
Luffy (Iñaki Godoy) telling his Straw Hat Pirates gang that Vice-Admiral Garp (Vincent Regan), the chief marine who has been leading the massive search for them all season, is actually Luffy’s grandfather.
While Garp’s identity in the Netflix show is exactly what it is in the manga, this revelation was moved way up in the “One Piece” storyline in order to get it into the first season, which in eight episodes covers roughly the first 100 chapters of the manga. “Obviously Garp was not in the first 100 chapters to any great degree, other than, I think, seeing him in the beginning,” said “One Piece” co-showrunner Steven Maeda, who led the series alongside Matt Owens in collaboration with Oda. “But one of the decisions that I made early on was wanting to have an antagonist in pursuit.
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