{"slug":"one-piece","type":"series","title":"One Piece","year":2023,"releaseDate":null,"franchise":null,"genres":["Action & Adventure","Sci-Fi & Fantasy"],"creators":["Matt Owens","Steven Maeda","Eiichiro Oda"],"url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece","hook":"Creator Eiichiro Oda had veto power — so the crew hid Pandaman, manga color-spread costumes, and years of foreshadowing in the background of nearly every scene.","intro":"*One Piece* broke the one rule most manga adaptations ignore: creator **Eiichiro Oda** held veto power. He sat as executive producer, sent notes, and reportedly sent whole scripts back — which is why the Netflix series plays less like a loose remake and more like a treasure map drawn by the person who buried the treasure. The crew didn't just study the anime; editor Eric Litman said they pulled shots straight from Oda's manga panels, \"to honor what Oda had in place.\"\n\nThat fidelity turns the show into a scavenger hunt. **Pandaman**, Oda's decades-old crowd-scene gag, is tucked into the back corner of a well in episode four. The Straw Hats' outfits are lifted frame-for-frame from color spreads Oda painted for the manga. And half the set dressing — a squid painting at the Baratie, a newspaper obituary in Kaya's mansion — quietly foreshadows arcs the show won't reach for years.\n\nBelow are 18 documented details, from the young Mihawk and Shanks hiding in the crowd at Gol D. Roger's execution to the Smoker cigar-burn stinger that lit the fuse for Season 2's *Into the Grand Line*. Where a member of the production put the intent on the record in a source we can link, it's marked confirmed; where the trail runs through secondhand write-ups or fans piecing it together frame by frame, it's marked community.","identifiers":{"tmdbId":111110,"tmdbUrl":"https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/111110","imdbId":"tt11737520","imdbUrl":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11737520/"},"counts":{"eggs":18,"confirmed":1,"community":17,"theory":0,"sources":14},"postCredits":{"status":"yes","verdict":"Yes — One Piece has 1 post-credit scene.","scenes":1,"description":"Season 1's finale, 'Worst in the East,' ends with a brief tag — placed just before the credits rather than after — showing Smoker the White Hunter in a smoky room, pressing his lit cigar into Luffy's new wanted poster. Executive producer Eric Clements confirmed it was added after filming to signal the story's next natural chapter, setting up the Loguetown confrontation and the Grand Line journey of Season 2.","detail":null,"url":null},"eggs":[{"id":"roger-execution-cameos","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-roger-execution-cameos","title":"Young Mihawk, Shanks and Smoker Hide at Roger's Execution","description":"The series opens on Gol D. Roger's execution in Loguetown, and the plaza is stuffed with faces that won't matter for years. Blink-and-miss younger versions of swordsman **Dracule Mihawk**, future mentor **Shanks**, the clown **Buggy**, revolutionary **Monkey D. Dragon**, and even a young **Smoker** are scattered through the crowd, alongside Vice Admiral Garp. It mirrors Oda's own manga flashback, which drew many of these characters into the same scene decades before their arcs began. For newcomers it's set dressing; for readers it's a map of the entire saga hiding in episode one.","scene":"Cold-open flashback to Roger's public execution on the Loguetown scaffold — scan the crowd","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E1","types":["cameo","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Beebom — 25 One Piece Live Action Easter Eggs You May Have Missed","url":"https://beebom.com/one-piece-live-action-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Collider — Here Are One Piece's Biggest Easter Eggs","url":"https://collider.com/one-piece-netflix-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"ian-mcshane-blackbeard-narration","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-ian-mcshane-blackbeard-narration","title":"The Narrator Once Played the Other Blackbeard","description":"The prologue is narrated by **Ian McShane**, and the casting is a sly wink: McShane played Blackbeard in *Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides*. *One Piece* has its own Blackbeard — Marshall D. Teach, one of the manga's most fearsome future villains — so handing the pirate-world narration to a screen Blackbeard is a nod fans clocked immediately, even if the two characters never share the screen.","scene":"Opening voice-over narration setting up the Great Pirate Era","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E1","types":["cameo","meta"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Here Are One Piece's Biggest Easter Eggs","url":"https://collider.com/one-piece-netflix-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":["casting-in-joke"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"binks-sake-shanks-flashback","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-binks-sake-shanks-flashback","title":"Binks' Sake Plays While Shanks Stitches Luffy Up","description":"During the flashback where **Shanks** stitches up a young Luffy, an instrumental version of *Binks' Sake* drifts quietly underneath. It's the in-universe sea shanty Oda wrote for the pirates of his world, and canonically Luffy first hears it from Shanks' Red Hair crew — so scoring this exact scene with it is a deep musical nod. The song becomes central to Brook's introduction hundreds of chapters later, making its quiet debut here a seed planted early.","scene":"Foosha Village flashback — Shanks patches up Luffy after the bandit incident","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E1","types":["music","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 26 Anime Easter Eggs In Netflix's One Piece","url":"https://screenrant.com/one-piece-netflix-easter-eggs-anime/"},{"label":"WatchMojo — Top 10 References You Missed in Netflix's One Piece","url":"https://www.watchmojo.com/articles/top-10-references-you-missed-in-netflixs-one-piece"}],"motifs":["music-cue-callback"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"we-are-instrumental-theme","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-we-are-instrumental-theme","title":"The Anime's Opening Theme Scores the Big Moments","description":"An instrumental arrangement of *We Are!* — the beloved first opening of the *One Piece* anime — swells at two of the season's most triumphant beats: the moment the crew receives the **Going Merry**, and the scene where the Straw Hats declare their dreams before setting out for the Grand Line. It's a bridge between mediums, rewarding anime fans with a melody the newcomers just hear as a great score.","scene":"Cue swells when the crew gains the Going Merry and during the pre-Grand Line dream declaration","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","callback"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"WatchMojo — Top 10 References You Missed in Netflix's One Piece","url":"https://www.watchmojo.com/articles/top-10-references-you-missed-in-netflixs-one-piece"}],"motifs":["music-cue-callback"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"mr-7-sbs-doodle","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-mr-7-sbs-doodle","title":"Zoro's First Fight Is Against a Character Oda Only Doodled","description":"Zoro's first on-screen fight is against a Baroque Works agent called **Mr. 7** — a character who has never appeared in the anime. His design was only ever a sketch Oda drew in an SBS (the manga's fan-question column) while explaining that a previous Mr. 7 once tried to recruit Zoro into the criminal syndicate. The show resurrects that throwaway doodle and stages the recruitment fight for real, planting Baroque Works — Season 2's villains — a full season early.","scene":"Shells Town — Zoro cuts down a bounty hunter before crossing paths with Helmeppo","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E1","types":["reference","foreshadowing","trivia"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 26 Anime Easter Eggs In Netflix's One Piece","url":"https://screenrant.com/one-piece-netflix-easter-eggs-anime/"},{"label":"Dualshockers — One Piece Live Action: 10 Best Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.dualshockers.com/one-piece-live-action-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"wanted-poster-cameos","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-wanted-poster-cameos","title":"Bounty Posters for Pirates Who Show Up Seasons Later","description":"The Marine base and various walls are papered with wanted posters for pirates who don't appear in Season 1. Freeze-framers have spotted **Cavendish**, **Foxy**, **Jango**, and **Bellamy** among them — all characters from far deeper into the Grand Line — and Mihawk's own poster turns up too. It's the show quietly acknowledging a much bigger world than the East Blue we're actually watching.","scene":"Pause on the bounty-poster walls around the Shells Town Marine base","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E1","types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Beebom — 25 One Piece Live Action Easter Eggs You May Have Missed","url":"https://beebom.com/one-piece-live-action-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"WatchMojo — Top 10 References You Missed in Netflix's One Piece","url":"https://www.watchmojo.com/articles/top-10-references-you-missed-in-netflixs-one-piece"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"manga-color-spread-costumes","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-manga-color-spread-costumes","title":"The Straw Hats Wear Oda's Own Color-Spread Artwork","description":"The crew's wardrobe is a gallery of Oda's paintings. Costume designer **Diana Cilliers** built the looks straight off the creator's own colour compendiums, telling The Art of Costume the team \"wanted to keep to that very lovely simplicity and iconic looks that came with Oda sensei's color walk\" — and that Oda was in the room for it: \"There was a massive collaboration between the showrunners, Oda Sensei, and my team.\" **Nami's** eggplant-cart outfit comes from the Chapter 28 color spread, her Chinese-style dinner dress from Chapter 32's cover, and Luffy and Zoro's looks echo the Volume 11 cover. These aren't costume-department inventions — they're color pages Oda hand-painted, rebuilt thread for thread in live action.","scene":"Watch the crew's outfits across the Syrup Village and Baratie stretch","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"The Art of Costume — Costume designer Diana Cilliers on adapting One Piece","url":"https://theartofcostume.com/2023/09/06/costume-designer-diana-cilliers-dives-into-the-challenge-of-adapting-iconic-one-piece-costumes-for-netflix-series/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — One Piece Team Confirms Season 2's Biggest Cameos (Exclusive)","url":"https://screenrant.com/one-piece-netflix-live-action-sabo-brook-bartolomeo-cameos/"},{"label":"Game Rant — 10 Easter Eggs In The Syrup Village Arc","url":"https://gamerant.com/netflix-one-piece-live-action-opla-easter-eggs-syrup-village-arc/"}],"motifs":["book-accurate-detail"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"pandaman-well-cameo","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-pandaman-well-cameo","title":"Pandaman Is Hiding in Zoro's Well","description":"Oda's most famous hidden gag makes the jump to live action. **Pandaman** — a man with a panda's head that Oda has been smuggling into crowd scenes since the 1990s — appears as a faint white outline in the back-right corner when Zoro hauls himself out of the well the Black Cat Pirates throw him into. Catching Pandaman is a decades-old tradition for manga readers (he began life as a Kinnikuman contest entry), and the crew honored it with a single freeze-frame cameo.","scene":"Syrup Village — the instant Zoro climbs out of the well, look at the back-right corner","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E4","types":["visual","cameo","reference"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"One Piece Wiki — Pandaman","url":"https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Pandaman"},{"label":"Game Rant — 10 Easter Eggs In The Syrup Village Arc","url":"https://gamerant.com/netflix-one-piece-live-action-opla-easter-eggs-syrup-village-arc/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"victoria-cindry-obituary","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-victoria-cindry-obituary","title":"A Newspaper Obituary Foreshadows Thriller Bark","description":"A newspaper glimpsed in **Kaya's** mansion reports the death of an actress named **Victoria Cindry**. In the manga she's resurrected as a zombie during the Thriller Bark arc — many seasons away from where the show currently sits — so this throwaway obituary is a genuine piece of long-range foreshadowing, buried in set dressing that most viewers scroll right past.","scene":"Freeze-frame the newspaper inside Kaya's mansion during the Syrup Village arc","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["foreshadowing","reference"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Game Rant — 10 Easter Eggs In The Syrup Village Arc","url":"https://gamerant.com/netflix-one-piece-live-action-opla-easter-eggs-syrup-village-arc/"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"usopp-dragon-lie","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-usopp-dragon-lie","title":"Usopp's Dragon Lie Comes True Hundreds of Chapters Later","description":"When **Usopp** brags about slaying a dragon, it lands as another of his tall tales — the boy who cried pirates. But it's a wink to readers: far down the line in the Punk Hazard arc, the crew meets an actual dragon, and Zoro cuts it down. Usopp's lie quietly becomes true, and the show plants the joke long before the manga's eventual payoff.","scene":"Syrup Village — Usopp spins his tall tales to Kaya","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["foreshadowing","callback"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Game Rant — 10 Easter Eggs In The Syrup Village Arc","url":"https://gamerant.com/netflix-one-piece-live-action-opla-easter-eggs-syrup-village-arc/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"going-merry-klabautermann","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-going-merry-klabautermann","title":"Luffy Senses the Going Merry's Soul","description":"When the crew receives the **Going Merry**, Luffy remarks that he feels a strong presence from the ship. It's a nod to the *Klabautermann* — the spirit of a well-loved vessel — a concept that becomes devastatingly important when the Merry's soul manifests during the Water 7 and Enies Lobby arcs. One offhand line here foreshadows one of the manga's most tear-jerking future beats.","scene":"The moment the crew is gifted the Going Merry at the end of Syrup Village","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E4","types":["foreshadowing"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Game Rant — 10 Easter Eggs In The Syrup Village Arc","url":"https://gamerant.com/netflix-one-piece-live-action-opla-easter-eggs-syrup-village-arc/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"baratie-wall-paintings","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-baratie-wall-paintings","title":"The Baratie's Walls Are a Gallery of Future Islands","description":"The walls of the **Baratie** sea restaurant are an art gallery of places the Straw Hats haven't reached yet. Paintings depict the giant **Royal Squid** the crew will fight inside a whale on the Grand Line, the **Island of Rare Animals** (home to the chest-bound Gaimon, an early manga character cut from the show), and the **Sabaody Archipelago**. Several skipped East Blue side-stories survive only as these background portraits.","scene":"Scan the framed paintings on the Baratie's dining-room walls","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E5","types":["visual","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 26 Anime Easter Eggs In Netflix's One Piece","url":"https://screenrant.com/one-piece-netflix-easter-eggs-anime/"},{"label":"Game Rant — 8 Easter Eggs In The Baratie Arc","url":"https://gamerant.com/netflixs-one-piece-live-action-easter-eggs-baratie-arc/"}],"motifs":["foreshadowed-in-background-art"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"news-coo-broc-coli-headline","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-news-coo-broc-coli-headline","title":"The News Coo Delivers a Headline From 800 Chapters Ahead","description":"The world's newspaper-delivery bird, the **News Coo**, flits through several scenes, and Luffy even tries to recruit one. One paper's headline reads \"War continues on Broc Coli Island\" — a New World location that doesn't appear until around Chapter 828 of the manga — while another mentions the Revolutionary Army seizing territory. The show's set dressing casually references events a thousand-plus chapters ahead of where the story stands.","scene":"Look at the newspapers the News Coo carries throughout Season 1","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 26 Anime Easter Eggs In Netflix's One Piece","url":"https://screenrant.com/one-piece-netflix-easter-eggs-anime/"},{"label":"WatchMojo — Top 10 References You Missed in Netflix's One Piece","url":"https://www.watchmojo.com/articles/top-10-references-you-missed-in-netflixs-one-piece"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"cotton-candy-chopper-tease","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-cotton-candy-chopper-tease","title":"Luffy's Cotton Candy Line Sets Up Chopper","description":"Luffy's offhand line about **cotton candy** is a plant for a crew member who won't join for another season: **Tony Tony Chopper**, the reindeer doctor of Drum Island, whose favorite food is famously cotton candy. It's a tiny piece of foreshadowing for a Season 2 fan-favorite, tucked into a line most first-time viewers won't think twice about.","scene":"Listen for Luffy's passing mention of cotton candy","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["foreshadowing"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 26 Anime Easter Eggs In Netflix's One Piece","url":"https://screenrant.com/one-piece-netflix-easter-eggs-anime/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"smoker-cigar-poster-stinger","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-smoker-cigar-poster-stinger","title":"The Smoker Cigar-Burn Stinger That Lit Season 2","description":"Season 1 closes on a stinger: a white-haired man in a smoky room presses the lit tip of his cigar into Luffy's freshly minted wanted poster. That's **Smoker the White Hunter**, the Marine captain who confronts the Straw Hats in Loguetown — the launch point for Season 2. Executive producer Eric Clements described the tag as intentional and \"added after filming\" specifically to signal \"the next natural chapter for the manga.\" Note that Netflix places it just before the credits rather than after, so plenty of viewers still caught it.","scene":"End of the finale, 'Worst in the East' — the smoky-room tag with the cigar and the wanted poster","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E8","types":["foreshadowing","cameo"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"ComicBook — Producers Tease What's Next After That Post-Credits Scene","url":"https://comicbook.com/anime/news/one-piece-netflix-post-credits-scene-producers-explained/"},{"label":"Looper — Does One Piece Season 1's Finale Have a Post-Credits Scene?","url":"https://www.looper.com/1383800/one-piece-netflix-season-1-post-credits/"}],"motifs":["sequel-tease"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"laboon-reverse-mountain-s2","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-laboon-reverse-mountain-s2","title":"Season 2 Opens on Laboon and Reverse Mountain","description":"Season 2, *Into the Grand Line*, bookends its first footage with **Reverse Mountain** and the giant whale **Laboon**, the literal gateway into the Grand Line. Laboon's mournful cries open and close the teaser, setting up the whale who's been headbutting the mountain for decades waiting for a crew that never came back — one of Oda's most beloved early Grand Line stories, and the crew's first stop after the East Blue.","scene":"Season 2 teaser — the Going Merry approaching Reverse Mountain, framed by Laboon's cries","timestamp":null,"episode":"S2E1","types":["foreshadowing","reference"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Nerdist — Every Manga Easter Egg in the Season 2 Teaser","url":"https://nerdist.com/article/every-manga-anime-easter-egg-one-piece-season-2-teaser-trailer/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — 16 Biggest One Piece Season 2 Easter Eggs","url":"https://screenrant.com/one-piece-season-2-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"sabo-cameo-s2","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-sabo-cameo-s2","title":"Sabo Slips Into Season 2's Background","description":"Season 2 works in a cameo for **Sabo**, the revolutionary who serves as Dragon's right hand and is secretly Luffy's sworn brother. Editor Eric Litman told ScreenRant cameos like Sabo, Brook, Yorki, and Bartolomeo were deliberately woven in to respect canon while nudging the story forward — the team, he said, isn't \"cheeky\" about it: \"we just go for it.\" It's proof the show is planting seeds many seasons ahead of their payoff.","scene":"Season 2 — watch the Revolutionary Army beats around Dragon for Sabo","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — One Piece Team Confirms Season 2's Biggest Cameos (Exclusive)","url":"https://screenrant.com/one-piece-netflix-live-action-sabo-brook-bartolomeo-cameos/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"god-valley-reference-s2","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece#egg-god-valley-reference-s2","title":"Garp and Roger Name-Drop God Valley","description":"In Season 2, a conversation between **Garp** and **Roger** references **God Valley** — the site of a legendary battle between the Marines, the Rocks Pirates, and Roger some 38 years before the story begins. It's one of the manga's most significant late-reveal historical events, tied to Rocks D. Xebec and the origins of the current power balance, so dropping the name in dialogue is a deliberate hook aimed squarely at the deepest lore hounds.","scene":"Season 2 — a Garp-and-Roger exchange about the past","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 16 Biggest One Piece Season 2 Easter Eggs","url":"https://screenrant.com/one-piece-season-2-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null}],"faq":[{"question":"How many easter eggs are in One Piece?","answer":"This guide documents 18 easter eggs and hidden details across Netflix's live-action One Piece, covering Season 1 and the Season 2 premiere, Into the Grand Line. They range from Pandaman's freeze-frame cameo and the Straw Hats' manga-accurate costumes to deep-cut foreshadowing like the Victoria Cindry obituary and the young Mihawk, Shanks, and Smoker hidden in the crowd at Gol D. Roger's execution."},{"question":"Is there a post-credits scene in One Piece on Netflix?","answer":"Not a traditional one. Season 1 ends with a tag scene placed just before the credits roll: a white-haired man presses his lit cigar into Luffy's new wanted poster. That's Smoker the White Hunter, the Marine who confronts the Straw Hats in Loguetown. Executive producer Eric Clements described the stinger as added after filming to point toward Season 2's journey into the Grand Line."},{"question":"Who appears at Gol D. Roger's execution in One Piece?","answer":"The Loguetown execution crowd hides younger versions of several major characters: swordsman Dracule Mihawk, Luffy's future mentor Shanks, the clown Buggy, revolutionary Monkey D. Dragon, and even a young Smoker, alongside Vice Admiral Garp. It mirrors Oda's original manga flashback, which drew many of these faces into the same scene decades before their individual stories began."},{"question":"What is Pandaman in One Piece?","answer":"Pandaman is a running gag character Eiichiro Oda has hidden in One Piece crowd scenes since the 1990s — a man with a panda's head, originally designed for a Kinnikuman creation contest. Fans hunt for him across chapters, episodes, and films. In the Netflix series he appears as a faint white outline behind Zoro as he climbs out of a well in episode four."},{"question":"When does One Piece Season 2 come out?","answer":"One Piece: Into the Grand Line premiered March 10, 2026, with all eight episodes dropping at once on Netflix, plus limited screenings in more than 200 theaters across the US, Canada, and Japan. It adapts the crew's entry into the Grand Line, introducing Laboon, Whiskey Peak, the Little Garden giants, and Nico Robin."}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-08","updatedAt":"2026-08-10","source":{"name":"The Things You Missed","page":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/one-piece","api":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/api/titles/one-piece","methodology":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/about"}}