[This story contains spoilers from One Piece season two.]
When a show breaks out the way Netflix‘s live-action adaptation of One Piece exploded in 2023, it’s not wrong to assume a trail of Hollywood cameos will soon follow. Never mind that the original manga, created by Eiichiro Oda and initially published in 1997, was already such a global phenomenon in its almost three-decade run that it is now nearly synonymous with the Japanese publishing medium. In many senses, Luffy and the Straw Hat Crew are not only household names (or at least very recognizable faces) within American geek culture thanks to both the manga and existing anime adaptation, but sometimes even among those whose interests don’t favor the juggernauts that are both Japanese industries.
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