At the end of One Piece Season 1, Monkey D. Luffy, Roronoa Zoro, Nami, Usopp and Sanji were ready to set sail for The Grand Line. Following a brief stop in Loguetown, they’ll reach their destination in One Piece Season 2, and one of the first things they’ll see is the massive, scarred whale known as Laboon. While we continue waiting to learn when we’ll be able to stream the next season with a Netflix subscription, Taz Skylar, who plays Sanji, opened up about the experience of working inside the gigantic Laboon set.
Although the One Piece Season 2 trailer showed a glimpse of Laboon at the end, EW has shared crisp images of the whale in all his glory. Obviously CGI is necessary to bring this “Big Friendly” creature to “life,” but the show’s crew also went the extra mile to construct this set. Taz Skylar revealed that the practical Laboon was repurposed from the One Piece team’s largest boat set, explaining:
Literally the size of a cruise ship… They had the whole stomach lined in, and the stomach acid at the bottom. It had shipwrecks inside the whale, and it was way bigger than the size of a normal whale; it was the size of a monster, dinosaur whale — like a megalodon whale. Huge whale.
adorable walking and talking reindeer Chopper, and on a less positive note, our protagonists will clash with the criminal organization Baroque Works. These are all stepping stones on Luffy’s journey to become King of the Pirates and find the One Piece with the help of his friends.
Hopefully these recent looks at One Piece Season 2 means that means that the episodes will premiere on Netflix in early 2026. The good news is that the show’s already been renewed for Season 3, so this take on Eiichiro Oda’s fantastical universe isn’t going away anytime soon.