Season 2 of ‘One Piece’ on Netflix gives its first teaser: a villain that almost leaves Zoro without legs

We all know that the second season of the live action ‘One Piece’ adaptation will revolve around Alabasta and will start with Luffy’s execution, but we often forget what happens between one thing and another. We’re talking about the Whiskey Peak and Little Garden arcs, the chapters in which we meet the different employees of Baroque Works, Crocodile’s criminal organization. Some assumed that the Netflix series would tiptoe around them (after all, they are barely 10 episodes of the anime), but Iñaki Godoy has just made it clear that it will not be like that. During Luffy’s birthday celebration, the actor gave fans a wink with one of the first villains of the new season. Pay attention to the end of the celebratory video:

The three of the cake, if that is really a cake and not wax, refers to Galdino, better known as Mr. 3, the antagonist of Little Garden and later, during Impel Down, an essential character during the prison riot and Ace’s rescue. Although he would end up being more comical than scary, like Buggy, at the time the wax man, carrier of the Wax Wax fruit, had the Straw Hats on the ropes. He is responsible for one of the darkest moments in the entire story, one of those in which Eiichiro Oda skids and becomes more sadistic and dark than ever.

It was episode 73 of the anime (122 of the manga) when Mr. 3 trapped Zoro, Nami, and Vivi with the intention of turning them into wax statues. So far nothing strange. Typical of any story: the protagonists are trapped by the villain and need to escape. In this specific case, they immobilized them by creating an unbreakable monolith around their feet. Well, suddenly and out of nowhere, Zoro completely breaks the tone of ‘One Piece’ and was preparing to cut off his legs.

There isn’t a ‘One Piece’ fan who didn’t take the character seriously. But then Luffy would enter the scene with Usopp and stop Zoro, making us crack a smile and burst out laughing at the brutality and stubbornness of the swordsman, but there was a moment when more than one wondered how the series would continue with him without legs.

One of those unpredictable Eiichiro Oda moments that takes us from holding our breath to laughing in a matter of seconds and that we are looking forward to seeing how it’s represented in the series with Mackenyu.