The Live-Action ‘One Piece’ Has Found Its Tony Tony Chopper

The Straw Hat crew will only continue to grow as Netflix sets sail on One Piece‘s second season, and now we’ve finally got our first glimpse at one of the most important additions of all: the arrival of the diminutive crew doctor, Tony Tony Chopper.

During today’s Tudum livestream event, One Piece stars Iñaki Godoy, Mackenyu, Emily Rudd, Jacob Romero, and Taz Skylar took to the stage to reveal a special sneak peek at the upcoming season, which included the first look at the live-action series’ spin on Chopper. Check it out below!

Chopper will be played by Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3‘s Mikaela Hoover (she appeared there as Rocket Raccoon’s rabbit friend Floor, and will continue her professional relationship with James Gunn in Superman next month, where she’ll play media personality Cat Grant), who will provide both voicework and facial motion capture for the character. Introduced early on in One Piece after the events of the manga’s Drum Island arc, Chopper is an aspiring medic who wants to travel the world and expand his knowledge as a doctor. Oh, and he happens to be a reindeer who ate a devil fruit that turned him into a human-reindeer hybrid, which facilitated the whole interest in a career in medicine in the first place.

Netflix is still staying mum about just when we’ll be able to see One Piece‘s return, beyond the fact that it’s coming next year, but Hoover is joining a veritable host of new faces that’ll appear in season two, including the likes of Katey Sagal, Joe Manganiello, David Dastmalchian, Clive Russell, James Hiroyuki Lio, and more.

We’ll bring you more on Netflix’s plans for One Piece as and when we learn them.

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