This 12 months’s Netflix Tudum marked the primary reside stream immediately from the Netflix platform for the fan-focused occasion, and the One Piece fandom specifically bought loads of TLC and display screen time. Because the streaming large overestimated the upcoming second season of it’s reside motion adaptation of the world’s best-selling manga and beloved anime sequence, we bought our first have a look at the latest member of the Straw Hat Pirate crew.
Meet the reside motion Tony Tony Chopper:
Dropped at life by the voice and motion-capture of Guardians of the Galaxy actress Mikaela Hoover, Tony Tony Chopper, alias “Cotton Sweet Lover”, is a central character within the One Piece universe, a loveable reindeer physician who will get flustered by compliments, and infrequently (unhappily) confused for a Japanese racoon canine.
Manga creator Eiichiro Oda cited that the character’s backstory of being rejected by his herd and rescued by people was meant as an example the energy of chosen household versus blood-relation. He’s additionally shared that if Tony Tony Chopper had an actual world nationality, the ship’s physician can be a Canadian. His particular powers enable him to remodel right into a full-sized reindeer or a reindeer-human hybrid.
Whereas we’re bummed we’ll have to attend till 2026 to see Tony Tony Chopper’s adventures with the remainder of the crew, we’ll need to make due with the preview for now, and fortunately it’s full of persona.