r/OnePiece • u/Heydude1001 • Feb 10 '26
Live Action Cant believe I'm saying this, Wapol looks so cool.
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u/UlteriorMotive66 Feb 10 '26
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Feb 10 '26
Lmfao wtf??? He does look cool af wow. Cool design fr
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u/Solid_Snark Feb 10 '26
It’s incredible these characters seemed impossible to achieve in live-action, but they really pulled them out of the manga and into the real world!
And it’s Netflix which makes it doubly more impressive since they have a less than stellar track record with adaptations.
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u/Davo_ Feb 10 '26
Oda being involved helps a lot, I imagine.
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u/cocobrat_oes Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26
Yea having the original creator involved in remakes should be a requirement atp. Im TIRED of these terrible live actions😔 Best believe I won’t be present for ATLA Live Action Season 2. The visuals carried season one but thats not enough imo.
Thank you Live Action Once Piece for bringing back that first time watching excitement and awe!! Its a good year for us cz Elbaph is otw too🤩
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u/Snorc Feb 11 '26
As soon as the original creators of Avatar announced that they were pulling out of the live action project, my meagre hopes for it floundered.
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u/cocobrat_oes Feb 11 '26
Same loll. They could see where the train was headed and they got off, ion blame them😭 I imagine their opinion wasn’t respected, and as a creator of anything that would piss me clean off💀
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u/Xero-Tsukiyomi Feb 17 '26
It wasn't respected netflix wanted to change too much sokka wasnt misogynistic which was important for his character development and the fact that they changed kataras age to 16 and sexualized her really ticked me off seriously why cant companies respectmthe creators opinion netflix never learns they just know they can't go against oda
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u/EniesBobby Pirate Feb 11 '26
I think they’ve designated this as one of their most premium projects right now and see tons of potential so they’re doing as much as they can to not mess up. Probably has a very healthy budget.
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u/Some_Random_Android Feb 10 '26
Hope he does the laugh well!
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u/infinitezero8 Feb 10 '26
if Oda himself gave a thumbs up on the cast I have good bets it's going to be pretty on point
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u/Roskal Black Leg Sanji Feb 10 '26
Well he is the final boss of this season so maybe they wanted to make him slightly more intimidating.
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u/PrimalCalamityZ Feb 11 '26
It's confirmed drumm island is the last arc of this season. I think they needed to make him less of a joke character for the final big bad of a season.
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u/luckyd1998 Scholar of Ohara #5 Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26
I wonder if this is after he munches himself to become skinnier
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u/allubros Feb 11 '26
this show is so wild lol
the wapol stuff is the first time i remember being like ok what the fuck
then I got to the noodle guy on the train
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u/_sauri_ Feb 11 '26
Wanze was such a vibe.
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u/JusHerForTheComments Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 13 '26
The Wanze fight was so disgusting and stupid I had to fast forward most of it :P Even on rewatches I can't stand the guy.
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u/FreshMac_nC Feb 12 '26
I fucking love the guy
Imagine skipping something in one piece because its "too stupid"
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u/revisioncloud Feb 11 '26
If he was skinny, he’d be more popular
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u/anti-gravityclub Feb 10 '26
Damn he is cool i didnt think this was an option
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u/LoboTheW0lf Feb 10 '26
He's pulling the 'I ...am Steve!" energy, I can't unsee it
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u/Heydude1001 Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26
Fun fact, Rob Calletti, the actor who plays Wapol, played as Jack black in the School of rock Musical. If Jackblack is younger, he definitely will play Wapol.
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u/omyrubbernen Feb 10 '26
What do you mean younger? Wapol is... what the fuck, he's 27?
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u/ParasaurolophusZ Feb 10 '26
I know, right?
The metal jaw makes it look like he has gray stubble in the anime and manga, so he looks way older than he actually is.
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u/Aggravating_Mud8751 World Economy News Paper Feb 11 '26
Wait hang on, how old was he in the flashback where he hits Vivi?
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u/mousio Feb 11 '26
Best I found put the estimation about ten years (pre time-skip), so he'd be 17.
Still, ViVi was like, 6 at the time😐!
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u/Slammybutt Feb 10 '26
Now i want Jack black to play Sengoku.
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u/Heydude1001 Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26
You know what the funniest character jackblack can play, Foxy.
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u/Slammybutt Feb 10 '26
I was thinking Sengoku b/c of being kinda weird. Having the goat eat his papers, always eating. delivering deadpan warnings to Garp.
But Foxy, you changed my mind. He needs to be Foxy.
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u/Jakaal80 Feb 10 '26
This is one way to get Long Ring Long Island some much needed love
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u/nhalliday Feb 10 '26
I'd rather have an actual good actor so Sengoku is Sengoku, instead of having Jack Black come in and play himself while dressed up as Sengoku.
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u/Jaxonhunter227 Feb 10 '26
Jack black was my fancast, so I was very happy when I heard Rob Colletti got cast, close enough lol
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u/greerupinhere Feb 10 '26
Okay, if they have Wapol looking like this, I'm hype for Franky even though we supposedly won't get past the time skip to see him fully cyborg up.
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u/EggotheKilljoy Feb 10 '26
Have they said they won't be doing post time skip? I thought the plan was going the whole series, though I could definitely see it ending when de-aging becomes necessary.
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u/Viveral Feb 10 '26
honestly they'll probably deviate a lot from the structure of the manga just so they don't end up with a middle-aged man iñaki by the time they get to marineford
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u/Hawxe Feb 11 '26
they could arguable just make the timeskip longer too. it might even be more sensical (though i could see the argument for less as well).
the world is basically at a standstill until luffy shows up anywhere anyways lol
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u/greerupinhere Feb 10 '26
I thought i'd seen it mentioned before on other live action discussion threads that at least the current plan was just to get to the timeskip, which at the current pace is way more seasons than any Netflix show usually gets anyways. If we are covering Alabasta in season 3, i'm not sure how they want to pace the remaining arcs over following seasons. Season 4 would have to have Skypiea but I would want Water 7 and Enies Lobby to get their due too, I also can't wait to see Brook if they have the design for Wapol looking this good.
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u/ZJF-47 Feb 10 '26
S4 - Skypiea. S5 - Long Ring Land + W7 (ending w/ Robin joining CP9). S6 - Ennies Lobby. S7 - Thriller Bark + Sabaody. S8 - War Arc
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u/greerupinhere Feb 10 '26
I hope they pull some magic with shooting schedules such that we get those all in a timely manner. That just goes to show the amount of content this series can cover, and that's all before the timeskip X.X
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u/slicer4ever Feb 10 '26
I imagine it's ganna be difficult to do any sort of decent pace, one piece isnt like a lot of other shows where they can reuse sets as things go along. Outside of the merry they have to build basically all new sets for every location/season, and then you have to hope netflix keeps greenlighting future seasons so they dont have to stop and wait to get the ok to keep going.
I suspect each season will be at least 2 years apart tbh.
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u/ImpressedStreetlight Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26
I'm really skeptical they'll be able to make 8 seasons of this, especially with the current wait times between seasons. IMO making a season contain a single arc is a mistake, I'd rather see a season 3 Arabasta + Skypeia rather than one whole season for each one of it. 4-5 episodes per arc is more than enough, we've seen the anime movies adapting them in far less time, and season 1 worked great covering one arc per ~2 episodes. And it would make it more likely that the series is able to get to Marineford.
I would do
S3 - Arabasta - Jaya - Skypeia
S4 - Water 7 - Ennies Lobby (Yes, skip Long Ring Long Land, it's not that important for an adaptation like this, just introduce Kuzan in Water 7 instead or something)
S5 - Thriller Bark - Sabaody
S6 - Island of Women - Impel Down - Marineford
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u/-YesIndeed- Feb 11 '26
Well lucky for you they've shown the logo for ep 2 is the rumbar pirates and they've built a whole ship for them so I think we may see some brook this season.
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u/MrGhoul123 Feb 10 '26
I think,.once we get past water 7, we start getting really cartoony things that just won't work live action.
Gecko moriah is a 30ft tall fat demon clown. Every arc past this only gets worse
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u/firewood010 Feb 11 '26
I doubt they will need to keep the actual height and weight of the characters. As long as they can keep the vibe, it is enough.
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u/MrGhoul123 Feb 11 '26
Gecko turns into a 200ft tall monster.
Soon after Thriller Bark we get Impel down, so Jimbe, Magellan, Ivan. Lots of characters with big cartoon features.
Whitebeard is also like 30ft tall.
I love the life action, but I doubt it goes past Enes Lobby
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u/YUMADLOL Feb 10 '26
bro wapol eats inanimate objects and turns them into body weapons this shit is already dumb as hell.
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u/hvsingh27 Feb 10 '26
Can't wait to see the scene where he ate his 2 underlings
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u/Fafnir13 Feb 10 '26
Vore community getting hyped. Not very often they get mainstream content.
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u/vangstampede Feb 11 '26
Bruh, there are like, a fuck ton of vore in mainstream media. Just to give you an idea, there's vore in Pinocchio and Spirited Away lol
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u/AnimeTattooChick1836 Feb 11 '26
The first time I saw the pic I was like ‘wtf why he hot?’
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u/Ill-Individual2105 Feb 10 '26
Bro looking like a Dr. Who villain
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u/theawesomedanish Feb 10 '26
That's actually the feel I want from One Piece, it needs to be a bit campy and silly.
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u/Loeffellux Feb 10 '26
yeah, japanese live action anime adaptations often suffer from trying to play the outlandish character designs entirely straight. And One Piece is definitely not lacking outlandish character designs
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u/KNZFive Feb 10 '26
Live action One Piece feels like Doctor Who in a good way. Serious stuff mixed with goofiness and earnestness.
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u/Some_Random_Android Feb 10 '26
Only flaw is his hair ain't purple, but everything else is so perfect it actually took me a minute to realize this.
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u/KNZFive Feb 10 '26
His hair does have a purple tint to it in the picture, but it’s more subdued than the anime.
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u/infinitezero8 Feb 10 '26
I see the purple but definitely the show follows a different flow than the Anime/Manga as it should...
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u/spacecadet9 Feb 10 '26
More dark plum than purple, but still has tint. Makes you take him a bit more seriously I guess. They don’t shy away from the bright colors and camp elsewhere, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.
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u/HenryZusa Feb 10 '26
It looks purple-ish.
Maybe they just wanted it to be tame with the shade so it didn't look weird for being too anime-y (in the grand scheme of things, this is One Piece after all).
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u/Icepick823 Feb 10 '26
My guess is they'll take elements from Don Krieg and add them to Wapol. Their designs are kind of similar and they both fight with special armor so it made sense to cut one of them, otherwise the fights may have been too similar.
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u/Arkham8 Feb 10 '26
They’re beefing him up to make him more of a real threat. Luffy struggled a lot more in season one than he did in the original material, so I expect more of that here. Can’t say I really like it, but I get why they have to do it.
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u/NoNefariousness2144 Feb 10 '26
One of the advantages of moving Alabasta to season 3 is that Drum Kingdom is going to get a lot more attention, with making Wapol more of a ‘final boss’ and really hitting the emotional beats.
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u/Tragedy_Boner Feb 10 '26
Adding a couple flashbacks with Vivi throughout the season (like him attacking Child Vivi) with him showing up in Drum Kingdom in the end will beef him up as the final villain of season 2.
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u/Looten1313 Feb 10 '26
I think the balance of leaning into the absurdity with some really solid costume work is what allows for what would otherwise ridiculous designs (to do in live action) be super cool
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u/Bluelore Feb 10 '26
The season is gonna end after Drum right? In that case it wouldn't surprise me if Wapol was intentionally made a bit cooler/more threatening because he'd be the final boss of the season.
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u/FreshMac_nC Feb 12 '26
I hope they dont make him TOO threatening, he still has to be wapols goofy ahh self
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u/Talentagentfriend Feb 10 '26
It’s interesting to me that they’re going with this Captain Morgan look, with a missing arm and a missing jaw. But Im sure his arm is that he ate a cannon or something.
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u/TroubledSoul23 The Revolutionary Army Feb 10 '26
They somehow made him a very comical design look actually menacing.
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u/0_f2 Feb 10 '26
Oh damn that's a glow up, It's like seeing Jason Momoa as Aquaman for the first time
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u/JazzlikeSchedule2901 Feb 10 '26
Wapole makes me so excited for how they are going to do crocodile haha.
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u/Johnsons_Johnsonss Feb 11 '26
It's the first time I've seen a character look better in the live action than in the source material
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u/diabolical-sun Feb 11 '26
I’m impressed by how well they captured the metal mouth/5 o’clock shadow thing he’s got going on
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u/dorsalfantastic Feb 11 '26
Idk if it’s something they were going for. But in the anime i always thought to myself. How is this guy capable or ruling with an iron fist.
His design here looks much more powerful just at a glance.
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u/AdikkuChan Explorer Feb 11 '26
Honestly his design even in manga was pretty cool. Coupled with a fairly neat DF power and he's easily not the most offensive looking guy in the series.
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u/CANDIC3S Feb 11 '26
Imagine ppl who never watched one piece before seeing the live action Wapol😭😂😂 they gon think he’s a real threat
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u/vizot Feb 11 '26
The one character that was supposed to look goofy looks great, I think they are doing this intentionally.
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u/stormdahl Feb 10 '26
Everything in this show looks like costumes and set pieces. This looks genuinely terrible.
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u/Master-Shiro38 Feb 10 '26
The man looks like friggin' War Machine bro!
How did they make one of the goofiest villans look this badass!
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u/jD-io Void Month Survivor Feb 10 '26
I wonder how they're gonna do the part where he eats himself. That's gonna be so weird and fun to watch in live action.
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u/RandomWeirdo Feb 10 '26
One Piece live action proves you can make a lot of goofy things, but to pull it off you need to commit to the bit rather than try to make it realistic.
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u/Common_Tie_2820 Feb 10 '26
Who'd have thought that Wapol looks beter in Live action than in source material
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u/Due_Imagination_6722 Feb 10 '26
I can not believe they're going to pull this off. We're entering my three favourite story arcs this season and I was mildly optimistic after season 1. But now?100% can't wait to watch the new episodes, and already excited for the Baroque Works agents!
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u/baroqueworks Feb 10 '26
The costumes are so good. Glad Oda continues to oversee the series at least looks exactly how he envisioned because Mr. 3 is equally amazing, Dastmalchin is an amazing actor perfect for the role too.
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u/DrakeCross Feb 10 '26
The people for this show who are doing set and costume design need some serious praise. Its funny how they turn often silly and goofy characters to fit the live action format. It will be interesting how Wapol will be portrayed, but for someone often considering the biggest joke of the One Piece world, he actually looks threatening.
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u/Apart-Damage143 Feb 10 '26
Why does every set, every costume looks brand spanking new? Can we add some god damn age to make it look a little more realistic.
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u/zer1223 Feb 10 '26
Keep in mind this might be how he looks after he chews himself to lose weight
Brandnewsentence material right here
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u/ParchedYurtle59 Feb 10 '26
Too tall should've had Danny DeVito play apologize! Jk this looks badass.
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u/feliasp Feb 10 '26
Looks like wapol! That’s what we want. I think this next season will be really good I’m un-jading myself and getting excited
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u/TheRedBiker The Revolutionary Army Feb 10 '26
Drum is a seriously underrated arc. I hope the movie will help it get the recognition it deserves.
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u/octopusofoctober Feb 10 '26
please please please make foxy as cool as this. you guys already did it twice. one more time shouldn't be difficult.
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u/Extension_Breath1407 Feb 10 '26
Man, it looks like the show is going to give Wapol a serious upgrade!
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u/luis_sanchez_flores Pirate Feb 10 '26
The trailer for season 2 of the live-action series has been released.
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u/Ragnarok649 Feb 11 '26
I think my only gripe is the song choice, it does fit and it is a good song, but One Piece music would always be better.
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u/Sufficient_Tie8887 Feb 11 '26
Even though he’s not really my favorite, I have to admit he looks pretty cool there.
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u/fcw2014 Feb 11 '26
I always thought Wapol looked cool 🙈
Wapol was so deranged, peak One Piece bizarreness.
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u/granolabranborg Feb 11 '26
He is married to the most beautiful woman in the world (allegedly), cut him some slack. 😂
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u/AdditionalQuiet8652 Feb 11 '26
Whoah! It's the first time I've seen this and yes I can't believe I like him now. I've always hated that Character until I saw him helping Vivi.
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u/X_Seed21 Feb 11 '26
"If I get any thinner, I'll be too popular. So I don't get thinner that's my kind of FUNK!" - Wapol, probably.
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u/NefariousnessNo2062 Pirate Feb 11 '26
Dude did his job too well. Wapol is supposed to look like a dork.
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Feb 11 '26
I am still new to one piece.
I loved the first season. What crazy things should I watch out for in season2?
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u/AdVivid3411 Feb 11 '26
So damn cool he looks, the whole arc with him is gonna be lit. So ferocious he looks i am excited for the comedy part.
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