Netflix Releases 'LEGO One Piece' Two-Part Animated Special

Netflix's LEGO One Piece premiere

Netflix released LEGO One Piece, a two-part animated special, on September 29, marking the streamer's latest addition to its growing One Piece franchise. Each episode runs about 30 minutes and adapts events from the first two seasons of Netflix's live-action One Piece series, covering the Straw Hat crew's travels through the East Blue and into the Grand Line. The project was animated by Atomic Cartoons in Vancouver, with production beginning in November 2024, and was developed as a bridge to the larger One Piece universe Netflix is building around Eiichiro Oda's manga.

Usopp as unreliable narrator

Showrunner, writer and executive producer Tom Hyndman, who also worked on both seasons of Netflix's live-action series, framed the LEGO special through Usopp, voiced by Jacob Romero, recounting the Straw Hats' adventures to Chopper, voiced by Mikaela Hoover. According to Hyndman, the team chose that structure to differentiate the special from the live-action source material rather than simply retelling it with new visuals, and to harness Usopp's well-known relationship with exaggeration. The production also included live-action bookend segments featuring the narrator framing the animated story.

Shared cast with the live-action series

The LEGO special uses the principal cast of Netflix's live-action One Piece, including Iñaki Godoy as Luffy, Emily Rudd as Nami, Mackenyu as Roronoa Zoro, Jacob Romero as Usopp, Taz Skylar as Sanji and Mikaela Hoover as Chopper. Hyndman led a production team that he estimated at roughly 50 people at Atomic Cartoons, with Hyndman serving as the sole writer. The shared voice cast is intended to give younger viewers a familiar entry point before they graduate to Netflix's live-action One Piece and, by extension, the broader franchise.

Position within Netflix's One Piece strategy

The LEGO release sits alongside Netflix's existing live-action One Piece adaptation and a separate, newly announced anime project titled The One Piece, which the streamer has scheduled for 2027. Together those projects frame One Piece as a multi-format streaming franchise for Netflix rather than a single title, with the LEGO special specifically targeted at younger audiences who might later move to the live-action and anime versions.

Next milestone

The next verifiable One Piece milestone on Netflix's slate is the planned 2027 premiere of The One Piece, the streamer's separately developed anime adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's manga.