One Piece Season 2
Overview
The Straw Hats are finally entering the Grand Line, and season two takes on the run of manga arcs that sets up the Alabasta saga — which means the islands get stranger and, for the first time, the villains get organized. After a stop in Loguetown, where Marine captain Smoker is waiting for them with a score to settle, the crew shoots up Reverse Mountain, ducks a town full of bounty hunters at Whiskey Peak, meets two giants who've been dueling for a hundred years on Little Garden, and washes up on the snowbound Drum Island, where a certain reindeer doctor joins the story. Tony Tony Chopper's arrival, and his backstory with Dr. Hiriluk, is the emotional gut-punch of the season — longtime fans have been bracing for it. Pulling the strings is Baroque Works, the criminal syndicate run by Joe Manganiello's Crocodile, with Lera Abova as the coolly dangerous Miss All Sunday and Charithra Chandran as Vivi, a princess hiding inside the very organization she's trying to bring down. Iñaki Godoy's Luffy is still the sunny center of it all, but the map is bigger now, the Navy's closing in, and the show is clearly just getting started.
