Netflix’s Reside-Motion One Piece Loses Its Co-Showrunner

Matt Owens, co-showrunner and govt producer for seasons one and two of Netflix’s One Piece, has revealed he’s stepping away from the present.

On Instagram, Owens defined “the final six years engaged on the live-action One Piece have been a life-changing journey, and a dream come true. It’s additionally been a LOT. So I’m stepping off the Going Merry to take a break and give attention to myself and my psychological well being. Thanks a lot to [creator Eiichiro] Oda, Shueisha, Tomorrow Studios, Netflix, and your entire solid and crew on your belief, partnership, and laborious work.”

As Deadline notes, One Piece‘s first season was co-showrun by Steven Maeda and Owens. Whereas Maeda stays an govt producer, he departed his showrunning publish after season one. Joe Tracz turned the brand new co-showrunner and in addition to an EP in April 2024. Tracz is remaining with the sequence and can information season two’s post-production. The commerce notes that One Piece “wrapped manufacturing on season two final month.”

Owens’ exit will reportedly not have an effect on the present’s possibilities of being renewed for a 3rd season, and he’s co-written at the very least one episode for season two. And his affect will seemingly nonetheless be felt transferring ahead; throughout his time on One Piece, he helped form “the inventive imaginative and prescient” for the sequence, Deadline writes, “together with its long-term blueprint for future seasons.”

Earlier in March, One Piece’s first season received two Emmys for stunt coordination and finest tune in a children/YA program (“My Sails Are Set”). Final 12 months, Netflix introduced several actors for key season two roles, together with Lera Abova as Nico Robin and Joe Manganiello as Mr. 0. The season presently doesn’t have a launch window.

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