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Earlier this week, Netflix dropped all manner of announcements about its 2025 slate, with new trailers, new release dates, and all-new projects being revealed… but there was one thing notably missing from the line-up, leading people to wonder… Is One Piece season 2 not making it in 2025 after all?

Here, courtesy of Netflix, is the full list of everything announced during the 2025 roll-out:

• A Merry Little Ex-Christmas (Film) - Date announcement [season]
• Adolescence (Series) - Date announcement
• Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds (Doc Film) - Title announcement and first look photo
• American Manhunt: Osama Bin Laden (Doc Series) - Title announcement and date announcement
• Apple Cider Vinegar (Series) - New clip
• Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black S1 Part 2 (Series) - First look photo and date announcement
• Chaos: The Manson Murders (Doc Film) - Title announcement and date announcement
• Cobra Kai S6 (Part 3) (Series) - New clip, new teaser art and new photos
• Court of Gold (Unscripted Series) - New clip
• Death by Lightning (Series) - First look photos
• Devil May Cry (Animated Series) - New photo, date announcement and opening sequence debut
• The Diplomat S3 (Series) - First look photos and casting announcement
• Eddie (Doc Film) - Title announcement and first look photo
• El Eternauta (Series (Int’l)) - Teaser art
• The Electric State (Film) - New clip
• Everybody's Live with John Mulaney (Live Series) - Date announcement
• Fear Street: Prom Queen (Film) - Date announcement [season] and first look photos
• Forever (Series) - Teaser
• Frankenstein (Film) - Date announcement [month] and new image
• Ginny & Georgia S3 (Series) - Date announcement and first look photos
• Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer (Doc Series) - Title announcement
• Happy Gilmore 2 (Film) - New image
• Havoc (Film) - Date announcement [season]
• In Your Dreams (Film) - New photo
• Jay Kelly (Film) - Date announcement [season], Previously Untitled Noah Baumbach title announcement and new logline
• Katrina: Come Hell and High Water (Doc Series) - Title announcement and first look photo
• Kinda Pregnant (Film) - New clip
• Larissa: The Other Side of Anitta (Film (Int’l)) - Title announcement, teaser and first look photos
• The Leopard (Series (In’tl)) - Trailer
• Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Destination Wedding (Film) - Title announcement and first look photo
• Nonnas (Film) - Date announcement
• Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey (Doc Film) - Title announcement, first look photo and date announcement
• R&B (Film) - First look photo
• RIP (Film) - Date announcement [season] and sneak peek photo
• Running Point (Series) - Trailer
• Tyler Perry’s She The People (Series) - New tile announcement and first look photo
• Squid Game S3 (Series) - Date announcement, key art and new image
• Straw (Film) - First look photo
• Survival of the Thickest S2 (Series) - Date announcement, sneak peek and first look photos
• Temptation Island (Unscripted Series) - Date announcement
• The Old Guard 2 (Film) - Date announcement and BTS stunt footage
• The Four Seasons (Series) - First look photos
• The Residence (Series) - Teaser
• The Woman in Cabin 10 (Film) - Date announcement [season] and first look photo
• Tires S2 (Series) - First look photos
• Titan (Doc Film) - Title announcement and first look photo
• Troll 2 (Film) - First look clip
• Untitled Kathryn Bigelow (Film) - Date announcement [season]
• Vini Junior (Series (Int’l)) - First look photo
• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Film) -Date announcement [season] and new image
• Wayward (Series) - New clip
• Wednesday S2 (Series) - First look footage in hero video asset
• You S5 (Series) - Teaser and new image
• Zero Day (Series) - New clip

That’s more than 50 projects, with a lot of exciting stuff in the list. (I’m pretty excited by Troll 2, I’ll confess.) However… where’s One Piece season 2 on that list?

The season was officially confirmed in September 2024, with filming underway at the time. Netflix has officially released a list of new cast members — which include David Dastmalchian, Joe Manganiello, and Bridgerton’s Charithra Chandran — and it was expected to be dropping at some point in late 2025, especially after the initial version of the Lego One Piece collaboration press release suggested as such. The current version of the announcement has dropped the “late 2025” language, and yes, people noticed.

While all of this doesn’t definitively mean that we won’t see the second season of the live-action One Piece in 2025 — after all, we already know that decisions regarding release dates at Netflix have yet to be finalized even for shows announced as definitively coming this year — it does mean that fans should be preparing themselves for the possibility that the earliest we’re going to see the return of Iñaki Godoy’s Luffy, Emily Rudd’s Name, or Mackenyu’s Roronoa Zoro is the very end of the year, if that.

Thankfully, there’s always more of the anime and the manga to keep you satisfied in the meantime.

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