Today marks the second day of the One Piece Day celebrations which started with the worldwide premiere of One Piece Film: Red in Japan last night and ends with the first TV broadcast of One Piece Stampede tonight on Japanese television. In celebration of the day, the upcoming Netflix live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s masterpiece revealed who will be playing Young Luffy as well as a message from the showrunners and Nami’s actor.

Playing Young Luffy in the live-action One Piece series will be Colton Osorio, who is best known for playing Felipe in the latest season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Rodrigo in Cha Cha Real Smooth film.

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The celebratory video from the live-action One Piece crew features showrunners Matt Owens and Steve Maeda – who, much like the rest of the One Piece fandom, doesn’t understand how Oda can continue for this long – and Nami actor Emily Rudd.

The live-action series is currently in production in South Africa as the Straw Hat Pirates approach the Japanese theatrical release of One Piece Film: Red on August 6. Crunchyroll and Toei Animation will be releasing the film in North America and Australia and New Zealand this Fall, while All The Anime will be releasing it in the UK & Ireland at the same time. You can watch over 1,000 episodes of the One Piece TV anime right here on Crunchyroll.

Source: One Piece Netflix on Twitter

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Daryl Harding is a Senior Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.