By Corey Plante Published Jul 7, 2026, 7:33 PM EDT FYI New adaptations, toys, and even an official merch store are keeping Straw Hats so full until the much-anticipated remake lands in 7 months
What's left of Xbox after mass layoffs and studio departures Fallout season 3 filming begins as Walton Goggins says he's 'back in the saddle' PlayStation finally breaks media silence and it's going terribly One Piece fans are eating well right now Image: Toei Animation Sign in to your Polygon.com account When anime fans talk about the biggest series ever, most conversations turn to a “Big Three”: Bleach , Naruto , and One Piece . With all due respect, only one of the three remains as relevant within the anime scene than ever before.
One Piece fans are having a pretty incredible run right now. Netflix's live-action adaptation returned earlier this year, long after it was already renewed for a third season . Just a few weeks from now, LEGO will drop even more One Piece sets tied to the live-action show’s second season. And now, after years of fans wishing they didn't have to fly to Japan for official merchandise, the franchise is finally getting its first official “Mugiwara Store” in the United States. (“Mugiwara,” of course, is the shorthand Japanese word for “Straw Hats.”)
For a series that's nearly 30 years old, One Piece somehow keeps getting bigger. Whether you're an anime fan, a manga reader, a live-action convert, or just someone looking to fill a shelf with Straw Hat merch, the next several months are packed with reasons to get excited.
LEGO kicked off a collaboration with One Piece last year, with the first sets arriving on store shelves in August 2025. Six additional new sets inspired by season 2 go on sale Aug. 1, 2026. That batch includes settings like Dr. Hiriluk’s Hideout, Garp’s Marine Battleship, and Drum Castle.
Netflix is also following that up with an animated special that debuts on Sept. 29, 2026. The streaming platform has described the special as a “two-part retelling” of the first two seasons of the live-action show. “Follow along as Usopp, the Straw Hats’ most reliably unreliable narrator, regales the newest and cutest recruit, the reindeer-boy hybrid Tony Tony Chopper, with the group’s epic exploits across the East Blue and into the legendary Grand Line,” an official press release reads.
Image: Netflix / Casey Crafford Netflix's live-action adaptation continues to be one of the streamer's biggest genre success stories. Season 2 premiered in March 2026, and by that point, production on season 3 had already begun in November 2025 after being greenlit that August. Netflix officially announced that production on season 3 — which covers the Alabasta arc from the manga and anime — had wrapped as of June 30, 2026.
While a specific release date for season 3 remains unconfirmed, Netflix did write that new episodes will arrive sometime in 2027.
Image: Toei Animation Perhaps the biggest surprise related to One Piece this week is the announcement that the first official Mugiwara Store in the United States will open at Westfield Century City in Los Angeles this fall.
According to Toei Animation, which made the announcement on July 3, the store will feature official merchandise, location-exclusive products, original animation artwork, and even exclusive in-store video experiences. For American fans who've long admired Japan's dedicated One Piece retail locations from afar, it's a milestone that has been…