The teaser for Season 2 of Netflix’s live-action One Piece marks its first shift of setting to Taiwan. Visuals are crafted by Ordinary Headache, with emerging directors Alex San Xiao and Automatic Tuna co-directing. The piece draws on culturally distinctive local settings, featuring Luffy appearing at Taichung’s Jenn Lann Temple, where he performs a traditional divination ritual (throwing moon blocks) to pray to Mazu, the guardian deity of the sea, before setting sail.
By blending the adventurous spirit of the Straw Hat Pirates with Taiwanese folk beliefs, this globally renowned IP briefly anchors itself in Taiwan’s everyday religious landscape, developing a visual language rich with local warmth and cultural resonance.