Netflix’s One Piece is sailing straight into the Grand Line, and potentially straight into controversy. EW 's season 2 finally reveals Laboon, the massive, scarred whale guarding the entrance to the Grand Line , and Clive Russell as Crocus, his eccentric caretaker. The scale is enormous and the craftsmanship undeniable, but one key difference might worry fans.

In Eiichiro Oda’s manga (and the anime), the Reverse Mountain arc establishes that Crocus doesn’t live beside Laboon; he lives inside him. His little home rests on a patch of land floating in the whale’s stomach, surrounded by sea and a strange painted sky. Yet in Netflix’s version, Crocus appears to be watching over Laboon from afar. So what’s going on here?

Crocus Doesn't Seem To Live Inside Laboon In One Piece Season

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