In what continues to be a hot streak of truly banner casting, Netflix has announced that Cobra Kai and Blue Beetle star Xolo Maridueña will be joining the third season of its live-action One Piece series as fan-favorite character Portgas D. Ace.

To anyone who hasn’t read the good word of Eiichiro Oda’s long-running manga and is scratching their head at that jumble of words in the lede, allow us to take you to class and exhaustively detail how huge this casting is. To not get too deep into spoilers, Ace is a fellow devil fruit user that Luffy and his motley Straw Hat pirate crew meet on their journey into the Grand Line as they jet to the desert of Alabasta. He’s also got family ties to Luffy, as his brother—or, well, play brother.

Basically, they grew up as rugrats toget

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