Netflix’s One Piece Officially Casts Four Major Alabasta Characters for Season 3
Image by James RichardsonNetflix has revealed four more additions to the cast of One Piece Season 3, confirming the actors who will play Koza, Toto, Pell and Chaka when the live-action series heads to Alabasta in 2027.
Officially titled “One Piece: The Battle of Alabasta,” the third season will follow Luffy and the Straw Hats as they help Princess Vivi return to her homeland, where a rebellion threatens to tear the desert kingdom apart while Sir Crocodile and Baroque Works manipulate events from behind the scenes.
The Alabasta storyline moves the conflict surrounding Vivi and Baroque Works to the center of the series after Season 2 introduced both the princess and several of the criminal organization’s agents.
Koza is particularly important to the approaching civil war as Vivi’s childhood friend and the leader of Alabasta’s rebel forces, placing him on the opposite side of a conflict that both characters desperately want to prevent.
German actor Emilio Sakraya, whose previous credits include Rheingold and Those About to Die, will take on the role of Koza.
Omid Abtahi has been cast as Toto, Koza’s father and one of the residents who refuses to abandon the drought-stricken city of Yuba despite the increasingly desperate conditions surrounding it.
Abtahi will already be familiar to plenty of viewers through roles in The Mandalorian and American Gods, giving another recognizable name to the growing Alabasta cast.
Jamie Ward will play Pell, one of Alabasta’s most powerful royal guards and the wielder of the Bird-Bird Fruit, Model: Falcon, which allows him to transform into a falcon or a human-falcon hybrid.
Ward has previously appeared in The Gentlemen and His Dark Materials, with Pell becoming one of his most prominent fantasy roles to date.
Nabeel Khan completes the newly announced group as Chaka, another of the kingdom’s senior royal guards and Pell’s counterpart in defending the Nefertari family.
Chaka possesses the powers of the Dog-Dog Fruit, Model: Jackal in the original story, making both of Alabasta’s famous Zoan-powered guardians part of the live-action cast for the first time.
Khan’s previous credits include Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Strike Back.
The four newcomers join a Season 3 cast that already includes Iñaki Godoy as Luffy, Mackenyu as Zoro, Emily Rudd as Nami, Jacob Romero as Usopp and Taz Skylar as Sanji, with Charithra Chandran also returning as Princess Vivi.
Mikaela Hoover will return as Tony Tony Chopper, while Joe Manganiello’s Mr. 0, Lera Abova’s Miss All Sunday and Sendhil Ramamurthy’s King Nefertari Cobra have all been promoted to series regulars for the new season.
Season 3 will also introduce Xolo Maridueña as Portgas D. Ace, Cole Escola as Bon Clay, Daisy Head as Miss Doublefinger and Awdo Awdo as Mr. 1, significantly expanding the number of major manga characters appearing in the live-action story.
Production on The Battle of Alabasta has already wrapped in Cape Town, South Africa, with Netflix currently confirming a 2027 release window but no exact premiere date.
The casting announcement formed part of ONE PIECE DAY ’26, which took place at Makuhari Messe across August 22 and 23 and delivered a particularly large collection of updates covering almost every major branch of the franchise.
Nike used the event to reveal a global One Piece collection centered around three dramatically reworked Air Max Plus designs inspired by the Gomu Gomu, Ope Ope and Mera Mera Devil Fruits, alongside matching jerseys, caps, T-shirts and a vest that plays on the inability of Devil Fruit users to swim.
Image by James RichardsonThe One Piece x Nike rollout begins with a Tokyo pop-up from September 4 through September 6, followed by selected retail releases around the world including several US stores on September 19 before the wider collection launches globally through SNKRS on September 25.
Two new One Piece movies were also announced, beginning with ONE PIECE FILM GOD VALLEY, which will reach Japanese theaters in summer 2027 as part of the manga’s 30th anniversary year.
The movie takes its name from the legendary God Valley Incident involving the Rocks Pirates, Gol D. Roger and a younger Monkey D. Garp, an event whose full story has received considerably more attention in recent chapters of the manga.
A second movie titled ONE PIECE FILM BAAD will follow in 2029 to coincide with the television anime’s 30th anniversary, although its story and featured characters remain a mystery and Eiichiro Oda’s handwritten title artwork is currently one of the few details revealed.
ONE PIECE DAY ’26 also hosted the conclusion of the second WORLD TOP 100 global character popularity poll, with Monkey D. Luffy taking first place with 2,378,519 votes ahead of Roronoa Zoro, Sanji, Nami and Trafalgar Law.
The results will influence several future projects, with Oda creating new special-outfit illustrations for the top 30 characters, the top 50 receiving new ONE PIECE Card Game cards and the top 15 appearing in TV anime eyecatches beginning in 2027.
The ONE PIECE Card Game had a substantial set of reveals of its own, including new cards for ONE PIECE Heroines Edition vol.2 and the first major details for the upcoming eighteenth booster set, which will center on Water Seven and the Knights of God.
Franky will finally receive a Leader card in the set, Nico Robin will appear as a new Manga Parallel and Bandai is introducing a Knights of God Super Parallel rarity alongside specially commissioned artwork from legendary Final Fantasy illustrator Yoshitaka Amano.
WIT Studio’s THE ONE PIECE remake is another major project approaching during the same period, with the new adaptation returning to the beginning of Luffy’s journey and currently scheduled to debut worldwide on Netflix in February 2027.
With The Battle of Alabasta now fully cast and filming complete, Koza, Toto, Pell and Chaka are the latest pieces to fall into place as Netflix prepares to bring one of One Piece’s most important early storylines into live action in 2027.
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