Months after the live-action adaptation of the favored manga/anime One Piece launched, Netflixis doing…an anime remake of One Piece. Actually.
Revealed at Leap Festa 2024, the remake—titled The One Piece, in order to clarify it’s not just like the other two shows titled One Piece—will begin off with the “East Blue” saga that the live-action present simply completed partially adapting for its debut season. So what is new about this remake? To date, simply the crew behind it: WIT Studio, at present recognized for Spy x Household, would be the one bringing the collection to life once more fairly than longtime studio Toei. Will this new One Piece discover a strategy to incorporate the Toei voice actors because the live-action present did? Guess we’ll finally discover out.
In a press launch, Netflix and WIT promised The One Piece will likely be distinct from the Toei anime and stand by itself toes. As a result of the unique anime is so lengthy—at time of writing, it simply began season 21 and is nearing 1,100 episodes—the intention is to assist newcomers recover from that admittedly huge hump. That, and “present viewers with a contemporary but acquainted expertise, using cutting-edge visible know-how to reimagine Luffy’s adventures by way of the beloved East Blue saga.”
Previous to this, Netflix revealed at Leap Fest that it’s additionally releasing a One Piece prequel in Monsters, which tells the story of a well-known swordsman named Ryuma and is about to drop in January 2024. Between that, season two of the live-action One Piece, and now The One Piece, it could be that we’re getting an excessive amount of of Eiichiro Oda’s pirates with little time to actually breathe. Even when none of those will launch in the identical timeframe, that they’re tackling related materials will seemingly be bizarre for these not within the loop, not helped by the truth that they’re solely distinguished by a single phrase.
The One Piece will hit The Netflix within the close to future.
[by way of Variety]
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