Summary
- Director Koizuka assures fans that the One Piece remake will cover the entire saga, starting from the East Blue.
- The series will be long-running and potentially last for about a decade, depending on its success and reception.
- It is uncertain whether the One Piece remake will be seasonal or weekly, with fans eagerly awaiting more details.
This article may discuss arcs from early One Piece with spoilers.
Thanks to the recent celebration of One Piece Day 2024, fans found out quite a lot of exciting details about the upcoming One Piece anime remake project. Headed by Netflix and produced by Wit Studio, the One Piece anime is going to be headed to screens soon, and fans are incredibly excited about it. Originally, the project was announced on Jump Festa 2024, which meant that at some point later down the line, fans would find out more exciting details about it. For most fans, it was quite obvious that One Piece Day would be when this exciting detail would be revealed, and they were absolutely spot on.
Fans found out quite a lot of exciting stuff pertaining to the One Piece anime remake project on this day, with information about the staff that is working on it, as well as exciting concept art being revealed. That, and much more was tackled in the short segment that was given to the One Piece anime remake project on One Piece Day, along with key bits of information, such as where the anime is going to start from, and how long it is going to go on for.
Where The One Piece Remake Aims To Start The Story From
Luffy’s Journey Begins From The East Blue
When the One Piece anime remake was announced first, fans were unsure as to why it was even a thing in the first place. In fact, many fans still hold the sentiment because the current anime is still going on. However, other fans were quick to realize that One Piece, as an anime entity, is not perfect. The adaptation that fans have right now is good, but it can be better and, at the same time, One Piece is not going to end anytime soon. To tap into its true potential and market it better to newer generations, a better adaptation of the series was absolutely necessary. That is precisely why the One Piece anime remake was announced. Naturally, fans had many questions about it, ranging from what the adaptation hoped to achieve, where it began, to how much of the story it would even cover.
Rather than reproducing the manga of One Piece, the anime staff should digest it and remake it in their own style. I want you all to express rather than copy and paste the work. – Eiichiro Oda
A lot of the fans were under the impression that the new One Piece anime was only going to cover key parts of the story and leave out the rest. Others believed that the anime would simply adapt the first few arcs and then ask the fans to jump to the anime produced by Toei. Now, all these doubts have been cleared, and there is no more room for theorizing. Fans know exactly where the story is going to begin and how long it is going to last.
For the beginning of the story, fans now have confirmation that Netflix's The One Piece anime remake is going to be starting from the East Blue Saga. This means that fans will get to see Romance Dawn, and after it, Luffy beginning his journey as a pirate. He will most likely fight against Alvida at the beginning, head to Shell's Town, then Orange Town, and from there onwards, to Syrup Village, where he will meet with Usopp. Luffy will then head to Baratie, and eventually Arlong Park. Before he enters the Grand Line, he is going to go to Loguetown, and with that, the East Blue segment of the story is going to officially wrap up. This is the first part of the story and sets the basis for Luffy's exciting journey into the Grand Line and the New World.
Series Director Koizuka Confirms The Length Of The Show
- Series Director: Masashi Koizuka
- Assistant Director: Hideaki Abe
On One Piece Day, the panel for Netflix's The One Piece anime project revealed Masashi Koizuka to be the series director. Fans who have watched Attack on Titan know that he served the role of the series director for the first three seasons, which many fans consider to be the peak of the story. He is a very skilled and talented individual with a keen eye and an artistic mind.
Fans can rest assured that the series is in good hands with him. Koizuka talked at length about what he wanted to accomplish with this project and why it was a thing in the first place. Fans naturally wanted to know how long the series would go on for. To that, he answered that they plan on making this story as long as possible. This essentially means that the Wit Studio team wants to animate the entirety of One Piece. They will start from the East Blue Saga, and then continue in the order that Oda had established for his story.
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Of course, according to Koizuka, much of whether the series will continue for long or not depends upon the reception it gets and its success. If the anime is loved by all and is a successful product, then fans will most definitely get to see it continue for years upon years. If the anime somehow flops, then it is highly likely that the anime project is going to be paused. However, given the popularity of One Piece and the love that people share for it, as well as knowing that the staff is putting incredible amounts of effort into the creation of this piece of work, fans can rest assured that this anime is going to be absolutely spectacular and a big success. In other words, Netflix's The One Piece anime is going to be a massive series that is set to continue for about a decade or so.
Will The One Piece Remake Be Seasonal?
The Remake Of One Piece Could Switch To A Seasonal Format
There are many questions about the format that the One Piece anime is going to take. For now, all fans know is that the series is going to begin with the East Blue Saga and that they hope for it to be a long-running anime. There is absolutely no word about whether the series is going to be seasonal or if it will be a weekly anime like the current Toei version. If they are truly planning to follow in the footsteps of modern anime, then One Piece is likely going to be seasonal. A weekly anime is going to ensure that the production quality suffers, and then inconsistencies start to creep in, making the product similar to the current One Piece anime.
There is also a hybrid option, where they don't particularly have a set number of episodes for a season and simply take breaks in between, continuing in the long run in a manner that only works for this particular adaptation. For instance, instead of doing the standard 24 episodes per season, One Piece could do 36 before taking a break and then working on the second season. Of course, all this is just conjecture, and fans will have to wait more to see what approach they are going to take, but right now, there is absolutely no confirmation on whether they are going to get a 24-episode season or something else.
The One Piece will be streamable on Netflix when it drops next year.
- Release Date
- October 20, 1999
- Network
- Fuji TV
- Directors
- Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou
Cast
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Mayumi TanakaMonkey D. Luffy (voice) -
Kazuya NakaiRoronoa Zoro (voice)
WHERE TO WATCH
- Studio
- Toei Animation
- Number of Episodes
- 1122
