Main Staff for 'The One Piece' Anime Series Announced

by DatRandomDude
Aug 10, 2024 7:10 PM | 54 Comments

The second day of the One Piece Day’24 event revealed the main staff for WIT Studio's The One Piece anime remake on Sunday. The new anime series will begin from the Higashi no Umi-hen (Eastern Sea Arc) and is set to be released on Netflix.

Staff
Director: Masashi Koizuka (Shingeki no Kyojin Season 2)
Assistant Director: Hideaki Abe (Jujutsu Kaisen episode director)
Series Composition: Taku Kishimoto (Ousama Ranking)
Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Kyouji Asano (Psycho-Pass), Takatoshi Honda (Kyokou Suiri)
Creature Design, Concept Art: Yasuhiro Kajino (Kyoukai no Rinne 2nd Season)
Action Animator: Ken Imaizumi (Bleach: Sennen Kessen-hen key animation), Shuuhei Fukuda (Yofukashi no Uta main animator)
Art Director: Tomonori Kuroda (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
Prop Design: Eri Taguchi (Cool Doji Danshi character design)
Animation Producer: Ryouma Kawamura (Moonrise)

The anime adapts Eiichiro Oda's adventure fantasy manga, which began in Weekly Shounen Jump magazine in July 1997. Shueisha published the 109th volume on July 9. The manga has over 500 million copies of its volumes in circulation.

VIZ Media publishes the manga in English and released the 106th volume on July 2. The 107th volume is scheduled to go on sale on November 12.

Source: One Piece Day '24 Livestream

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I'm quite skeptical about this project because of Netflix. Even without doing what Toei has been doing for years, releasing episodes in which openings and summaries take up a quarter of an episode and scenes/fights are drawn out in an almost comical way in order to be able to release one episode a week, it would still be hundreds of episodes.
Studio wit has a lot of projects in production or announced, producing something hundreds of episodes long means they will have to put other projects aside or subcontract them to other studios. Netflix doesn't have the best reputation when it comes to finishing series in a decent way, there's hope that it won't screw up the plot too much considering Wit, but if Netflix managed to complete an adaptation with hundreds of episodes, given the precedents, it would be a miracle.

it's much more likely that they'll produce a few seasons, up to a hundred episodes (to be optimistic) and then put the project aside when something else big catches the public's attention. Netflix has always done this, canceling series when they didn't set ratings records or went viral without caring about the viewers' level of approval, I don't think it will be any different for this anime. If we then consider that Netflix probably doesn't have all the rights to the merchandise like they do for other original series, they will cut it once it is no longer a novelty and stops attracting new customers.

Aug 16, 2024 2:10 AM by Shiroyaki

The staff is super promising. I'm not usually hyped for Netflix anime, but I can't help but look forward to this.

Aug 15, 2024 12:37 PM by malvarez1

@HulkTySSJ2 I've never watched One Pace so I can't judge the quality of the edits (e.g. how is the OST handled if they cut out scenes). It also won't fix any other problems like the animation and art direction(?).

I'd still recommend it over the unedited anime to avoid wasting time.

Of course the best way to enjoy OP right now is to read the manga but not everyone likes reading.

Aug 12, 2024 12:33 PM by Simar

@Simar
Jesus Christ...
What about One Pace?
I haven't watched it, but am curious about it. Especially in comparison to your idea here.

Aug 12, 2024 12:16 PM by HulkTySSJ2

@HulkTySSJ2 Yes, it should be quite easy to cut 700 episodes worth of filler/padding/recaps etc.
The OP anime might have 1100 episodes but it doesn't have 1100 episodes worth of content.

On average each episode adapts less than one chapter.
The pacing has gotten worse in the second half but even the first half was barely above one chapter per episode.

From start of the series to the conclusion of the last saga the manga took 1057 chapters.
With an average of 3 chapters per episode the new anime would need ~352 episodes.
With an average of 2.5 chapters per episode the new anime would need ~423 episodes.
(The current anime took 1085 episodes)

Aug 12, 2024 11:19 AM by Simar

@Simar
You really think nearly 700 episodes worth of time can be cut???

Aug 12, 2024 10:19 AM by HulkTySSJ2

I'm guessing Wit will be able to produce maybe 24 episodes every 1.5 years for this One Piece adaptation? But it will be fun to watch both Toei's Anime every sunday and for the short span of time the Wit adaptation airs watch that the same week.

Aug 12, 2024 10:12 AM by removed-user

We won...considering the staff list are all from attack on titan

Aug 12, 2024 9:32 AM by HasnatVhai

The current anime has god awful pacing and this director is amazing so I'm hyped to see this.
I dropped the Toei one cuz this one is coming out, im good just exclusively watching this one from now on, if it gets sequels and finishes the story.
I'd have no reason to ever go back to the Toei one.

Aug 12, 2024 5:11 AM by Shidoteki

this remake will feed generations if done right, something that the '99 anime has been doing anyway.

Aug 12, 2024 3:40 AM by ryzxgum

So who are the Seiyuus for the Strawhats here???

Aug 12, 2024 3:17 AM by Hitagi__Furude

the only reason i'm gonna ever get to watch one piece. i had decided that i'm never gonna watch it. idc if its 1000 episodes again as i'll just be watching it weekly when it comes out.

Aug 12, 2024 3:14 AM by TsutanaiFuun

the only reason i'm gonna ever get to watch one piece. i had decided that i'm never gonna watch it. idc if its 1000 episodes again as i'll just be watching it weekly when it comes out.

Aug 12, 2024 3:14 AM by TsutanaiFuun

@ToG25thBaam I lost my last bit of interest in the anime on Punk Hazard when Grizzly Magnum was changed into a 90 seconds tug of war attack. Toei really wanted to make Luffy struggle against every opponent post ts.

Aug 11, 2024 11:40 PM by Simar

Personally I hope they recast all the roles with younger VAs.

Aug 11, 2024 8:25 PM by stone616

Realistically when is this likely to come out? Next decade?

Aug 11, 2024 7:42 PM by ArimaKana

This might be interesting, I'm willing to give it a chance.

I can already foresight some old/hardcore fans hating the ones who'll watch One Piece from this series on, haha.

Aug 11, 2024 3:17 PM by AcD4c

Damn, what a staff. Can hardly see this not going to be awesome.

Now i only hope this doesnt take years to be released.

Aug 11, 2024 12:16 PM by removed-user

@Bhanu_LAW_196K1A

I know Tite Kubo wants Bleach remade with his vision, so shit, bring it on, so I can actually watch lol

Aug 11, 2024 12:14 PM by EcchiGodMamster

@Simar One improvement I hope to see in The One Piece remake version is getting a faster paced action scenes. In the Toei version, they stall a lot of the action scenes to pad the episodes, like Luffy's King Kong Gun in Dressrosa. There's an edited version out there that removed as much fluffy as possible from that scene. Wit could cut a lot from that alone, instead of 30 episodes of battle scenes, we get 10 to 15.

Aug 11, 2024 11:12 AM by ToG25thBaam

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