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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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Aug 10, 2024 7:15 PM
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this gonna be lit!!
Aug 10, 2024 7:26 PM
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I am pretty confused on this. Are both OP and this going to air simultaneously, and how far will it go? I do have high expectations for it though.
Aug 10, 2024 7:28 PM
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"THE One Piece" πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

so when are they making

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Aug 10, 2024 7:32 PM
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this looks very promising
I will finally start watching one piece from scratch, lets goooo!
Aug 10, 2024 7:45 PM
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I am pretty confused on this. Are both OP and this going to air simultaneously, and how far will it go? I do have high expectations for it though.
@rohan121 The idea is for both to air at the same time going by earlier interviews, the Toei version is still intended to cover the whole manga. How long this remake will last is unknown, but they did mention wanting to update the 4:3 footage as a key reason for making this, so probably at least until the episodes that are 16:9.
Aug 10, 2024 7:47 PM
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Bro why a remake of this very pointless I was watching the og anime but meh I'm drooping the series all together
Aug 10, 2024 7:49 PM
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There's still years till this comes out.
Aug 10, 2024 7:59 PM
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I am exited for this one.
Aug 10, 2024 8:00 PM
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yooo the director is from shingeki, i believe it will be shingeki action-like
Aug 10, 2024 8:00 PM

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Holy fuck this staff list is stacked. Ken Imaizumi AND Shuhei Fukuda as main animators is insane.

No trailer it sad to see, but this won't be out for years lol.
Aug 10, 2024 8:04 PM
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Aug 10, 2024 8:38 PM
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dedicated action animators are nice
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The remake won't start from the beginning? Or am I confusing something?
Aug 11, 2024 12:53 AM

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Please be good, please be good, please be good.
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Aug 11, 2024 12:58 AM
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Whoa! This staff list is incredible, especially with the director of AOT Season 2 involved. I’m hyped! I had high expectations before, but now I’m even more excited.
Aug 11, 2024 12:58 AM

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I'm not interested in this anime at all, to be fair, but I need to admit that the staff is impressive. It's full of very skilled and experienced people. This remake's action scenes might look really good in terms of animation.
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Aug 11, 2024 1:34 AM

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I never watched one piece (a part some few episodes when i was a kid) because it's SO DAMN LONG
maybe this is the perfect opportunity for me if they adapt it from the beginning
Aug 11, 2024 1:40 AM
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The remake won't start from the beginning? Or am I confusing something?
@RobertBobert yup the beginning it was announced earlier that it's doing east blue.
Aug 11, 2024 1:43 AM

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@RobertBobert yup the beginning it was announced earlier that it's doing east blue.
@Otakupervert890 I'm confused, is this the very beginning of the story or not?
Aug 11, 2024 2:19 AM

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@Otakupervert890 I'm confused, is this the very beginning of the story or not?
@RobertBobert "The new anime series will begin from the Higashi no Umi-hen (Eastern Sea Arc) and is set to be released on Netflix."

Eastern Sea Arc or the East Blue Saga as its more known in the fandom is the first saga of One Piece where Luffy sets out on his dream to become the best pirate and meets first couple of his crew members.
Aug 11, 2024 2:21 AM

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@RobertBobert "The new anime series will begin from the Higashi no Umi-hen (Eastern Sea Arc) and is set to be released on Netflix."

Eastern Sea Arc or the East Blue Saga as its more known in the fandom is the first saga of One Piece where Luffy sets out on his dream to become the best pirate and meets first couple of his crew members.
@Ramkec That is, I can calmly start watching the remake without being distracted by any nuances?
Aug 11, 2024 2:28 AM

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@Ramkec That is, I can calmly start watching the remake without being distracted by any nuances?
@RobertBobert It seems like it yeah, I'm a manga reader only and this seems like a good opportunity to watch some One Piece week to week for me as well so I'll be joining in.

We'll just have to wait and see how do they plan to adapt it(more closer to the manga and cutting off huge amounts of filler that the original anime has) and how far it will go/how long it will be (will it be by seasons or it will keep airing for years without stop).

But since its for Netflix probably a seasonal format which if they split into arcs/sagas and take their time to do well it should turn out pretty good.
Aug 11, 2024 3:08 AM

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@RobertBobert It seems like it yeah, I'm a manga reader only and this seems like a good opportunity to watch some One Piece week to week for me as well so I'll be joining in.

We'll just have to wait and see how do they plan to adapt it(more closer to the manga and cutting off huge amounts of filler that the original anime has) and how far it will go/how long it will be (will it be by seasons or it will keep airing for years without stop).

But since its for Netflix probably a seasonal format which if they split into arcs/sagas and take their time to do well it should turn out pretty good.
@Ramkec For me, this would be the best option, since I'm clearly not ready to try to watch the original anime yet and it looks like the remake is going to solve a number of problems or bad decisions of the first anime. But I'm intrigued by the decision to release the remake at the same time.
Aug 11, 2024 3:26 AM

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Exciting news , can't wait for the peak and best shonen to return remade !!!!!
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Hope Wit doesn't drop this as well midway.
Aug 11, 2024 3:40 AM

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Also @DatRandomDude there is no point giving livestream link since they made it private
Aug 11, 2024 5:29 AM

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Hope Wit doesn't drop this as well midway.
@Softhenic03 I think there will be enough money in this that they can go all the way.
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Aug 11, 2024 7:55 AM
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Hoping the wait isn't too long (people saying it'll take years to start airing). I personally hope that the Toei version is still airing when the remake starts airing. There is still a chance that this could start airing next year.
Aug 11, 2024 7:59 AM

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Really looking forward to this, seeing all of those old moments with updated animation will hit different. Also saw on Twitter that this version will be uncensored and more true to how things were depicted in the manga.
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Hopefully this will be a success and we'll finally have a good OP anime.
It'd take many years even after the manga ends but it would be amazing to have a well animated and paced adaptation.

A 2-cour season should be enough for the East Blue Saga (could be less episodes with longer runtime though).
With 150-200 episodes (6 seasons) they could adapt the first half of the series.
With 285-375 episodes (11 seasons) they could adapt everything until the current chapter.

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so when are they making

"THE Bleach"? 🀣🀣🀣🀣
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implying the current OP anime isn't good


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Really looking forward to this, seeing all of those old moments with updated animation will hit different. Also saw on Twitter that this version will be uncensored and more true to how things were depicted in the manga.
@thebrentinator24 They actually mention the opposite in the interview, they'll take more liberties with the story rather than do a 1:1 adaptation, it's a ''new interpretation'' said Oda himself.
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Hopefully this will be a success and we'll finally have a good OP anime.
It'd take many years even after the manga ends but it would be amazing to have a well animated and paced adaptation.

A 2-cour season should be enough for the East Blue Saga (could be less episodes with longer runtime though).
With 150-200 episodes (6 seasons) they could adapt the first half of the series.
With 285-375 episodes (11 seasons) they could adapt everything until the current chapter.

@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.
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I know Tite Kubo wants Bleach remade with his vision, so shit, bring it on, so I can actually watch lol
Aug 11, 2024 12:16 PM
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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 3:17 PM

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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.
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Realistically when is this likely to come out? Next decade?
Aug 11, 2024 8:25 PM
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Personally I hope they recast all the roles with younger VAs.
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@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.
@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.
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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.

The end of an era. Thank you Wit, Mappa and Isayama.
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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.

The end of an era. Thank you Wit, Mappa and Isayama.
Feeling half happy, half sad.
  

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Aug 12, 2024 3:17 AM

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So who are the Seiyuus for the Strawhats here???
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Aug 12, 2024 3:40 AM

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this remake will feed generations if done right, something that the '99 anime has been doing anyway.
Aug 12, 2024 5:11 AM

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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.
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We won...considering the staff list are all from attack on titan
Aug 12, 2024 10:12 AM
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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.
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Hopefully this will be a success and we'll finally have a good OP anime.
It'd take many years even after the manga ends but it would be amazing to have a well animated and paced adaptation.

A 2-cour season should be enough for the East Blue Saga (could be less episodes with longer runtime though).
With 150-200 episodes (6 seasons) they could adapt the first half of the series.
With 285-375 episodes (11 seasons) they could adapt everything until the current chapter.

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