'One Piece' Anime Gets Remake by WIT Studio

by Hyperion_PS
Dec 17, 2023 8:13 AM | 81 Comments

The Jump Super Stage Red at Jump Festa 2024 announced on Sunday that the television anime adapting Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga is receiving a remake titled The One Piece by WIT Studio. The new anime series will begin from the Higashi no Umi-hen (Eastern Sea Arc) and is set to be released on Netflix.

Oda began serializing the adventure fantasy manga in Weekly Shounen Jump magazine in July 1997. Shueisha shipped the 107th volume on November 2. The manga has over 500 million cumulative copies of its volume in circulation. VIZ Media licensed the manga in English and released the 104th volume on November 7.

Synopsis
Gol D. Roger, a man referred to as the "King of the Pirates," is set to be executed by the World Government. But just before his demise, he confirms the existence of a great treasure, One Piece, located somewhere within the vast ocean known as the Grand Line. Announcing that One Piece can be claimed by anyone worthy enough to reach it, the King of the Pirates is executed and the Great Age of Pirates begins.

Twenty-two years later, a young man by the name of Monkey D. Luffy is ready to embark on his own adventure, searching for One Piece and striving to become the new King of the Pirates. Armed with just a straw hat, a small boat, and an elastic body, he sets out on a fantastic journey to gather his own crew and a worthy ship that will take them across the Grand Line to claim the greatest status on the high seas. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Announcement

Official site: https://one-piece.com/
Official X (Twitter): @OPcom_info

Source: Comic Natalie

The One Piece on MAL

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@Jonas-K Damn, you must be new. What's next, you've never seen a remake of a manga that's still running too?

Apr 26, 8:52 PM by ExtremeT

@Snudge why? Considering how big one piece is it'll ve sad if they fumble this

Mar 6, 11:47 PM by Hasmat

@Snudge why? Considering how big one piece is it'll ve sad if they fumble this

Mar 6, 11:47 PM by Hasmat

Imagine one piece with better pacing and animation.. Yeah, it going to be one of the greatest pieces of fiction and will serve generation.....

Mar 6, 11:44 PM by Hasmat

Snudge said:
This is gonna be so dog ass it’s unreal 😭

Why will it be bad?

Jan 23, 3:05 PM by N0T3LI_

This is gonna be so dog ass it’s unreal 😭

Jan 23, 12:11 PM by Snudge

I'm lowkey happy af

Jan 11, 3:32 AM by pvMorphine

I have no intention of getting off my high horse, but thank you for the suggestion (?).

Jan 9, 8:02 AM by ProudElitist

ProudElitist said:
@N0T3LI_ netflix already did it. GITS SAC 2045 was made by a japanese studio, GITS SAC 2045 is an american-tailored crap nobody asked for. Same for their Saint Seiya CGI shite. "This is simply a brotherhood"...who cares? anime remakes "faithfful to the manga" of my ass suck donkey shit from the get go, your reasoning makes no sense anyway.

Alright dude. It sounds like you'll just always have something to be angry about. Get off your high horse, elitist. I hope you too can find hope and enjoyment in this new One Piece anime like everyone else, and stop wallowing in your self created pit of despair.

Jan 9, 6:22 AM by N0T3LI_

@N0T3LI_ netflix already did it. GITS SAC 2045 was made by a japanese studio, GITS SAC 2045 is an american-tailored crap nobody asked for. Same for their Saint Seiya CGI shite. "This is simply a brotherhood"...who cares? anime remakes "faithfful to the manga" of my ass suck donkey shit from the get go, your reasoning makes no sense anyway.

Jan 8, 11:12 PM by ProudElitist

ProudElitist said:
@N0T3LI_ the original anime is from Toei, not from Netflix. Being made by a japanese studio doesn't mean absolute shite, the Tokusatsus from which Saban Entertainment took all the best part (meaning the costumes, the fights, etc. etc. etc.) of their aborted cultural appropriations like Masked Rider the Power Rangers The Beetleborgs etc. etc. etc. were all made by Japanese and Japanese people give them the greenlight to do these kinds of bastardizations nobody needed and nobody asked for (Toei are not Tsuburaya unfortunately, they still think nothing outside the japanese peninsula and the brazilian nation matters). The 1956 Godzilla: King of Monsters movie? Toho was OK with it, they even ended recycling the stupid, idiotic newspaper added in this one because of the need for dumb americans (dumb according to other americans, not me) to have somebody to spell them loudly something they were intelligent enough to understand for themselves with the original 1954 Gojira. Robotech the same, it was a mish-mash of what the JAPANESE did in the first place, Macross was produced by a Japanese studio not by an american one. It doesn't change the fact that these all account for cultural appropriation, a way to put an american™ flair and brand on it similar to the way Disney (of which I'm a fan in artistic terms, not in business terms) tried to make a copyright of the Hakuna Matata AFRICAN catchphrase they used it in the good Jungle Taitei/Jungle Emperor Leo Remake (better than the official japanese one in series form, of all things) because they could use it in their merchandise.

I thought your point was that One Piece is going to be "americanized" with this new remake. Sounds like you just have a problem with big changes being made ruining the source. Im pretty sure everyone can get behind that. But this narrative you're painting, where Franky will be the main character instead of Luffy, and this is the story of Murica. In this case, there's no need to worry. Wit Studio is a faithful and well-known entity, and this is simply a Brotherhood, or a HxH 2011.

Jan 8, 3:19 PM by N0T3LI_

This is waste of money I guess... Unless first version was really really bad but i dont think thats the case

Jan 8, 10:13 AM by Tekakurika

That said, I wouldn't still recommend you Saban's Masked Rider or The Beetleborgs over the Kamen Rider and The Metal Heroes franchise, like I wouldn't recommend the Japanese Spiderman aborted Japanese manga over the Stan Lee comics. Me not liking Spiderman as a character in general or not. I can recommend the Spiderman Toku because it's ultra respectful of the american comics, it was very influential in the Super Sentai series and it's to my liking as a non-Spiderman fan, nothing else. Battle Fever J the same, I don't like The Avengers as a team, Battle Fever J is still respectful of the original Stan Lee comics (there's a direct quote from the first Avengers run in that one), Battle Fever J is the first Super Sentai ever (Goranger and JAKQ Dengekitai had no superrobot to speak of) and as a series is very fun in general. Nothing else nothing more.

Jan 7, 5:10 AM by ProudElitist

@N0T3LI_ the original anime is from Toei, not from Netflix. Being made by a japanese studio doesn't mean absolute shite, the Tokusatsus from which Saban Entertainment took all the best part (meaning the costumes, the fights, etc. etc. etc.) of their aborted cultural appropriations like Masked Rider the Power Rangers The Beetleborgs etc. etc. etc. were all made by Japanese and Japanese people give them the greenlight to do these kinds of bastardizations nobody needed and nobody asked for (Toei are not Tsuburaya unfortunately, they still think nothing outside the japanese peninsula and the brazilian nation matters). The 1956 Godzilla: King of Monsters movie? Toho was OK with it, they even ended recycling the stupid, idiotic newspaper added in this one because of the need for dumb americans (dumb according to other americans, not me) to have somebody to spell them loudly something they were intelligent enough to understand for themselves with the original 1954 Gojira. Robotech the same, it was a mish-mash of what the JAPANESE did in the first place, Macross was produced by a Japanese studio not by an american one. It doesn't change the fact that these all account for cultural appropriation, a way to put an american™ flair and brand on it similar to the way Disney (of which I'm a fan in artistic terms, not in business terms) tried to make a copyright of the Hakuna Matata AFRICAN catchphrase they used it in the good Jungle Taitei/Jungle Emperor Leo Remake (better than the official japanese one in series form, of all things) because they could use it in their merchandise.

Jan 7, 4:57 AM by ProudElitist

I feel like part of the journey of one piece is seeing the animation slowly get better. Obviously its nice their remaking it but it may be a waste of time.

Jan 5, 4:37 PM by Chuckiemuffin

@ProudElitist

Dude, no american corporation is "stealing" anything or mooching off of something. It's being made by a Japanese studio, Wit Studio, in Japan, releasing under Netflix. Just like how certain anime only air on Hulu, or Crunchyroll. What the actual fuck are you waffling about.

Jan 4, 11:35 AM by N0T3LI_

@ANTITHE5IS That's very likely, but I don't want one piece to release in batches, we can just hope that it is a weekly anime.

Jan 2, 10:49 PM by NisheshTyagi

I honestly don't think they are going to readapt the whole manga again

Dec 31, 2023 8:00 AM by KingVamp_

@ZXEAN I guess. I'll just stick to One Pace for now.

Dec 30, 2023 9:28 PM by Sumumfachunk

@N1coYazawa Put your nostalgia on side and think rationally.

One Piece pacing is just horrible and the animation in the earlier arc is out dated. It's pritty hard for new fans to get into One Piece after watching morden shounen animes like Jujutsu Kaisan which is a fast pace action scenes with stunning animation.

Dec 30, 2023 9:22 PM by ZXEAN

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