Subhi Agrawal
The One Piece Day ’24 announcement revealed the staff list and provided an exciting first look at new concept art for WIT Studio’s upcoming remake, THE ONE PIECE. This highly anticipated anime remake has fans buzzing as they glimpse the reimagined world of One Piece.
They’re Joined By Haikyu
On August 11, 2024, it was unveiled that WIT Studio’s One Piece remake, THE ONE PIECE, will be directed by Attack on Titan’s Masashi Koizuka, with Jujutsu Kaisen’s Hideaki Abe serving as assistant director.
They’re joined by Haikyu!!’s Taku Kishimoto for series composition, the character designer and chief animation directors Kyoji Asano (Spy x Family) and Takatoshi Honda (The First Slam Dunk), and action animators Ken Imaizumi (Boruto) and Shuhei Fukuda (Call of the Night).
The anime was first announced in December at Jump Festa 2024, Japan’s Shueisha-sponsored anime and manga expo, where it received its first teaser visual and trailer. However, it has been revealed that since around November 2023, the series was already in active production as per financial reports from WIT Studio’s parent company, IG Port. THE ONE PIECE will initially adapt the original manga’s “East Blue Saga” before progressing to an additional storyline.
Featuring Staff
The team was described as “young” featuring staff, art supervisors Tomonori Kuroda (A Certain Scientific Index) and Ryoma Kawamura (Attack on Titan, also animation producer), creature and image board designer Yasuhiro Kajino (Rinne), and prop designer Airi Taguchi (Vampire in the Garden).
The co-founder and president of WIT studio, George Wada said that the remake targets the wider audience by working on its quality to attract more fans and removing the 4:3 aspect ratio.
VIZ Licenses Explain the First Volume
“For young people who are used to watching modern anime thanks to technological innovation, the footage from 25 years ago when the anime broadcast of One Piece Started may be difficult to watch. Both we and Oda have the desire to spread anime to people who don’t know about it, and to the world. THE ONE PIECE was planned as an entry point.”Wada said
VIZ licenses the manga, and explains the first volume, “As a child, Monkey D. Luffy was inspired to become a pirate by listening to the tales of the buccaneer ‘Red-Haired’ Shanks. But his life changed when Luffy accidentally ate the Gum-Gum Devil Fruit and gained the power to stretch like rubber…at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, still vowing to become the king of the pirates, Luffy sets out on his adventure…one guy alone in a rowboat, in search of the legendary ‘One Piece,’ said to be the greatest treasure in the world…”
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