The first season of the series will have 7 episodes.
It has finally been confirmed! Wit Studio’s remake of the One Piece anime, titled “THE ONE PIECE” is premiering on Netflix in February 2027. A new concept art of Luffy and Shanks has been released, alongside more details about the long-awaited revisit. The series will be adapted from Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece manga.
THE ONE PIECE
Premiere window: February 2027
Animation studio: Wit Studio
Streaming service: Netflix
What do we know about THE ONE PIECE anime so far?
Netflix has confirmed that the first season of THE ONE PIECE will be 7 episodes long. Each episode will be about 42 minutes in length, and all of them will drop at once. The episodes will adapt the first 50 chapters of the manga, starting with the East Blue Saga, and in total will have about 300 minutes worth of content.
The exact release date of the anime remains unknown.
Masashi Koizuka is directing the anime at Wit Studio, with Hideaki Abe serving as the assistant director. Kyoji Asano and Takatoshi Honda are the character designers and chief animation directors. Taku Kishimoto is handling series composition. Other staff members include:
- Prop Design: Eri Taguchi
- Action Animator: Shuhei Fukuda, Ken Imaizumi
- Art Director: Tomonori Kuroda
- Creature Design / Concept Art: Yasuhiro Kajino
So far, no voice cast members have been revealed. The upcoming anime remake has been described as:
Produced by WIT Studio, THE ONE PIECE is a brand new anime adaptation starting from the original manga’s East Blue saga. Separate from the TV anime series that has charged full speed ahead over the course of more than 25 years, this series taps into the expressive potential of modern technology to offer a familiar yet fresh take on the adventures of Luffy. The rare footage of character design sheets and image boards showcased in this video provides a glimpse into the world of this new anime.
In a previous interview with Real Sound, the president of Wit Studio and Production I.G. George Wada had said that THE ONE PIECE anime will adapt the manga with tighter pacing and better animation thanks to cutting edge technology.
What is One Piece about?
THE ONE PIECE anime adapts Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece manga, which began serialisation in 1997 in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine. The original anime adaptation by Toei Animation began in 1999 and is still ongoing. Fans across the world are eagerly waiting for the encroaching series finale.
Viz Media publishes the manga in English and describes the story as:
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…