One Piece Anime Is Getting A Remake On Netflix

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One Piece is one of the longest-running manga, and subsequently one of the longest-running anime around, spanning over 1000 chapters and 1000 episodes, respectively. The series’ success has spawned a live-action One Piece series from Netflix that got off to a great start, a trading card game, and more video games than you can count — but now, it’s getting a new anime remake.

Yup, you read that right. Netflix and WIT Studio – the animation studio behind Spy x Family, Pokémon: Paldean Winds, and the upcoming Suicide Squad Isekai – are teaming up to produce a remake of One Piece’s anime, set to be titled The One Piece. Netflix said in its announcement that it would be “recreating the story of the original One Piece manga,” and that the story would start from the East Blue arc, suggesting it’s not just a one and done.

Netflix announced the new series with a video on Twitter, which highlights a number of clips from the existing anime – produced by Toei Animation – and says that The One Piece is in production now. Further adding to the idea that this is going to be a full remake from start to finish, the clip ends with Luffy saying he needed to gather up a crew of about 10 people.

On its face, remaking an anime that hasn’t actually ended yet seems a little bit strange, but when you dwell on it a little bit, it does start to make sense. One Piece’s anime is over 1000 episodes long, but a significant chunk of that is arguably non-canon filler content and padding, designed to give the manga time to get ahead so there’s fresh canon content to pull from.

Remaking the anime with a new studio means there won’t be any need to introduce filler – the manga will likely be finished by the time WIT Studio catches up – and episodes won’t need to be padded out to extend runtime. The result very conceivably could be a more compact, more approachable anime that still hits all the canon story beats without overstaying its welcome. It could see the series reduced from 1000 episodes down to half that or less, with an added opportunity to expand on events that were later expanded on in the manga after the original anime already aired.

It’s an exciting prospect, and WIT Studio is definitely the right animation studio to take up the mantle. Not only does it mean that Toei’s continuation of the anime won’t get impacted by splitting the workforce, but WIT has done fantastic work on Spy x Family and other series like Vinland Saga.

In the meantime, One Piece’s Egghead arc start date is coming up very soon, so fans of the series can watch the latest and greatest of Toei’s series while they wait for WIT Studio to do their thing. No release date or window for The One Piece has been announced yet.

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