THE ONE PIECE Remake Anime Sails With First Details on Production

 The Straw Hats will traverse the East Blue once again!

The first stage of One Piece Day ’24 day two brought forth a treasure trove of details on THE ONE PIECE, the remake anime produced at WIT Studio. The stage event revealed the lead staff members of the series and fun production details with a video that toured WIT Studio and interviewed the staff.

THE ONE PIECE Main Staff List

Director - Masashi Koizuka (Attack on Titan)

Assistant Director - Hideaki Abe (JUJUTSU KAISEN episode 15 director)

Series Composition - Taku Kishimoto (Ranking of Kings)

Character Designer / Chief Animation Director - Kyoji Asano, Takatoshi Honda

Creature Design / Concept Art - Yasuhiro Kajino

Prop Designer - Eri Taguchi

Action Animator - Ken Imaizumi, Shuhei Fukuda

Art Director - Tomonori Kuroda

Animation Production - WIT Studio

The video had the staff inside WIT Studio talk about their love for the franchise while showing off production art for the new adaptation, including character design sheets, pre-production art of famous scenes from East Blue, a full 3D anime render of Shells Town and more.

Following the production video was a talk on stage revealed a full-color 3D render, made in Unreal Engine, of Foosha Village with spots from the series pointed out, including the famous spot where Luffy and Uta hung out in One Piece Film: Red.

No dates for the series were announced at this stage, nor were any trailers or visuals.

The original version of the East Blue arc is available to watch alongside the rest of One Piece here on Crunchyroll.

Sources: ONE PIECE DAY ‘24 stage, One Piece on X (formally Twitter)