The staff of the upcoming WIT STUDIO-produced One Piece remake has been announced.
Masashi Koizuka (Attack on Titan Season 2 and 3) is directing The One Piece with Kyoji Asano (Attack on Titan) and Takatoshi Honda (In/Spectre) on character design and chief animation director duties and Taku Kishimoto (Ranking of Kings) handling the series composition. The animation producer is Ryoma Kawamura (Fate/Grand Order “Seihai Sensen ~ Shiroten no Shiro Kokuya no Shiro~” TVCM assistant producer).
Other revealed staff credits include:
• Assistant director: Hideaki Abe (Jujutsu Kaisen Episode 15 storyboard artist and director, Episode 4 director)
• Creature designer and image board artist: Yasuhiro Kajino (In/Spectre prop designer)
• Action animator: Ken Imaizumi
• Action animator: Shuhei Fukuda
• Background art director: Tomonori Kuroda (The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House)
Netflix released a staff interview video following the announcement.
Eiichiro Oda‘s One Piece manga started in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997 and has been collected into 109 tankoubon volumes as of July 2024. The current Toei Animation-produced TV anime adaptation premiered in 1999 and is currently adapting the “Egghead Arc.” VIZ Media describes the manga 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…
The manga has also inspired a 1998 Production I.G-produced OVA and a 2023 live-action Netflix adaptation. The latter has been renewed for another season.
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Source: @Eiichiro_Staff