One Piece Celebrates 1000 Episodes With a Throwback OP and a New Film

Eiichiro Oda’s legendarily lengthy pirate manga One Piece has been round perpetually, just a bit bit lengthy than an excellent quantity of its followers have probably been alive, and ditto its anime adaptation. Last night time, the anime hit episode 1000, and to have fun the event, the episode introduced again the very first OP from alllllll the best way again in 1999 in the course of the “East Blue” arc.

Whether you watch the opening as is or evaluate it to the original, two issues are clear: Luffy and the Straw Hats have grown loads and been via a lot shit since they began their journey to succeed in the Grand Line, and Hiroshi Kitadani’s “We Are!” nonetheless fucking riiiiiiiiips. It’s fairly spectacular that One Piece managed to hit this milestone and has endured for therefore lengthy. Even with the 2004 FoxBox adaptation (and its still awesome rap) is a captivating mess and the jury’s out on the upcoming Netflix adaptation, it feels just like the fanbase is usually chill about your entire franchise and simply comfortable that it exists interval, so hats off to y’all. Hope you managed to catch this episode in theaters, for those who felt protected.

Funimation and Toei Animation did greater than redo their unique opening to have fun One Piece’s massive day, additionally they introduced a brand new film. Directed by Code Geass’ Goro Taniguchi with an unique story from Oda himself, One Piece Film: Red will convey the Straw Hats on a collision course with new antagonist Patrick Redfield, aka Red the Aloof. And it appears to be like just like the movie will closely contain Luffy’s pirate mentor, Shanks. The films are stated to be typically fairly good, and it must be thrilling to see what wild fruit, sword, and foot-based motion the film comes up with. It’s anticipated to launch on August 6, 2022.

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