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One Piece Anime's Egghead Arc Resumes Next April
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A teaser video for One Piece Film Red anime on Sunday evening.
Update: The live-streamed "One Piece News #1" special confirmed that the television anime is changing what will air in its regular Sunday timeslot until the end of March 2025 to "recharge." The Jump Festa 2025 event will announce more details on December 22, including the anime's new timeslot starting in April.
The One Piece Log: Fish-Man Island Saga" will feature reshot scenes with retouched art, detailing, color shading, lighting, and special effects, as well as a Dolby Atmos soundtrack.
Secret "special guests" under the name Mugiwara no Ichimi (Straw Hat Pirates) will sing a new version of the "We Go!" opening theme song (sung by just Sailing."
One Piece Base, a smartphone app with a manga viewer and other content from the entire franchise, is launching on Sunday within Japan, and is slated for release outside Japan in 2025. Fans who scan bar codes from select One Piece merchandise into the web version of the app will receive points for unlocking chapters to read. The app's Nigaoe Maker (Portrait Maker) service will turn fans' facial photographs into art in the style of Oda.
Earlier on Sunday, the official English Tomohito Ōsaki's One Piece novel Mugiwara Stories (Straw Hat Stories) short story collection, and celebrates the 25th anniversary of the anime.
One Piece Film Red, the 15th and latest film in the franchise, opened in August 2022. Between then and the film's last day of encore screenings in November 2023, it earned a total of 20.33 billion yen ($137 million) in Japan. The film is the sixth highest-earning film of all time in Japan (unadjusted for inflation), and is the #4 highest-earning anime film in Japan.
The movie has become the franchise's highest-selling and highest-earning film installment, in of both the number of tickets sold and yen earned at the box office. The film topped Japan's box office for 2022 in of yen earned and tickets sold.
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Update 2: More information added from Crunchyroll confirmed in a press release on Sunday that it will stream both One Piece Fan Letter and One Piece Log: Fish-Man Island Saga.
Source: One Piece Film Red airing
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