One Piecehas a pretty original project in store for its fans worldwide: a new movie project, mixing live-action and anime together. This is one of the parts of the “We Are One” project: plans announced to commemorate the volume 100 release ofOne Piecein Japan. The Shonen Jump manga by Eiichiro Oda will reach the symbolic milestone on July 04, 2025.
One Pieceshort movie project - Japanese press release translated
As revealed byJapanese outlets,One Piecewill soon receive an original short movie project. The movie will mix live-action scenes, as in with real life actresses and actors, together with anime scenes.
The Japanese press release states that a “famous” movie director is working on the live-action scenes. Meanwhile, five anime directors will work on the anime scenes. The fact that it’s officially described as a “short movie” highly hints towards a release directly on social media or YouTube, rather than getting aired on TV or in theaters. In other words, fans outside Japan should be able to watch the short movie as soon as it’s out.
No release date for the project was shared yet but we should definitely hear more before September 3. The directors will be named at a later date as well. However, we can make several predictions.
One PieceLive-Action + anime short movie predictions
One Pieceand Shueisha can definitely afford to bring in some big names for a milestone project like this. For the anime part, I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw huge directors such as Studio Trigger’s Hiroyuki Imaishi, mecha specialistMasami Obari(for a cool Franky scene), or even Makoto Shinkai to take a few popular examples.
As for who the film director is, with how the Japanese press release is worded, it could be either a popular Japanese film director or a popular director worldwide. Even someone likeEvangelion’s Hideaki Annocould fit as he’s been working on live-action more than ever this past decade.
Personally speaking, while I stopped watching theOne Pieceanime more than 12 years ago, I’m definitely looking forward to original projects like these. What do you think of the We Are One project? Are you still following the Wano arc every week? you’re able to always hit me up on Twitter@A_iyane07to share all your opinions.
