One Piece Fan Letter, the previously announced animated title that commemorates the One Piece anime’s 25th anniversary, has gotten a trailer a week before its October 20 JST premiere. Take a look at what director Megumi Ishitani (One Piece Episode 957, 982, 1015, OP26) has cooked up:
One Piece Fan Letter is inspired by One Piece novel Wagiwara Stories, a 2017 book that collects a series of short stories — originally published in One Piece Magazine — depicting the Straw Hats from the perspective of “regular people” as well as new content. Among the anime’s other staff members are Keisuke Mori (“Where The Wind Blows” music video) as character designer and Momoka Toyoda (My Happy Marriage co-series composer, One Piece – Episode of East Blue: Luffy and His Four Friends’ Great Adventure assistant director) as screenwriter.
The Toei Animation-produced One Piece TV anime adaptation premiered in 1999, a couple of years after the start of Eiichiro Oda‘s manga in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997. The manga has been collected into 109 tankoubon volumes as of July 2024, and is described by VIZ Media 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, a 2023 live-action Netflix adaptation, and an upcoming WIT STUDIO-produced anime remake.
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Source: @Eiichiro_Staff
