The official website for the One Piece TV anime series announced the addition of five new voice cast members for the short web spinoff series Koisuru One Piece. The short anime will stream daily from April 1, 2025 to April 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM JST on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.
The five additional cast members include (from left to right):
- • Akari Kito as Sato Yoshioka
- • Akira Ishida as Biology Club President
- • Megumi Han as Tsuchi
- • Takehito Koyasu as Toriko Kurono
- • Mahito Oba as Narrator
They join a main cast that includes Ryosuke Kanemoto as Luffy Yamamoto, Ayane Sakura as Nami Koyama, and Yuichi Nakamura as Usopp Nakatsugawa.
The first five parts of episode one are now streaming on the official One Piece YouTube channel.
Miki Kobayashi is serving as producer for the short anime series, with Yu Kamatani and Hazuki Omoya credited as directors. Hanao Iida is designing the characters, Midori Tanaka is the art director, Emi Nakajima is the color designer, and Kosuke Ohori is the director of photography. Toei Animation is in charge of the animation production.
The short series is based on Daiki Ihara’s spinoff gag manga of the same name, which was first serialized on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ service on June 18, 2018. Nine tankobon volumes have been released as of April 2022. Ihara put the manga on hiatus in November 2021, but will resume the series on April 10, 2025.
Koisuru One Piece follows the everyday adventure of high school students that share the same name as members of the Straw Hat Pirates.
