Buggy's cover story is actually one of the few that was adapted in the original anime. Still, I hadn't thought about the possibility of cover stories in general being adapted in this remake. I hope it happens.
They need to. That’s the one thing I hate about the Toei anime, especially when the cover stories could’ve been used to fix a lot of the pacing issues.
@@Phanthief95 In the last episode they kinda wedged in the Vegapunk gunpowder flowers cover story, because otherwise the scene would make zero sense lol
@Phanthief95 yeah, after they adapted buggy's cover story, there was strong hatred amongst the Japanese fans, since most are Manga readers, they didn't want to have to see that, since they tend to be side stories sometimes
One thing I really like about this remake is that there won't be any censorship (for example Zeff will eat his own leg instead of losing it in an accident). They also mentioned Oda's artstyle changed a lot over the years, which is perfectly normal, so the studio will stick to one specific art for the character designs and I love that, everything will feel more consistent. I'm also curious about the cover stories, I really hope they can incorporate them all in the canon material - they could create some "extras" section at the end of each episode and add them there, for example
For the cover stories i really hope they recreate the panels and show them during the episode title cards. The cover stories are amazing but i don't think they are enough to make full episodes out of them with dialogue and everything, especially when they are not directly involved with the main plot.
I think these are the types of things that are great to retroactively add. Something I loved about the live action was retroactively adding Binks Sake in the Background of the bar where shanks Crew hung out. Other stuff could be having articles about the other Super Novas in the newspapeds we see. Give us a little flash of Barto in the Background at Luffys Execution.
Is true that would could to see how they gonna thow little easter egg or additionnal forshadowing early, but in this exemple that wouldn't work because sabo wouldn't be dead yet because luffy only met ace and sabo after receiving the hat, or you mean luffy visiting sabo "grave" when he's 17 before going to see
Sabo wasn't from Windmill village. He met the mayor and Makino once. And the bandits lived on Mt Corvo with the treehouse near Gray Terminal. It makes no sense for anybody to care about Sabo at Foosha Village. Sabo sailed out of Town Center port not Foosha Village. It's doubtful that either the mayor or Makino could even have known that Sabo was attacked. It's not like Sabo's parents would have owned up to their son being the pirate attacked by a Celestial Dragon. They probably found out at a later visit to Mt. Corvo when he wasn't there. Dadan visits the treehouse when she learns about Ace's death, so there's no reason this isn't where she wouldn't have gone with Ace and Luffy after finding about Sabo being attacked in the fishing boat. This would just be filler that has no basis in cannon lore. I'm more concerned about Witt too strictly sticking to manga panels. The walk to Arlong Park is entirely filler created by Toei. That walk adds a huge amount of impact to Nami's request for help in the anime. I would argue that it's the point where most anime watchers bought into One Piece. Sure Nami's request precedes it and it has great impact, but that walk adds so much to the character of Luffy and the crew that he's assembled. In the manga, Luffy grabs the grew then after a panel featuring Nami still crying just appears at the gate to Arlong Park. It's so impactful that the song used during the walk, Overtaken, is later referenced when the crew goes to meet Bege in Wholecake Island. The truth is that Toei didn't do a lot of filler in the East Blue until they left Coco village for Loguetown. This is where Warship Island was added, mostly pointless and actually confuses things when the idea of Celestrial Dragons are introduced. Sanji also enters a cooking contest which is mostly pointless filler when he just bought that fish in the Manga. But the filler for Usopp getting his goggles does add something to Yassap and his ability to match his prowess as a sniper with his inherited will. The One Piece shouldn't add filler stories. But even the dumb filler story of Zoro becoming a babysitter at Water 7 does add pacing to the story while the crew is waiting for the 1000 Sunny to be built. Pacing isn't about making the story as fast as it takes to get through the story. It's about giving the story the sense of timing. Adding content between the drawn Manga panels is needed in an animated adapation of a comic. This stuff should not be avoided. It should be embraced. The bad pacing stuff is telling the Rebecca backstory 100 times, the 5 second glances back and forth before a fight o reusing the same B-roll footage at the events of Flower Capitol during the fight at Onigashima just slows down the storytelling when they should just stick to what is actually going on, which is fighting. www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/14rel36/friendly_reminder_one_of_the_most_iconic_scenes/
It's the smallest and most insignificant detail, but I love that they brought back Luffys almond eyes, I always preferred them to the rounded eyes that they switched to 🥹
My favorite thing has to be the fact that most of the staff are all fans of the series and have grown up with it. I feel no one can take better care of a series more than its own fans simply because of the sheer passion they'll have for it.
it blows my mind that once the WIT Studio adaptation begins, there will be four(4) concurrent One Piece stories being told: the manga, the original anime, the live action, and WIT Studio's anime.
As someone who started the manga thanks to the live action but isnt really an anime fan I'm really excited to see if i can enjoy this and if i can get my father to watch that with me
Knowing the team loves One Piece so much I can imagine the production leader was like " (sigh) Alright, what do you want netflix? You want us to do what anime now? " "I dont know this is possible or not, but we wanna remake One Piece" "SAY FCKIN LESS FAM" 😂
Man, your literally watching the Attack on Titan anime right now which is made by the same studio ( WIT studio made S1-S3). The main AOT core staff is on the remake team. So u can literally imagine the amazing direction, animation, background visuals, etc ur gonna get if u have experienced the peak of AOT!!!
I would personally like them to have a small scene where nami or maybe someone reads the newspaper and talks or give their thoughts about the supernova before their introductions. Also G8 should be canonized imo its the perfect arc to show how important merry is to the crew before water 7. It would make everything in that saga hit that much harder
for me, this seems more like a passion project for the whole studio, they have people who are growing up with One Piece involved with this project and the director is a huge fan of One Piece
I love Wit Studio so much, I died of happiness when I heard they were picking up Ascendance of of Bookwork, it’s so nice to see another way they’re making great stuff!
I remember when Makenyu (Zoro’s actor for OPLA) said that One Piece is basically Japan’s bible imagine the pressure they have to make everything perfect 😅
I really hope this new WIT Studio anime is more accurate to the manga and not change things for the sake of censorship most noticeable how Chef Zeff lost his leg, or even animated the cover stories
The staff interview got me soooo hyped, the concept arts are looking so good so far! Also regarding the voice actors, i personally want new VAs even tho it would be hard to let go of the OG cast but in the long run, it would benefit to have a new cast with their own takes with the characters since the OG cast is getting older by the day.
I would like to see how they introduce Haki. I would like to see it gradually becoming more important as the story progresses, to seeing Marineford look like the battle between Garp and Aokiji in the current anime.
I doubt they will change the story. People would complain even if some changes could help. Like hinting at luffy's special fruit earlier. Kiado having a bigger backstory.
So, I saw you’re watching Jojo’s as well, and David Production did some changes in that show-for example, originally the Joestar birthmark didn’t show up until Part 3, but the anime was able to put that detail into Jonathan and Joseph’s designs. Characters show up in background shots before they get formally introduced. Little things like that that help with the world building. I feel like The One Piece can do some additions like that.
I have never seen an anime studio spend so much money and time and effort on a project series like this, I'm so excited and so happy to be a one piece fan
@@8ooty0 they created a 3d model of an entire island that will only be used for 2-3 episodes and will only be shown the entirety of it for a 2 second scene. And also i forgot that they're backed up by netflix, so most likely the reason why they did it.
Everyone has been asking for cover stories to be adapted, of course, but that particular case actually WAS 😂 We see your point, though, we can only hope
Im confused over everyone's excitement. Do we all remember what early one piece is like and you want them to be more accurate to the manga? It will take another 1000 episodes? Adding in cover stories (the original anime did this too and people hated it), i like the remake idea but unless they just streamline and finish like arcs in 3 eps or so people might be bored coming from way more heavy action focused early eps. Not saying that one piece is boring or bad it's good just want people to notice were all asking for the impossible. Well see. Just think a streamlined short one piece would be better for new fans then 100 eps to cover every single thing.
While it may be true that Usopp never had much of a skin tone difference whenever Oda did a Volume cover or other colored art piece I feel it helps add visual variety at the very least to give him a darker skin tone. Obviously not a deal breaker, but ah well. What I am hoping for is for each arc to be treated as its own series, so to speak. Animation, music score, everything reconsidered per-arc to suit the tone and themes. Voice actors usually crave a consistent meal ticket so many are likely to want to reprise, but I hope both the Japanese and English cast gets a shakeup. As much as I adore Sonny Strait and Stephanie Young letting new actors take on the roles makes for more fun in comparing and contrasting adaptations.
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to ask Usopp's VA if he would continue to voice Usopp in the remake. He said he hasn't been reached out to, but that he would like to continue to play the role in the remake. Personally, as much as I love these VAs, I do hope they get a fresh cast. Their age is unfortunately a factor (eg Franky sounds pretty bad now) and it'd be best to find new people that fit WIT's direction.
I’m so excited for this project and one distinction I think is super impactful for people to consider is not to look at this as a remake of the anime but rather a new adaptation of the manga. A new teams vision for animating the source material, not a “how do we condense the existing show and make it look modern.” The potential and passion on display is exciting beyond belief!
I imagine that there will be new voice actors, because most of the original ones are older in their 60s and 70s. I don't think having them work on two One Piece animes is reasonable and if something happens to them you would have to replace them anyway. So it's much safer to get new ones. The main thing that this remake is good for, beyond less censorship and more modern animation, is the pacing. The second half of the original anime has major pacing issues and adapts around 1 chapter per episode to not catch up to the manga. Meanwhile you standard modern anime episode adapts around 3 chapters per episode. If the One Piece remake does this it could cut down the length of the anime by more than half, which would make the series so much more approachable. They can now adapt exactly how many chapters an episode needs.
That actually reminds me, a trend in modern anime is to have little "chibi characters goofing off" scenes after the end credits. That would be a perfect place to put "cover stories," just have quick vignettes of them at the end of each episode.
Toei's episode publishing was weekly, rather than seasonal. I think since WIT is going the seasonal route it's not a huge ask for the voice actors to return.
them making the 3D map is amazing and it's taking advantage of one of OnePiece's biggest strengths, it's WORLD. It's not always complete, but One Piece has such a detailed and thought out world, that they can take advantage of it fully, even if its not complete in some cases, it has more detail, logic and thought that most other series, so them being able to create those maps is the biggest hack ever that will streamline their work soooooo much. For an artist to have a tool so powerful for keeping perspective in mind, the parallax, the distances, the sizes, for thinking of the best places to put a "camera" (the perspective in this case), instead of incentivising them to go for the basics, to just choose a more normal angle for a scene and stick to it, it can actually facilitate and make it posible for them to show a scene in a much more complete and artistic way by having different shots and angles and perspectives. And to also keep an amazing thing from the manga, how the world feels so real, how characters move around a space, from a point to another, or in a fight, and it feels real, because the perspective of the background and it's landmarks is CONSISTENT. Wano act one is a ridiculous example of it, specially the whole scene outside bakura town with Luffy, Tama, Tsuru and Okiku. Oda is an actual cinematographer with it's pen and paper, his control over perspective is insane, and for HIM to put more effort into the cinematography and to show his world through different shots than what the anime usually does, it's crazy. Filmmaking and animation as well is very much like magic tricks, you only notice them when they're not done correctly, they break immersion, but when you fake it so well with those details, they blend together in a seamless experience that you never question, because it feels real, it is real. And there's a reason why one piece is memed so hard, characters moving through a space and never advancing, it feeling like they're so slow cuz of it (also because the background is static and doesn't move with them conveying the speed and progress), how they're always in the same space because it looks the same, generic without landmarks to differentiate it, how every action is slow and weak etc. Especially in the post dressrosa anime, even today when it's not a hype chapter with insane budget.
Merphy is spot on, it will be very difficult to accept any new voice actors for these characters we've spent 20 years with. They're all just so iconic and ingrained into my being. All that being said, I feel it has to be done. You really can't just expect them to do it all over again for so long, and new VA's could even bring a fun freshness to the series.
i'm really excited about this. The art style looks amazing and the entire project seems to be in good hands. but i'm also a bit worried about the soundtrack because i love the soundtrack of the first one piece anime so much. i guess we'll see how it turns out. who knows, maybe it will be even better.
Soooo excited for the Attack on Titan video. It’s such a unique masterpiece can’t wait to hear Merph’s thoughts on the writing and the way the story expressed its themes
On Bookborns video, when she was predicting one piece crew and says medic and repairman, and you throw in "maybe just a ghost, for fun", that was devious, and I loved it.
Honestly seeing them refer to props and draw frames while looking at the manga pages made me even more excited. I love how detailed all the concept art is. I love that in the character sheets, you can tell that Zoro and Sanji have different builds and body types. And while they should maybe saturate everything a little more, I love the maker look. It looks just like the color spreads. I hope they keep it. But the production team is crazy! The _Attack on Titan_ director, the director of _Jujutsu Kaisen_ as your assistant director, the action animators for the remake worked on _Boruto_ and _My Hero Academia,_ the writer of _Ranking of Kings,_ and the _Attak on Titan, Spy x Family_ and _First Slam Dunk_ character designers! What‽ The board member of WIT in the video said he first heard about the project 4-5 years ago so it seems like they started working on this around the same time as season 1 of the live-action One Piece. I love that they really seem to be sticking to manga fidelity. But I also hope that they play when it comes to stuff set up early on but we now know 1000 chapters later. For instance, in Buggy’s fight with Shanks during the Orange Town flashback, we know the pirate who broke it up was Rayleigh. So show us young Rayleigh from the Oden flashback. Don’t just make it the random pirate that Oda had to retcon into Rayleigh. Show other of the Roger pirates like Scopper, whom we meet in the Oden flashback. But maybe not Crocus or Oden. At Reverse Mountain, show us Yorkie, not the captain who would have to be retconned into Yorkie. Show us a character from the back that could be Brook. The Supernovas weren’t planned so maybe foreshadow them a bit with reports and new stories about other rookies tearing up other seas. Do what the Live Action did with those Foxy and Cavendish posters. And I hope they capture those moments in the early manga that when a character genuinely smiles, they shine in the panel.
I love it! I'm one of the biggest OP fans there is, so this makes me rly happy, ngl. I just hope the voice actors can hang on for another long ride of the story, haha! But they probably love to do it, or they wouldn't agree to do it again :3. Wit is such a good studio for this too. Thanks for the coverage!
I'm happy about this project. The only thing I'm sad about is the Voice Actors. Mayumi Tanaka IS Luffy. Her voice is Forever going to be Luffy for me. She also stated that she'll retire soon and is gonna be in the process of picking a new Voice Actor for Luffy. I know she is past the age of working and she definitely deserves the rest for the great work that she already did. If she retires soon, I hope that in the final episode of One Piece, She comes back and Voices Luffy One last time.
To anyone against this remake..try recalling when you asked your friends to get into onepiece, and they replied "don't like the artstyle, too old, isn't it slow paced" With the current position OnePiece is in, any big player would wanna jump on that opportunity to bring more people in..Netflix did. AoT Director did for his passion. It's a win..for now..Cook Wit!
tlaking about voice actors, we know that the current ones are not exactly young so this could make possible to choose their succesors themselves and go to the toei series if anything happens
I know a lot of people are hesitant about having another one piece anime while the original is still ongoing, but i ttinkgiving the series a modern style jump adaptation with a huge amount of the story already written and ready to be adapted means they can better judge how to structure things and white small details they can omit vs the ones that become relevant 500 chapters later
I hope the voice staff is completely changed except for maybe some smaller characters with memorable voices coming back as cameos. Or maybe have the original cast voice some of the smaller characters.
On the note of cover stories, one idea I thought of was the way Mushoku Tensei used the opener for a lot of its episodes. The OP played while a silent “film” ran It’d be cool for that to happen with the cover stories getting fleshed out a little but still staying “cover stories”
Early on, the Toei version actually DID adapt the cover stories, including Little Buggy's adventures. The other major one I remember is Koby and Helmeppo being navy chore boys and then training under Garp, before we knew who Garp really was. Then they stopped doing it at some point shortly into the Grand Line, which is weird because you'd think they'd take any opportunity for filler. I mean we don't get Enel's adventures on the moon, but somehow they had time to make up a feudal Japan alternate universe storyline where Luffy's big ambition is to be his town's head cop instead? (OTOH skipping the cover stories DID mean anime-onlies got spared from one of Oda's rare Ls, when he cheapened Bon Clay's heroic sacrifice by showing that he actually survived somehow.) Oh, and while in general I'm all for it being more true to the manga, I really wish Oda would admit that certain visual changes Toei made were in fact improvements and retcon them into the canon, i.e. the darkening of Usopp and Robin's skin and making Robin's eyes blue. I can live with Robin being pale, but I'm gonna really hate it if her eyes are brown when this version gets around to introducing her - I don't have the art theory knowledge to explain why, but blue just gels with the rest of her design so much better.
Really the most exciting thing to me would mostly come in later on if they improve the pacing, this has been a criticism of the main anime for a long time now. Seeing an OP anime that actually moves forward and isn't padded to hell and back is the biggest thing for me. But again that will only really come into play in later arcs.
As someone who grew up watching one piece it means so much to me and i can’t wait to see a passionate young team work on it. Also toei are going to be involved in the project as well so it well have the soul of the og anime.
I have not tried the old anime as it is SO MUCH. And I already have SO MUCH material to go through with the manga (On chapter 813 at this moment). But I'll give this a go of course.
@@oppideez2158 Even with one pace, this is boring sometimes. Oda is praised for his world building, but sometimes it is easy to extensive. This makes it way to long and sometimes boring, even with all the filler cut.
@AshwinRamdin the real experience is the manga. I can't back the anime up. Reading one piece and watching it are a different. Manga has way more info the cover pages and art every other week. Plus it's not bad paced like the anime
I have more faith in this than for other upcoming series. I really hope they will not only not mess it up, but ace it. It has endless potential to improve at least two of the major problems of the anime: Pacing and Fanservice. Too many fake out deaths are the 3rd bjg problems, but I don't think they will change that (understandably difficult to do)
But the voice actors are all grandparents at this point, they probably don't have the stamina to do it all again. On the other hand, it be weired to hear Luffy in other people's voice at this point. That's a real challenge.
Because of the power of hindsight and also the fact that they wont be crippled by weekly deadlines and censorship, i honestly believe this could become the best version of east blue saga. Especially since we know that oda didnt really have a 100% set direction before alabasta
Btw Buggys adventure after being defeated, that cover story was adapted in the Toei animation, they also adapted Cobys story when he started gettinf trained by Garp
If they are doing full 3D renderings for references, then maybe we can finally get a one piece game where you can actually explore the world. Thats what i want. An open world one piece game where you can choose your journey and make your own character
The thing I'm much more excited about is that a One Piece series that will likely be more well animated with a much faster pace will be the perfect way to introduce people to it. No disrespect to the Toei series but because it's been weekly for 2+ decades they both have to stretch out the pace and can't always have as high quality animation (though of course it's become more incredible over time) and all of that combined with starting people at the beginning will be a great way to hive all the people I know who was put off by Toei's long episode list and pace (and who don't want to read) a new jumping in point without all the baggage
I hope they redo the walk to arlong park, because it's an anime original scene that added SO MUCH to that episode and became one of the most iconic one piece scenes
I'm definetly going o watch this!!! They art style feels so cozy and warm while doing justice to the original designs. I'm getting Studio Ghibli vibes and I love IT!!!!
I was thinking since they probably aren't going to be able to do a full live action past like maybe the sky island. Maybe the English dub of the wit studio one piece will be the cast of the LA
Just to temper a bit. While everything you say is true and it's exciting to get a new One Piece by passionate people, we need to remember that this is still a japanese animation studio so those passionate people will most likely have the passion and life squeezed out of them on the altar of quick production and cost saving. Especially since Netflix is notorious for seriously underpaying its japanese animation staff, going as far as being below the japanese average, which is already extremely low in itself. I share your excitement, but I think the praise about the passion of the team is a soured by what I know about this industry having worked with studios there.
I hope they keep the sketchlike artstyle. One piece is a fairytale where size proportions, distance and death doesnt really matter as much asnthe feelings
I'm really curious about what they are going to do when they get to the points in the anime where the artstyle changes. Will they keep the classic look, or update the artstyle as well? Don't get me wrong I absolutely love the original look, but it's interesting to think where they will take the art direction after a while.
this is about to be the greatest anime of all time. A major complaint of the current anime is the pacing at parts as well as the animation in the earlier parts of the series. With this being seasonal I can't even imagine how good this is going to be. This is the project that will take one piece to the next generation.
The beauty of this project is that it's not just for people who are new to One Piece but it's also for people who have read the manga and have watched the current anime. All those issues that the current running anime had with pacing, censorship, and inconsistency (This also applies to Oda's own drawings) will all be addressed, hopefully. My only concern would be VAs and audio in general, if they can nail that I believe this will be the definitive version of One Piece, not taking anything away from the amazing work of the current animators over at Toei.
Loved that part about younger staffs who grew up watching One Piece working on this project from the start, must be so much fun in the studio.
I just hope they don’t overwork them… I heard Wit has had a bit of issue with that in the past
@@TapitekaThey might, thats the anime industry and Oda is a workahol
@Tapiteka many fans would put their lives defending this show. Imagine working for this project.
Buggy's cover story is actually one of the few that was adapted in the original anime. Still, I hadn't thought about the possibility of cover stories in general being adapted in this remake. I hope it happens.
They need to. That’s the one thing I hate about the Toei anime, especially when the cover stories could’ve been used to fix a lot of the pacing issues.
tho i would miss randomly telling toei anime onlys that "did you know enel is on the moon and has an alien automata army"
@@Phanthief95 In the last episode they kinda wedged in the Vegapunk gunpowder flowers cover story, because otherwise the scene would make zero sense lol
@Phanthief95 yeah, after they adapted buggy's cover story, there was strong hatred amongst the Japanese fans, since most are Manga readers, they didn't want to have to see that, since they tend to be side stories sometimes
@@ZairoDGreat Or when we see Jango as a Marine in Alabasta & people wonder when that happened & tell them “that actually happened in a cover story.”
I am so elated to see that this adaptation is in safe hands.
I mean, we knew ever since it was announced - literally everything Wit has ever done has been A++.
Fix the low pacing😁
@@Asteroid-Destroyer-b4h they're reducing the series into like 300 episodes or such, so it will totally have better pacing
One thing I really like about this remake is that there won't be any censorship (for example Zeff will eat his own leg instead of losing it in an accident). They also mentioned Oda's artstyle changed a lot over the years, which is perfectly normal, so the studio will stick to one specific art for the character designs and I love that, everything will feel more consistent. I'm also curious about the cover stories, I really hope they can incorporate them all in the canon material - they could create some "extras" section at the end of each episode and add them there, for example
LONG RING LONG LAND
So, buggy will really kill that unlucky dude during his introduction
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there might be, we dont know yet.
For the cover stories i really hope they recreate the panels and show them during the episode title cards. The cover stories are amazing but i don't think they are enough to make full episodes out of them with dialogue and everything, especially when they are not directly involved with the main plot.
I saw that they’re adding a graveyard to Windmill village, my thought is what if they foreshadow Sabo early showing his “grave”
I think these are the types of things that are great to retroactively add. Something I loved about the live action was retroactively adding Binks Sake in the Background of the bar where shanks Crew hung out.
Other stuff could be having articles about the other Super Novas in the newspapeds we see. Give us a little flash of Barto in the Background at Luffys Execution.
@@wavemoon I’d love to see Barto at Loguetown
Is that shown in this video at all? If so, do you have a timestamp?
Is true that would could to see how they gonna thow little easter egg or additionnal forshadowing early, but in this exemple that wouldn't work because sabo wouldn't be dead yet because luffy only met ace and sabo after receiving the hat, or you mean luffy visiting sabo "grave" when he's 17 before going to see
Sabo wasn't from Windmill village. He met the mayor and Makino once. And the bandits lived on Mt Corvo with the treehouse near Gray Terminal. It makes no sense for anybody to care about Sabo at Foosha Village. Sabo sailed out of Town Center port not Foosha Village. It's doubtful that either the mayor or Makino could even have known that Sabo was attacked. It's not like Sabo's parents would have owned up to their son being the pirate attacked by a Celestial Dragon. They probably found out at a later visit to Mt. Corvo when he wasn't there. Dadan visits the treehouse when she learns about Ace's death, so there's no reason this isn't where she wouldn't have gone with Ace and Luffy after finding about Sabo being attacked in the fishing boat. This would just be filler that has no basis in cannon lore.
I'm more concerned about Witt too strictly sticking to manga panels. The walk to Arlong Park is entirely filler created by Toei. That walk adds a huge amount of impact to Nami's request for help in the anime. I would argue that it's the point where most anime watchers bought into One Piece. Sure Nami's request precedes it and it has great impact, but that walk adds so much to the character of Luffy and the crew that he's assembled. In the manga, Luffy grabs the grew then after a panel featuring Nami still crying just appears at the gate to Arlong Park. It's so impactful that the song used during the walk, Overtaken, is later referenced when the crew goes to meet Bege in Wholecake Island. The truth is that Toei didn't do a lot of filler in the East Blue until they left Coco village for Loguetown. This is where Warship Island was added, mostly pointless and actually confuses things when the idea of Celestrial Dragons are introduced. Sanji also enters a cooking contest which is mostly pointless filler when he just bought that fish in the Manga. But the filler for Usopp getting his goggles does add something to Yassap and his ability to match his prowess as a sniper with his inherited will. The One Piece shouldn't add filler stories. But even the dumb filler story of Zoro becoming a babysitter at Water 7 does add pacing to the story while the crew is waiting for the 1000 Sunny to be built. Pacing isn't about making the story as fast as it takes to get through the story. It's about giving the story the sense of timing. Adding content between the drawn Manga panels is needed in an animated adapation of a comic. This stuff should not be avoided. It should be embraced. The bad pacing stuff is telling the Rebecca backstory 100 times, the 5 second glances back and forth before a fight o reusing the same B-roll footage at the events of Flower Capitol during the fight at Onigashima just slows down the storytelling when they should just stick to what is actually going on, which is fighting.
www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/14rel36/friendly_reminder_one_of_the_most_iconic_scenes/
It's the smallest and most insignificant detail, but I love that they brought back Luffys almond eyes, I always preferred them to the rounded eyes that they switched to 🥹
My favorite thing has to be the fact that most of the staff are all fans of the series and have grown up with it. I feel no one can take better care of a series more than its own fans simply because of the sheer passion they'll have for it.
WIT is a real animation studio with many years of experience and animation skills, so I'm not worried about anything
it blows my mind that once the WIT Studio adaptation begins, there will be four(4) concurrent One Piece stories being told: the manga, the original anime, the live action, and WIT Studio's anime.
As someone who started the manga thanks to the live action but isnt really an anime fan I'm really excited to see if i can enjoy this and if i can get my father to watch that with me
My dad said since they're condensing the series he'll finally watch it with me. Hope the same for you man!
The One Piece is gonna be *_Peak_* with it being uncensored, having such a dope staff and other elements I'm sure are gonna be glorious 🙌
Knowing the team loves One Piece so much
I can imagine the production leader was like
" (sigh) Alright, what do you want netflix? You want us to do what anime now? "
"I dont know this is possible or not, but we wanna remake One Piece"
"SAY FCKIN LESS FAM"
😂
director didn't think it was true until he directly talked to Oda :D
Their Vinland Saga is also amazing and Ranking of Kings is a fucking gem. I'm really looking forward to a proper paced One Piece
Love the visuals and the update. It feels like it has this almost children’s storybook quality to the look of everything which I love.
Man, your literally watching the Attack on Titan anime right now which is made by the same studio ( WIT studio made S1-S3). The main AOT core staff is on the remake team. So u can literally imagine the amazing direction, animation, background visuals, etc ur gonna get if u have experienced the peak of AOT!!!
Didn't wit also make spy family
Yep and season 1 of vinland saga
@miguelnobre325 oh yeah, the Meryphy knows lots of their work. She might have mentioned that in the video. Haven't gone through it all.
@@chuchojuarez95 More like they helped it (I think)
@@miguelnobre325 and Ranking Of Kings
I would personally like them to have a small scene where nami or maybe someone reads the newspaper and talks or give their thoughts about the supernova before their introductions.
Also G8 should be canonized imo its the perfect arc to show how important merry is to the crew before water 7. It would make everything in that saga hit that much harder
for me, this seems more like a passion project for the whole studio, they have people who are growing up with One Piece involved with this project and the director is a huge fan of One Piece
Idea: they could make those cover stories post-credits.
OMG POLISHED MERRY INTERIOR SKETCHES, i love this so much already i hope they drop an artbook or production book!
I love Wit Studio so much, I died of happiness when I heard they were picking up Ascendance of of Bookwork, it’s so nice to see another way they’re making great stuff!
I remember when Makenyu (Zoro’s actor for OPLA) said that One Piece is basically Japan’s bible imagine the pressure they have to make everything perfect 😅
I really hope this new WIT Studio anime is more accurate to the manga and not change things for the sake of censorship most noticeable how Chef Zeff lost his leg, or even animated the cover stories
The staff interview got me soooo hyped, the concept arts are looking so good so far!
Also regarding the voice actors, i personally want new VAs even tho it would be hard to let go of the OG cast but in the long run, it would benefit to have a new cast with their own takes with the characters since the OG cast is getting older by the day.
I could see the cover story as a post credit clip. It's just a panel so you would only need a couple of seconds to bring it to life.
Hmm that would be interesting
I would like to see how they introduce Haki. I would like to see it gradually becoming more important as the story progresses, to seeing Marineford look like the battle between Garp and Aokiji in the current anime.
I doubt they will change the story. People would complain even if some changes could help. Like hinting at luffy's special fruit earlier. Kiado having a bigger backstory.
So, I saw you’re watching Jojo’s as well, and David Production did some changes in that show-for example, originally the Joestar birthmark didn’t show up until Part 3, but the anime was able to put that detail into Jonathan and Joseph’s designs. Characters show up in background shots before they get formally introduced. Little things like that that help with the world building. I feel like The One Piece can do some additions like that.
I have never seen an anime studio spend so much money and time and effort on a project series like this, I'm so excited and so happy to be a one piece fan
when was it mentioned the money they spend lol
@@8ooty0 They brought in a new artists, and they've spent a lot of time on this, that all translates to money.
It this ur first time seeing one?
Cuz this is basic procedure...
@@8ooty0 they created a 3d model of an entire island that will only be used for 2-3 episodes and will only be shown the entirety of it for a 2 second scene. And also i forgot that they're backed up by netflix, so most likely the reason why they did it.
@@yuukinoyuki9064 so like any other production line.
Liking the watercolor manga look
Everyone has been asking for cover stories to be adapted, of course, but that particular case actually WAS 😂
We see your point, though, we can only hope
Im confused over everyone's excitement. Do we all remember what early one piece is like and you want them to be more accurate to the manga? It will take another 1000 episodes? Adding in cover stories (the original anime did this too and people hated it), i like the remake idea but unless they just streamline and finish like arcs in 3 eps or so people might be bored coming from way more heavy action focused early eps. Not saying that one piece is boring or bad it's good just want people to notice were all asking for the impossible. Well see. Just think a streamlined short one piece would be better for new fans then 100 eps to cover every single thing.
We will have 4 versions of one piece running in tandem. And I’ll be watching/reading all of them.
We are being fed!
4?
@@apathy2454live action
@@apathy2454 manga, first anime, live action, this new anime.
While it may be true that Usopp never had much of a skin tone difference whenever Oda did a Volume cover or other colored art piece I feel it helps add visual variety at the very least to give him a darker skin tone. Obviously not a deal breaker, but ah well.
What I am hoping for is for each arc to be treated as its own series, so to speak. Animation, music score, everything reconsidered per-arc to suit the tone and themes.
Voice actors usually crave a consistent meal ticket so many are likely to want to reprise, but I hope both the Japanese and English cast gets a shakeup. As much as I adore Sonny Strait and Stephanie Young letting new actors take on the roles makes for more fun in comparing and contrasting adaptations.
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to ask Usopp's VA if he would continue to voice Usopp in the remake. He said he hasn't been reached out to, but that he would like to continue to play the role in the remake.
Personally, as much as I love these VAs, I do hope they get a fresh cast. Their age is unfortunately a factor (eg Franky sounds pretty bad now) and it'd be best to find new people that fit WIT's direction.
I’m so excited for this project and one distinction I think is super impactful for people to consider is not to look at this as a remake of the anime but rather a new adaptation of the manga. A new teams vision for animating the source material, not a “how do we condense the existing show and make it look modern.” The potential and passion on display is exciting beyond belief!
I imagine that there will be new voice actors, because most of the original ones are older in their 60s and 70s. I don't think having them work on two One Piece animes is reasonable and if something happens to them you would have to replace them anyway. So it's much safer to get new ones. The main thing that this remake is good for, beyond less censorship and more modern animation, is the pacing. The second half of the original anime has major pacing issues and adapts around 1 chapter per episode to not catch up to the manga. Meanwhile you standard modern anime episode adapts around 3 chapters per episode. If the One Piece remake does this it could cut down the length of the anime by more than half, which would make the series so much more approachable. They can now adapt exactly how many chapters an episode needs.
That actually reminds me, a trend in modern anime is to have little "chibi characters goofing off" scenes after the end credits. That would be a perfect place to put "cover stories," just have quick vignettes of them at the end of each episode.
Toei's episode publishing was weekly, rather than seasonal. I think since WIT is going the seasonal route it's not a huge ask for the voice actors to return.
I can tell from the storyboard that it's going to be amazing!😮
them making the 3D map is amazing and it's taking advantage of one of OnePiece's biggest strengths, it's WORLD. It's not always complete, but One Piece has such a detailed and thought out world, that they can take advantage of it fully, even if its not complete in some cases, it has more detail, logic and thought that most other series, so them being able to create those maps is the biggest hack ever that will streamline their work soooooo much. For an artist to have a tool so powerful for keeping perspective in mind, the parallax, the distances, the sizes, for thinking of the best places to put a "camera" (the perspective in this case), instead of incentivising them to go for the basics, to just choose a more normal angle for a scene and stick to it, it can actually facilitate and make it posible for them to show a scene in a much more complete and artistic way by having different shots and angles and perspectives. And to also keep an amazing thing from the manga, how the world feels so real, how characters move around a space, from a point to another, or in a fight, and it feels real, because the perspective of the background and it's landmarks is CONSISTENT. Wano act one is a ridiculous example of it, specially the whole scene outside bakura town with Luffy, Tama, Tsuru and Okiku. Oda is an actual cinematographer with it's pen and paper, his control over perspective is insane, and for HIM to put more effort into the cinematography and to show his world through different shots than what the anime usually does, it's crazy.
Filmmaking and animation as well is very much like magic tricks, you only notice them when they're not done correctly, they break immersion, but when you fake it so well with those details, they blend together in a seamless experience that you never question, because it feels real, it is real. And there's a reason why one piece is memed so hard, characters moving through a space and never advancing, it feeling like they're so slow cuz of it (also because the background is static and doesn't move with them conveying the speed and progress), how they're always in the same space because it looks the same, generic without landmarks to differentiate it, how every action is slow and weak etc. Especially in the post dressrosa anime, even today when it's not a hype chapter with insane budget.
I can’t imagine Luffy with another voice. Even reading the manga it’s always anime luffy in my head.
11:22 the anime actually did adapt the mini buggy adventure as well as the koby helmeppo one where they met garp
love the warm of colour touch
Merphy is spot on, it will be very difficult to accept any new voice actors for these characters we've spent 20 years with. They're all just so iconic and ingrained into my being. All that being said, I feel it has to be done. You really can't just expect them to do it all over again for so long, and new VA's could even bring a fun freshness to the series.
i'm really excited about this. The art style looks amazing and the entire project seems to be in good hands. but i'm also a bit worried about the soundtrack because i love the soundtrack of the first one piece anime so much. i guess we'll see how it turns out. who knows, maybe it will be even better.
Nami have a rib cage and internal organs? Don’t you know that it’s a coming of age thing to get those removed in the One Piece universe
Strange, I thought woman came from men's ribs (Bible reference)
Soooo excited for the Attack on Titan video. It’s such a unique masterpiece can’t wait to hear Merph’s thoughts on the writing and the way the story expressed its themes
I can imagine them doing the little cover stories as some fun animations at the ends of episodes or something. I'm so excited for this show!
See this is the type of adaptation that instead of making us worried on whether or not it'll be faithful, it makes us at ease.
has never been a greater time to be a fan of any piece of media than right now for us OP fans!
What a time to be a One Piece fan we are truly blessed
On Bookborns video, when she was predicting one piece crew and says medic and repairman, and you throw in "maybe just a ghost, for fun", that was devious, and I loved it.
Honestly seeing them refer to props and draw frames while looking at the manga pages made me even more excited. I love how detailed all the concept art is. I love that in the character sheets, you can tell that Zoro and Sanji have different builds and body types. And while they should maybe saturate everything a little more, I love the maker look. It looks just like the color spreads. I hope they keep it. But the production team is crazy! The _Attack on Titan_ director, the director of _Jujutsu Kaisen_ as your assistant director, the action animators for the remake worked on _Boruto_ and _My Hero Academia,_ the writer of _Ranking of Kings,_ and the _Attak on Titan, Spy x Family_ and _First Slam Dunk_ character designers! What‽ The board member of WIT in the video said he first heard about the project 4-5 years ago so it seems like they started working on this around the same time as season 1 of the live-action One Piece.
I love that they really seem to be sticking to manga fidelity. But I also hope that they play when it comes to stuff set up early on but we now know 1000 chapters later. For instance, in Buggy’s fight with Shanks during the Orange Town flashback, we know the pirate who broke it up was Rayleigh. So show us young Rayleigh from the Oden flashback. Don’t just make it the random pirate that Oda had to retcon into Rayleigh. Show other of the Roger pirates like Scopper, whom we meet in the Oden flashback. But maybe not Crocus or Oden. At Reverse Mountain, show us Yorkie, not the captain who would have to be retconned into Yorkie. Show us a character from the back that could be Brook. The Supernovas weren’t planned so maybe foreshadow them a bit with reports and new stories about other rookies tearing up other seas. Do what the Live Action did with those Foxy and Cavendish posters. And I hope they capture those moments in the early manga that when a character genuinely smiles, they shine in the panel.
Always love to see you talk about One Piece
I love it! I'm one of the biggest OP fans there is, so this makes me rly happy, ngl. I just hope the voice actors can hang on for another long ride of the story, haha!
But they probably love to do it, or they wouldn't agree to do it again :3. Wit is such a good studio for this too.
Thanks for the coverage!
I'm happy about this project. The only thing I'm sad about is the Voice Actors. Mayumi Tanaka IS Luffy. Her voice is Forever going to be Luffy for me. She also stated that she'll retire soon and is gonna be in the process of picking a new Voice Actor for Luffy. I know she is past the age of working and she definitely deserves the rest for the great work that she already did. If she retires soon, I hope that in the final episode of One Piece, She comes back and Voices Luffy One last time.
To anyone against this remake..try recalling when you asked your friends to get into onepiece, and they replied "don't like the artstyle, too old, isn't it slow paced"
With the current position OnePiece is in, any big player would wanna jump on that opportunity to bring more people in..Netflix did. AoT Director did for his passion.
It's a win..for now..Cook Wit!
Our family is looking forward to it!!!
tlaking about voice actors, we know that the current ones are not exactly young so this could make possible to choose their succesors themselves and go to the toei series if anything happens
I know a lot of people are hesitant about having another one piece anime while the original is still ongoing, but i ttinkgiving the series a modern style jump adaptation with a huge amount of the story already written and ready to be adapted means they can better judge how to structure things and white small details they can omit vs the ones that become relevant 500 chapters later
I hope the voice staff is completely changed except for maybe some smaller characters with memorable voices coming back as cameos. Or maybe have the original cast voice some of the smaller characters.
Wit is also making a new season for my favorite anime (ascendance of a bookworm), very much excited for both of these
I love Merphy so much!!!
On the note of cover stories, one idea I thought of was the way Mushoku Tensei used the opener for a lot of its episodes. The OP played while a silent “film” ran
It’d be cool for that to happen with the cover stories getting fleshed out a little but still staying “cover stories”
buggys adventure was animated, but I agree cover stories should be included (enel one specially)
Early on, the Toei version actually DID adapt the cover stories, including Little Buggy's adventures. The other major one I remember is Koby and Helmeppo being navy chore boys and then training under Garp, before we knew who Garp really was. Then they stopped doing it at some point shortly into the Grand Line, which is weird because you'd think they'd take any opportunity for filler. I mean we don't get Enel's adventures on the moon, but somehow they had time to make up a feudal Japan alternate universe storyline where Luffy's big ambition is to be his town's head cop instead? (OTOH skipping the cover stories DID mean anime-onlies got spared from one of Oda's rare Ls, when he cheapened Bon Clay's heroic sacrifice by showing that he actually survived somehow.)
Oh, and while in general I'm all for it being more true to the manga, I really wish Oda would admit that certain visual changes Toei made were in fact improvements and retcon them into the canon, i.e. the darkening of Usopp and Robin's skin and making Robin's eyes blue. I can live with Robin being pale, but I'm gonna really hate it if her eyes are brown when this version gets around to introducing her - I don't have the art theory knowledge to explain why, but blue just gels with the rest of her design so much better.
Yeah but basically no one dies in One Piece (flashbacks excluded obviously) so it's not surprising
Really the most exciting thing to me would mostly come in later on if they improve the pacing, this has been a criticism of the main anime for a long time now. Seeing an OP anime that actually moves forward and isn't padded to hell and back is the biggest thing for me. But again that will only really come into play in later arcs.
As someone who grew up watching one piece it means so much to me and i can’t wait to see a passionate young team work on it. Also toei are going to be involved in the project as well so it well have the soul of the og anime.
I have not tried the old anime as it is SO MUCH. And I already have SO MUCH material to go through with the manga (On chapter 813 at this moment). But I'll give this a go of course.
If you don't like the anime pacing there's a version called one pace. It cuts out all the long scenes and unnecessary scenes and filler out of it.
@@oppideez2158 Ohh man stfu. This is one of the worst suggestions for new fans
@@oppideez2158 indeed, one pace is great. But to someone that hasnt started thr anime i would recommend to wait for this one. To have a fresh start.
@@oppideez2158 Even with one pace, this is boring sometimes. Oda is praised for his world building, but sometimes it is easy to extensive. This makes it way to long and sometimes boring, even with all the filler cut.
@AshwinRamdin the real experience is the manga. I can't back the anime up. Reading one piece and watching it are a different. Manga has way more info the cover pages and art every other week. Plus it's not bad paced like the anime
i cant wait for dressrosa to be watchable without 100 rebecca flashbacks
I just finished Dressrosa in the manga, I keep seeing comments like this, jesus what did Toei did to her flashbacks? 😂
One series i would suggest you watch animated by Studio WiT is Ranking of Kings. That series is a treasure.
She has already watched the 1st season
I forgot they also did that series. The animation and action scenes were just stunning.
@@Lynn-CA oh nice!
I cant wait for Wit Piece!
Everything is back to Buggy for this girl 🤣
I have more faith in this than for other upcoming series. I really hope they will not only not mess it up, but ace it. It has endless potential to improve at least two of the major problems of the anime: Pacing and Fanservice.
Too many fake out deaths are the 3rd bjg problems, but I don't think they will change that (understandably difficult to do)
But the voice actors are all grandparents at this point, they probably don't have the stamina to do it all again. On the other hand, it be weired to hear Luffy in other people's voice at this point. That's a real challenge.
That’s why it’s all new VA playing the roles
@@DJMilez Damn, I hope they find the right people for the job then
@@DJMilez it would make sense, but this hasn't been confirmed yet, nor are there any leaks surrounding voice acting
Because of the power of hindsight and also the fact that they wont be crippled by weekly deadlines and censorship, i honestly believe this could become the best version of east blue saga. Especially since we know that oda didnt really have a 100% set direction before alabasta
Btw Buggys adventure after being defeated, that cover story was adapted in the Toei animation, they also adapted Cobys story when he started gettinf trained by Garp
I hope they consult Oda what would he want to adjust, things he want to revise, little bits to add on, etc
This is going to be the best experience ever!
If they are doing full 3D renderings for references, then maybe we can finally get a one piece game where you can actually explore the world. Thats what i want. An open world one piece game where you can choose your journey and make your own character
The VAs would actually be taking on 3 projects since they do the japanese voices for the live-action
I want a new VA for every character. Its fresh new remake.
I love the iconic VA in the toei version a lot but i also want to see some new VA
The thing I'm much more excited about is that a One Piece series that will likely be more well animated with a much faster pace will be the perfect way to introduce people to it.
No disrespect to the Toei series but because it's been weekly for 2+ decades they both have to stretch out the pace and can't always have as high quality animation (though of course it's become more incredible over time) and all of that combined with starting people at the beginning will be a great way to hive all the people I know who was put off by Toei's long episode list and pace (and who don't want to read) a new jumping in point without all the baggage
Live action
Long running anime
Long running manga
A new remake with better animation
One piece fans are having 😂 their cake
In my opinion this remake will hit the sky of the anime community, the fights will become more bloodier and intense 🔥🔥🔥, can't wait
"Instead of giving her ribcage and internal organs" Ouch just calling out the artist hard there.
lol that’s tame and definitely deserved
Well Oda is definitely not known for drawing realistic female characters lol
I hope they redo the walk to arlong park, because it's an anime original scene that added SO MUCH to that episode and became one of the most iconic one piece scenes
I'm definetly going o watch this!!! They art style feels so cozy and warm while doing justice to the original designs. I'm getting Studio Ghibli vibes and I love IT!!!!
I was thinking since they probably aren't going to be able to do a full live action past like maybe the sky island. Maybe the English dub of the wit studio one piece will be the cast of the LA
great video i cant wait for you to have another stream with philip chase hehe i love those ones!
The only fear I have is for voice acting. I cannot picture having other voice actors for Luffy Zoro Sanji Usopp Robin Law.
Just to temper a bit.
While everything you say is true and it's exciting to get a new One Piece by passionate people, we need to remember that this is still a japanese animation studio so those passionate people will most likely have the passion and life squeezed out of them on the altar of quick production and cost saving.
Especially since Netflix is notorious for seriously underpaying its japanese animation staff, going as far as being below the japanese average, which is already extremely low in itself.
I share your excitement, but I think the praise about the passion of the team is a soured by what I know about this industry having worked with studios there.
I hope they keep the sketchlike artstyle. One piece is a fairytale where size proportions, distance and death doesnt really matter as much asnthe feelings
Omg I haven't seen your videos in a while. Suddenly this one was on my recs tonight 😌
I'm really curious about what they are going to do when they get to the points in the anime where the artstyle changes. Will they keep the classic look, or update the artstyle as well? Don't get me wrong I absolutely love the original look, but it's interesting to think where they will take the art direction after a while.
Safest bet would be they'll follow the manga. Sticking to it's style relevant to each arc.
this is about to be the greatest anime of all time. A major complaint of the current anime is the pacing at parts as well as the animation in the earlier parts of the series. With this being seasonal I can't even imagine how good this is going to be. This is the project that will take one piece to the next generation.
Maybe you don't know became you don't watch the anime, but Buggy's cover story was adapted and expanded by the current anime.
I’m very optimistic. Everything One Piece seems to be going swimmingly right now.
The artwork is beautiful in a very unique way
The beauty of this project is that it's not just for people who are new to One Piece but it's also for people who have read the manga and have watched the current anime. All those issues that the current running anime had with pacing, censorship, and inconsistency (This also applies to Oda's own drawings) will all be addressed, hopefully. My only concern would be VAs and audio in general, if they can nail that I believe this will be the definitive version of One Piece, not taking anything away from the amazing work of the current animators over at Toei.
Anime episode 46 and 47 cover buggy’s adventure
for some reason when you mentioned the Cover stories
I started imagining them as the Transition/Character splash scene's