Eiichiro Oda

Sometimes, you need a little comfort food—and at io9, that can mean “re-watching a favorite Star Wars show” or “guzzling midnight margaritas while watching Sandra Bullock play a witch” or “picking up a book and rediscovering the joy of reading.” We love new releases, don’t get us wrong, but we also dig revisiting past…Read more... Sometimes, you need a little comfort food—and at io9, that can mean “re-watching a favorite Star Wars show” or “guzzling midnight margaritas while watching Sandra Bullock play a witch” or…

One Piece is getting a full-blown anime remake on Netflix. The announcement was made during the Jump Festa 2024 event on Sunday, with a teaser claiming that the series will start from the very beginning — the East Blue Saga — leveraging ‘cutting edge' visuals to reimagine Luffy's adventures in the sea. Wit Studio, best known for producing the first three seasons of Attack on Titan, will be developing the fantasy pirate anime, which has been rebranded as ‘The One Piece.' I'm guessing the addition of ‘The' is to…

Image: NetflixMonths after the live-action adaptation of the popular manga/anime One Piece released, Netflixis doing...an anime remake of One Piece. Really. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Has Infectious Good EnergyRevealed at Jump Festa 2024, the remake—titled The One Piece, so as to make clear it’s not like the other two shows titled One Piece—will start off with the “East Blue” saga that the live-action show just finished partially adapting for its debut season. So what is new about this remake? Thus far, just the team behind it: WIT…

From casting to the cutting room, One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda collaborated closely with the team behind Netflix’s live-action series adaptation of his beloved tale every step of the way.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor Picksio9 recently chatted with series editor Eric Litman (Agents of SHIELD) about how the show crafted its take on the motley crew of young misfit pirates. Guided by Oda, Litman worked on shaping the structure of the series in its first-act character arcs. We…

Photo: Russ Martin/FXTo quote Laszlo: “Well, fuck my old boots!” In its fifth season, What We Do in the Shadows still felt like a fresh delight, consistently finding new situations for the vampires to find themselves in–going to the mall, attending a Pride parade, becoming accidental stars on the local news, spending too much time at Panera Bread–and making them absurd and hilarious. Amid all the goofballery, the season’s emotional throughline saw Guillermo finally becoming a vampire (or a half-vampire, at least)—before…

Just when you thought the withdrawal symptoms from the end of prime HBO shows like Barry and Succession were only going to get stronger, August is coming in hot with some absolute bangers. Netflix's adaptation of the acclaimed manga/ anime One Piece is easily the saving grace this month, where an ambitious pirate with a straw hat heads out on an epic voyage, searching every inch of the vast blue seas for a fabled treasure. The 10-episode series captures the introductory chapters — East Blue Saga — and sets sail on August…

Image: Paramount, 20th Century Studios, and GizmodoAnother San Diego Comic-Con is in the books, and this year was perhaps one of the weirdest in recent history—even counting those “@Home” years. As the lack of major attendees and the lingering shadows of Hollywood’s labor movement saw a more muted Hall H at San Diego this year, earth-shattering nerd news wasn’t to be found at Comic-Con. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t plenty to celebrate and read about anyway.io9 was, as always, on the ground in San Diego this past…

One Piece, the popular manga and anime series by Eiichiro Oda, follows the journey of Monkey D. Luffy as he seeks to become the King of the Pirates in the Grand Line. Netflix's loyal adaptation holds promise for live-action One Piece series. (YouTube/ Netflix) The fantasy adventure franchise will soon have a live-action American adaptation on Netflix. On Saturday, Netflix has unveiled a new trailer for the live-action One Piece series, which showcases many iconic scenes from the anime’s first arc, the East Blue…

Image: CrunchyrollThis weekend at Anime Expo, One Piece fans learned that the Japanese version of the upcoming live-action Netflix series will be dubbed by the anime’s original Japanese voice actors. Today, there’s even more One Piece dub news: the English dub of the anime will soon be arriving on Crunchyroll.Lamar Johnson Loves Beyblades and PokemonAnd by “soon,” we mean July 5; according to Crunchyroll, which debuted the 1,000th English-dubbed episode of One Piece at Anime Expo—yes, that is three zeroes—you’ll be able…

Image: NetflixThe anime adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece has been going on for nearly 25 years, and is still finding ways to impress longtime fans of the franchise. With Netflix’s upcoming take, the aim is to recapture some of the magic that enchanted viewers back in 1999, but via live-action for new audiences. Those who’ve been with the series for so long may have a tough time adjusting to seeing fresh new faces portray the Straw Hats in a new medium, but the new series is connecting itself to the anime through…