‘The One Piece’ Sets Sail as WIT Studio’s Long-Awaited Netflix Remake Drops Its First Real Trailer
Few franchises occupy the cultural space that Eiichiro Oda’s pirate epic does. The ‘One Piece‘ manga has sold more than 600 million copies globally as of March 2026, and its animated adaptation has been running for more than 20 seasons since first airing in 1999. For fans who grew up watching Monkey D. Luffy stretch his rubber arms toward an impossible dream, this saga of pirates, devil fruits, and found family is one of the most emotionally resonant stories in modern entertainment.
When Netflix and WIT Studio announced their anime remake at Jump Festa 2024, excitement ran high, but the silence that followed tested everyone’s patience. Nearly three years passed with the project offering little beyond concept art, leaving fans starved for any real look at animated footage from the new version. The anticipation only deepened with each passing month, making every new update feel like a small event in itself.
That long wait came to an end on June 24. The first official trailer for ‘The One Piece’ was released during Netflix’s showcase at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2026, and the announcement rippled across social media immediately, with DiscussingFilm among those highlighting the reveal to an audience already primed to react. The remake is set to make its global debut on Netflix in February 2027, though a specific premiere date has not yet been confirmed.
Season 1 will run across seven episodes with a total runtime of approximately 300 minutes, adapting the first 50 chapters of Oda’s manga and concluding around Luffy’s first meeting with Sanji at the floating restaurant known as the Baratie. For context, the original Toei Animation series took around 20 episodes and double that runtime to cover the same ground. All seven episodes will drop at once, giving viewers the chance to experience the entire East Blue Saga in a single extended sitting.
WIT Studio, the production house behind ‘Spy x Family’ and the early seasons of ‘Attack on Titan,’ is handling animation for the project, with the stated aim of making the story more accessible to younger audiences through modern visual techniques. Helming the series is director Masashi Koizuka, who shared a message with fans through CBR’s coverage of the Annecy panel, expressing that he would be overjoyed “if children all over the world could relive that same thrill I felt back then,” a line that reflects just how personally invested the team is in getting this right.
Original Japanese voice actress Mayumi Tanaka is confirmed to reprise her iconic role as Monkey D. Luffy, bringing continuity to the new version of the series. Series creator Eiichiro Oda has also encouraged the production team to bring something genuinely new to the table. As Screen Rant reported, Oda told the staff to “express rather than copy and paste the work,” making clear that he wants the remake to stand as its own creative statement rather than a frame-for-frame recreation of the manga.
With a trailer that crossed 1.2 million views on the very day it dropped, the hunger for ‘The One Piece’ is impossible to ignore. Does the first real look from WIT Studio convince you that this is the version of Luffy’s journey worth waiting for, or do you think the East Blue Saga still belongs to the original?
