Two New ‘One Piece’ Anime Films Announced, Including a Long-Awaited God Valley Movie

Franchise anniversaries have a way of bringing out the biggest announcements in anime, and few properties carry as much weight as ‘One Piece.‘ With Eiichiro Oda’s pirate epic approaching multiple milestone years, fans have spent months speculating about how the franchise might mark the occasion.

Those questions were finally answered during the ONE PIECE DAY ’26 livestream event, where Toei Animation dropped a pair of major reveals that instantly sent fans into a frenzy. The event has become an annual tradition for major franchise updates, but this year’s announcement carried more weight than most.

Two brand-new anime films were confirmed during the broadcast: ‘One Piece Film: God Valley,’ set for release in summer 2027, and a second, more mysterious project titled ‘One Piece Film: Baad,’ slated for 2029. The timing isn’t a coincidence, either, with the manga celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2027 and the anime reaching its own 30th anniversary in 2029.

‘God Valley’ marks the franchise’s first new theatrical film since 2022’s ‘One Piece Film: Red,’ which became the highest-grossing installment in the series’ history after debuting to more than 2.25 billion yen and 1.57 million attendees during its opening weekend in Japan. That box office success has clearly given Toei confidence to return to the big screen, this time tackling one of the story’s most significant and long-teased backstory arcs.

The God Valley Incident has loomed over ‘One Piece’ lore for years, referenced repeatedly throughout the manga without ever being shown in full. The event centers on a legendary clash that took place 38 years before the current storyline, pitting the Rocks Pirates against a combined force of the Roger Pirates, the Marines and the mysterious World Nobles.

That confrontation notably featured a rare alliance between Gol D. Roger and Monkey D. Garp as they teamed up against Rocks D. Xebec, a moment that has taken on almost mythic status among longtime readers given how central both Roger and Garp remain to the series’ broader mythology. Oda himself had previously teased the project at Jump Festa 2026, hinting it would cover something he believed fans would be especially excited about, without confirming details at the time.

‘One Piece Film: Baad,’ meanwhile, remains almost entirely shrouded in mystery. Unlike ‘God Valley,’ which draws its title directly from an established story arc, “Baad” doesn’t correspond to any previously known location, character or event within the franchise, leaving fans to speculate wildly about what the title could reference once more details eventually surface.

The film announcements arrived alongside other major reveals from the same broadcast. The results of the franchise’s second worldwide character popularity poll were unveiled, with Luffy once again voted the most popular character in the series.

Additional casting news for the live-action Netflix adaptation was also revealed, introducing actors set to play Koza, Pell, Toto and Chaka as the series heads toward its Alabasta arc in its upcoming third season. On the anime side, the flagship television series entered its Elbaph arc in April, with Toei previously confirming plans to scale back annual episode output to a maximum of 26 episodes per year moving forward.

With the manga’s chapter count continuing to climb past 1,190 and the anime pushing further into one of its most anticipated arcs yet, these new film announcements signal that ‘One Piece’ has no intention of slowing down as it heads toward its landmark anniversaries. For a franchise that has already surpassed 600 million copies in print worldwide, adding two new theatrical events over the next several years only reinforces its continued dominance across manga, anime and live-action adaptations alike.

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