The One Piece is a remake of the One Piece anime produced by WIT Studio for Netflix, announced at Jump Festa 2024. Netflix posted the first teaser on June 24, 2026.
Why a remake? Toei's original One Piece anime has been on the air continuously since 1999, with more than a thousand episodes and a fair amount of filler (original content not in the manga, added to give the author time to get ahead). For newcomers who want to follow the Straw Hat Pirates' whole journey but are put off by the sheer number of episodes, a condensed retelling that stays close to the manga and has almost no filler, as The One Piece promises, is an appealing way into the franchise without hundreds of hours of viewing.
What has been announced
- Release: February 2027 on Netflix, no exact date yet
- Episodes: 7, roughly 300 minutes in total
- Content: adapts about the first 50 chapters of the manga, from the East Blue arc through the Baratie arc
- Format: original net animation (ONA)
- Director: Masashi Koizuka; script: Taku Kishimoto; character design: Kyoji Asano and Takatoshi Honda
- Voice cast: Mayumi Tanaka continues as Monkey D. Luffy
A “reboot,” not a replacement
WIT Studio president George Wada said in August 2026 that the project is a reboot based on the manga, separate from Toei's anime that has aired since 1999 (and is still running) and from Netflix's live-action series. The stated goal is a tighter retelling with almost no filler.
The OtaHub view
Netflix now runs three versions of One Piece side by side: Toei's long-running anime, the live-action series and, now, WIT Studio's condensed ONA. That points to an IP strategy where each format serves its own audience instead of there being a single canonical version. WIT Studio made a big impression with the early seasons of Attack on Titan, so expectations for the visuals are high; the real challenge is compressing the first 50 chapters, whose pacing is fairly slow because it builds each Straw Hat member one by one, into just 300 minutes without making the relationships between the characters feel shallow.
Articles describing the first teaser or trailer as April 2026 or August–September 2026 news are incorrect: the teaser appeared on June 24, 2026.
Updated September 24, 2026: this article was rewritten from verified sources; the previous version contained outdated or inaccurate information.
Sources: Deadline, TVLine, Netflix Tudum.
