One piece is the best-selling manga worldwide, surpassing the 600 million sales mark and becoming the best-selling comic book of all time. With so much success, it's no surprise that the series is getting huge projects one after the other. While Toei's anime adaptation is still ongoing, One piece also has another anime in the works. WIT Studio's One Piece remake is slated for release in 2027 and looks absolutely massive. It has now been officially confirmed that fans will get their first glimpse of this new anime at the biggest animation event, Annecy International Film Festival.
WIT Studio's The One Piece Remake will show new content at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival
The One piece the anime has a decent anime adaptation from Toei Animation that has been out every week since 1999. It has accumulated over 1100 episodes so far and is still ongoing, with no end in sight at this point. While Toei's version of One Piece continues to receive new episodes, there is another anime for the franchise that fans need to watch out for, and that is WIT Studio's remake titled “The One Piece.”
The One Piece was officially announced at Jump Festa 2024but very little information has been released about him since then. With the announcement of a release window of May 7, 2026, new information about this anime project will officially appear very soon. Netflix has officially announced on its X account that The One piece the remake will be shown during the world's largest animated film festival — the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The event is expected to take place between June 21 and June 27, 2026, and some could attend in Annecy, France. There, Wit Studio and Netflix's remake of The One Piece will finally give fans their first sneak peek, as confirmed by Netflix. That means fans are in for a trailer, or at least a teaser, along with more information about the production process. One Piece Remake will not have its own stage, but will be included in the Netflix lineup.
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Why the Annecy International Animated Film Festival will be the biggest day for fans of the series
The Annecy International Animated Film Festival is going to be absolutely massive for One Piece for more reasons than one. First, he reveals a lot of exciting information regarding this long-awaited adaptation, which has been in the works for almost 3 years now. In addition, it will also continue One Piece's global reach. As many anime fans have now noticed, Japanese animation is often overlooked or ignored at international shows or events. Usually only Studio Ghibli appears at such high-profile events as the Oscars. Even Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle was snubbed from this major event after its massive financial success.
The fact that One Piece is appearing at the biggest animated film festival in the entire world is huge news not only for the One Piece series itself, but for anime in general. It's clear that anime is being taken more seriously globally. The appearance of One Piece sets a significant precedent and just shows how massive this WIT project is going to be.
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Everything we know so far about One Piece's Anime Remake from WIT Studio and Netflix
Fans are eagerly awaiting the arrival of June for more information about The One Piece to be revealed. Fans have been given quite a bit of information so far this month. WIT Studio's One Piece remake was first announced in December 2023, during Jump Festa 2024. It will be produced by some of the same staff as the first three seasons of Attack on Titan, including director Masashi Koizuka and other talented animators and directors. Kyouji Sabo will be responsible for the character designs.
Just a few days ago, it was officially revealed that The One Piece Season 1 anime remake will have a total of 7 episodes. While 7 episodes may sound short at first, according to Netflix, each of these episodes will be 42 minutes long, about double the length of normal episodes, for a total of 300 minutes of content. In normal anime terms, it's closer to 14 episodes. With 7 chapters per episode, the pacing is absolutely perfect. In addition, the project's release window has also been revealed, and the anime is slated to debut in February 2027. The exact release date has yet to be determined, but it's exciting news for fans. A new key visual for the anime remake was also revealed, but the main trailers won't follow until June, during the highly anticipated film festival.
Source: Netflix
