The One Piece Film Red movie has released several character visuals over the last few days, providing fans a preview of how Luffy, Zoro, Nami, and Usopp look like in the upcoming film. The visual releases were also accompanied by a countdown, with the tweet for Usopp’s visual having the words “7days later…”
The current wave of visuals, which began with Luffy on April 3, were preceded by the release of a character visual for One Piece Film Red‘s new female character on March 28. The movie is set to premiere on August 6.
ONE PIECE FILM RED will be the 15th One Piece anime movie and the latest since 2019’s ONE PIECE STAMPEDE. The movie’s website features the tagline, “An almighty voice. With fiery red locks.”
The movie is directed by Gorou Taniguchi (Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;Surrection, One Piece: Taose! Kaizoku Gyanzakku) with a script from Tsutomu Kuroiwa (One Piece Film: Gold, GANTZ:O). One Piece author Eiichirou Oda is the general producer and original story creator. Other staff include Masayuki Satou (One Piece Film Strong World character designer and animation director) as character designer and chief animation director, Hiroshi Katou (Mars Red co-art director) as art director, Sayoko Yokoyama (One Piece “WE ARE ONE” 100 volumes and 1000 episodes commemoration video) as color designer, and Ema Tsunetaka (Megalo Box 2: Nomad) as photography director.
The Shueisha-published One Piece manga began in 1997 and has 101 tankoubon volumes as of November 2021. It is serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump and published under the Jump Comics label.
The manga received its first anime adaptation in the form of the One Piece: Taose! Kaizoku Gyanzakku OVA, which was released in 1999. An anime series began in 1999 and passed the 1000th episode mark on November 21, 2021, while the first One Piece movie premiered in 2000. Production I.G produced Taose! Kaizoku Gyanzakku, while subsequent instalments were produced by Toei Animation.
One Piece has also inspired various video games, as well as a live-action Netflix series that is currently in the works.
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