Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for The One Piece, WIT Studio’s anime remake of the series, on 24 June. The minute-long teaser delivers the first proper look at the new adaptation, opening on the early days of the adventure and building to Gol D. Roger’s legendary final speech.
The teaser leans on rare production footage, surfacing character design sheets and image boards that frame this as a ground-up rebuild rather than a remaster. It confirms the remake starts from the original manga’s East Blue saga, the opening stretch of Eiichiro Oda’s story, and arrives on Netflix in February 2027.
What The Teaser Shows
The trailer covers the earliest beats of the journey, from Roger’s execution-stand speech that kicks off the Great Pirate Era through to the first faces of Luffy’s adventure.
Viewers picking the footage apart have already flagged details that track the manga more closely than Toei Animation’s original anime. One frame suggests Luffy meets Alvida at her island lair rather than aboard a ship her crew is raiding, the way the manga staged it. Usopp’s design also returns to his original tan skin tone, a change fans clocked immediately.
The animation drew the loudest reaction, with viewers calling the movement noticeably smoother than the decades-old Toei episodes. That expectation rests on the studio behind it.
WIT Studio And The Team Behind The Remake
WIT Studio is known for some of the most visually striking anime of recent years, including the first seasons of Attack on Titan, Ranking of Kings, Spy x Family, and Vinland Saga. Masashi Koizuka, who worked on Attack on Titan and Moonrise, directs the remake, with Hideaki Abe of Jujutsu Kaisen as assistant director.
Kyoji Asano, a character designer on Attack on Titan and Spy x Family, shares character design and chief animation director duties with Takatoshi Honda of In/Spectre and The First Slam Dunk. Taku Kishimoto, known for Ranking of Kings and Haikyu, handles series composition. The wider staff includes prop designer Eri Taguchi, action animators Shuhei Fukuda and Ken Imaizumi, art director Tomonori Kuroda, and creature designer Yasuhiro Kajino.
Release Date And Episode Count
The One Piece lands on Netflix in February 2027 as a batch of seven episodes, each running roughly 42 minutes, all releasing at once. It adapts the first 50 chapters of the manga, carrying the story partway through the Baratie arc, the point where Luffy’s crew meets Sanji. Netflix describes the project as a recreation of the manga built separately from the existing TV anime, tapping modern animation technology for a familiar but fresh take on Luffy’s journey.
Why A Remake Of A Still-Running Anime
One Piece already has an anime, and a vast one, sitting at 1,167 episodes. Toei Animation’s long-running adaptation made repeated trade-offs to ship a new episode every week for over two decades. The weekly schedule forced non-canonical detours so the anime would not catch up to the slower-paced manga, and left little room for the flashy animation action fans now expect from battle shonen adaptations. Toei has since slowed production, capping output at 26 episodes per year as of 2026.
WIT Studio’s president, who also leads Production I.G, has acknowledged that 1,000-plus episodes are a lot to ask of newer viewers, and that younger audiences used to modern anime may struggle with the 25-year-old episodes in their 4:3 analog format. The remake is built to work alongside the manga, the original anime, and the live-action series rather than replace them, with Toei encouraging the team to give it their all.
Community Reaction To The Teaser
The reveal landed as a moment for a fanbase that has followed the story for decades, with reactions split between disbelief that a still-running anime is getting a full remake and excitement at the entry point it offers newcomers. “Its mind blowing for a running anime to get a fucking remake,” one viewer wrote, in a comment that drew thousands of likes. Others leaned into the franchise’s reputation for length, joking they had “another 2 decades” in them and setting a “new objective: survive until February.”
A recurring thread framed the remake as a fresh on-ramp for people who bounced off the original. Several fans who came in through Netflix’s live-action series said they could never get through the Toei anime and are pinning their hopes on this version, with one calling it “my definitive One Piece” after never getting around to the original. The smoother animation and tighter pacing drew direct praise, one longtime viewer summing it up as a remake “that will survive the test of time” sitting alongside the manga and the Toei adaptation.
Netflix’s Wider One Piece Slate
The remake is one piece of a larger Netflix push behind the franchise. The streamer also produces the live-action adaptation, which has worked through chapter 154 of the manga’s 1,185 chapters; its third season, The Battle of Alabasta, is set to stream in 2027. A two-part LEGO One Piece animated special is also lined up for 29 September.
The activity arrives as the manga heads into its conclusion. Oda has confirmed the series is in its final phase, though no one knows exactly how many chapters remain. One Piece first began serialisation in July 1997 and passed 500 million copies in circulation in August 2022. With Toei capping its output at 26 episodes a year, Netflix is moving to pick up some of the slack ahead of the manga’s finish.