Main Staff for 'The One Piece' Anime Series Announced

The second day of the One Piece Day’24 event revealed the main staff for WIT Studio's The One Piece anime remake on Sunday. The new anime series will begin from the Higashi no Umi-hen (Eastern Sea Arc) and is set to be released on Netflix.

Staff
Director: Masashi Koizuka (Shingeki no Kyojin Season 2)
Assistant Director: Hideaki Abe (Jujutsu Kaisen episode director)
Series Composition: Taku Kishimoto (Ousama Ranking)
Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Kyouji Asano (Psycho-Pass), Takatoshi Honda (Kyokou Suiri)
Creature Design, Concept Art: Yasuhiro Kajino (Kyoukai no Rinne 2nd Season)
Action Animator: Ken Imaizumi (Bleach: Sennen Kessen-hen key animation), Shuuhei Fukuda (Yofukashi no Uta main animator)
Art Director: Tomonori Kuroda (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
Prop Design: Eri Taguchi (Cool Doji Danshi character design)
Animation Producer: Ryouma Kawamura (Moonrise)

The anime adapts Eiichiro Oda's adventure fantasy manga, which began in Weekly Shounen Jump magazine in July 1997. Shueisha published the 109th volume on July 9. The manga has over 500 million copies of its volumes in circulation.

VIZ Media publishes the manga in English and released the 106th volume on July 2. The 107th volume is scheduled to go on sale on November 12.

Source: One Piece Day '24 Livestream

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