The 1,000th episode of the One Piece anime introduced on Sunday that Goro Taniguchi (Code Geass) will direct One Piece Movie Purple, a brand new One Piece anime movie. The tagline on the picture under reads “Singing Voice, Purple Hair.”

Tsutomu Kuroiwa (One Piece Movie Gold, One Piece: Coronary heart of Gold, GANTZ:O, live-action Black Butler) is writing the screenplay, and One Piece manga creator Eiichiro Oda himself is serving as govt producer. The movie will open in Japan on August 6, 2022.

To have a good time the anime’s 1,000th episode, the official YouTube channel for the franchise posted a 17-minute video that options one second from all 1,000 episodes. (The 2 movies under are the identical however have totally different area availability.)

The 1,000th episode additionally featured a brand new animated opening sequence that includes the present’s first theme music “We Are” and remaking the opening footage from that unique opening.

One Piece Stampede, the 14th and most up-to-date movie within the franchise, opened in Japan in August 2019, and earned greater than 10 billion yen (about US$93 million) on the field workplace worldwide. Funimation premiered the movie in cinemas within the the US and Canada in October 2019. The movie celebrated the anime’s twentieth anniversary.

Supply: One Piece episode 1000, One Piece franchise’s YouTube channel and Twitter account