Following up on the recent teaser, we now have our best look yet at what to expect from the live-action One Piece series. One Piece Day 2023 saw the premiere of a brand new full trailer, showing off a bunch of classic moments from the East Blue saga as imagined with Iñaki Godoy and the rest of the cast in the role of the Straw Hats.
Check it out below, and look for One Piece to hit Netflix on August 31.
Creator Eiichiro Oda also shared a lengthy message about the series:
Here is the letter about the live aciton, from Eiichiro Oda to the world.#ONEPIECE#Netflix#実写のワンピ#ネトフリワンピ pic.twitter.com/d7rJFDn77D
— ONE PIECE スタッフ【公式】/ Official (@Eiichiro_Staff) July 22, 2023
We’ll have to wait to find out how Matt Owens and Steve Maeda’s One Piece performs in live-action form. Eiichiro Oda’s original manga is available in English through VIZ Media, which describes the epic yarn like so:
As a child, Monkey D. Luffy was inspired to become a pirate by listening to the tales of the buccaneer “Red-Haired” Shanks. But his life changed when Luffy accidentally ate the Gum-Gum Devil Fruit and gained the power to stretch like rubber…at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, still vowing to become the king of the pirates, Luffy sets out on his adventure…one guy alone in a rowboat, in search of the legendary “One Piece,” said to be the greatest treasure in the world…
Source: Official Twitter