{"id":76998,"date":"2024-01-06T19:56:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T03:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=76998"},"modified":"2024-01-06T23:14:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T07:14:46","slug":"one-piece-releases-animation-video-for-26th-opening-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/01\/06\/one-piece-releases-animation-video-for-26th-opening-song\/","title":{"rendered":"One Piece Releases Animation Video for 26th Opening Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The long-running <em>One Piece<\/em> anime series has entered its &#8220;Egg Head Arc,&#8221; which features a new opening song in the form of <strong>Hiroshi Kitadani<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Assu!&#8221; (the series&#8217; 26th opening). Accompanying the new song is a fresh opening animation sequence, which is now available for viewing on the<em> One Piece<\/em> YouTube channel.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Like the <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/09\/02\/one-piece-releases-opening-animation-for-sekai-no-owaris-the-peak\/\">previous opening song, &#8220;The Peak&#8221;<\/a>, the opening animation for &#8220;Assu!&#8221; features the storyboards and direction of <strong>Megumi Ishitani <\/strong>(<em>One Piece<\/em> Episode 957, 982, and 1015; \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2022\/08\/24\/megumi-ishitani-directed-where-the-wind-blows-anime-music-video-released\/\">Where The Wind Blows<\/a>\u201d music video director) and is just as eye-catching and visually pleasing as Ishitani&#8217;s previous works. In <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ishigyunyu\/status\/1743800997464658328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a post on X<\/a> (formerly Twitter), Ishitani credited the style of the opening to her team-up with &#8220;super animator&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sakugabooru.com\/post?tags=soty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Keisuke Mori<\/strong><\/a>, writing that she wouldn&#8217;t have attempted an animation with this &#8220;taste&#8221; otherwise. Mori served as animation director here and was previously involved with the opening animation for &#8220;The Peak&#8221; and the \u201cWhere The Wind Blows\u201d video.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\uff1c\u30aa\u30fc\u30d7\u30cb\u30f3\u30b0\u6620\u50cf\u30d5\u30eb\uff1eTV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300cONE PIECE\u300d\uff0f\u30aa\u30fc\u30d7\u30cb\u30f3\u30b0\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u300c\u3042\u30fc\u30fc\u3063\u3059\uff01\u300d\u6b4c\uff1a\u304d\u305f\u3060\u306b\u3072\u308d\u3057\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YFbno_aPm0w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Ishitani also teased that there would be minor changes to the opening animation&#8217;s footage in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Some of the other staff members for the new opening include<strong> Sayoko Yokoyama<\/strong> (<em>One Piece Film Red<\/em>) as color designer, <span style=\"color: initial\"><strong>Tomoya Hosaka<\/strong> (<em style=\"color: initial\">One Piece<\/em>, &#8220;The Peak&#8221; opening animation) as compositing director, and <strong>Yoshiaki Honma<\/strong> (<em>One Piece<\/em>, &#8220;The Peak&#8221; opening animation) as art director.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>One Piece<\/em>&#8216;s new ending sequence was also officially released on YouTube:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\uff1c\u30a8\u30f3\u30c7\u30a3\u30f3\u30b0\u6620\u50cf\u30d5\u30eb\uff1eTV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300cONE PIECE\u300d\uff0f\u30a8\u30f3\u30c7\u30a3\u30f3\u30b0\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u300cDear sunrise\u300d\u6b4c\uff1a\u5927\u69fb\u30de\u30ad\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1yRn2N9BwRY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The <strong>Toei Animation<\/strong>-produced series began the &#8220;Egg Head Arc&#8221; on January 7 JST. The first episode of the anime, which is based on the Shueisha-published manga by <strong>Eiichirou Oda<\/strong>, debuted in 1999. Crunchyroll and iQIYI are streaming the show outside of Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">VIZ Media describes the manga, which started serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997 and has been collected into 107 tankoubon volumes as of November 2023, as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>As a child, Monkey D. Luffy was inspired to become a pirate by listening to the tales of the buccaneer \u201cRed-Haired\u201d Shanks. But his life changed when Luffy accidentally ate the Gum-Gum Devil Fruit and gained the power to stretch like rubber\u2026at 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\u2026one guy alone in a rowboat, in search of the legendary \u201cOne Piece,\u201d said to be the greatest treasure in the world\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The anime series was preceded by a <strong>Production I.G<\/strong>-produced OVA released earlier the same year.&nbsp;The 15th and most recent One Piece movie,&nbsp;<em>One Piece Film Red<\/em>, became the sixth highest grossing movie of all time in Japan after an encore run in late 2023. A <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/12\/17\/the-one-piece-remake-anime-announced-by-wit-studio-and-netflix\/\"><strong>WIT STUDIO-<\/strong>produced remake anime<\/a> was announced in December 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OPcom_info\/status\/1743799769703788912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: initial\">@OPcom_info<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-running One Piece anime series has entered its &#8220;Egg Head Arc,&#8221; which features a new opening song in the form of Hiroshi Kitadani&#8216;s &#8220;Assu!&#8221; (the series&#8217; 26th opening). Accompanying the new song is a fresh opening animation sequence, which is now available for viewing on the One Piece YouTube channel. 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