One Piece Releases Special Episode for its 25th Anniversery on Oct 20th
To celebrate the complete 25 years of the One Piece anime, short Hat Stories novels by Tomohito Ohsaki will turn into TV specials! The day the world remembers the stories of the Pirates and One Piece treasure, the commemoration of the One Piece world continues. Fans have high expectations from the new One Piece TV special titled “ONE PIECE FAN LETTER”.
Trailer and Production
The trailer of the special episode features a young girl staring at the wall of the posters of the wanted Straw Hat Pirates, including bounties for the Straw Hats and other important characters like Trafalgar Law.
It also shows the black-and-white representation of what the fans will get to see from the Straw Hats crew's perspectives. It was unclear if fans all around the world would get to see the movie release on October 20th.
However, these special One Piece episodes will air on October 20th, 2024. The specials are directed by Megumi Ishitani who’s known for producing some of the best episodes like 957 and 1015 of One Piece. Momoka Toyoda, the writer of “My Happy Marriage” wrote scripts for these special episodes, along with character designs done by Keisuke Mori who also worked on the 26th Opening of the anime.
Story Overview
The story is based on the original Straw Hats stories novel and starts off with a Marine watching Luffy trying to protect Ace during the Marineford and his relationship with Ace who is also a Marine on the Marineford.
Another separate story is of Zoro getting into a fight over who’s the best swordsman after Dressrosa. The other short story features a child pirating the Soul King’s concert on the Sabaody Archipelago.
In the past few years, One Piece manga has been through a lot, celebrating its 1000th episode. With the anime running for almost 20 years, the show will be going through an overhaul. It’s getting remade under the title “The One Piece” which is essentially all the episodes the audience had enjoyed before with fewer recaps and prolonged shots.
CloverWorks suggests this to be the best way to view One Piece even if you’re a new fan. Netflix has also been releasing countless articles about the release of the 2nd One Piece live-action season. With the season 2 live-action and the special episodes releasing, fans have so much on their plate this year! Stay tuned for more One Piece updates!