The One Piece: Again, Only Faster This Time
I love One Piece, but the one thing that prevents me from making a full recommendation of the anime to others is hearing the question “where do I start?” And, uh, that’s gotten hard. Ideally starting from the beginning would be best, but it could take you literal years to catch up to where it currently is, 1,100 episodes later. What we need is a truncated series, like Dragon Ball Z Kai, that redoes the whole show but without all the filler. And what do you know — they were ahead of us, because here it comes. It was announced today that One Piece will not just be retold, but reanimated with better technology and a higher budget than we had in 1999. This will not affect the main series, which will keep going until it reaches the end, whenever that is. The remake will be called “THE One Piece.” Even though Toei Animation is still supervising, WIT Studio (Spy X Family, Attack on Titan) is animating it, so it